After fiddling with that peg for a while, and consulting with someone more mechanically proficient than myself, the verdict is in: I need a new peg.
I'm waiting on a paycheck, meager as it is. But it is enough to replace the peg. Actually, it's enough to replace all the pegs, but I don't know how wise it is to blow $80-90 on parts for a $200 banjo. One of these days, it would be nice to upgrade to something nicer, and maybe with a resonator. Something in a Deering. . . I should stop.
I just want to play again. Sea Monkey, I miss your twangy little voice!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
GAH
Last night I sat down to play a little Sea Monkey and had a wonderful time except that at least two of my strings weren't holding their tune very well. I've been procrastinating changing strings for a while because of the whole floating bridge thing. I was being a pansy. But when I got to the point where I couldn't even play for a half hour, I realized it was time to just get it over with.
The string changing went swimmingly, but there is nothing so swimy that I can't sink it. And so it was that I broke my 4th string while tuning. Because I am insane and not trusting my brain and my tuner (although to be fair, my tuner sometimes blurts out random notes that are nowhere near where the last reading was on the same string with only slight peg adjustment). But then, and this is really the best part of today's tale of woe, I think I somehow stripped the gears on the 3rd string peg, because it won't wind back up. So now it also looks like I'll be replacing a tuner in addition to the one string.
Strings 1, 2, and 5 sound great, though. And because I swapped out one string at a time, I managed to keep the bridge more or less where it always was. Partial success, partial fail. I'm off to see if i can find just one peg.
I repeat: GAH.
The string changing went swimmingly, but there is nothing so swimy that I can't sink it. And so it was that I broke my 4th string while tuning. Because I am insane and not trusting my brain and my tuner (although to be fair, my tuner sometimes blurts out random notes that are nowhere near where the last reading was on the same string with only slight peg adjustment). But then, and this is really the best part of today's tale of woe, I think I somehow stripped the gears on the 3rd string peg, because it won't wind back up. So now it also looks like I'll be replacing a tuner in addition to the one string.
Strings 1, 2, and 5 sound great, though. And because I swapped out one string at a time, I managed to keep the bridge more or less where it always was. Partial success, partial fail. I'm off to see if i can find just one peg.
I repeat: GAH.
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