Help! Camac Korrigan tuning pegs slipping?

[Marisa Klages]

Hi everyone,

My Camac Korrigan has a number of strings that aren’t holding their tone. I tune them, and then they immediately slip out of tune. It appears that the tuning peg itself is actually not staying in place after it’s tuned.

Advice please??

Thanks,

Marisa

[Charles]

Marisa,

Try this,

As you tune turn the tuning pin back and forth

[sherry-lenox]

If you happen to be somewhere that’s cold, check your humidity. Pegs slip in dry weather.

[jessica-yuen]

Hi everyone,

That’s exactly the same situation I saw when I was trying out

[Marisa Klages]

Jessica,

I love my Korrigan, except for this ridiculous issue.

[nadav-kon]

There are a few solutions to this issue.

1st is to push the pegs in while tuning the strings, you must use force. You can try turning the peg back an forth while pushing. you may also try to use a soft plastic hammer to lock the pegs.

If that does not work you can remove the peg completely and apply something that would add friction. The two recommended things I use are chock (like you would use on a black board) or violin resin (which is my favorite).

the options I gave you work 99.9% of the time.

I would love to hear how it worked out for you,

Nadav

[patricia-jaeger]

Some reamed tuning pin holes, especially in very old harps, may be just a bit too large for the pins. After removing the string and then the tuning pin in such a case, put a flat toothpick (avoid the round ones) part-way into the empty hole, before adding the pin. Then break off the remainder of the toothpick. Sometimes that extra “shim” is all that is needed to solve the problem.

[jill-fichialos]

Marisa,

My daughter loves the Korrigan that she tried out at the store…. but your post makes me hesitate. It has been two years since your original post…. have you found a way to fix the slipping tuning pegs? Do you have the older/shorter Camac levers or the newer levers? How old is your Korrigan? Would you get one again? Any updates or advice would be much appreciated! Thanks!

[Anonymous]

That’s a good question, Jill. Marisa, how old is your harp? How long have you had it?

[Eric Allison]

I had a pin, G two octaves below middle-C, that was slipping no matter how deeply it was seated in the hole. Per suggestion on another forum, I took it out and wet the inside of the hole slightly with a cotton swab, let it dry overnight, then reinserted the pin the next day. Wood apparently swells a bit when it’s made wet in dry weather (we have natural gas floor furnaces) but doesn’t “retract” fully. In any case it worked and the pin hasn’t slipped since. It cost me a string of course but that was a small price to pay considering that the note was perpetually flat before the repair.

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