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Your cart is empty.Save time, effort, and frustration when tuning your string instrument! Tune your violin in seconds! Excellent alternative for players young and older players having difficulty tuning instruments equipped with conventional wood pegs. Endorsed and used by clinicians, teachers, students and professionals alike, Perfection pegs utilize a revolutionary internal planetary gear design, to ensure players of all ages effortless, precise tuning without sticking or slipping pegs. Designed to look virtually identical to conventional wood pegs for aesthetic appeal, Perfection pegs also are easy to install, safe for the instrument, and need no servicing or maintenance. In addition, the 4:1 gear reduction enables the peg to function like a fine tuner, eliminating the need for fine tuners on the tailpiece - which improves instrument response. Available for violin, viola and cello. Professional installation required.
T-Rex
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
I've had these installed for a year now. I installed them per the instructions and for the life of me, I cannot keep my strings in tune. I put a very small drop of white out on each peg to see if they were in-fact turning and discovered they were. I wanted these to work so very bad, but in the end, they are no better than traditional pegs. If I could return them I would.
Satyaa
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020
The directional threaded design is complicated. The tip of each plug is marked with B or T to indicate which side it goes but if you cut off the extra length, then you lose those marks. It is not easy to install. Finally, the push-pull mechanism is not robust. One of my plugs does not stay in tune. If you have a 5-string violin, you won't find a 5th plug for the bass side!I would recommend Wittner plugs instead, because you can find single plugs, they are easy to install like a regular wooden plug and any plug fits on bass or treble side.
Jason R. Fruit
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018
I bought these for a violin that I've played on for years; it came from a dealer's junk rack, because someone had used the double-bass style tuning machines on it, and the pegbox has a number of little cracks and screw holes. The pegs never did work well, and it's a little unstable, so I thought these would be worth a try. They seem to have solved every peg problem this instrument had! A summary:Good things: the pegs are easy to install and work smoothly. If you're very careful to fit them tightly, you can make them work without glue, which is nice for reversability. They seem to hold up to tension well, and the gearing isn't so low that you have to turn forever to tighten new strings when you're installing them.Bad things: the finish is not perfect. They look like cheap ebony pegs, which isn't what you'd want on an instrument with any sort of pretensions. Luckily, that's not the case with mine.
Irv
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017
I recently purchased the Knilling Perfection tuners to mount on a Cecilio 4/4 CEVN electronic violin. No installation instructions were provided in the package, and none were found at the Knilling web page. PDF instruction were quickly provided upon request of Knilling via the "contact us" link. A violin peg reamer is required for installation (about $20). I utilized a hobby chop saw with a 2" diameter fine tooth metal cutting blade to cut off excess peg material (held in the saw vice with a small cube of wood with a reamed hole with which to insert the peg). The cuts were square to the peg center line and required no finish sanding. A chamfer was provided with sand paper. I smoothed the chamfer by placing the peg end about 2" above a propane lighter flame for a second or two while rotating the peg. Very smooth and professional finish.The peg ends are stamped with a "B" or "T" to denote Base and Tenor side of violin peg head. This peg siding must be maintained since clock wise and counter clock wise threads are provided on the peg body for locking the outer portion of the peg to the violin (string rotation is not affected).I reused the violin strings and removed the fine tuners on all but the "e" string. Very happy with results and would purchase again.
Dean A
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016
I thought that this product was very sturdy and works well but I have some concerns. This product does not fit with Viola's as well as violins. The threading does not even reach the instrument properly. The only way to be able to use these is if you jam in the main body that holds in the gears and then use it in that method. It's surprisingly seems to be holding its tuning. It is definitely much easier to tune with these then regular tuning pegs just because it was made for that (obvious). I think there are some flaws about it and there are some flaws about the description to, but overall, I think this is a great product for anybody wanting an easier time of tuning. Oh, one thing I might mention is that to tune it you must pull the actual inner part of the peg out of its "socket" and then adjusted how you would like. This makes it loose but easier to tune because then there will be no tension that will wreck the locking mechanism. Since there is no through Reading that can bite into the wood, this is why you must take the inner part of the peg out partially so that you can tighten it or loosen it at will. If you do not do this, what shall happen is you will move the entire main body of the peg and then you will half to jam it in again. *see photos with my finger obviously in the way. That is the one where it shows the thing that I am talking about.*
vwvan
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016
I love these. They are easy to install yourself, but you must use a correctly angled 4/4 Violin peg reamer, a common machinist reamer is the wrong angle and you will ruin the neck of your violin. It takes just a few turns of the reamer and you're good. I use a sheet rubber lid remover to cinch them down using hand force only. The plastic is durable, but you don't want to put any metal tools on it.. If they don't go in all the way you just ream a little bit more. Make sure and distinguish that there are two right hand threads and two left hand threads. You install them such that string tension tends to tighten them and thus keep them installed. I trim the long ends them by spinning in a drill and using light pressure with a super fine razor saw. The part of the peg in the jaws of the drill gets discarded so you don't have to worry about marring them. Measure twice and cut once. Don't rush, it takes about an hour and you don't even have to replace the strings if you're careful. Tools required: Violin reamer, drill and razor saw. The main benefit is that you can junk all the massive tuners on the tailpiece to let your violin really sing. You may want to adjust the weight on the bridge and the position of the sound post to compensate for the mass change but you don't have to unless you are just really into spectrum, harmonics and voice.
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