Replacement tuners for Trinity College OM

[mandowilli]

I recently placed an Allen tailpiece that I had laying around on my TC OM and it really gave it a shot in the arm, so much so that I have been playing it way more. #That is the good news. #The bad news is that the closed tuners that came standard on this instrument are about to send it back into mothballs.
Does anyone have any replacement recomendations? #They look like guitar tuners and I don't want to go from one economy set to another, and guitar tuners come in sets of six.

thanks

willi

[Dolamon]

If you can find a set of Gotoh Mini tuners, I've got a incomplete set(used two of them) and would be willing to get rid of a left and a right.

I think International Luthiers has them in stock. Here's their online catalogue ... they don't do too well in order taking via internet - you need to use mail to order - Catalogue . I think there are a few other sources for these but, this is one I'm familiar with.

[mandowilli]

Thanks Dolamon! #I have found several places to purchase the mini tuners by gotoh but if you have a couple that you could part with and bought them from International, I will do the same.

Please contact me at
mandowilli@bellsouth.net

willi

[WoodyMcKenzie]

I used two sets of Gotoh tuners being sold as ukulele tuners on ebay for my OM. You can see it at

http://www.mckenziemusic.com/octave.htm

They are very nice, very smooth working and the fellow I dealt with was quite prompt.

Woody

[grsnovi]

My Peterson Celtic 'zouk has mini-Schaller tuners on it but they are branded as Martin. This leads me to believe that perhaps Martin sells the mini-tuners as single replacements (otherwise, I'm not sure why a small builder would use a private-labeled tuner).