Thank you David,
When you say you use thick frets, what rough sizes are you talking
about? And are they graduated?
Also, do you use double fret loops, as seems to have been the general
historic practice (discussion was had earlier about this - in the
archives). This very significantly extends the life of frets, as well
as following early practice, since one loop (that closest to the body)
takes much of the hard wear whilst the other acts as the cut-off
point.
MH
--- On Fri, 20/3/09, David Tayler <vidan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: David Tayler <vidan...@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: String depression
To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Friday, 20 March, 2009, 9:12 AM
They work better for me.
The thin ones wear out faster if you do a lot of tuning. I wear out
my second fret very quckly.
Also, you have to get a good grip on the string for forward rolls. I
can't do that with a thin fret.
For me it is a touch issue mainly, I can slide on any fret, but can't
do some of the other tricks, and I prefer a medium thickness fret for
second fret pullups, which is mainly what I use.
dt
> Indeed.
>
> To return to the principal matter (wether low frets and low string
> depression to fingerboard are advantageous): depressing the string
from
> just touching the fret top to 'bottoming out' on the fingerboard
> results in a miniscule increase in string length (and hence
pitch) -
> for example a mere 0.000125% at mid point, which I am sceptical
can be
> detected by the human ear. However pulling to the side ('bending')
can
> be large enough to be detected.
>
> In short, higher frets are not a significant advantage in this
> instance. The advantage of low graduated frets is that they allow
for
> the necessary clearance to avoid 'buzzing' on the higher frets
whilst
> minimizing the distance required to depress strings to the
fingerboard
> when playing.
>
> MH
> --- On Thu, 19/3/09, William Brohinsky <[1]tiorbin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> From: William Brohinsky <[2]tiorbin...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: String depression
> To: "Martyn Hodgson" <[3]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "lute mailing list list" <[4]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "Lex
van
> Sante" <[5]lvansa...@wanadoo.nl>
> Date: Thursday, 19 March, 2009, 2:35 PM
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Martyn Hodgson
> <[1][6]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > We seem to be at cross purposes: what I call 'pulling it (the
string)
> > sideways' is what you, I think, call 'bending'.
> > MH
> It is certain that what you are calling pulling is what I am
calling
> bending. This was the reason for my remarks:
> Said Lex, "This can all be exaggerated by pulling or pushing the
> string in the direction of the bridge or the nut."
> You said, " Perhaps you are, in practice, actually pulling it
sideways
> which is the usual way of raising the pitch..."
> So I am calling bending what you were calling "pulling it
sideways" ,
> and I am saying that this is not what Lex was saying, which was
> "pulling or pushing ... in the direction of the bridge or nut."
> This is not at cross purposes, this is an answer to your
"perhaps."
> The practice of pushing and pulling strings towards the bridge or
nut,
> (i.e., axially) is not pulling sideways, and need not have a
sideways
> component to affect significant pitch change.
> Ray
>
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