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[email protected] wrote:
I can suggest two things to look at to resolve intonation issues. First,
have a look at the nut. Do the strings lay in the grooves properly?
It could be that the top of the nut is
curved or that the grooves are not cut properly, so that some or all
of the strings don't lay in the
groove right up to the edge of the nut. The other thing is to
experiment with bridge placement. The theory
is that the distance nut to 12th fret and 12th fret to bridge are the
same, but that doesn't always work in
practice. You might also find that angling the bridge helps
intonation as well.
Let us know how it goes.
Doc
I tried to reply earlier but nothing is showing up. Doc, thanks for your
advice. I've moved the bridge back a few mms and it's made a big
difference. I can get the top notes (above fret seven) quite well in
tune. Better still, the lower notes are more in tune too.
I put up a very, very simple duet for two 'citras' from a 1775 Pocket
Book:
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/2citras.mp3
Thanks again for your advice.
Stuart
Thanks. I'll have a go at your suggestions. I hadn't realised just how
much out of tune it is above the seventh fret. For example, tuning
open first course (g) to second course at fret 3, means that the
second course (e) is hopelessly out of tune with first course, top e.
It's been a hot day today and the upper strings aren't holding their
tuning at all.I suppose the pegs are slipping ever so slightly (even
though they been sitting in that pegbox for 250 years. I think the
ghost of the original owner is playing with me.
Stuart
I was going to play another piece by Ritter, a Rondeau. But in the minor
section it has an E flat arpeggio above the fifth position and I just
can't get my guittar in tune up there.
Perhaps my guittar is particularly poorly fretted. Those guittars
with capo holes must have be
well fretted. I suspect the Geminiani pieces would be
unplayable on my guittar (which may not be untypical).
Stuart
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