Hallo Matt,
I think you hit a nodal point as Wolodymyr described. I had a similar
problem with my Weichselbaumer on several keys, where the vibrations of
the dead part of the string degrades the sound very much. I pushed such
hoses used for isolating electrical wires against heat in very hot
lamps over the (metal) tangents which helped very much (I don't know the
material of the hoses, they are very soft and transparent and I have
them from lamps called "Schifferarmaturen in Germany). Additional I put
leather in the grooves of the saddle which dampens also and which makes
the sound softer. I hope that will help you to solve the problem.
Jens
Matthew Williams schrieb:
Please can anyone advise how to cure a sound problem on a Siorat C-G
luteback gurdy.
Both melody strings are tuned to g' using Savarez BRH99 gut strings,
and mostly sound fine. But both have a tendency to sound the harmonic
an octave higher than they should on the fifth note (d').
Over the past few weeks I've obviously tried changing cotton, rosin,
paper and the tangents themselves. The interesting thing is, pressing
the 'dead' part of the string (left of tangent) down towards
the instrument body while playing does cure the problem, but I can't
quite understand why. Also holding down lower keys while playing the
fifth helps, but not every time.
Matt Williams
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