I recognise this harmonic phenomenon, I have it on my Boudet and happen to like it, as it gives the gurdy that on the edge of feedback psychedelic sound which I love; however, wolf notes [parasites in some languages] are not everybody's cup of tea. My Siorat [electro acoustic] only achieves this effect with the use of variable finger pressure. For me that 4th note is at the heart of the instrument when it gets to psychedelic impronisation. Philip aka Drohne Find my music at www.drohne.co.uk
Jens Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel >
