> Ok I raised it a hair and the scratyness is gone but > its pretty quiet and the drone is kinda drowning it > out... Seth
Welcome to the land of St. Goldilocks, the patron saint of hurdy-gurdies. "The first shim was too small, the second shim was too big, the third shim was too small, the fourth string was just a little too big..." If shimming doesn't help, i.e. there's no middle ground between too scratchy and too faint, you need to look at (in order) cotton, rosin, and wheel angle. The chanter string should sit dead flat on the wheel surface, with a little rounding at the edges of the wheel. if you need too scrape the wheel into a different angle, so be it. Ideally you would like to have each string sitting flat on the wheel, but the drones can tolerate a little more non-flatness on the wheel surface. Alden
