On that rosin/pressure thread In my experience, bad notes further up the keyboard are often due to uneven pressure on the wheel Usually the nut is too high and the bridge too low Shimming up then of course results in the sound dissapearing The string wasn't touching the front edge of wheel anyway Shimming has ensured its not touching the back edge either
Take off the cotton and test as follows Shim up until the string is just touching the wheel Is there a gap under the string at the front or back edge of the wheel ? You can easily check with a narrow (3mm) strip of cigarette paper The paper should pull out with light tension at all points across the wheel If not its wrong The string should be just touching the wheel across the whole wheel width It should just play very quietly without cotton Lowering the nut is easily done by removing it and rubbing the flat side on grit paper If you take off too much just glue some paper underneath Deepening the notch is more difficult to reverse A well setup HG should play perfectly sweetly in tune all the way to the top key The upper octave keys are not there simply as decoration They are meant to be played Practice playing your tunes on the top octave This has the advantage of being able to play your C tunes in G Low G chanters have a particularly sweet sound in the upper octave I wouldn't want to play an HG that didn't play well all the way to the top There are some lovely Scottish slow airs which need most of 2 octaves Graham -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nan Donald Sent: 11 March 2007 03:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Re: strings Just a quick belated thanks to Graham, Simon and Scott for their suggestions on strings/tuning for my HG. I'm now off to experiement with shimming strings to get a better tone on the higher notes per the current rosin/pressure thread.... Nan
