I, too, am a novice at the HG, but I had a similar experience when setting up my home-built instrument. What helped me, upon consulting Chris Henriksen of Boston Catlines, was a chanterelle of smaller diameter and less tension; the heavier string was too stiff to allow those harmonics to come out cleanly up at the top end. I do, however, need to work more with my cottoning technique.
Regards, Leonard Williams On 12/15/07 4:39 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, all, > > Maybe just chalk this one up to me being a relatively new player, but I need > some advice about a terrible sound the instrument is making. First, the lower > notes seem fine, but when I advance up the scale to the C and certainly by the > G (G/C instrument), the thing just screeches uncontrolably. It often makes a > rapid skipping sound when the tangents of the higher notes are engaged. To > help the problem, I've tried the following measures, dutifully carried out > after taking Cali Hackman's maintenance class this Fall: > > 1. Changed cotton twice. This helped initially. > 2. Tried more rosin > 3. Removed all the rosin from the wheel, then added a little bit more. This > helped for about 12 seconds. > 4. Shimmed the chantrelle after I perceived the string might not be resting > symetrically on the string. > > So, all you veterans out there - any ideas? > > Thanks in advance! > > -Ian Clemons, Portland Oregon
