Colin--
Your analysis of the problem sounds pretty logical, but I haven't
gotten a chance to check it out yet. Projects and Christmas stuff piling
up... I'll let you know the outcome when I get to it.
Thanks and regards,
Leonard
On 12/23/07 6:31 PM, "Colin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I presume that the cotton is even and evenly tight?
> As the drones tend to hold more cotton, it's easy to get it "lumpy" (ie
> harder in some parts) although it looks fine. It plays on the "harder/lumpy"
> parts but the sound fades on the looser parts.
> Sorry if you know this but, as a newbie, it's something I found out when I
> couldn't get them to sound properly in the way you describe. I think it was
> the very last bit of the cotton which I insisted was going on regardless.
> Either that or the uneven bit gets covered over so you can't see it but you
> can hear it is there.
> Lots of rosin on the string first may help if it slips at all (that can
> flatten the cotton and make it bigger one side than the other and, when it
> finally "catches", same sound problems)...
> Colin Hill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leonard Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Hurdy-Gurdy List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:49 PM
> Subject: [HG] Uneven sound
>
>
>> I've finally gotten the right cotton (wonderful stuff!), and I'm
>> working at getting the best out of my humble machine.
>> I'm working with rosining, cotton quantity, and shimming. So far,
>> so good with one exception: one drone produces a slight uneveness in its
>> tone, a kind of pulsing lub-Dub, lub-Dub (for lack of a better
>> description).
>> I thought it might be the wheel, but only one out of my four strings does
>> it. Any clues?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards for the holidays!
>> Leonard Williams
>>
>>
>
>
