Hi Neil,
How do you define "limited success"? What hasn't worked with what
you've tried? I admit that I can't help you here since I play in C/G
with an octave chanter using viola strings with no problem, but you
want to go a fourth lower and there I have no success. But in any
event it would help to know what the problem you've faced is exactly.
Part of the problem may be that you're really quite low. Balázs Nagy
experimented with chanterelles in the range you suggest for a bass
instrument and found that below a certain pitch (somewhere near where
you're talking about, if I remember correctly), the vibrational
envelope of the string gets too big for the tangents to effectively
stop the string (the string bounces off them or something like that),
so you end up with unclear intonation and other related problems. I
don't remember all the details, but he ran into these problems when
trying to pitch a Hungarian instrument down an octave, which would put
it right near the range you're talking about.
-Arle
On May 28, 2008, at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I'm not usually one to plead for help but this problem is costing a
lot of time and money so any help will be greatly appreciated.
I've just built a three chantrelle gurdy 345mm scale length and am
tuning it to normal D/G tuning . The third chanterelle is to be the
next octave D down.
Has anyone found a string to achieve a reasonable result at this
pitch ? I've tried a lot of viola C strings with limited success.
Regards
Neil Brook
