Neil--
Awesome sound, great music! Thanks!
Leonard Williams
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On 6/7/08 6:38 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Arle
> Pleased to report a bit of a breakthrough re. the low d chanter. I still
> have not found the make of the string I have that works best but a major
> improvement in harmonic resistance is gained by only applying cotton at the
> keybox edge of the wheel. This effectively bows the string further away from
> the bridge. It also imparts a more mellow tone.My first tentative
> scratchings can be seen here :
>
> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35597142
>
>
> I'm sure I've heard this tune somewhere, does anyone have a title or
> discography for it?
>
> Cheers
> Neil
> http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arle Lommel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [HG] Chanterelle string for low D
>
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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