Thanks for your responses -- it's easy to feel isolated with a HG in Kansas.
:>)
I have a Chinook -- it's a great instrument when everything is working, but
it's probably a bit of climate shock from the Pacific NW to Kansas -- and I
spend half my time in western Kansas which is dryer still. I'mplanning to get
a humidifier for it soon.
I've fiddled with the bridge/nut adjustment on the Chinook, but I don't want to
screw something up so I've been pretty timid. How does the adjustment work?
Is it the Allen screw on the end of the bridge or do you actually turn the
piece that serves as a saddle?
Thanks again,
Doug
Dr. Douglas Harvey
Assistant Professor of History
Fort Hays State University
www.RowanCelticMusic.com
www.DougHarvey.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Opp
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:08 AM
Subject: [HG-new] Re: Tone problems
If it is from Alden and Cali, they have these strange little things on the
bridge, that you can adjust instead of shimming. They're strange to use,
granted this is my first gurdy and i havent shimmed with paper before, but it
is still a little strange.. My insturment went through alot when i moved it
from the west coast to ND so I had to fiddle with it a lot.
What kind of gurdy is it? I got an Orca from them. the thing has changed my
life.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Oscar Van Loveren 000724 recon
<[email protected]> wrote:
Shim....the answer is a shim. Little pieces of paper, you
can experiment with varying weights, to raise the string
off the bridge. The way it was explained to me is that for
strength reasons, the grain of the bridge runs in such a
way that is also expands and contracts with moisture/temp
changes..... so, shim when necessary.
Oscar.
>
> Maybe to much cotton...
> Put new cotton on it...
> Marc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Harvey" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:25 AM
> Subject: [HG-new] Re: Tone problems
>
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm the proud owner of a new Hurdy Gurdy made by Alden
> and Cali at Olympic
> > Musical Instruments. I am a folk musician new to the
> Hurdy Gurdy, but I'm
> > not new to stringed instruments.
> >
> > My experience of the last couple of weeks is mainly
> positive, but a couple
> > of problems have arisen.
> >
> > My problem is this: the high chanterelle never totally
> leaves the surface
> > of
> > the wheel when I put it on its little stand, whatever
> that's called,
> > creating a cacophonous overtone sound. But more
> annoying still is that
> > when
> > it is contacting the wheel, most of the time it sounds
> horrible. I've
> > been
> > experimenting with rosin and cotton and have had some
> luck with that, but
> > this "grinding" sound keeps coming back. I'm thinking
> there is a
> > relationship between the string's position and the evil
> sound that
> > persists.
> > The chanterelle, if played by itself when it's doing
> this, makes no sound
> > that could be called musical. The tangents have little
> effect. Thoughts?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> > Doug Harvey
> > Lawrence, KS, USA
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Douglas Harvey, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor of History
> > Fort Hays State University
> > www.RowanCelticMusic.com
> > www.DougHarvey.org
> > "If I could lead you into the Promised Land,
> > I would not do it, because someone else
> > would come along and lead you out."
> > Eugene
> Debs
> >
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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