Just try to push the strings a bit harder to the tangents by pushing the string
to the tangent with your finger between the tangent and the fixed bridge...
If the tone is ok than the tangents arent pushing hard enough to the sting...
putting something on the front of the tangent ( a piece of wood )or making new
ones a bit longer will solve the problem...
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana R Gregory
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:16 AM
Subject: [HG-new] Re: Tech advice: stringing
Before purchasing any more strings, try this. Simply tune your chanter
string to g. The 0.94 size will work very well as it is the same size on my
Chinook with unison g chanter strings. Next, drop the tuning on your drones to
the following, trompette- c, Petite burdon in C and the gros burdon in G. That
is standard G/C tuning. Try it, you might like it better. If you really want to
play in D/G tuning, then you'll need a 0.99 or even a 1.04 size to play in D,
with your drones in d, petite D, and gros in G. Good luck.
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Leonard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Leonard Williams <[email protected]>
Subject: [HG-new] Tech advice: stringing
To: "Hurdy-Gurdy List" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 2:03 PM
I have a home-built hurdy-gurdy based on a presumed 15th c.
style
(plans from a reputable early instrument luthier in California).
Having no
symps or trompette, it is probably more like a symphonie, but with a
large,
flat-back, lute-shaped body instead of the symphonie's simple box.
String
length is 438 mm (17.25 in) chanterelle, 457 mm (18 in) drones.
Tuning:
chanter d' (keyed in G); drones (from top down) g, d, G. (I hope
that style
of designation is clear--d' a tone above middle c = c'.)
I've been through several string gauges on the chanter,
working to
get the clearest tone, but at best it tends to be squawky at the high
end of
the register. Currently I'm using 0.94 mm (.037 in) gut. Yes, I
have been
working on my cottoning, rosining and shimming techniques!
The question--with its longer than normal h-g string length, I
wonder if I might do well to drop the instrument (in pitch, not
bodily!) to
a C gurdy with a heavier chanter tuned to g, drones c, G, C. I think
the
body size of this beasty would support the lower pitch, but I have no
idea
of relationship between scale length, tone clarity and suitable
pitch--i.e.,
is the scale perhaps to long to produce good high notes with tangents
and
the limited pressure they function under? I know it doesn't make as
much
difference on fingerboard instruments, but gurdy is more like a bowed
clavichord.
Thanks an regards,
Leonard Williams
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