Hi Barbara: I have a few thoughts regarding your trouble with tuning the tangents, and then 10 minutes later your tangents need further adjustment.
First, are your strings very new? As you know , the strings should start out in perfect tuning before adjusting tangents, but if strings are new they could be stretching / slipping a little as you progress work on the scale & tangent adjustments. Then when the strings are brought back to correct pitch the tangents are off, because they were adjusted to strings that were gradually going flat...(this is always a trick with setting up new instruments). It's always a safe bet to continually double check your open chanters to be sure they are still at correct pitch. If that's not the issue: Could it be that you're tuning your tangents wtihout any drones on, and then when you add the drones the tangents are out of tune? Try tuning to a drone; for instance turn on just your trompette and tune it to pitch, and then tune the open chanters to pitch, and then work on the tuning of the tangents, relative to how they sound against your trompette. Hope this helps George ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Currier To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:53 PM Subject: [HG-new] 'splain me somethin' Okay, folks, I'm going tone deaf and nuts. Please help me understand. I'm working over my wooden tangents on my little old Bassot hg, switched over from metal shafts after OTW and lots of good advice. Craig made blanks and I'm sizing and shaping them. First oddity: the wooden tangents are more generally straight than the metal ones. Why does that make a difference? Isn't a vibrating length a vibrating length? Why does it matter what the stop is made of? Second: After tuning the open string, I get a tangent set so it is straight up perfect on the tuner. Ten minutes later, after checking the open string tuning again, I have to turn the tangent a quarter turn to get into tune. What the...? Third: what do you do if your tangent growls at you? Barbara -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
