The vibrating length is varies depending on which key is pressed
The part of the string on the peg/nut side of the depressed tangent does
not vibrate
Because the bridge to wheel distance is fixed, HG players cannot
compensate for this as different keys are pressed
Guitar and bowed instrument players can and do compensate
In the 19th century Nicolas Colson made 2 styles of HGs with wheels
closer and further away from the bridge
Chris Allen has historic examples of both styles
My own Colson has the wider spacing and is so rich and sweet
Graham
Anthony Shostak wrote:
George Leverett-Altarwind Hurdy Gurdies wrote:
By increasing the distance between the wheel & bridge, you might gain
a little in resonance (most noticeable in lower midrange frequencies
to my ears), but then the arc of vibration of the strings increases
too, and you may have issues of chatter against the tangents.
Really? It seems to me that so long as the scale length remains the
same, the distance from wheel to bridge should not make effect the
viibrational arc, because the scale length is determined by the
distance from bridge to saddle. Otherwise, the pitch of a violin
would be different when bowing close to bridge than when bowing closer
to the fingerboard. No?
Anthony
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