I have to disagree, with all due respect. If the Hungarian is resting on the
soundboard, why does pushing the wedge in farther makes the dog more sensitive?
The action of pushing the wedge in brings the tail end of the string, the part
between the dog and the tail, closer to the soundboard, pushing it down onto
the soundboard. If the dog is sitting at rest on the soundboard, a downward
vector of more force would simply act to keep it there even better. Instead,
the dog is more sensitive, making more noise.
Alden F.M. Hackmann [email protected]
"Beati illi qui in circulum circumeunt, fient enim magnae rotae."
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
The Hungarian and the French trompettes work in opposite ways.
The Hungarian dog's foot rests up in the air by default: there is no contact
between the foot and the soundboard when the string is at rest. When the
string vibrates gently, it causes the dog's foot to wave up and down in the
air. When the wheel speed is increased, the string vibrates more strongly, and
the dog's foot waves farther up and down. In doing so, it hits the soundboard
at the lower end of its arc, and causes the buzzing sound.
I played several instruments with hungarian style mechanism for years and at
many occasions, I owned two f them myself (Budapest is about two and a half
hours by car from Vienna). The bridge of the hungarian system rests at the
soundboard as the french one does, they both work the same way.
Sorry for correcting you Alden,
Simon
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