It's possible to make a new tangent with just an X-acto knife, but it's slow
going.
For really desperate situations, such as when you are sitting onstage and your
tangent is flopping over, use this protocol:
- Remove the offending tangent.
- Place the narrow post end in your mouth for 10 seconds
- Lick the tangent post a little on its way out of your mouth
- Replace the tangent in the key before it has time to swell enough to make it impossible to do so.
- Turn the tangent back and forth in its hole to distribute the spit that was on the post after you licked it.
- Set tangent position as usual
It's not for the squeamish.
Alden F.M. Hackmann [email protected]
"Beati illi qui in circulum circumeunt, fient enim magnae rotae."
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Geoff Turner wrote:
Augusto,
If it is a real crisis, I have used this method before.
Take a bamboo skewer, the sort used for food, and shave a very small sliver off
one side. Insert this into the hole with the tangent.
What I would now do, following the purchase of Neil Brook’s maintenance DVD, is
to make a new tangent, but I guess unless you have
the appropriate piece of wood and a chisel, this isn’t going to help you.
Regards,
Geoff
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To: [email protected]; [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:18:40 -0300
Subject: [HurdyGurdyForum] urgent advice
I have an urgent question
Because of the shifts in humidity - we just came out of a long dry season (4
months with no rain - now it's nice and rainy) - two
tangents on my HG (E and F on low string, first octave - on a G/C gurdy) got
loosened on the key and won't hold the tuning when in
contact with the vibrating string, and I don't know exactly how to fix that. I
tried some string (like what you do with bagpipes) but
that didn't work well.
how can I shim or fix that? Please send me all ideas you have.
It's a little urgent, because I have a gig on Friday.
Thank you
Augusto
Brazil
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