Hello all, While I do like the rich full sound of octave chanterelles, I must say that part of the charm of a double unison chanterelle, in my opinion, is its slight imperfection with regards to tuning. The same goes for hammered dulcimers, and Kanuns, Oud's, bouzoukis. Perhaps with the only exception being the Renaissance and Baroque lute, I find myself obsessed with tuning my lute strings to play in perfect unison.
regards Bruno Cognyl-Fournier www.estavel.org On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gillett <[email protected]> wrote: > I was also at Chants de Vielles and heard Dominique Forge's opinion on > unison G chantrelles. Even with my obsolete schoolboy French I could tell > that he was adamently against the idea, saying that trying to keep the > strings in unison was next-to-impossible. > > So I tried octave stringing, and as Barbara said, the result was > wonderful! It gave me a much fuller, richer sound, and stopped the tendency > for screeching at the upper end. Also; when I was jamming the other night, > I disengaged the high G and was able to burble happily in the background > without annoying the heck out of everyone else :-) > > Choosing the low G string was hit-and-miss ( it was an experiment anyway). > I dug around in my tool/junk box and ended up using the following > combination: > > High G - 0.031in / 0.77mm gut > Low G - 0.037in / 0.86mm gut > > Try it, you'll like it! > > David > > -- > 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. -- Bruno Cognyl-Fournier www.estavel.org -- 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.
