Felecia: a beauty, your new gurdy ! Congrats!
regarding sympathetic strings -though i've never had a gurdy, and have only played one once (recently thanks to Mitch!), i can say from my experience studying Hindustani Classical: the sympathetic strings on sitars and such are tuned with all the notes in the scale depending on the raga ( literally "colour, hue" but also "beauty, melody"; much more than a "scale").
with this sort of tuning the notes of your meloday ring out as you are playing. it adds an etheral quality. since you already have drones with some sypathetic tuned to the tonic and probably the fifth, you might like to try adding in at least the third and the sixth of your scale, or whichever notes are most important for a particular piece depending on its mood.
i still hope to be getting a gurdy some day, often sit here wishing; and having cruised the net quite a bit looking at "gurdy," i've posted some stuff to a blog, and have actually started drawing up some plans for a "barrel gurdy"
- - so here you go (re gurdies & barrel gurdy sympathetic strings) - - of interest to this group would be "hurdy gurdy" one of my blogs:http://rceezwhatnext.blogspot.com/search/label/Hurdy Gurdy (10 posts with photos & videos)
(contributions appreciated) - and - i might be building something (?) - - barrel gurdy http://rceezwhatzmore.blogspot.com/p/barrel-gurdy.html> there should be a minimum of 8 sympathetic strings on top (one octave higher than noted), tuned to a diatonic scale. ideally would have 12 strings to have chromatic tuning, especially useful for Indian raga.
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On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Arle Lommel wrote:
I've never had a HG with sympathetics, but on the nyckelharpa the sympathetics are detuned from the scale notes by just a few cents (~5, IIRC) to mute the response slightly and cause a slight delay. In the case of the nyckelharpa there are sympathetics for all notes of the scale. I have no idea how that would work on a gurdy.-Arle On Feb 7, 2012, at 20:12 , Barbara Currier wrote:I have 6 sympathetics, half g and half d. You might want to do that for a full, loud ring or add c and a. I think I wouldn't add because the a could clash with the g and the c with the d. I used to have to do a lot of damping on my wire strung harp.BarbaraOn Feb 7, 2012 7:34 PM, "Felicia Dale" <[email protected]> wrote:> > Hi, all,> My new gurdy from OI is breaking in very nicely. I've solved some of the little issues with strings settling in, etc. but I'm at a loss as to how to tune the sympathetics. I have eight of them (or will when I get some more string) and the gurdy has D and g/G chanters and drones in c/d, g/a, G, C/D, c/d. Any suggestions?> > Thanks for your help! > Felicia. > > -- > 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/hurdygurdyThe 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/hurdygurdyThe 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.
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