Hi everyone My gurdy was made in the 80s by a non-specialist luthier and has some features that are not general - perhaps other makers have more sense. One of these is that the bridge 'floats' - it's only held down by the strings, and an adjustable tension cord (tirant) to the tailpiece. Not only can the foot move, the top of the bridge can change position either with the tirant or just with the tension of the strings. I've been having some problems with balance between strings and a more experienced played suggeseted that the moving bridge might be part of the problem and that I should think about glueing it down. That makes sense BUT before I can do that I need to know where to put it. That leads on to the issue with my nut/tangent interaction: I've just retuned the strings, measuring carefully so that the tangent for the middle D hits the string half way between nut and bridge. That worked for the high chanter - but if I put the nut for the low chanter even with the high one, the tangents are too high. I can tune middle D, E and F - but over that they are about 1/4 tone too high and I can't push the tangent far enough down. I can get the tangents on the low chanter straight and lined up with the high chanter BUT only if I move the nut about 5mm away from the bridge so the string is 5mm longer on the low octave than the high octave. Am I missing something? Should I be worried? What will happen if I glue down the bridge? Advice please - I'm 3 hours from the nearest luthier. Thanks
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