I've been very happy with a Zyex short scale, medium tension Viola G string for the lower of my two g chanters on my Hackman. It's a synthetic core with silver winding. It has a lovely, rich, warm sound, is very stable and breaks in quickly (about two days). It fits just fine through the tail piece and through the tuning peg. It does end up with the winding on the peg but the last one's winding broke at the wheel. I'd been doing a lot of loosening and tightening trying to find the right level of pressure against the wheel and it took me a while.
Felicia. On Apr 26, 2014, at 4:42 AM, gurdymaker <[email protected]> wrote: > A good basic string is Corelli Crystal violin g if it's long enough. Viola > strings can be too long and winding the metal wound part onto the peg is not > a good idea as the stresses often cause premature breakage > > On Friday, April 25, 2014 6:28:33 PM UTC+1, Norm Sohl wrote: > I've always treasured this list in particular as a source of excellent > technical advice - so here is a technical question. > My instrument is currently tuned G/C with the two chanters tuned to the > typical g'. Since one of the chanters broke, I've been thinking of replacing > it with a string that would sound an octave below the g' to get a richer > sound. > so far the viola string I purchased is too large to fit in the tailpiece, and > I am reluctant to enlarge the hole without further discussion of the topic - > so, what do you all think? Is this a reasonable modification, are there good > strings I should be considering, are there better ways to get a lower sound > (like a different tuning entirely)? > Sent from Windows Mail > > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
