The strings of my sixth and seventh courses collide, unless I play them very softly. Am I the problem, or the strings, or the distance between them?
I have this problem on my 10 course especially. It is less well set up generally than my 8 course, which doesn't give me this trouble, so the advice of Eugene and Roman are suggestions about fixing the set up. But I also observe for myself that technique has a lot to do with it. If I get too energetic in my playing the twanging can get rather bad. But it also has something to do with the angle of attack of the thumb. You might play around with that idea and see if that's part of your situation before making a lot of modifications to the set up. Just a thought.
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