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assuming your drone reeds are set and balanced properly, I suggest the following.<o:p></o:p> The next time you have a big mac, get some drinking straws, slit one lengthwise and fit a section down into the standing part of the drone. I would not use wool, the fibres cause turbulence in the air passing through. The drinking straw trick cleanly reduces the dimension of the bore after the drone. This means that the acoustic energy propagates symmetrically down through a smaller volume of air. Any spiral turbulence in the air (depending on the maker !) will be moving more quickly and will therefore be more stable. My experience is that this seems to quieten down the drone without changing the acoustic behaviour characteristics of the drone reed itself. There are of course, many other problems why drones are loud, which can be fettled in different ways according to your playing experience. To be continued ........<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Yours aye<o:p></o:p> Ina <o:p></o:p> -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
