If it's a string winding issue you want to isolate, try CA glue on the end of the winding. It has helped for me in the past. You may also try crimping a tiny bit of winding to the end of the string to change the mass to see what effect it has. John Parham Hickory, NC > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Can't hear the forest for the trees > From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> > Date: Sat, August 15, 2009 4:07 pm > To: caut at ptg.org > At 07:26 AM 8/15/2009, Bill wrote: > >What is the chance the problem would be solved by moving the hammer > >of the offending note a mm or so in or out, to change the place > >where it hits the string? Any other suggestions? > I think that the chances of this working are not good. > I think that a new bass string might help, but maybe some of the > sound might be in the agraffe. Possibly you could try lowering the > pitch a good deal (like a fifth or so) and taking a string hook, and > pulling the string around the hole in the agraffe some, maybe > smoothing over the edges of a notch the string has carved for itself > over time. > It's something you could try (only on the worst offending string) to > see if it helps, probably without breaking the string. If the > offending overtone is unchanged, then maybe you could replace only > the one string, to see if that works, before ordering a whole set. > Have you tried twisting one of the bad strings? Maybe the wraps are > getting loose. > What one wouldn't want to happen would be to replace the whole set, > and then find that the problem was the same or even worse. Working on > one note till it was better would prevent this. > Susan Kline
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