Damper harmonics

[Dennis Johnson]

At  2:56 PM 3/28/96 -0700, Richard Adkins wrote:
>Dennis....
>
>   It may not be the speaking length of the string that's ringing....on
>one of our D's on the same note you mention it was the portion
>of the string between the bridge and hitch pin...there's a "portal"
>in the plate there where there is supposed to be stringing mute
>cloth....even with the stringing cloth down there it was still ringing....try
>damping that section of the strings to see if its the culprit....i had a lot of
>fun trying to quiet that ring too....until i found it....!!!!  I just used
>another
>strip of fresh muting cloth down there...and it was gone!
>assuming we're talking about the same thing....



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Thanks, that is a good idea, but I should have added that I had someone
play F5 while I went around and placed my finger on that section of the
bridge behind F2. It only goes away when I touch the speaking length of F2.


Dennis Johnson
St. Olaf College
johnsond@stolaf.edu
djohn@skypoint.com