Hi Alan. How did you go about confirming this ? I wonder if this is another sound that qualiflies as a <<sizzle>>. This rivited cybal like sound I refered to is easily enough quieted by masking off enough of the back scale and further quieted by doing the same to those front segments that run over the two half round brass bars found on Grotrians. I should also mention that if you mask off the whole thing Grotrians sound pretty dead, at least to my ears. Its as if they rely on these non singing segments to fill out the overall sound. Sometimes wish I had a really easy way of recording sounds in good enough quality to make available to the list. Anyone have a good solution ? Cheers RicB Alan writes: I find that the sizzle comes from the plain section of string on the wound strings between the agraffe and the start of the windings. It's as if it acts as a separate string and the start of the winding actually creates a termination point. AF
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