On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:08:58 -0500, Garry Warber wrote > I second William. I hesitate to jump in on these mysteries, but in > my makers years I actually never saw a loose-brace caused buzz...
Strange - I had three instruments with braces comming of, all of them had a noticeable buzz who only showed up at certain pitch levels and in certain weather (or, more precise) humidity conditions. Same happend to some of my friends' instruments. > Most were from some bridge problem, and as I was a classic guitar > guy, mainly ill-fitting bridge bones. And you really want to compare guitar bracing with lute bracing? I _never_ saw a loose guitar brace (I assume we talk about modern guitar here, no bridge bones on real ones ;-) My failsafe test for looses braces: take a tuning fork (preferably a heavier one, like a low C fork), strike it, put the end on the sound board and run it along the center and the sides of the top. Cheers, RalfD > If you have one of those > reverse-funnel rosettes it would make me suspect there. If it is a > carved lute rose, then a split or splinter there. Buzzing can be a > real mystery to find! Garry > > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:06 AM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Buzzing [was "Gut strings"] > > Hi Monica, > > A couple of things you might check (though you may well have done > so already) - Loose string ends at the peghead or the bridge - > these could shift around with humidity changes. Don't want to > worry you, but I had some intractible buzzing on one of my lutes > that eventually resolved itself when the bridge flew off. > Fortunately it came off cleanly and was easily fixed. Anyway - No > harm in looking closely at the lower edge of the bridge to see if > there's any sign of it wanting to part company with the > soundboard. It's best to eliminate the easy things before > undertaking more complicated investigations. > > Not a guitar person myself, particularly, but I'd have thought > that these fancy rosettes are a place where buzzing might be > located too - some little bit of parchment waggling like a tuning > fork maybe? Again, that could be influenced by humidity. Then > again there are the inlays > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de
