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What the hell is this sound my guitar is making?? Help!
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turnermoran
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Joined: Feb. 6 2010
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What the hell is this sound my guita...
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Hey guys - so truth be told it's not a current guitar of mine that's a problem, but an old guitar I sold to a student. But I see and hear the guitar and student weekly, so I want to get it fixes. Here's the deal: The sound seems to be coming from the neck area. Possibly the headstock. It seems to happen when I play certain notes - particularly the low mid register. Like on the A string and certain D string notes. The sound is very hard to discribe. It's sounds a little like a creaky metal door if you brought the sound up 10 octaves or something. Almost a rattling sound. And it coexists with the note I'm playing. It rings for a good 2 seconds and dies away with the note. When it happens, I can squeeze the headstock with my hand, grabbing the sides where the tuning plates are, and it solves the problem... for about 10 seconds. It's a Rafael Romero blanca that I spent about $2g's on, purchased in the US. However, another student has a Childs size Hohner that probably cost $100, and it has the same situation. Strangely, the problem seems to come and go on both of these guitars, with mo apparent relationship to temperature or humidity (although there may be one and I haven't noticed). Has anyone ever had this problem? And if so, how do you fix it? Thank!
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Date Nov. 9 2010 3:50:40
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srshea
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Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: What the hell is this sound my g... (in reply to turnermoran)
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Hmn. My guitar, which is also Rafael Romero blanca (a 120), developed a mysterious and out of the blue buzzing sound last summer that sounds eerily similar to what you describe (though it seemed to be coming from the interior of the guitar, not the neck, in my case…). It was a really harsh, almost metallic sounding death rattle that, like the problem you’re describing, would sound with a played note and then fade quickly. It did this with fretted and open notes on all or most strings. I took it to Eugene Clark, who’s been building and repairing for ever, and he poked and prodded it but couldn’t find the cause of the rattle. I left it with him for a couple of days and when I picked it up the rattle was gone, though he said he had not been able to actually find anything wrong with the guitar. Took it home, and a day or two later the rattle came back. I slackened the strings and tried to mimic what I had seen Clark doing. I felt around and carefully but firmly pressed down on all the braces and such. Tuned it back up and it’s been fine ever since. I have no idea what was causing the rattle. I have no idea if anything that was done to the guitar actually “fixed” the problem or if it just went away on its own. There was some atypically extreme fluctuation in humidity at that time but how that may or may not have factored into things remains a mystery. I can’t imagine that any of this actually helps you, but it’s interesting that two guitars from the same builder have been making a hard to diagnose mystery noise... I dunno. Maybe you could trying poking around on the inside, see if maybe something has come loose where the neck joins the body. Wish I had more help to offer. Good luck!
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Date Nov. 9 2010 19:50:11
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