A and D String sounding too sharp/tight

Costs are rising and times are tough.
Please consider a donation to keep this
place going.

Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.

This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.

We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.

You are logged in as Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >>Discussions >>Lutherie >>

Page: [1]

Message

<< Newer Topic Older Topic >>

Armando

Posts: 302
Joined: May 27 2005
From: Zürich, Switzerland

A and D String sounding too sharp/tight

Hi all

I have recently strung my latest guitar, a classical repilca of a 1830 Juan Moreno guitar. The overall sound of the guitar is nice but the A and in particular the D string have a tight sound especially on the lower frets. With exception of one guitar, all of my previous guitars show the same problem allthough the latest guitar is totally different in terms of its shape, size and scale length. I don't know why my guitars always tend to show the same issue. I don't know what to change in order to avoid that problem. Maybe the guitar is still too fresh and i should wait until it breaks inn, but i'm not sure if this will solve the problem.

Does anybody had similar problems and is there a typical thing to take into account during building in order to have these strings sounding smoother?

best regards

Armando

_____________________________

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 20 2012 20:22:14