Andy Culpepper -> RE: breaking in a new guitar (Sep. 26 2010 21:59:08)
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i've been reading some stuff about wolf tones. and they can be avoided by playing chromatic scales loudly and slowly. Some guitars have a bum note or two right around the main resonances of the top. Especially if the top is tuned right on a particular note in the A440 scale. I wouldn't call it a "wolf" note, it's just that the energy is sucked out of the string very quickly, and it might be a tubby, short note. This might only be interesting to luthiers but... Take your guitar and play up chromatically on the low E string, E, F, F# etc. but linger on each note and look down at the string. Notice the "envelope" of the string, meaning how the string moves, and how long it keeps moving, how widely it swings, etc. You will get to one note that has a large envelop, but dies away quickly. Probably somewhere between F and Bb. That is the "wolf note". The same note in other registers might be a bit funny too. I'd actually be curious as to what it is on your Navarro. As far as I know, the only way to possibly "fix" that is just play the guitar a lot on all of its notes, as in regular playing. But it's just part of a guitar being a guitar and probably won't ever really go away.
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