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srshea -> RE: What the hell is this sound my guitar is making?? Help! (Nov. 9 2010 19:50:11)
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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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