String size suggestions

[VonH...@aol.com]

Hello all,

 

I am currently using a synthetic (classical guitar) string and I wanted to try out a natural gut string for my C/G hurdy gurdy. It is a Boudet with the standard length lute body and I am trying to tune it one octave up from the chanter strings which are unison G. I have plenty of strings to tune it to C or D but I am looking for the right string diameter for an octave G. Any ideas?

I am willing to try a synthetic (nylgut) string but I have found most of them to tinny for my liking.

 

Scott

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[Melvin Dorries]

HI Scot,   That high g' is a long way to go up from a high d' as in a D/G tuned instrument.  I would like to send you a couple of strings to try as a thank you for teaching me a song at OTW last year. Or I could bring them this year in about a week? I will need your address to send them.   Hurdygurdycrafters Mel --- On Sun, 9/6/09, VonH...@aol.com <VonH...@aol.com> wrote:

[Leonard Williams]

You can try ArtoWikla's sstring calculator at

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/NewScalc/

Knowing your current string specs, you can calculate the tension you're
working with, and find a string diameter in plain gut for the pitch, mensur
and tension you need.

Regards,
Leonard Williams
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[VonH...@aol.com]

Hello Mel,

 

Thank you for the offer. I will be at OTW in a week and plan to have the HG there so we can play around with it then.

 

Thanks again and I will be teaching more songs this year so make sure to get together with me.

 

Scott

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[Michael Opp]

I'll need to learn some too, Scott!

You had better teach Mel and I some really awesome ones this year.

see you in like a week!

Michael

2009/9/6 <VonH...@aol.com>

[VonH...@aol.com]

Mike,

 

Didn't know you were going to be there. It will be good to have you there as well.

 

Scott

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[Michael Opp]

I honestly don't think that I could live with myself if I missed. I NEED to play with people, i'm going nuts. No one here likes roots anything. >.>

I'm so excited to see all the friends that I made last year!

see you on the 15th!

Michael

2009/9/6 <VonH...@aol.com>

[Augusto de Ornellas Abreu]

HI there

 

I would love to know if you already have the date set for NEXT YEAR's OTW... This year I cannot go, but I already need a date so I can schedule my vacations next year to coincide with OTW (I live very far away in Brazil, but I really would like to be there in 2010).

 

Thanks

 

Augusto

[Ruth Bramley]

I'll be there too and would love to join in a song-learning session :-)
Really looking forward to seeing 'the gang' again. Less than a week till
I fly out! Yippee!

Ruthie

Michael Opp wrote:
> I honestly don't think that I could live with myself if I missed. I
> NEED to play with people, i'm going nuts. No one here likes roots
> anything. >.>
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> I'm so excited to see all the friends that I made last year!
>
> see you on the 15th!
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> Michael
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> 2009/9/6 <VonH...@aol.com <mailto:VonH...@aol.com>>

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> Mike,
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> Didn't know you were going to be there. It will be good to have
> you there as well.
>
> Scott
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[Barbara Currier]

I'm getting excited!

I hope to gather some opinions about my rosining technique, tweaking my upper octave tangents (anybody have a metal shaft one with a high wooden flag that won't bind the upper, close-together keys? that's what's popped into my head. My current tangents are the metal ones with silicone sleeves and brass u-shaped feet, I've cut the silicone sleeves to make more room up there.) and why I can get my distal (don't know how else to distinguish it) chanterelle to sound good, but my open proximal one never does, no matter what I do (rosining, polishing, cottoning, shimming). Not being either a luthier or an experienced player, I get frustrated and disengage it.

Looking forward to classes, the slow session and maybe even working into the full speed ones, and, of course, all the wonderful people.

Barbara

[joanna...@comcast.net]

OTW will be September 14

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: Augusto de Ornellas Abreu
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:53:16 -0300
To: <hurdy...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [HG-new] Re: String size suggestions

[joanna...@comcast.net]

OTW will be September 14 - 19 next year. Hope to see you there!
Joanna Chesnut

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: Augusto de Ornellas Abreu
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:53:16 -0300
To: <hurdy...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [HG-new] Re: String size suggestions