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strings tuning and detuning amongst each other

Posted by anotola humbuckker on August 7, 2010 at 12:37pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

hey cigar boxers,

i built a tambourine head banjo, with some help from this site and some good old wet finger work as we say in dutch, but now when i'm trying to tune it when i turn one peg, the other strings pitch modulate also.

that ain't good!

i think the problem might be the bridge, but i'm not sure...

did anyone else encouter such problems?

and how did you fix 'em

i know it's not really a cigar box instrument, but it's the spirit that counts.

thanks in advance for the help

 

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  • Mungo Park August 7, 2010 at 11:18pm
    Yah, what Don said, as you tighten the string the bridge is getting pushed into the head, maybe reducing the angle of the strings across the bridge, I think banjos are 15 degrees, so maybe make it less than that.
    Does that make sense, the angle is from where the strings start to the bridge on the side you do not play .
    Cheers Ron.
  • Don Thompson August 7, 2010 at 4:15pm
    The tamborine head is caving in perhaps, that's my guess. Banjo heads must be very taunt to work.
    Don
  • anotola humbuckker August 7, 2010 at 3:44pm
    Paul Stephen Eklund said:
    Check to see if your neck is bending wile you tune. If your strings are going lower in pitch than it may be the neck. Put something with a long straight edge against the neck. Look for a gap. Tune one string tighter and see if the gap widens.

    nope, the neck seems pretty strudy, i did notice however that even when i bend a string close to the end of the neck/beginning of the head a natural tremelo sound occurs because the bridge moves the head, is this normal??
  • Paul Stephen Eklund August 7, 2010 at 12:43pm
    Check to see if your neck is bending wile you tune. If your strings are going lower in pitch than it may be the neck. Put something with a long straight edge against the neck. Look for a gap. Tune one string tighter and see if the gap widens.
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