Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
OMG, the stethoscope!
Great ideas!I know of a guitarist who threaded his B and high E strings through pencil erasers -- placed just in front of the saddle -- as a way to mute the sound of those two strings.
Agustin Barrios (the first classical guitarist ever to record) used gut for his E A D G strings, but steel strings for the B and high E, and did the same thing, threaded them through some kind of rubber to dampen them.
Maybe that's why you see something slipped under the trebles sometimes, matchbook cover or similar material, sometimes tiny tubing. I thought it was to raise up a string, maybe both.
Hey Dread did you get those at Elderly?
Yep, acoustic. My electrics don't have bridge pins.On an acoustic?
But something else occurred to me:
Since the OP mentioned a new saddle ,
Maybe all it needs is a bit of improvement in the "curve"/ramping under those strings, maybe it's a tiny bit too sharp:
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/Guitar/Setup/MakeNewSaddle/newsaddle02.html
Oh, no, that was about this comment:Yep, acoustic.
Now I realize maybe he still meant "behind the saddle"; I thought he meant literally between the string and the saddle at the point of contact.Maybe that's why you see something slipped under the trebles sometimes, matchbook cover or similar material, sometimes tiny tubing. I thought it was to raise up a string, maybe both.
I have Graphtech Tusq pins with abalone dots in both my dreads. "Presentation" style pins, perfect fit. Available in black or white. I love the tone.
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I might end up there.I recently did a round of pin testing on my '72 D-35, and after trying rosewood, regular bone, and water buffalo horn, I settled on Tusq.