Moon Shadow by Cat Stevens;I was very into Cat Stevens, but as I was in the army then, they wouldn't let me grow my darned hair that long.
2 2013-05-07 20:57:17
Re: Tinny, buzzy sound on top strings. (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Hey Guys!
Taking all this great advice and my current lack of jinglies into account,I decided to first get humidifiers for both my guitars, then oil the fretboard and change strings.Not having Lemon Oil, I opted for what I could find in the kitchen cupboard;some very nice Portuguese Extra-Virgin Olive Oil.As a rule, taken from my classical guitar habits, I swap the strings one-for-one to keep the pull over the fretboard even.This time, as I wanted to oil. I took them all off. Guess what I discover; the fretboard nut is loose and floating!So I carefully chipped off old dried glue residue with a blunt kitchen knife and clamped and re-stuck the nut with wood-glue.Problem solved!Incidently, the town I have moved to recently, Bethlehem, is in the eastern Drakensberg(Dragon Mountain) in South Africa and has roughly the same altitude and climate as Boulder, Colorado.It is now late autumn(fall) and we have the dubious pleasure at this time of being the coldest town in South Africa. The extra humidity has done a treat to the sound of both my guitars, and my fretboards now look good enough to eat, maybe with a nice garlicky green salad...........
Cheers!
Pieter.
3 2013-04-15 19:32:16
Topic: Tinny, buzzy sound on top strings. (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
I wonder if anyone can give me some advice on this.I have an old but beloved Ibanez PF10 acoustic that has given me many years of joy.I look after it and it lives in a good gig-bag.After concentrating a lot on my classical guitar, I have taken to old faithful for some acoustic blues stuff I'm getting into.The problem is my top e and b strings have developed this horrible tinny buzzy sound that it never had before.I've gone over everything and haven't found anything loose anywhere.If I increase the dip of the neck it gets better, but the overall sound is dull and its hell to finger.A capo over the first fret seems to help, but this is only temporary as I'm getting into Bluegrass-style jazzy chord/melody playing I'd like my baby in tip-top sound.Anything I can do without robbing a bank?
Any advice would be appreciated.Incidentally, I'm very into playing Tom Waits stuff on guitar.