Bass String Buzz @ 1st & 2nd Fret
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This is absolutely the most difficult problem a player and a builder can have. Frustrating is too mild a word!!
A sometimes buzz can sometimes be traced to "pilot error".
I had a similar incident to investigate recently for another luthier friend. A client bought a dulcimer and loved it but had issues with random buzzings. The instrument was shipped back and forth a couple times halfway across the country with no satisfaction. The luthier contacted me because I live relatively close to his client, and asked that I basic do a complete checkout and re-setup the dulcimer. I did so, with the owner watching like a hawk. Then when she would try it, yes, once in awhile there was a random buzz. I kept watching her play, and realized that she would get those sounds because she was not consistent in how she picked the strings. Occasionally she was picking up, not across, and it was just enough to unseat a string in. its notch, which would buzz a split second later as it was plucked again and returned to its proper place in the slot
updated by @ken-hulme: 05/18/20 12:13:50AM
