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Post subject: cd220cse - low e rings when not touched
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:08 am
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i've always played electrics but with my new cd220cse, the low e starts to ring out when i am doing finger exercises on dgbe.

no part of my body is hitting the low e and in a quiet environment i can hear it and then stop it by touching it. it does this even while playing with the lightest touch.

i dont know if this is normal for an acoustic but i dont get this on any of my electrics.

anybody have any ideas???

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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:19 pm
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you could get it to your local guitar shop and have them take it a look :)

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has anybody ever seen this??

when playing notes on the dgbe strings i can get the low e and a strings to start vibrating and audibly ring out. i am not touching the low e or a at all with any part of my body. playing single notes on the higher strings will cause the open e or open a to start singing.

to me this is annoying. these strings (more the low e than a) start vibrating and producing sound when they haven't even been touched.

i am asking if this is normal or not.

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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:47 am
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It likely when your playing a note on one of the other strings it is causing the lower e string to vibrate - the vibration carries through your string being played, to the guitar and being passed through the other string.
Sitars have extra strings to the ones being played for this very reason, to create a fuller ringing sound, these are called sympathetic strings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_strings

If you dont want this to happen try positioning your hands to mute the other ones your not playing.

Gareth.


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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:54 am
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I have the same model as you by the way in bubinga, and it happens on mine when I dont mute the other strings (actually you should probably be happy that your guitar is letting the notes ring through properly enough to have this happen!)


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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:47 am
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you could try a string buffer to stop the extra ringing of non plucked strings. Some has even used an elastic hair scrunchie placed at the nut on the strings to stop those unwanted strings from ringing out.


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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:44 am
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thanks for the replies. :)


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6twang wrote:
you could try a string buffer to stop the extra ringing of non plucked strings. Some has even used an elastic hair scrunchie placed at the nut on the strings to stop those unwanted strings from ringing out.


Would this not mess things up for when you play a chord with open strings?


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GarethJB84 wrote:
6twang wrote:
you could try a string buffer to stop the extra ringing of non plucked strings. Some has even used an elastic hair scrunchie placed at the nut on the strings to stop those unwanted strings from ringing out.


Would this not mess things up for when you play a chord with open strings?


Yes when playing anything with open strings it would't work too well. This would only work like it should if you're only playing single notes. Thanks for catching my slack on that one GarethJB84.


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