{"id":1112,"date":"2008-01-14T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T09:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2008-01-15T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:40:07","slug":"hardanger-fine-tuners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Hardanger fine tuners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been the bane of my Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) &#8211; the lack of fine tuners for the sympathetic strings. Today all that is changed! When I made the new bridge and reshaped the nut I did try hooking a one-quarter size tailpiece over the main tail-piece to get eight fine tuners &#8211; string adjusters &#8211; but that placed the adjusters right up against the bridge &#8211; even with the tail-gut shortened.<\/p>\n<p>After some measurement, I figured that if I could push the under-tail-piece back by 1.5cm I could position the bridge in the correct place, and not have the string cotton windings sitting on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The answer lay in a 3\/16&#8243; bolt. I lined up the two tail-pieces in the vice and drilled through them both to achieve the right overhang. I then threaded a bolt up through the quarter size tail-piece, then placed a nut between the two tail-pieces to provide clearance for the upper fine-tuners to work, and then finished the top with a washer and nut.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1110\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com.au\/ijerry\/R4y2ehUxO4I\/AAAAAAAAACE\/izFeGc6Jb7s\/s288\/hfidftleft.jpg\" width=\"500\" Height=\"350\" alt=\"hfidftleft.jpg\" alt=\"hardanger fiddle fine tuners\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After re-assembly I can now state that the double-decker tail-pieces still clear the violin&#8217;s belly by a good margin and now allow for fine tuners on all eight strings!   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1111\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com.au\/ijerry\/R4vL_RUxO2I\/AAAAAAAAABo\/u9xfdovtPqQ\/s288\/hfidftstraight.jpg\" width=\"500\" Height=\"350\" alt=\"hardanger fiddle fine tuners\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have fitted fine tuners to a hardanger fiddle &#8211; please let me know and perhaps share a photo<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been the bane of my Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) &#8211; the lack of fine tuners for the sympathetic strings. Today all that is changed! When I made the new bridge and reshaped the nut I did try hooking a one-quarter size tailpiece over the main tail-piece to get eight fine tuners &#8211; string adjusters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}