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Permalink Reply by Paul Stephen Eklund on August 7, 2010 at 5:43am

Check to see if your neck is bending wile you tune. If your strings are going lower in pitch than it may be the neck. Put something with a long straight edge against the neck. Look for a gap. Tune one string tighter and see if the gap widens.

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Permalink Reply by anotola humbuckker on August 7, 2010 at 8:44am

Paul Stephen Eklund said:

Check to see if your neck is bending wile you tune. If your strings are going lower in pitch than it may be the neck. Put something with a long straight edge against the neck. Look for a gap. Tune one string tighter and see if the gap widens.

nope, the neck seems pretty strudy, i did notice however that even when i bend a string close to the end of the neck/beginning of the head a natural tremelo sound occurs because the bridge moves the head, is this normal??

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on August 7, 2010 at 9:15am

The tamborine head is caving in perhaps, that's my guess. Banjo heads must be very taunt to work.
Don

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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on August 7, 2010 at 4:18pm

Yah, what Don said, as you tighten the string the bridge is getting pushed into the head, maybe reducing the angle of the strings across the bridge, I think banjos are 15 degrees, so maybe make it less than that.
Does that make sense, the angle is from where the strings start to the bridge on the side you do not play .
Cheers Ron.

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