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just guessing, the 3 thinnest strings were probably closer in pitch to the natural resonant tone of the dog-bowl, so the vibrations enhanced each other. (thicker metal -> stiffer -> higher natural resonant frequency)
on a tongue drum, to lower the pitch of a particular tongue, it is thinned at the base to make it more flexible and lowers the pitch, to raise the pitch of a note it is thinned at the tip making it lighter and move faster.
or like the resonator pipes under a xylophone/vibraphone are sized to get a natural resonance of the note of the key above them.
not that any of this helps you, other than you may want to keep the higher pitch strings on it and look for another dog-bowl for another build for the lower pitched strings....
Paint can lids are surprisingly awesome.. been using them for a long time...
I think JL hit it on the head.
I did a 6 string Reso using a stainless bowl in a stainless colander with acoustic strings, didn't sound good, but steel strings might have been great if I had thought about it at the time.
I've never made a resonator before so I'm not sure if this would follow through but I have found with standard CBGs the light strings sound really good with no sound holes where the heavy strings sound better with sound holes. So my question to you is... Does your guitar have sound holes?
Jim, do you have cbgs built on the same boxes in the same way, once without sound hole and light strings, once with sound holes and heavy strings?
Rubén, as Titch remarks, I rather think the bridge is the issue: on a dobro guitar, there's a big difference whether the bisquit sits evenly on the resonator cone or not, and between different materials of the bridge above the bisquit.
I was having volume problems on my dolmade tin resonator uke till I fitted a hardwood biscuit like on the commercial resonators. A scrap of hardwood about 1/8 thick cut into a small circle is what did it for me. I had to screw mine in place because I had no flat bit on my cone.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Resonator-ukulele-from-dolmade-tin...
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