On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Jinx wrote:

> > Well, blast it, I just broke a string playing with it...  Obviously
> > there's a better way to handle picking up the base frequency
> > of the string...  anyone got a bright idea that doesn't involve
> > op amps and a hundred components?
>
> My God, man of steel. I've NEVER managed to break a bass
> guitar string

Heh... this makes two.  The kid broke that monster of an E string within a
few hours trying to tune it, and the D string popped last night as I was
tuning it up with the organ-that-thinks-it's-a-piano.  I suspect this
particular bass saw quite a bit of demo traffic in the shop.  Of course I
know absolutely *nothing* about musical instruments, which doesn't help.
But then I didn't know a thing about women when I got married, either...
hope the learning curve isn't as tough.

> you could get better results. The easy answer I think would
> be to keep striking the string to keep it putting out the fundamental

That actually seemed to kind of work, but it was very inconsistent.

I'll keep hacking at it... two more strings to go!  <grin>

Dale

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