Stagehand
Well-known member
I was getting an intermittent buzz when fingerpicking. Most of the time it was on an open string.
A good example is Dmin (2210). I would get a buzz when I picked the open A.
The uke has a good setup so the problem had to be me.
At first I thought that it was my index finger brushing the A string, while fretting the E string, wrong answer.
It drove me nuts for a while...
Come to find out the buzz was coming from the G string. My middle finger wasn't fretting the G string 2nd fret (A) fully. The sympathetic vibration from the open A was causing vibration on the poorly fretted A on the 4th string.
This has only happened on my tenor with fairly high tension strings.
Just something to watch out for.
A good example is Dmin (2210). I would get a buzz when I picked the open A.
The uke has a good setup so the problem had to be me.
At first I thought that it was my index finger brushing the A string, while fretting the E string, wrong answer.
It drove me nuts for a while...
Come to find out the buzz was coming from the G string. My middle finger wasn't fretting the G string 2nd fret (A) fully. The sympathetic vibration from the open A was causing vibration on the poorly fretted A on the 4th string.
This has only happened on my tenor with fairly high tension strings.
Just something to watch out for.
