I see that you have the comments on your youtube channel disabled. I wanted to add to your video about positioning the bridge:
On a long-neck baglama saz, the length from the nut to the base of the neck (where the higher pitched fret is, an octave and a fourth over the free string’s tone) measures the 5/8 of the total length of the vibrating string. Apart from that, on the soundboard, the length from the strings base (where they are tightened) to the bridge is meant to be the 1/5th of the soundboard’s length. That leaves us with a relation 1(/5) to 4(/5) on where on the soundboard the bridge is meant to be. That is for the long neck baglama.
Doing a google search and some automatic translating, I found this pdf file, that gives us the relation between neck, bridge and strings’ base. http://megep.meb.gov.tr/mte_program_modul/moduller_pdf/Çöğür%20Projesi%20Ve%20Şablonu.pdf
That states that if the length of the neck is a whole (5/5ths), multiplying that by 1,8 (9/5ths) you will find the total length of the vibrating string. And that also gives you the distance of the bridge from the strings’ base. It is one fifth of the length of the soundboard. (By the way, this means that the neck (up to the nut) has the same length that the soundboard has).
To achieve an octave and a tone (major second) you need to take out of a string half of it and then 1/9th of the rest. 1/2+1/(9x2)=9/18+1/18=10/18=5/9.
While what the video shows is correct, it has one small disadvantage to be universally applicable. That is that the frets are movable. So, in the occasion that the octave fret is not where it supposed to be and the bridge is moved, the second higher fret might not be able to be corrected accordingly. By setting that (the tonically higher fret) by following the four to five relation, we avoid this trouble. So, I upvoted the video and add that, you can also start by measuring distances first.
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ReplyDeleteI wanted to add to your video about positioning the bridge:
On a long-neck baglama saz, the length from the nut to the base of the neck (where the higher pitched fret is, an octave and a fourth over the free string’s tone) measures the 5/8 of the total length of the vibrating string.
Apart from that, on the soundboard, the length from the strings base (where they are tightened) to the bridge is meant to be the 1/5th of the soundboard’s length.
That leaves us with a relation 1(/5) to 4(/5) on where on the soundboard the bridge is meant to be.
That is for the long neck baglama.
Doing a google search and some automatic translating, I found this pdf file, that gives us the relation between neck, bridge and strings’ base. http://megep.meb.gov.tr/mte_program_modul/moduller_pdf/Çöğür%20Projesi%20Ve%20Şablonu.pdf
That states that if the length of the neck is a whole (5/5ths), multiplying that by 1,8 (9/5ths) you will find the total length of the vibrating string. And that also gives you the distance of the bridge from the strings’ base. It is one fifth of the length of the soundboard. (By the way, this means that the neck (up to the nut) has the same length that the soundboard has).
To achieve an octave and a tone (major second) you need to take out of a string half of it and then 1/9th of the rest. 1/2+1/(9x2)=9/18+1/18=10/18=5/9.
While what the video shows is correct, it has one small disadvantage to be universally applicable. That is that the frets are movable. So, in the occasion that the octave fret is not where it supposed to be and the bridge is moved, the second higher fret might not be able to be corrected accordingly. By setting that (the tonically higher fret) by following the four to five relation, we avoid this trouble.
So, I upvoted the video and add that, you can also start by measuring distances first.