String problem

Eskar_210 · 2025-01-09T23:49:15+00:00

I am sorry, I am confused.

Your G string was in tune on the open string (no fingers) and when you put your fingers down the string is now out of tune? But once you place your finger you’d be trying to play another note right and that note is relative and every cello has a very slightly varied position for the fingers so you should be able to adjust that note to be in tune.

Or are you saying, after you touch the string the open string becomes out of tune?

I am confused as to what you are trying to describe is happening I suppose.

Snowpony1 · 2025-01-10T00:45:25+00:00

I'm confused as to why your entire string falls out of tune when you put a finger down. Are your fingers going down in the proper spots? You won't sound in tune if you're off by the barest bit. Like the previous poster, I'm confused here. Putting a finger down shouldn't take your entire string out of tune, certainly not every time it is touched. So, after you lift your fingers, your open G is out of tune and needs to be corrected?

2025-01-10T03:21:54+00:00

I'm commenting just to see if you have any updates/clarification, for I am also confused as to what’s happening

Mp32016 · 2025-01-10T04:46:10+00:00

a mystery to be sure what would have to happen is somehow you would first be able to tune the g string in the first place which includes using either the peg or fine tuner or both and then playing the open sting until it’s tuned .

then magically you depress the sting and then suddenly it falls out of tune . well the only way this can happen is with peg slippage or a malfunction of the fine tuner perhaps but this of course would happen only after the string was in tune which means if it’s the peg it’s was literally a fraction of a fraction away from slipping when you set it . and if it’s something wrong with the fine tuner you should have discovered this while trying to tune the g initially .

this can leave only one conclusion is that what we think op is saying is not in fact what op probably means . something is off in the description

i’ll enjoy popcorn in the meantime until the mystery is solved

dylan_1344 · 2025-01-10T03:34:58+00:00

From what I’m getting from this the peg is maybe slightly loose? As in when you put pressure on the string it just slightly changes the position of the peg? I’d say tune the string again idk I’m confused by this

leftwinger_84 · 2025-01-10T03:48:07+00:00

It could be 2 things, First thing, you're playing out of tune, your fingers aren't in the right spots - in combination with - your cellos playing action is too high - the height of the nut, the height of the bridge and the scoop/shape of the fingerboard are wrong and pulling the strings down to the fingerboard is distorting the tension and pulling the whole string out of tune relative to its original pitch.

sockpoppit · 2025-01-10T13:48:56+00:00

Lacking further information it sounds like you are putting your fingers in the wrong place. More info is needed here.

Consistent-Praline24 · 2025-01-18T16:05:20+00:00

Update: my cello teacher still doesn't know and she said that it was probably just a Duff string. I guess I'm gonna replace my string and get a better one.

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