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🦋 viola d'ottone: string angle
Getting the correct string angle across the bridge is going to be really critical to laying out this instrument. The angle to the tailpiece looks like it will be pretty sharp, from my drawings. I will probably need to lower the bridge aomewhat -- indeed I may go back to the idea of using a viola bridge instead of da gamba. But I really need to see the pan to know, for now I am just guessing. Waiting impatiently on delivery.
The strings should cross the bridge at 153°. Possibly a few degrees sharper, the metal pan as I'm picturing it could stand a fairly strong tension. So that's around 77° on each side from the axis that's the bridge. I think I can make the bridge tilt back some by moving it back on the face of the pan, that will even up the angles.
posted evening of Monday, January 20th, 2020
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Also it will bring the neck better in line with the grain of the wood.
posted evening of January 20th, 2020 by Jeremy Osner
vis-a-vis using a viola bridge, I think not, it is not wide enough to accomdate the heavy strings.
posted evening of January 20th, 2020 by Jeremy Osner
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