Johnny,
I recently solved a similarly difficult buzzing problem with my Arabic tuned Türünz oud, but it buzzed on open strings and fingered notes and only
on one course, so I'm not sure if this well help or not...but you might as well give my solution a try.
When I bought my oud it came with Kürschner strings, and there was no buzzing at all. I switched to a custom set of Pyramid lute strings, and right
away the 'g' course (F C A d g c) was buzzing badly. I'm not sure the fact that the strings were Pyramid mattered, as it was a "nylon" course that
was buzzing...PVF strings in this case. After trying a variety of things, I figured I'd try changing the strings, since the original strings didn't
buzz.
The original 'g' course strings were 6065 PVF. I believe that is .65mm. The Pyramid 'g' course strings were .71mm PVF. So first I tried some
D'addario rectified nylon strings that were .76mm. The buzzing continued. Then I tried D'addario regular nylon strings at .71mm. Still buzzing.
Then I switched to a .62mm PVF set from Özten, which I purchased from Cengiz Sarikus in Istanbul...and the buzzing instantly stopped. So I'm fairly
sure that the problem was the thickness of the strings on my particular oud. I don't know why, but at .65mm and .62mm there was no buzzing, but at
.71mm and .76mm there was. So if you've been using the same strings all along, you might try switching to lighter (or heavier) strings and see how
that changes the buzzing. |