does anyone here know if a cumbus has a particular scale length and if so what it is. i have a cumbus and i don't know if the bridge is in the right
location. does it matter all that much?DoggerelPundit - 4-21-2016 at 08:06 AM
I believe that on any stringed instrument, the bridge is right if the pitch of octave chime matches the pitch of the octave finger position.
Stephen_tone - 4-21-2016 at 08:36 AM
thank you for that. i think you're right.adamgood - 4-21-2016 at 06:31 PM
irrelevant though since cumbus has no frets...unless this is a cumbus with frets
I believe that on any stringed instrument, the bridge is right if the pitch of octave chime matches the pitch of the octave finger position.
Stephen
_tone - 4-21-2016 at 09:38 PM
no. no frets. does that make the question of a scale length irrelevant? adamgood - 5-9-2016 at 07:45 PM
Without frets it makes the octave chime trick irrelevant, since there's no fret to match pitch to.
I was just helping a friend with this online today via Skype. There are 9 screws holding down the the "rim" over the skin on mine...is it the same for
yours? 3 screws holding down the bridge? Locate the next 2 screws on either side...I have my bridge aligned pretty much evenly with those. I've never
measured the scale length of mine! Wonder if it's close to a Turkish ud scale length?
no. no frets. does that make the question of a scale length irrelevant?
_tone - 5-10-2016 at 06:33 PM
yes, mine is the same with 9 screws, 3 of which are holding down the bridge. i also have a cumbus cura that has frets tied on. lots of frets.
how do you tune your cumbus?
