Maybe someone can explain this. I went to a customer today to give a second opinion on restringing the bass section of her 20 year old 5'1"" Kawai grand. What I found was the whole bass section was dead as a door nail. My first inclination was the bass bridge was coming unglued but there was no indication of this. (The bass bridge where it is glued is mostly under the plate and out of view.) Putting pressure on the bass bridge seemed to show it was intact. The customer said after a normal tuning from her regular tuner, the strings seemed to go dead. The technician after referring to a colleague twisted the strings and she thought they sounded better for a day or so but now he is saying the bass section needs to be restrung. Although there is little bearing there is some. I tuned down a string made sure it was seated on the bridge, messed around scratched my head, and retuned the string. It bounced back to life and two or three other strings did the same. Before getting further involved I thought I might want to think about this for a day. I have never seen anything like this before. Any help? Bill
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