I should have mentioned, when I said "replaced the bass strings", I didn't mean with new ones, just reattached the old ones to the hitch pins. Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri > [Original Message] > From: Nichols <nicho@zianet.com> > To: <tune4u@earthlink.net>; Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> > Date: 09/22/2005 11:07:47 PM > Subject: Re: Weird Pitch Drop > > Very normal. No worries. Hold the pedal down and pound on them for a couple > of minutes. Helps the process. > > later, > Guy > > > At 10:50 PM 9/22/2005 -0500, you wrote: > > > > >Reinstalled a newly capped and repaired--cantilevered on an apron--bass > >bridge today on a Solomon (? Chinese) upright. > > > >After replacing the bass strings, I brought them up to roughly to pitch > >and tuned them to pitch twice. The rest of the piano was then very close > >to pitch, so I tuned on up, maybe 2 to 5 cents per string. > > > >Then I rechecked the bass and found it had dropped a fairly even 10 > >cents. Retuned and all is well. BUT ... I panicked a little, thinking the > >bridge had lifted or rolled or otherwise failed somehow. But no, > >everything looks fine, no separation or anything. > > > >Does that seem weird? Common? Normal? or what? > > > >Alan Barnard > >Salem, Missouri > > >
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