This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Sounds normal. I have just finished tuning my S&S 'A' for the first time following its restringing. Before I put the final semi-tone of tension on I literally pulled all the Bass covereds so as to pre-stretch them - for just the reason you describe, Alan. I just grasp those strings one-by-one and pull them. Wearing gloves, of course! For the metals I borrow one of those pizza cutters with a peripheral groove from my wife which ....(she doesn't know about) :-) Michael G.(UK) _____ From: Alan Barnard [mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net] Sent: 23 September 2005 03:50 To: Pianotech Subject: Weird Pitch Drop 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a6/82/1f/b0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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