Weird Pitch Drop

[Nichols]

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
>