Weird Pitch Drop

[Alan Barnard]

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
> >
>