Weird Pitch Drop

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Alan,
Very normal. Did you seat the strings at the hitch, and front and rear
bridge termination points after the first pitch? Especially if you twisted
the strings, the bends will not be in the same place.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Barnard" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Weird Pitch Drop


>
> 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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