Weird Pitch Drop

[Alan Barnard]

You're right, and no way the bends are the same because I made the cap by
tracing natural string lines rather than even attempting to trace or
measure the old pin locations.. 
 
You may remember my posts with pictures of the horrible
badly-designed-side-bearing-mangled bridge. It was the one of which Joe
Garrett commented it was the worst he'd ever seen. 
 
This is the beast. It's a MUCH happier piano tonight. 
 
But you are right, I should have gone back and tapped and tweaked after the
first tuning to pitch. I never think to do that, except with new strings.
Sounds like I better warn the customer and make a brief visit when I'm in
the neighborhood, lest she think I don't know what I'm doing--as true as
that may be! Ha.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com>
> To: <tune4u@earthlink.net>; Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 09/22/2005 11:29:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Weird Pitch Drop
>
> 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