Weird Pitch Drop

[Don]

Hi Alan,

I suspect the strings were not tensioned equally in all segments and that
the friction at the brige prevented the strings from sliding across.

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.     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
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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