Fazer bridge? ahem...

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hey guys,
thank you, but of course I know about humidity drop.
Actually this piano was moved just a few weeks before I tuned it, but 
should have settled enough, at least we´re used to that here.
I didn´t take readings, I normally don´t.  We have pretty steady heating 
here, geothermal ya know, but normally the indoors climate tends to be a 
tad dry.  There aren´t big swings in humidity as things go in regular 
houses here, at least compared to places where most of you are from.

But what happened was that everything *except* the bass dropped.  Spot on, 
from the first bass note.
The bass is still right up to pitch and in tune.
And the rest of the piano is "relatively" in tune with itself, that is, the 
lowest tenor note upwards.  Did you get that?
Why would a drop in humidity not affect the bass?  And don´t tell me it´s 
because of longer strings :-)



Many more thanks in advance,

Kristinn



At 08:42 27.11.2000 +0100, you wrote:


>Kristinn Leifsson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tuned a Fazer piano for a friend a little over a month ago.  The piano´s
> > not old, and an overall O.K one.
> > Now the mid range and treble are just under A 439, but the bass is still up
> > to pitch.
>
>Typical for this time of year up here Kristin. You would do wisely to keep
>track of daily readings of relative humidity. Its getting colder by the 
>week up
>here, and dryness comes with that in our part of the world. I have to 
>fight the
>pitch drop daily at the UiB. I get to several of our pianos every 2 weeks 
>or so
>and I notice that whatever movement there is in in the down direction now. It
>will be the opposite come May.
>
> > I´ve been told the bridge might be loose.
>
>Not likely on a newer instrument... but who knows.
>
> > Is there anything else you can think of, and remedies for the problem?
>
>Damp Chaser... works great..
>
> > Actually I had a spinet go south on me once, but I don´t think it´s a
> > similar case here.
> > It was when I was studying in the U.S.
> > I had tuned it.  After a while it had been moved, just a little bit, and
> > the bass went either way sharp or flat, I don´t remember.
> > I was preparing to tune it again, we had to move it first, and I checked it
> > out on the middle of the floor, and the bass was back to where it had been!
>
>Pianos are indeed strange animals.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Kristinn Leifsson,
> > Reykjavík, Iceland
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway