<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Reinstalled a newly capped and repaired--cantilevered on an apron--bass bridge today on a Solomon (? Chinese) upright.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Does that seem weird? Common? Normal? or what?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>