Re: Mandolin bridge leaning towards neck, is this normal?
All this talk about bridges moving after you tension the strings makes me wonder if that throws the intonation off. I mean, during a setup, I place the bridge exactly where it is supposed to be by a) unstringing the instrument. b) adding one G string and one E string. c) tune both, d) move the bridge around until the pitch is correct (or as close as I can get it) on the octave and the 5th. Then if I string the whole thing and if the bridge moves, it will change my adjustment. Not good! Fortunately, I only had one leaning bridge, and it leaned before tensioning the strings, so the intonation stayed put.
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