| Strange problem with Brice HXB-405 bridge
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This bass is meant to be strung through the body, but it looked to me as if you could string onto the bridge as well. NOT! I tried that with a shorter set of strings I had laying about, and all that string tension pulling on the bridge rather than the body may have actually pulled the bridge out of whack...while I was playing during Mass no less! Talk about instant drop 1/4 step and instant confusion among instrumentalists!
I suspected that stringing onto the bridge may have been the source of the problem, so I decided to replaced the shorter strings with extra-long LaBella Slappers, strung through the body as recommended. At first the low B would not fit through the ferrule in the body--that's when I noticed that it and the corresponding hole in the bridge did not line up, and that the bridge had apparently been pulled forward. I realigned the bridge properly, tightened it up onto the body, and installed the new set with no problem. Problem solved or not!? Anyone else ever experience this?
This probably also explains why I could not quite intonate the bass properly. | 
