Hi, I've seen a former factory worker use a blunt screw driver to lift on the tuning pin side of the agraffe. She *really* went at it lifting them well over 1/8 inch up. It did improve string level and zings too. She played the note with the damper pedal down when she was doing the lifting...quite a pitch excursion resulted. At 11:27 AM 14/09/2004 EDT, you wrote: > 4 zinging agraffes. I needed it fixed and stable for a concert the next >day, so I put a bridge pin on top of the counterbearing felt of each >offending note (close to the agraffe), in order to increase the draft >angle. Although I suspect these agraffes were from the hinky period >(mis-drilled), this did the trick on three of the notes, and made the >fourth one better enough that no one has mentioned it in the last 20 years. >I'll fix it properly when I eventually restring the whole piano (the top >two sections have been restrung once). Bob Davis Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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