I cannot imagine having "fairly new" pianos at school. In a few days we will finally be taking a 1904 Steinway A out of service from a voice studio. We will be replacing it with, uh, an 1881 Steinway A in much better condition than the 1904 instrument. That's my world. Kent On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote: > Kent, > > > > True. I forgot about the shop days at home! (Replaced a bunch there) But > here at BYU the pianos are fairly new so we never need new ones, except the > occasional one broken upon removal. I’m spoiled here… > > > > Jim > > > > *From:* caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] *On Behalf Of *Kent > Swafford > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:05 PM > > *To:* caut at ptg.org > *Subject:* Re: [CAUT] When to restring... > > > > There can be plenty of reasons to replace agraffes. Never say never; you > obviously haven't seen some of the hopeless agraffes that have come through > my shop. > > > > Kent > > > > > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Jim Busby wrote: > > > > We never replace agraffes, mainly because we refurbish them like Paul > Revenko-Jones does. WAY better than new ones because new ones aren’t shaped > correctly either. Waste of time to just replace them. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100804/0e06cdf7/attachment.htm>
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