broken agraffes

[Jon Page]

I have also filed the bottom of the shoulder to allow the agraffe to ease
into position.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 10:20 AM 1/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>> From: Jim <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>
>> To: Richard M <remoody@easnetsd.com>
>> Cc: pianotech@byu.edu
>> Subject: Re: broken agraffes
>> Date: Sunday, January 05, 1997 8:25 AM
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>> To the list in general:
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>> Several times on this list the name Steinway has been mentioned as the
>> brand on which Agraffes were found breaking.  In defense of the name,
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>That's why I am wondering if these Steinways were restrung.
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>On the subject of seating the agraffes I have heard the proper remedy for
>seating and alinement is to use shims.   I am wondering if it is also
>practice to try a different agraffe?  On the job I mentioned, I needed a
>shim, but had none.  However upon  trying a different agraffe it fit.  I
>reasoned that threads must be cut at different starting points and wondered
>if builders and rebuilders ever consider this.
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>Richard Moody
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Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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