agraffes on - agraffes off

[John Delacour]

At 7:18 AM +0000 12/11/01, Phillip L Ford wrote:

>Ron,
>I'll just ignore all of your questions and pose one of my own, since 
>you mentioned
>the names of two people that are designing their own pianos.  Why 
>does this archaic
>practice persist to this day?

Not here it doesn't.  I rebuild pianos with agraffes and design them without.

>   This belongs up on the museum shelf right next to the process of 
>putting little pieces of paper under the keys to level them.

...the need for which practice is also eliminated in my keyboard design.

>   Why not just drill through the plate flange and have an agraffe 
>with a shank long enough to accept a nut on the other side of the 
>flange?

So you have to countersink the plate on the underside with a bore 
wide enough to accept the tube spanner as well as the nut you mean? 
Or just raise the entrance height 5mm and the set strike point in the 
treble to 1/6 or something to allow for this masterpiece of Teutonic 
engineering?

That's how August Förster fitted their tapering wrestpins in their 
solid cast-iron wrestplank.  Great idea!  Wonder why everyone doesn't 
do it.

JD