> I found loose agraffes like this on a piano I've tuned for over ten years I am curious as to how you found the agraffes to be loose? Did you test them with pliers or agraffe removers? If so, what made you test to begin with? ----rm ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 9:21 PM Subject: Re: agraffes > > I found loose agraffes like this on a piano I've tuned for over ten years > since. I didn't know if they would become troublesome if left alone, so I > decided to find out. Since the piano had already been purchased and had > been used in a church for a couple of years before I saw it, I saw no > problem with using it for educational purposes. Those loose agraffes have > been no problem whatsoever that I could tell. No odd noises, obvious tone > differences or tuning disconfrugalties beyond those found in the rest of > the piano. A couple of octaves or more higher in the scale, I'd expect a > loose agraffe to be more of a potential tone problem, but down in the > bottom half of the scale, I can't tell the loose ones in that piano by > listening.
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