Eric, when the agraffes being replaced in 1988, I said replace them all and restring the instrument. The agraffes be not fixed well so they broke off by resonance and upwards tension off the strings. Jan From: Eric Donnelly Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:45 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Broken Agraffes Dear List, I need some advice on this: I have a client with a 1925 Steinway B that was rebuilt in 1988 that hasn't been tuned in at least 3 years. It's currently 30 cents flat and according to the owner, last winter 4 agraffes broke off one at a time as the piano isn't played often. The question is whether to try to bring the piano up to pitch and replace the 4 (or potentially more) broken agraffes, or just go ahead and replace them all and restring. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, everybody. Eric Donnelly, RPT __________ Informatie van ESET NOD32 Antivirus, versie van database viruskenmerken 5238 (20100629) __________ Het bericht is gecontroleerd door ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100630/de8e8bac/attachment.htm>
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