So, I have this D that I care for at a church, and in July I received a call from the music director, explaining that the pianist was practicing and heard a loud "bang!" and now C3 doesn't work. I suspected (correctly) that an agraffe had snapped. So I replaced the agraffe, put on new wire, repaired the damper, etc., etc. Now it's September and I'm tuning this same D (which has neared A=444hz with the end of summer humidity, and while I'm lowering pitch on D3 - WHAMMO!! Talk about getting the adrenaline going! So now this D (1927 - rebuilt by another tech some years ago using the original agraffes) has two popped agraffes; both snapped off at the stem just about 1/16" to 1/8" below the plate. Anyone have anything like this happen? I guess I don't really have a "what to do" type of question, just musing aloud as to the why's and what-if's. -- William R. Monroe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100907/b6a9e9e8/attachment.htm>
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