Hi Bill I'd be considering having a conversation about replacing the agraffes and strings. They were obviously overtightened and weakened somewhere and. now there are two always out of tune unisons to irritate everyone. Seen this myself in similar aged pianos. This is why we always replace agraffes when rebuilding. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com -----Original Message----- From: William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 7:49 pm Subject: [pianotech] Agraffes: Double-Whammy 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/20100907/769d2548/attachment.htm>
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