On 9/7/2010 8:14 PM, William Monroe wrote: > Yep. And, I just had a pleasant conversation with Mr. Isaac > Sadigursky (thanks Isaac) who was kind enough to call me right away. > He filled me in and pointed me toward some information he submitted > to the Journal in the March 1989 issue. I've not looked at the broken > parts (which I DID save), but suspect that these agraffes do not have > threads cut all the way to the head. I guess it was common (standard) > on S&S from Serial Numbers 235xxx - 265xxx, and it resulted in > technicians forcing an uncut stem into the threaded plate, > overstressing the agraffes. That's good to know. The only trouble I've had with Steinway agraffes were from circa the 1970's, which apparently were done by factory people paid for piecework, who were too hurried to use plate bushings, and just muscled agraffes into line. I've met them (breaking) three times, but always from the 1970's. One of the pianos got rebuilt, but the old agraffes were left in, just waiting to pop. <grrrrrrr> Susan Kline
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