Were those, perchance, struck with a hammer at some time in their past life? I ask because in the dim recesses of my memory I recall someone--who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty even if I could remember who it was--that was at one time a "recommended" procedure for leveling strings. It was an idea that didn't last long. Probably because the agrafes receiving the treatment also didn't last long. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA Phone 360.515.0119 — Cell 360.388.6525 del at fandrichpiano.com — ddfandrich at gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:24 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Agraffe abuse On 3/8/2012 12:13 PM, Horace Greeley wrote: > Equally unfortunate is the number of times one finds this improper > installation duplicated by post-manufacturing technicians. Quite > prevalent. Still, from your photos, these look like the original product. They're the original product, no doubt, and probably but not guaranteed original installation damage. The short threading and obvious forcing of the agraffe in spite of lacking threads at the top is quite familiar. These are just the most severely deformed tops I've seen as a result of over torquing, which indicates the wrong tool, or one in unusably bad shape, making it an extraordinarily good example of an extraordinarily bad example. Ron N
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