[CAUT] agraffes

[Willem Blees]

Karen



The washers are under the agraffs as spacers, so that the holes are exactly perpendicular to the strings when the agraffs are tightened. The few hundreds of an inch difference in heights of the agraffs are not a problem, and won't effect the speaking length of the strings.?The most you might have to do is regulate the hammer blow distance, let off and?drop, but even that will be so minute, it will be hard to see. ?



Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Lindsley <36keys at gmail.com>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 3:27 pm
Subject: [CAUT] agraffes



I am restringing a Baldwin 6'4" grand.? The agraffes have varying numbers of washers underneath them with the result that they are at different heights.? In the high treble, there is a capo d'astro bar that determines the speaking length, so I can't see that setting a height for these will be a problem.? However, throughout the tenor and bass, the agraffes set the speaking length termination point.? How do I set the optimum height and even them out? 

I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.

Thanks, Karen



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