Paul, Others, I did look at what the reamer does, (er, leaves undone) and when compared to what your method does, I'll spend the extra time (As you prescribe). It's doesn't take that long to make an agraffe excellent. Also, I have looked at them after being strung then taken off (after your method); it does maintain its shape, at least for the few weeks I had it on. I think it's because you actually seem to be doing something more than just "making it pretty". Do you have any pictures of this? (After your treatment and put on the piano for a while, then removed.) This might be something you should do. Ed, I've tried the skewer and couldn't get the same results. They either broke prematurely, or simple didn't shape it like the Q tip. I think the Brasso on the Q tip is crucial. I've also tried the candy/sucker sticks someone recommended with inferior results. The cotton/Brasso seems to be best combination. It takes about two ½ hours to do Paul's method, but I let one of the students do it. Keeps them out of my hair. Jim From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:49 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Polishing Agraffes In a message dated 9/24/2009 8:03:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: One light turn with one of those little reamers Take a close look (with a decent microscope) at the results of using the reamer. You might be startled. All they do is (mostly) get rid of the string cut, leaving large chatter marks in the brass perpendicular to the string plane. I suppose you spend a great deal of time on bridges; I do. Why not treat the other end of the speaking length with equal care? My take. P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090924/007b0c66/attachment.htm>
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