[CAUT] Stuart & Son on NPR now bridge agraffes

Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu
Thu Jan 20 20:11:50 MST 2011


On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Larry J Messerly wrote:

> Here are some pictures of the agraffes on an American built Schimmel.
> Worked well, screws accessable, and good tone and sustain even  
> though 80
> years old.


Very curious, those treble agraffes. It looks like alternate unisons  
have the strings being pressed from above or from below, at the  
speaking length termination. I wonder why they would flip them back  
and forth like that. Doesn't look like it is a spacing issue.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
"I am only interested in music that is better than it can be played."  
Schnabel



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