Boesendorfer bridges And Agraff temination

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi Michiel:

The Beckstein grands used an agraffe of similar principal for many years
before. I believe this is where the idea came from. Their location of the
hard round pin was on the speaking side of the three holes and was supported
by a thick overhang of the top of the agraffe. The kind of arrangement can
be done either from the bottom of the Capo Bar or from plate web where there
is no Capo Bar. The agraffe from the Capo bar needs a slightly different
arrangement similar to the agraffes used in many european vertical pianos.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Michiel van Loon wrote:

> Gregory,
> I believe you when you say that you invented the agraffes with the steel
> pin.
> But I have seen it before in a piano that I was working on.
> I do not know for sure, but I think it was in a Vienese grand that was made
> in the early 80's of the 19th century.
> Anyway in my shop there have never been any piano younger than 60 years.
> That raises the question:How old are you?
> 
> Michiel van Loon
> The Netherlands (where the sand turned to mud after a rainy summer , autumn
> and winter.)
> mvanloon@xs4all.nl
> 
> You wrote:
> >
> >What about those new aggrafes??? I showed my new design to I think it was
> >George Definbough? In the early 80's at a Connecticut guild meeting, Chris
> >Robinson was working on a new drilling procedure, and I was having trouble
> >with agraffe termination, in (another well know brand)...anyway I just
> drilled
> >a hole in the side of the Agraff, drove in a stainless steel pin..and tried
> >it..cleanest sound I ever found in an agraff...I showed it to George...now
> >it's in Bosendorfer. At the time he said it would be to costly to
> >produce...Yeas right...you only got 50K to make a piano in the Factory and
> >who's going to spend 50cents more per agraff. Anyway they're in there,
> today
> >and the factory people said it was someone from the US with the idea????
> >I 've already made them..
> >
> >Gregory
> >SSN: 480-58-0547
> >
> >
> >
> 
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