On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:32:36 John Delacour wrote: > I rebuild pianos with agraffes and design them without. If you don't mind me asking, how do you terminate the strings in your design? > >> This belongs up on the museum shelf right next to the process of >>putting little pieces of paper under the keys to level them. > >...the need for which practice is also eliminated in my keyboard design. Now that I would like to see. > >> Why not just drill through the plate flange and have an agraffe >>with a shank long enough to accept a nut on the other side of the >>flange? > >So you have to countersink the plate on the underside with a bore >wide enough to accept the tube spanner as well as the nut you mean? There are types of nuts other than hex nuts that must be tightened with a box wrench or a socket. There's no reason for the nut to be larger than the diameter of the agraffe base. >Or just raise the entrance height 5mm and the set strike point in the >treble to 1/6 or something to allow for this masterpiece of Teutonic >engineering? Yes, you might have a problem in the high treble. I wasn't considering agraffes all the way to the top. I guess this would make it Teutonic engineering since we don't normally see that on American pianos. > >That's how August Förster fitted their tapering wrestpins in their >solid cast-iron wrestplank. Great idea! Wonder why everyone doesn't >do it. > >JD > Good question. Phil F --- Phillip Ford Piano Service & Restoration 1777 Yosemite Ave - 215 San Francisco, CA 94124
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