Agraffe tuning easier or not?

Phillip L Ford fordpiano@lycos.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:56:01 0000


You say no tricky work on the V bar on typical upright design.  What tricky work would you expect to do on a grand V bar?

Phil
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:16:51  
 Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "phillip l ford" <fordpiano@lycos.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: June 26, 2001 5:46 PM
>Subject: Re: Agraffe tuning easier or not?

>
>It is easily possible to design a string termination system that keeps the
>energy in the speaking portion of the string until it is transferred into
>the soundboard system. For examples look at the typical upright design.
>Simple and effective. Keeps the string angles reasonable and short. No noise
>and no tricky work required on the V-bar except with the most sloppy plate
>castings. Geometry wise this is a bit tricky to pull off on a grand plate,
>but there are other ways of accomplishing the same thing.

>-- Del
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