agraffes

[Richard Moody]

> I found loose agraffes like this on a piano I've tuned for over
ten years


I am curious as to how you found the agraffes to be loose?   Did
you test them with pliers or agraffe removers?  If so, what made
you test  to begin with?       ----rm




----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: agraffes


>
> I found loose agraffes like this on a piano I've tuned for over
ten years
> since. I didn't know if they would become troublesome if left
alone, so I
> decided to find out. Since the piano had already been purchased
and had
> been used in a church for a couple of years before I saw it, I
saw no
> problem with using it for educational purposes. Those loose
agraffes have
> been no problem whatsoever that I could tell. No odd noises,
obvious tone
> differences or tuning disconfrugalties beyond those found in the
rest of
> the piano. A couple of octaves or more higher in the scale, I'd
expect a
> loose agraffe to be more of a potential tone problem, but down
in the
> bottom half of the scale, I can't tell the loose ones in that
piano by
> listening.