<< I have a broken agraffe on a 1925 Steinway L to replace and I need to know if I need a 7/32" agraffe or 1/4" agraffe. Steinway lists agraffes for all models as 1/4" on their parts price list. Someone on this list said this piano needs a 7/32", so I am not sure which one to get. Could someone clear up my confusion? >> Greetings, That will be a 7/32" thread. Be warned, for some obscure reason, modern agraffes of this dimension are not cut to the full .218" thread. I don't know why this is so, but last year, I had an impossible time finding a "7/32"" agraffe that had thread larger than . 212". This may not seem like much, but is sufficiently undersized so that the threads will strip if you try to torque them as tightly as the ones that came out. Jon Page saved me with some older spares, which I had to use after two new ones stripped. Good luck, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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