This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment What brand and age is the grand breaking these agraffes? I have had this problem only with Steinways in the twenties. And they all seemed to be the same note--I don't remember which one now. D.L. Bullock St. Louis www.thepianoworld.com -----Original Message----- From: David M. Porritt [mailto:dporritt@mail.smu.edu] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 3:56 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: RE: broken agraffe Phil: I have a customer who has had about 10 agraffes break in the past couple of years. The only thing to do is get it out and put a new one back. On this piano, all of them broke horizontally at the string holes. That left the bottom half of the argraffe and was pretty easy to get out with my agraffe installation tool. When the screw breaks off it can be harder to get it out, but it too can be done. I don't have much by way of suggestions. It's not rocket science, but it can be a pain in the...... dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Phil Bondi <phil@philbondi.com> To: Newtonville <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:50:12 -0400 Subject: broken agraffe ..just got a call from a client..sounds like a broken agraffe. Any suggestions for this fix other than what Arthur Reblitz suggests(sounds easy enough)? Thanks, Phil Bondi(Fl) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c5/92/99/04/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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