>I've seen a Yamaha U7 with the same or similar agraffe. > >David I. > Everyone seems to be indicating that this is normally an upright agraffe. I suppose common sense might dictate that, since the hammer blow would be driving the string into the 'lip' rather than trying to lift it off. Interesting that Feurich chose to use it on a grand. Seems to work fine. I don't recall seeing another grand with an agraffe like this. Phil F
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