My First Agraffe

[David Ilvedson]

Terry...Geez...read the Journal article.  

David Ilvedson



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:52:30 -0500
Subject: Re: My First Agraffe


>Funny you should bring this up. I had been meaning to post a related
>question: Why agraffes at all? Or at least brass agraffes. With such a soft
>metal, seems to me you are always going to have grooves forming and all the
>related garbage noises.

>What about a nice stainless agraffe (if you gotta have an agraffe)?

>What about those cheepie microgrands with the capo-type bars across the full
>string scale? What about a forward string termination design more akin to
>the upright pressure-bar and V-bar?

>Agraffes are good for costetics - they line the strings up nice and they
>look pretty cool, but beyond that, what good are they? If we can line up
>strings in the two capo sections of most grands, I'm sure we are all capable
>of doing it in the tenor and bass.

>Or what?

>Terry Farrell

>Richard Brekne wrote:
>SNIP
>> bty... as long as Agraffes are up.... Great article in the Journal this
>> month on polishing. Looks impressive as heck. Only question I have is
>> the profile inside that ends up being formed. Anyone have any
>> comparisons / comments on this compared to reaming ?


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