Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:45:34 -0500


>         It is possible to lower a string, too.  This often is needed with the 
> Steinway agraffe sections.  (It can't be rocket science to drill the agraffes 
> evenly, and to tap the plate at 90 degrees to the string plane! And if it is, 
> S&S should hire the rocket scientists that seem to live at Yamaha, Schimmell, 
> Boston, and others! ) It blows my mind that such a high-profile instrument 
> should suffer from such a basic foundational sloppiness.  

Maybe the agraffes came from the same guys that made all the plate 
bolt heads random shapes and sizes from one to the next. Has anyone 
checked to see if the caster wheels are round?

Ron N

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