baldwin agraffe

[Ron Nossaman]

> I am re-stringing a Baldwin baby grand of the 1974 era  vintage.  While
> measuring the agraffe hole spacing, it appears that all the 2 hole
> agraffe's in the bass section are the " wide " spacing style ( all 20 of
> them ).  Is this normal ??  I was under the impression that " wide"
> agraffe's were only used on a few of the larger core wire bicords??
> Can someone educate me on this subject?

I don't think there are any rules. You'll find what you find. 
Installing new, I use the wide at the first bichord, and 
switch to the narrow when the gap between strings with the 
narrow agraffe becomes wider than the gap in the lowest 
bichord with the wide one. In other words, when the overall 
string diameter+the difference in spread between the wide and 
narrow bichord agraffe becomes greater than the diameter of 
the lowest bichord string, I'll make the switch there.
Ron N