[pianotech] Managing agraffes was Increasing bridge height

[Ron Nossaman]

erwinspiano at aol.com wrote:
>  I too thought why not machine the plate a small amount to lower the 
> elevations.  Any body have any thought about that?

It's certainly possible, but would take building some jigging 
to do it. How important is it - really?


>   The curving string plane onStwy/other plates is so prevalent & 
> reliable that it must be intentional... 
>   Hmm Reminds me of a Ron-ism,,, " A Factory screw up we can sell as a 
> feature"? or some such. Close enough Ron?
>   Dale

I can't say for sure, but I doubt it was intentional since so 
few other things in the product seem to be. I suspect it's a 
casting shrinkage artifact of their plate design. They haven't 
tried to sell it as a feature, so they must consider it to be 
below the radar with all the other random manifestations like 
action ratios, shank traveling, string height, stack 
placement, speaking lengths, crown, bearing, and other such 
inconsequentials. "Close enough" pretty well sums it up.
Ron N