Thanks for the help. John, could you please go into a little more detail / rationale about your method? I've always gone off of a set of dimensions for note #1 that I got many years ago from Steinway, but of course neither the A or the C is listed. Russell > > > >>Does anyone have agraffe to strike dimensions for note #1 on a > Steinway C and an 85 note A (both around 1890)? > > > The A should be close to 152 mm. But these things vary on handbuilt > pianos. > > Ed Foote RPT > > > > > > > If you measure from the front of the front rail to a point 3.5 mm > into the speaking length of note A-85 and then measure that distance > at a right angle from the rail to a point on string A-1, that should > touch the strike line, I think. > > JD > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100217/9dce69ab/attachment.htm>
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