> It's rare that I see come across one broken agraffes, but 8???? Any > thoughts? >Any ideas why 8 may have broken? Pull an original agraffe, and you'll find that the stud isn't threaded all the way to the shoulder, and the shoulder isn't undercut like a modern replacement agraffe. The things never were seated right, and just cranked down for alignment. It's unusual to get more than a couple, but you seem to have won the big one. >Should I assume that more > might, or will, break over time? Yes, or at least I would. >Could it be a problem with crowning????? Come again? Crowning of what? > She wants me to go ahead and replace the two remaining agraffes and to > regulate the piano. It needs it badly. And the piano, though, way out > of tune, is tunable as least so far as the tuning pins. It looks like > the pin block and hammers have been replaced over the last few > years...they look new. The agraffes should have been replaced with the pinblock and strings. Ron N
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