Hi,Jon! What is the serial number on this piano? Potential Agraffe Problems are on s/n ##235000-265000. Good luck! isaac On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:53 PM, J. W. Stein wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have an interesting situation and I would like to know if anyone > has any thoughts. I was called in to look at an older Steinway L > (257...) > > There were two broken agraffes when I got there. The weird though > is that 6 agraffes had already been replaced. That means a total of > 8 broken agraffes over the life of the piano???? > > It's rare that I see come across one broken agraffes, but 8???? > Any thoughts? Any ideas why 8 may have broken? Should I assume > that more might, or will, break over time? Could it be a problem > with crowning????? > > 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. > > Jon
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