[pianotech] Agraffe problems

[Ron Nossaman]

On 9/5/2012 10:08 AM, Richard W. Bushey wrote:
> Just a thought when viewing the pic....and this doesn't address the
> cause of the weird noises, but do you think the technician slightly
> turned the agraffes as a simple and/or quick way to move the group of
> strings to the right a bit to align them to the hammers.....rather than
> properly aligning the hammers to the strings? (you can't see from the
> pic whether they're aligned or not....that's not my observation, just
> that it seemed like a possibility).


The left strings would move right, the right strings left, the center 
strings not. If this was his intent, he doesn't need to be educated, he 
needs to be STOPPED!

Oh yea, Jack, describe the noises please, and are they specific only to 
the misaligned agraffes?

Ron N