[CAUT] Agraffe alignment

[Jim Busby]

Hi Ric,

FWIW the last agraffes I bought weren't worse that old ones, but they
weren't any better for sure. Seems like the manufacturers would look at
improvements like Ron Overs is doing...

Regards,
Jim Busby BYU

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
RicB
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:26 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Agraffe alignment

Hi Dave

I was refering to agraffes and not the entire scope of piano building. 
And it seems to me that with very few exceptions most of the newer 
instruments I've seen in the past say.... 15 years anyways have had less

then optimal quality control in this area.  Addressing the entire scope 
of design, all the problems surrounding that and manufacturing 
realities, marketing realities, and the realities about both pianists 
conceptions/misconceptions and our own as piano technicians seemed to be

a bit off the subject matter of agraffe alignment,  tho to be sure a 
potentially very interesting discussion in its own right.

But back to the topic of this thread... Strikes me that there has been a

general industry wide decline in agraffe quality in the last 15-20
years.

Cheers
RicB