[CAUT] Agraffes

[Benjamin Treuhaft]

Is Mapes Gold finally a well-made wire that won't break under normal brutish
pianists' hands?  -blt (NYU)

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Reply-To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:03:36 EDT
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Agraffes and dampers



<< :  A  Petrof P131 upright with agraffes to the top has broken every

> string from E6-E7.  The break is at the edge of the bearing before

> entering the agraffe on the speaking side. Any ideas? >>

Greetings, 
      My idea is that there is a combination of heavy play, and less that
optimum wire.   Restring with Mapes Gold and see if that brand is more
durable 
than the original.  We see a lot of broken strings in the C2 Yamahas, but
rarely have i seen one of my replacements break.  I may be simply
restringing all 
these pianos, one note at a time...
Regards,


Ed Foote RPT 
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