[CAUT] Polishing Agraffes

[Jeff Tanner]

Except for the agraffes I've seen from the CBS Steinway years with all sorts of configurations for the holes O o0, which just need to be replaced.  I'm a little on the skeptical side that reshaping agraffe holes is worth the effort.  Don't you pretty much immediately undo that shaping when you pull the tension on the new wire through the perfectly shaped hole?  And, does any manufacturer find it important enough to perform that operation in the factory?

Tanner
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Polishing Agraffes


  David:

  As I have suggested in the past, if you look at a new agraffe closely, it suffers from the same problems as the old with the exception of the string cut in the old one. So, without letting the perfect get in the way of the optimal, new agraffes need shaping as well as old. Same process, plus the cost of the new set. Just a thought.

  Paul

  In a message dated 9/24/2009 10:32:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time, dporritt at mail.smu.edu writes:
    Lawrence:

     

    I’d think it would be easier to just replace them.  

     

    dp

     

    David M. Porritt, RPT

    dporritt at smu.edu
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