<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Agraffes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Is Mapes Gold finally a well-made wire that won't break under normal brutish pianists' hands?  -blt (NYU) <BLOCKQUOTE> From: A440A@aol.com Reply-To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:03:36 EDT To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Agraffes and dampers </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> << :  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 http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.</HTML> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>