Seating/false beats

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Seating/false beats
> Date: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 10:51 PM
>  Sometimes I
> wish the front duplex could be eliminated, and agraffes could go
all the way
> to the top.

In the early grands the agraffes did go all the way to the top.  But
because the hammers were too fat, they couldn't hit the optimum
strike point.  Then some one invented overhanging agraffes, and
finally the capo bar became soup d' jour, so the biggest war clubs
you could imagine could strike as close to the upper bearing as you
wanted.
	I don't know if it is just in Chickerings, but in my Anniversary
Grand there are agraffes in the Capo bar!   I am looking at
restringing it, but what the heck will I do if they have to be
replaced??  Even APSCO doesn't list them.  What a manufacturing
process it must have been to get those little puppies in, and get