Dear List, Do any of you have information on Sohmer grands with agraffe bridges? I have a couple customers with them, any was wondering if the historians (Jack Wyatt? New Yorkers?) have anything interesting they could pass on. Regretfully, I didn't have a tape measure handy, but they were probably around 5' 10" in length, and date from 1916, and 1927, respectively. The agraffes (rather than bridge pins) are on the long bridge, from B2 to F#6, where they switch to regular bridge pins. Pretty pianos, but probably not the best candidates for rebuilds (which these both had recently been), unless there were a budget that covered new soundboard, bridges, and rescaling (which these didn't). Patrick
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