>-I know this sounds strange, but the string spacing changed enough to affect >the dampers. When I straightened the dozen or so agraffes that were >obviously out of line, the trichord damper felt no longer did it's job >properly and had to be adjusted, to get reasonable damping. The agraffes are >obviously not as tight as they could be. Oh, ok, I get it. The assumption that the misalignment was done intentionally for damper function confused me. I doubt that happened, but that the damper installer just worked with what he found when the piano got to his station. Of course, I could be wrong... I found loose agraffes like this on a piano I've tuned for over ten years since. I didn't know if they would become troublesome if left alone, so I decided to find out. Since the piano had already been purchased and had been used in a church for a couple of years before I saw it, I saw no problem with using it for educational purposes. Those loose agraffes have been no problem whatsoever that I could tell. No odd noises, obvious tone differences or tuning disconfrugalties beyond those found in the rest of the piano. A couple of octaves or more higher in the scale, I'd expect a loose agraffe to be more of a potential tone problem, but down in the bottom half of the scale, I can't tell the loose ones in that piano by listening. >-There are two agraffes on this piano that would be properly in line with >the rest of the set if they were turned slightly in a clockwise fashion. The >strings on both of these agraffes, when checked with a bubble gauge, are >higher on the left side then the right by a small amount. I had levelled all >the other strings and gang levelled hammers mated up well, except for these >two unturnable agraffes. >Owen G. I see. The obvious options are to either take the strings off and reposition the agraffe, and/or just level the strings and press on. Ron N
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