Heintzman Grands of recent production

[John Ross]

Hi Terry,
There are three holes drilled through the pressure bar, (probably wrong
terminology), that act as an agraffe, for the strings. This creates
additional friction, and the string kind of hangs up. There is also a felt
covered wooden piece the strings pass over, creating more friction.
In a restring, these holes can be cleaned out, and the strings are more
free.
They tune sort of like the Steinway uprights that everyone hates.
Nice sounding pianos though.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Heintzman Grands of recent production


> Exactly what is an "agraffe bridge" and how would it affect tuning ease?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Kinnear" <jim@pianoguy.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Heintzman Grands of recent production
>
>
> > HI
> > As a Canadian, I am proud of the quality and heritage of the Heintzman &
> Co
> > pianos.
> > As a musician, I am happy to own a transposing Heintzman, 1903 . .
> > beautiful to play.
> > As a tuner, the projecting agraffe bridge makes it a pain to tune.
> >
> > It's too bad when a grand old name is slapped on a wannabe from asia . .
> > Kind of like a Steinway by Y-C . . .
> > Are there many original Heintzmans floating around the States . .??
> >
> > Jim Kinnear
> > Collingwood, Canada
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Gregg" <cdgregg@telus.net>
> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: Heintzman Grands of recent production
> >
> >
> > > Don,
> > >          I have worked on a couple of these.  Basically everything was
> > > wrong with them.  I finished up changing a set of hammers on one of
them
> > as
> > > the ones on there were hardly giving out any sound and the action
> weighed
> > > off at over seventy grams.  I sent a report to the importer and they
> were
> > > going to make changes.  It will be interesting to see if they did.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > > At 03:16 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I've been called to work on a brand new (out of the box) Heintzman
> grand.
> > > >Has anyone worked on one of these. Anything to look for in
particular?
> > > >
> > > >Regards,
> > > >Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
> > > >
> > > >mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
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> > > >
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