string termination

[Mark Schecter]

David Love wrote:
> Seems like I've seen them on Bechsteins as well.  Generally I've found these
> pianos to be pretty clean in their terminations and have not noticed agraffe
> noise developing on these pianos.  In fact, those thicker agraffes that are
> used in the treble seem to do a good job preventing leakage.  With respect
> to this particular discussion, why not use this style agraffe rather than
> deal with hardening or plating?
>   

My experience with this 7' is similar - very clean from top to bottom. 
Easy to tune, both in terms of hearing clean partials, and of the 
strings moving readily. And very stable pitch-wise. (It also sounds 
really good, but I digress (!)).

-Mark