Remedial string leveling

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Greetings, 
      Maybe I missed it being mentioned, but the Steinway factory techs used 
a monkey spring with a notch cut above the right angle.  This is placed upon 
the agraffe with the right-angle under the string.  With a very slight 
levering, a string can be straightened coming out of the agraffe or even slightly bent 
above the agraffe's hole. 
      I have done all my string leveling on agraffe-held strings with this 
tool for many years and never had a problem.  Very rarely do I find an unlevel 
string in the capo section, but when I do, a small , filed down string hook is 
a very simple way to deal with them. 
Regards, 

Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
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