Fenton: Thanks for the info on the tumbler. A reason for putting used agraffes back in order is that the beveled seat is already partially crushed. With new agraffes you can do quite a bit of aligning. Once they've been on there is not as much freedom to align them. A problem I've found with new ones is the height. Raising (usually) the string height in the agraffe section a mm or 2. A counter bore like Pianotech sells solves this problem but gets rid of the bevel. Not good IMO. I re-ground one to match the bevel. Good point Fenton. The bevel is probably what makes Steinways so much better to align (even new) than Bechsteins. How do you ground a bevel in agraffes? Nice website by the way. Jude Reveley, RPT Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC Boston, Massachusetts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060405/7423009b/attachment.html
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