I've always felt that verticals with agraffes have a clearer tone with less false beating. The strings render well, too, making it easier to tune well. JMHO Just to suggest an example: Two pianos: one w/agraffes, the other a S&S 1045 w/that huge pressure bar. Which one would you want to tune? Or play, for that matter? Tom Sivak Chicago Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > Recently, I have been getting more pressure from the marketing folks to > design upright models with agraffes, preferably all the way up to #88. > What do you folks think about that? > > Frank Emerson As a marketing tool, sure. It looks good listed in the brochures with bass string length and soundboard area. The piano can then be sold for a price difference greater than the cost of agraffe installation, albeit in lesser quantity because of the higher price. From a practical standpoint, they'll maintain string spacing if the tuning pin field is poorly laid out. Kimball comes immediately to mind here. Otherwise, I'm not convinced there is a real performance benefit to agraffes over the conventional V mound and pressure bar. You? Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061226/232096d8/attachment.html
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