Pearl River strings hanging in agraffes

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

I've noted this on Pearl River grands too.  Corrosion/cheap agraffes 
with bad alloys etc. might be part of the problem.  There is too much 
friction in new Pearl Rivers and I end up treating the agraffes with 
Protek Prolube and the wool bearings with CLP.  They can be a real 
bear to tune the first few times.

Andrew Anderson

At 05:02 PM 8/18/2007, you wrote:
>Hello list:
>I do the service work for the local Pearl River dealer here in 
>town.  For their size and price, they get a surprisingly decent 
>sound.   There is a troublesome problem in tuning these brand new 
>pianos: the plain wire strings "hang" in the agraffes.  The "ping" 
>is not in every string but enough to make the tuning difficult.  You 
>know what I mean.  I've dropped the tension before tightening and 
>this helps some but the problem still exists.  I haven't contacted 
>Pearl about this yet.
>
>Now, am I the only one that is having this problem?
>Howard Jackson