Yeah, there's always occasional failure in all ranges, but my understanding is that there was a particularly bad batch (not threaded to the top of the stem) in that period. P In a message dated 12/7/2009 6:15:40 P.M. Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: I think it goes farther than that doesn’t it? The flat bottom agraffes certainly do anyway. I still see agraffe failure periodically on Steinway pianos as recent as 1970’s and 1980’s. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:17 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Agraffe Reduction In a message dated 12/7/2009 11:45:03 A.M. Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: Another reason to replace rather than recondition older agraffes, especially since some of the older agraffe stem joints are already stressed to the point of being weakened. This is particularly true of a series of Steinways in the serial number range of 235000 to 260000, I believe. Correct me, anyone, if those numbers are wrong. P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091207/7130ed05/attachment-0001.htm>
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