When I get a chance I will take pictures of cock-eyed agraffes on a S&S D for your enjoyment. I settled for a straight plane on each note. Andrew Anderson On Dec 14, 2009, at 8:08 PM, allan at sutton.net wrote: > Bonjour à tous, > > Putting the small level on the strings of my Bluthner grand for the > first time, I am surprised to see how much discrepancy there is from > one note to the other. Each note has a different slant, albeit with > pretty much all three strings of a trio being well on the same plane > as much as I can tell. > > With the hook I can pull on strings to witness just how much effect > that can have to bring more coherence, but it seems to me the > agraffes themselves are not premitting the same level everywhere. > > Is it normal? I had done careful hammer to strings mating with > amazing (to me) results. Now, of course, having pulled here and > there, it's all over the place now! > > If I were to put new hammers in, I would want to start with much > coherence in strings levels before mating hammers to strings, but > is it always possible? often? rarely? never? > > The piano has not been tuned recently, should'nt all the strings > have settled at the bend having been played and played? No, I can > still pull them up a considerable bit. I read about pushing a string > down if needed but can't believe we can bring them down at all... > > Thank you > > Allan Sutton > www.pianotechniquemontreal.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091214/3fcdea4e/attachment.htm>
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