Jon: I had a customer who had a Kawai grand that broke 8 or 10 agraffes. I had to assume that Kawai just got some from a bad supplier. It's rare, but bad parts are possible anywhere. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of J. W. Stein Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:54 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Question on agraffes Hi Folks, I have an interesting situation and I would like to know if anyone has any thoughts. I was called in to look at an older Steinway L (257...) There were two broken agraffes when I got there. The weird though is that 6 agraffes had already been replaced. That means a total of 8 broken agraffes over the life of the piano???? It's rare that I see come across one broken agraffes, but 8???? Any thoughts? Any ideas why 8 may have broken? Should I assume that more might, or will, break over time? Could it be a problem with crowning????? She wants me to go ahead and replace the two remaining agraffes and to regulate the piano. It needs it badly. And the piano, though, way out of tune, is tunable as least so far as the tuning pins. It looks like the pin block and hammers have been replaced over the last few years...they look new. Jon
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