Jon I have had several Steinways from that era that had agraffs breaking. In each case I was able to convince the customers that all the agraffs are bad, (as Ron described), and that it would be best if they were all replaced at once, to avoid having it happen over a period of time. Which, of course, meant restringing, too. Although replacing the pin block would be ideal, unless there is some weakness with some of the pins, it is not absolutely necessary. But it might be a good idea to recommend it, since it will need to be replaced in the near future. Wim -----Original Message----- From: J. W. Stein <musicnow at frontiernet.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 5:04 am Subject: [pianotech] Question on agraffes Hi Folks, I have an interesting situation and I would like to know if anyone has ny 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 hat 6 agraffes had already been replaced. That means a total of 8 roken agraffes over the life of the piano???? It's rare that I see come across one broken agraffes, but 8???? Any houghts? Any ideas why 8 may have broken? Should I assume that more ight, 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 egulate the piano. It needs it badly. And the piano, though, way out f tune, is tunable as least so far as the tuning pins. It looks like he pin block and hammers have been replaced over the last few ears...they look new. Jon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100609/8ca833cc/attachment.htm>
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