Ron is quite right; it's a huge amount of work for an "improvement" that will be inaudible. We do it with new design because we can do it easily--the NC machine doesn't care where it drills or what size hole it's drilling--and agrafes makes a great selling feature. But at a practical level no one--musician, tuner or string winder--is going to notice any difference. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA Phone 360.515.0119 Cell 360.388.6525 del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:38 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] S&S K(52) Restoration On 6/8/2012 11:11 AM, Gene Nelson wrote: > It seems to me that between agraffes and a notched bridge, me and the > string maker would be happier. Hi Gene, I don't know if you'd be happier or not after taking all the time necessary for no more detectable difference than you'd make doing it. Yes, those pins are in there GOOD, and there are a gazillion verticals out there pinned and non-notched just like that which aren't significantly worse to tune, if at all, than something accurately notched and agraffed. Scratch designed, maybe, but I think that's a pretty low return for the effort in a retrofit. Ron N
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