[pianotech] Agraffe problems

[Jack Houweling]

Wow! I sent this message on aug 31 and it arrived today. I thought it did not go through so I posted to myPTG. ?? 
The noise is worse on some of the turned agraffes but I find them all difficult to tune.
The sound I am hearing is a wa sound like a bad unison that cannot be tuned, along with a voicing problem! Short, piercing and out of tune. Makes me cringe.

This is done on many other pianos so it must be part of the tuner's regular  maintenance.

Jack Houweling 

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On 2012-09-05, at 8:21 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> On 9/5/2012 10:08 AM, Richard W. Bushey wrote:
>> Just a thought when viewing the pic....and this doesn't address the
>> cause of the weird noises, but do you think the technician slightly
>> turned the agraffes as a simple and/or quick way to move the group of
>> strings to the right a bit to align them to the hammers.....rather than
>> properly aligning the hammers to the strings? (you can't see from the
>> pic whether they're aligned or not....that's not my observation, just
>> that it seemed like a possibility).
> 
> 
> The left strings would move right, the right strings left, the center strings not. If this was his intent, he doesn't need to be educated, he needs to be STOPPED!
> 
> Oh yea, Jack, describe the noises please, and are they specific only to the misaligned agraffes?
> 
> Ron N