<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type= content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1></HEAD> <BODY text=#000066 bgColor=#ffffff> <FONT= face=Arial>Phil: I have a customer who has had about 10 agraffes= break in the past couple of years.  The only thing to do is= get it out and put a new one back.  On this piano, all of= them broke horizontally at the string holes.  That left the= bottom half of the argraffe and was pretty easy to get out with= my agraffe installation tool.  When the screw breaks off it= can be harder to get it out, but it too can be done. I don't have much by way of suggestions.  It's= not rocket science, but it can be a pain in the...... dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 <A= href="mailto:dporritt@mail.smu.edu">dporritt@mail.smu.edu</A></P= >   ----- Original message= ----------------------------------------> From: Phil Bondi= <<A= href="mailto:phil@philbondi.com">phil@philbondi.com</A>> T= o: Newtonville <<A= href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>> Rec= eived: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:50:12 -0400 Subject: broken= agraffe ..just got a= call from a client..sounds like a broken agraffe. Any= suggestions for this fix other than what Arthur Reblitz= suggests(sounds easy enough)? Thanks, Phil= Bondi(Fl) <PRE class=moz-signature= cols="72"></PRE></BODY></HTML>