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It is common on cheap chinese agraffes. You are lucky no strings
broke. I've had that happen on new pianos coming out of the
box. Plan on letting down to a pop and then smoothly pulling up to
pitch. <br><br>
Andrew Anderson<br><br>
At 03:22 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Hi all. I did
a warranty tuning on an Essex baby grand today and here was the story on
every string that had an agraffe: <br>
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Pull (no pitch change) <br>
Pull (a little pitch change)<br>
Pull (POP! at the agraffe and the string goes way sharp)<br>
Bring down to pitch. <br>
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I don’t tune a lot of new grands in this neck of the woods. Is the
popping noise typical?<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS">Michelle Smith<br>
Smith Piano Service<br>
Bastrop, Texas<br>
(512) 466-0238<br>
michelle@smithpianoservice.com<br>
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