<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Seating strings</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Hello List</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I thought I would add a little "je ne sais quoi" to the battle. Although I am not a real devotee of John Broadwood they had some very revolutionary designs. And good for them! R&D is a cause worth pursuing - without it Ron Overs would not have developed his rather elegant new grand action design - just to mention one. Broadwoods were very innovative. They developed the "barless" grand,</font></blockquote> <div><br> I'm a fan of the barless grand concept.  We've talked about that before on the list.<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">the repetition spring in upright pianos and, the point in question now (under the Collen-Broadwood banner) the fully agraffed strung frame. In this we find brass agraffes throughout, not only at the top end but on the bridge also. I cannot say I like the quality of the tone these pianos produce but I wonder what they were like when new? These brass agraffes are not fitted like the standard model but are attached by a screw through a counter-sunk hole.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I'm having a little trouble picturing this.  Could you provide more description?</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">String spacing is by the holes on one side and string speaking-length is terminated on the rim opposite.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>String speaking length terminated on the rim?  Now you've completely lost me.  Any possibility of some pictures?</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> I have not heard any false strings on one of these yet.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Regards during a respite from cutting the grass in my Sussex garden</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Michael G.(UK)</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I just picked the first rose from my tiny San Francisco garden today.  We're getting a late start as we've had lots of rain and unseasonably cold weather.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Phil Ford</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>