<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy Shuster-- wrote;</FONT></DIV> <DIV>"Are these agraffes any different from any other grand (or = upright)?  Is the deflection angle unusually high or something?" </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></FONT><STRONG>No the angle is fine, because if you lower the pitch = of the string and pull it up gently, there is a nice smooth rendering; likewise = if you raise the pitch of the string past it's original position. It's when you = are fine tuning the string jumps back into it's original "hole" as it were = just as you are getting close to the pitch that you want. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>AF</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>