<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3504.2500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>My Bluthner has agraffes on the bridges for the aliquot = strings.  Perhaps Sohmer was attempting to 'improve' the transmission of sound = into the board?  Does anyone know more?...</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:HazenBannister@cs.com" title=HazenBannister@cs.com>HazenBannister@cs.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 11, = 2002 4:18 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> too many = aggraffes</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>Hi, = <BR> I serviced and tuned a Sohmner grand today.It had a bass,mid,and treble section.It had aggraffes on the bass,and mid section,as a lot of = pianos do.On the treble section,all the strings went through, what looked like a = series of small tunnels, for each unison.On the complete bridge,except for the = bass,it had aggraffes all the way up through half of the treble bridge,then = finished up with bridge pins.I had never run across anything like this. = <BR>Always something new, <BR>Hazen Bannister = </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>