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  • 1.  Need Phosphor bronze agraffes

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-23-2019 12:10
    I am posting this here in hopes one of you CAUT Fellows may have an old supply of the NY Steinway factory made phosphor bronze agraffes. I need them for some experiments I am working on. I need at least 50 trichord. Of course I will pay or trade you normal brass units if desired.
    Ed

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    Edward McMorrow
    Edmonds WA
    425-299-3431
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  • 2.  RE: Need Phosphor bronze agraffes

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-23-2019 16:07
    Wow-sounds like fun! Keep us posted. (Sorry-I think I'm a bit young to have any! 🤭🤭)

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    [Kevin] [Fortenberry] [RPT]
    [Staff Techician]
    [Texas Tech Univ]
    [Lubbock] [TX]
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  • 3.  RE: Need Phosphor bronze agraffes

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-23-2019 16:11
    Ed,
    If you happen to know the years/serial numbers for said phosphor bronze use, I'm sure that would be very helpful. There are people (I'm not among them) who always replace all the agraffes when restringing (and toss or recycle the old ones), so that sort of person would be the most likely source - but they would need to be told what era to be on the lookout for.
    Regards,
    Fred Sturm
    "A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch











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  • 4.  RE: Need Phosphor bronze agraffes

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 02-23-2019 20:04
    Thanks Fred,
    Phosphor Bronze agraffes are more copper colored and harder than the free-milling brass used in the typical agraffe. NY Steinway used them from around 1968 to 1983. But that is a guesstimate.

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    Edward McMorrow
    Edmonds WA
    425-299-3431
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