---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 6/19/03 6:31:00 PM Central Daylight Time, A440A@aol.com writes: > all the S models I have seen have two notes of size 12 1/2 wire at > the top of the scale, but this one starts at 13. The plate numbering is > factory original,(the piano was played very little and spent the last 45 > years > sitting unused in a elderly person's home). > Anybody know when they changed the scaling on this model?? > Thanks, > > Ed Foote RPT > I don't know about the change of scaling, but I would predict that sometime in the past 65 years, a piano tuner broke the last two strings, and, not having 12.5, replaced them with 13. If it happened within a couple of years of manufacturing, there would not be much evidence of new strings, especially if the tuner did a good job of putting the new strings on. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6b/24/82/ff/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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