Dave, Wild guess upon arising on a Saturday... At 22:50 4/8/2005, you wrote: >I tuned a really interesting piano today. It is a Seiler upright, circa >1898. . > >The piano has 85 keys. An unusual feature is that it has strings for A# >7, but there is no hammer nor key, nor a place for either in the action >or keyboard. Why??? > It is an attempt to deal with end-of-the-scale/bridge impedence problems. My foggy braincell at first also thought about it being a transposer, but that would require extras at every break unless it was a barless piano. Caffeine, where's my caffeine?? Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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