I thought I knew this stuff

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I wrote: 
<<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,>>

Wim writes: 
>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. 

No,  the plate numbering is original and it says "13" right there under the 
dust!  
???


Ed Foote RPT 
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www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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