<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Interesting that they use the conventional keyboard when it doesn't seem that it would make sense for that 97 notes in one octave configuration. Greg Newell Jurgen Goering wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:c51b269b5e25547e835126d8e08bf05f@pianofortesupply.com" type="cite">There are a few interesting sidelines to making this piano. It is a special plate of course, and it is obvious that the instrument is straight (parallel) strung. The keyboard with its 97 keys is pretty wide! (Although it only goes down to C3, I believe <g>). I understand there are dampers all the way to the top. To collect all the hammers for each microtone instrument took a while - they were "pinched", one at a time, from 97 sets of Abel hammers. Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply (250) 754-2440 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@pianofortesupply.com">info@pianofortesupply.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pianofortesupply.com">http://www.pianofortesupply.com</a> <hr size="4" width="90%"> <center><img src="cid:part1.04030407.03050902@ameritech.net"></center> </blockquote> </body> </html>