<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> I am currently restringing a 1947 S that is original and the plate markings (including the 2-12 1/2's), the actuall diameters of the strings and the scale that Steinway sent to restring with had slight variatons down to about the 15 wire. All three were different.  This led me to believe that after the plate was printed they were still changing the scale.   The customer decided to go with Steinways current scale (no 12 1/2's). Bill Pillmore <blockquote type="CITE" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0,0,255); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px;">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 </blockquote> </body> </html>