<HTML>In a message dated 6/19/03 6:31:00 PM Central Daylight= Time, A440A@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">all the S models I have seen ha= ve two notes of size 12 1/2 wire at the top of the scale, but this one starts at 13.  The plate numbering i= s factory original,(the piano was played very little and spent the last 45 yea= rs sitting unused in a elderly person's home).    Anybody know when they changed the scaling on this model?? Thanks, Ed Foote RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 hav= ing 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 i= f the tuner did a good job of putting the new strings on. Wim </HTML>