<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello list,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had an interesting piano to work on = yesterday. An old Yamaha (grey market #13178 circa 1931) six foot grand (#3 scale on = plate) has eighty-nine notes in the scale! As I tuned down the bass everything = was as normal until I got to A 0. There appeared to be an extra bass = string. At first I thought that the hammer was mis aligned. The last shank had been = replaced and the screw was not a great fit. As I checked and re-checked = I determined there was an extra note. Twenty-three notes in the bass (on = the action) and twenty-four on the plate. I eventually counted all the notes = from C-8 down (three times!) and it checked out every time. I finally = convinced myself I wan't crazy. Has anyone ever seen this before? What could the explanation be?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil Romano<BR>Myrtle Beach, SC<BR><A href="mailto:philromano@attglobal.net">philromano@attglobal.net</A></FO= NT></DIV></BODY></HTML>