<!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>An extra long duplex scale? = <G></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI= V> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=philromano@attglobal.net href="mailto:philromano@attglobal.net">philromano@attglobal.net</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 02, 2001 = 5:48 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> 89 note scale</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>