89 note scale

[Robert Wilson]

>   Hello list,
> 
>   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?
> 
>   Phil Romano
>


Phil,

I once tuned a German grand with an extra trichord of
strings past the top note!  It was a 7 octave, the
last hammer struck the top A - then this extra
trichord which I tuned by plucking! - (felt I had to
do something with it!!


Bob Wilson
London.

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