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Good morning,
why do you think this piano (German, late '800, bayonet action) has 88 keys and 89 notes?
As you can see from the photos, it has C#8, only the three strings but not the corresponding key (obviously).
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Hi. Let's try to reason through it; perhaps I would tend to exclude that both the cast iron plate and the soundboard were changed, as the latter actually exceeds by 3 tuning pins.... I can make two hypotheses: either the keyboard block was changed along with the action block, replacing it with one of 88 keys instead of the original 89, perhaps taken from a piano with a depleted or cracked soundboard. Or perhaps the manufacturer deliberately left three strings so that they resonate by sympathy and there is a bit more ensemble effect.
This is what I think.
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or it was the base version but for manufacturing reasons it was known
surprisingly joking obviously
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It happened to me on another accordion piano. To be honest, I wouldn't know the real reason. The mere fact that they are 88 keys is already unusual
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I'll try to give my opinion. I have noticed that the first and last notes are always somewhat unintelligible, even compared to the second and the penultimate ones. Maybe this could be the reason.
