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 | PIANO SERIAL NUMBERS | "... How old is My Piano?" Piano buyers, owners and players - seeking a free "estimate of price" will often locate and contact our PIANO ADVISORY (Australian registered business) or refer to my pianoadvisory.com web pages. A serial number is thought by many to be helpful in determining a piano's value . . . OzPianoman's favorite: Our own 1907 Grotrian Steinweg Upright Piano (see played on YouTube: ref footnote) |
Piano Serial Numbers relate to Year of manufacture, information that you can obtain from a few genuine piano web sites. Piano Advisory links originally comprised other piano gurus, experts, technicians, tuners & piano industry members who asked to be included here.
Update for JUNE - JULY 2009 Unfortunately, the www produces its own breed of unsavory.
Porn sites and other undesirables now often hide behind 'expired' piano website names.
Your Piano Advisory display is frequently revised and updated as we strive to showcase the more appropriate identities ...
We Do Not BUY & SELL Pianos!Piano Appraisals? Online Valuations? Read on . . . Take your time . . . LEARN !
There are few experts - and even fewer websites, that can offer much beyond a piano age determination service.
Using piano numbers from Yamaha, Kawai and some Korean made instruments, information is often available for free.
With older pianos and some obscure brands however, it's clearly a more difficult task ...
So "valuation" fees will generally apply in those instances.
Please Note:
1/ Links shown here may include sites not all of which are piano serial number oriented.
2/ Some piano production details are unavailable owing to lost documentation or records not having been kept;
In which case you'd not likely be billed for attempts to determine the piano's age. (Check terms of service for clarification)
| Online valuations: Truth is that piano serial numbers can contribute little to the assessment of an instrument's value. Model numbers and photographs may be helpful - but even so, without an expert's appraisal you will hardly be wiser for having someone "suggest a price" over the phone or through some email service. Consider :- the Grotrian Steinweg pictured above. Owner comments "Ivory keys. Sounds ok. Needs tuning, Some notes don't work". And OzPianoman thinks: Oh Boy - another one of Those ... and yet, I wouldn't mind having a decent 2nd piano in our main teaching studio. After inspecting soundboard & frame, removing the action with its 3 broken hammers, checking the bridges & pin block ...and closely examining the inside, the verdict is : Impossible for them to sell in its present condition. Now it's BLACK - and that suits our Studio setup - So yes, I have an idea what it's worth to Me. Might take me A Day or Two to rectify the problems. I'm only there however, to appraise & advise. So I suggest it can be much improved. Any piano technician can fix it ... "Why not spend a couple of hundred and try advertising it at say $1500?" Yeah, maybe - but - "What will You give us?" is what they really want to know. So, I offer them $500 "as is"; Buy the instrument for $600. Spend a day or three "improving it". Broke a few strings along the way but Wow. Sounds great. And a year later; Lo & behold - I see one similar advertised for $11,000 ......... So what's my piano Really worth? And yours ??? Piano Numbers might help to establish its AGE... but then - how does one describe on the phone or by filling out a form, their piano's tuning pin tightness, wrest plank condition, key dip and blubber to a piano Expert anywhere??? |
| Indeed, the best "piano numbers" to know may be your local piano tuners' Telephone numbers. PIANO VALUES ONLINE? Not Easy ... For some years however, a Piano Appraisals service has operated online and a good number of my Advisory visitors find them helpful.  Fees are modest and they are very thorough. Worth noting : In my 8 years online, no adverse feedback from any user of Concert Pitch Online Piano Services has ever been received. |  Home Builders : Sandstone Houses ? Renovations ? MakeOvers? |
THE PIANO ADVISORY Cliff Rd Frankston Vic 3199 Australia ( Local callers : 03 9783 6439 )
International callers Telephone: +61.3 97836439
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