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Piano numbers: a guide for Piano Owners wanting to Sell and
useful for piano Buyers seeking to know about a piano's age.

Piano numbers relate to year of manufacture, information that you can obtain from a few genuine piano web sites (see below)

Links to such pages are presented by the Piano Advisory & OzPianoman - who invited other piano specialists, gurus, experts, technicians, tuners and piano industry members to be listed here.
Over time unfortunately, some sites have disappeared - others were snapped up by porn services masquerading as piano pages. We're revising our links - sorry if things are a bit jumbled !


PIANO SERIAL NUMBERS

piano valuation1907 Grotrian Steinweg Upright

"How old is My Piano?"

At pianoadvisory.com during our Eight years online we have received a lot of requests from prospective buyers, owners and players - many of whom will supply us with a piano serial number in the hope of being able to determine its age.

Your Choices?
1/ Call me and I will do my best to assist - No Charge...
2/ Call your local expert and pay their substantial fee ...
3/ Try the link below...

Certain websites offer a Piano Age Determination service. Using piano numbers from Yamaha, Kawai and some Korean made instruments, information is often freely available. But with older pianos - and some obscure brands, it can be more difficult and a small fee may apply.

"Concert Pitch Piano" provides comprehensive Online Piano Services
Online Keyboard Instrument Appraisals \ Retail Pricelist Guide For New Pianos \ Piano Age Service -
Discover the Age of Your Piano


Please Note:
1/ Links shown here may include sites which are not piano serial number oriented.
2/ For some pianos, production details are unavailable owing to lost documentation or records not having been kept ... in which case, you'd not likely be charged for any attempts to determine the piano's age (I hope) .
Check Terms of Service for information...

Online valuations:
Piano serial numbers can contribute little to any assessment of an instrument's value. Model numbers and photographs are useful - but even so, without a Personal Inspection by an expert engaged to provide an appraisal, you might not be a lot wiser for having someone "suggest a price" over the phone or through some email service.
A lot will depend on 1/ how 'realistic' you are : 2/ how accurately you can describe the piano's condition : 3/ the integrity of the experts at the other end.


Selling??? For some years an "Online Appraisals" site has been operating and quite a few of my Piano Advisory visitors find it helpful. Worth noting: In my 8 years online, no adverse comment has been received by me, from any user of Concert Pitch Online Piano Services - ...

piano valuation   "How much is my piano worth?"

A fair example:- Our own Grotrian Steinweg pictured above.
Let's turn back the clock ...Owner comments: "Sounds good, needs tuning, old ivory keys, some notes aren't working".

I'm considering putting a second piano in one of our teaching studios...
After inspecting the soundboard, the frame, removing the action with its 3 broken hammers, checking the bridges, the pin block and closely examining the inside, I think it might be hard to sell "as is" but have an idea what it might be worth to me!

I suggest they should fix it ...spend a couple of hundred dollars and try advertising it at say $1500?.
"What will You give us?"
I offer $500 ... buy the instrument for $600.
Spend a day or two "improving it".

A year later I see one advertised for $11,000.

So what's my piano really worth?
How about yours ???

Piano numbers might help to establish its age... but how does one describe, on the phone or by filling in 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 tuners' Telephone Numbers.


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We don't BUY and SELL pianos ...

But occasionally I do come across some outstanding Privately Owned pianos for sale. Realistic owners - those prepared to act "responsibly" in regard to pricing, may be invited to have their pianos featured on the Piano Advisory web site.

A wonderful example in Sydney, Australia is a One Owner 6'6" (197 cm) Yamaha Grand Piano - a 1980 model C5 in wonderful condition and for which the owner will consider any reasonable offer...

Grand piano pics and full details here



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