Piano numbers are a guide for Piano owners or the
piano Buyer seeking information about a piano's age.
Piano serial numbers usually relate to the year of manufacture, information about which you can obtain from a number of genuine piano web sites. Sometimes it's free!
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"How old is My Piano?" At pianoadvisory.com we receive many requests from prospective buyers, owners and players who will supply us with a piano serial number in the hope of being able to determine their pianos age. My own 1907 Grotrian Steinweg Upright |
Update for MARCH 2008. 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. (see below)
Piano Serial Numbers
1/ Links shown below 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 being kept; In which case you'd not likely be charged for researching the piano's age. (Check terms of service for clarification)
Online Valuations
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 from any user of Concert Pitch Online Piano Services has been received by us...
"How much is my piano worth?"
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.
An example:- The Grotrian Steinweg pictured above.
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?
"Hmmm... what will You pay us for the piano, As Is ?"
I offer $500; Buy the instrument for $600.
Spend a day or two "improving it"... And 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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