How to determine the year your piano was manufactured
- First, be sure manufacturer’s name appears on the iron plate, soundboard, or somewhere else besides the key fallboard.
- Second, look for the serial number. Older pianos have 4 or 5 digits, newer ones 6, 7 or 8 digits sometimes starting with a letter. Piano manufactures place serial numbers in a variety of places such as plate, plate ribs, soundboard, bridges, capo d`astro bar, inside rim, back posts etc. If you cannot find it, ask your piano tuner or local dealer for help. Sometimes the action will have a date of manufacture written on it.
- Third, give the piano name and the serial number to your piano turner to identify the manufacturing year, if it is listed in the reference books.