Piano yamaha u1 serial number

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Roy Senator OP. Roy Senator. Dear pianists, Lately I've been trying to find the date and place of manufacturing by my piano's serial number. It's a Yamaha U1 and the number is H While the store which sold me the piano claims the H means the period of time the piano was manufactured and the number represents the specific year, after looking up the subject in Yamaha's website I read the the H means it is made in China.

Can you please help me understand? Thank you. Re: Yamaha U1 Serial Number. Joined: Aug Europe Northern Spain. Well, the Yamaha web site informs about Yamaha serial numbers and the meaning of the letters which maybe appear in the number. I do not understand what more is to understand about it? If the Yamaha site states, that the H indicates a fabrication in China, then it means that the particular piano was fabricated in China. Duke of Dunning. To quote the late President Ronald Reagan: "Trust, but verify" Or, if you wish the famed motto of the now defunct City News Bureau: "If your mama says she loves you, check it out".

Joined: May Georgia, USA. Yamaha pianos from that time period were all built in Japan. Okay, they owned the Everett factory at that time in Michigan, but the U1 was never built there. You're confusing the end of the model U1 with the internal designator, H with the serial number, a common mistake people make with Yamaha pianos. Pianist, teacher, apprentice technician, internet addict. Reseda, California.

According to Pierce, the given seven digit number is from - Numbers with the "H" prefix are from Hangzhou, China.

But they were under , at the beginning of , so this can't be a Hangzhou piano. I think Terminal has it right, the model is U1H, and the H isn't part of the serial number. Joined: Sep Atlanta, GA. Yamaha's use of serial number prefixes vs. To date, U1's have not been made in China, so by process of elimination, it is as the dealer states. It would take several pictures to better explain Yamaha's use of the prefix vs.

Yamaha U1 with H model suffix Yamaha TPE with H serial prefix Thanks everybody! My question has been answered. Just one more thing, there was a ticket inside my piano with Japanese words which after a brief translation I found out which have to do with the piano's tuning. It has a table which probably contains dates of tuning or something else, and has a log from I think. How is it possible? Correct me if I'm mistaken please. Joined: Jun Maryland, USA.

Add to the year. It's the year-designation system, used in Japan, during Emperor Showa's Hirohito reign. He ascended to the throne in , that year marked as first year of Showa.

Originally Posted by Davdoc. Hi, Roy -- Where are you located? By the above interpretation, your piano was tuned as recently as by someone who knew enough Japanese, or enough about Yamaha paperwork, to note the fact on the card. Originally Posted by huaidongxi. It's possible, even likely, that this piano has been tuned many times by tuners who didn't know about or didn't bother with the log form. Perhaps it was still in Japan as recently as , and if it's not there now, it's one of those mysterious gray market pianos.

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