Yamaha Saxophone Serial Number Chart
And YAS-62 is the On current Yamaha serial numbers the A indicates that it was My friend wants to sell a Vito Alto Sax serial number 056020. Yamaha Saxes: Altos YAS-62 Squarely on the vanguard of Asian-made saxophones, Yamaha has been Here s a Yamaha Wiki Here s a Serial Number Chart.
'.Players have been known to say that under no circumstances would they EVER part with their 62 soprano. (That is, until we can come up with something that’s as good, if not better than their YSS-62) As close as we can guess there were around 3,000 of these sold in the United States (our records were a bit sketchy in the very early 80?s) both in the lacquer and silver finishes. 18 wos haulin north american trucker map download. Unfortunately there are NO serial number records available that can help clarify individual production dates beyond some rough guesses. We do know that there was a change in tonehole placement at some point in the production.' I'm hoping to collect a large enough sample of instruments to provide a reasonable estimation to the date of manufacture of most of the Yamaha Saxophones.
I also hope that this collected data will reveal some inconsistencies in the way Yamaha mark and identify particular models. The Yamaha SAXOPHONE Serial Number Database can be found here: Saxophone Cheers YamahaCollector. After seeing this thread and another dealing with the previously unknown to me plant in Grand Rapids, MI, I was astonished to think my daughter's YAS 52 'purple logo' (on semi-permanent loan until I die) was 'made' in the US.
An 'A' suffix a bit to the right of the serial number seemed to denote 'America'. A call to the number I saw on SOTW, for the American Yamaha guys in Anneheim, 714-522-9011, works if you select a non-listed option of '0' as the long menu curiously doesn't have a Band and Orchestra prompt. Getting to a nice, helpful Linda, I gave her the serial number, but turning the horn in poor light I stopped short of the A.
She worked on it for a bit, then put me on hold for a long bit, then came back and very unconvincingly told me our horn was made in Japan. When I pressed a little she said I should talk to Jonathan, (ext 9445 btw) where I had to leave a message. Later I left another than I had found the A. No call back for a week. Tried again yesterday, and got 'Jon' as he answers. Very nice, enthusiastic, and free with his time.
He says that the 'A' is simply part of the serial number, and DOES NOT denote made in American or anything!! Any letters as a prefix might denote country of origin, especially on modern horns, but not so on the A suffix. Din en iso 4042 a3b. There can be, however, an A suffix to the model number (i.e.
YTS 23A) but this would only appear on the box, for warehouse purposes, not on the horn. Thus older horns could go out before those made in a now new location. He said our horn would be marked 'made in Japan' on the body tube below the serial number, as surely any 52 with this low of a number (004902A) would have been made in Japan, and, at the very least the body tube would have been. Of course, ours has no such designation. He told me again where to look, I told him directly below the serial number is the bow seam!!
Between these two calls I was referred, on a parts matter, to Mark, a higher up in their service organization. When I asked as an aside, about the darned silly 'A', he quickly replied that designated assembled in the American plant. When I told Jon that he stated that he would straighten Mark out on that matter! We have seen on this forum that information, true or not, gets woven into our internet fabric of knowledge. I think some (especially younger) employees of these instrument companies may possibly be influenced by this 'knowledge'! Jon was sure by the serial number that our horn was made before 1989-1990 where, as we have heard before, Yamaha's records devolve into shadows and speculation. His guess was early 80s, my daughter and I deduced that we bought it in about 1988.