How To Read Yamaha Guitar Serial Numbers
How to Describe the Age of Yamaha Guitars by Serial Number. Yamaha's guitars serial numbers repeat every 10. Read the next two numbers in the serial number. 3. Chemdraw Torrent Cracker. 5) The Epiphone serial number decoder currently supports 12 serial number formats from 25 factories. Vintage numbers from 1932 to 1970 are supported.
Ever wondered what you’re Yamaha guitar serial numbers tell you about your guitar? Or maybe you’re just curious about the year that your guitar was built? Here’s the system that Yamaha uses for their acoustic guitar serial numbers and what those numbers can tell you about your guitar.
Where to Find the Serial Number If you don’t already have your serial number, you’ll need to locate it and in some cases you’ll need to find out where your guitar was made as well – this information will usually be found next the serial number and will say “made in.” and then the country that the guitar was built in (either Japan, Taiwan or Indonesia). This information is usually found inside the sound hole of your guitar. How to Decode your Serial Number Yamaha’s serial number system is one of the more complicated ones I have come across – so it’s a little bit involved.
But the complexity of decoding the number isn’t the most frustrating part of this particular serial number system – it’s the fact that the serial numbers actually repeat every decade – so you actually have to know what decade your guitar was built in to begin with. Anyway, let’s start with how the main system works – if you don’t have a serial number that looks one of the ones in the next section, then carry on to the following sections for the less common serial numbers. Most Common Yamaha Serial Number System The most common Yamaha serial numbers follow a system that uses 2 letters, followed by 5 numbers. Let’s look at an example of what this might look like – MM12022 From this we can tell that this is the 22 nd guitar built on June 12 of either 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996 or 2006. Winning Eleven 2002 English Version Isopropyl. So how does this work? Imobie Phonerescue Torrent.
The First Letter The first letter represents the year that the guitar was built. The letters H to Q each represent the number that the year the guitar was built in ends in. H = 1 I = 2 J = 3 K = 4 L = 5 M = 6 N = 7 O = 8 P = 9 Q = 0 But it gives no clue as to the decade so for each letter it could represent the following years. First Letter Years H 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 I 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002 J 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 K 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 L 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005 M 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006 N 1967, 1977, 1987, 1997, 2007 O 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998 P 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 Q 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 I can only assume that this has been continued beyond 2010 because I haven’t been able to find any information for a different system but I can’t confirm this. If anyone knows please feel free to leave a comment in the comments section at the end of this post. So, in our example we have an “M” – so it could have been built in 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996 or 2006 (and maybe 2016?). • MM12022 The Second Letter The second letter represents the month that the guitar was built.