Yamaha instrument serial numbers

Piccolo serial numbers generally appear near either end of the body of the piccolo, on the back of the instruments. On Yamaha and some other piccolos, the numbers may be located on the metal receiver for the headjoint circled , and may be covered when assembled.

Saxophones display their serial numbers on the back of the instrument, near the thumb rest. Older saxophones may also have a serial number on the neck. Serial numbers on trombones normally appear on the body near the slide receiver arrow or on the slide receiver or mouthpiece receiver circled. On a trumpet, look on either side of the center valve for the serial number. Lars Kirmser does NOT have them on his list.

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Simple: Yamaha Alto Yamaha has never issued a list or even a method for identifying the age of a Yamaha trumpet by using the serial number. I am attempting to Mandarin Orange. Zip: lllllPhone: lll—lll—llll The letter "S" is used to denote Silver Plating.

It would appear that the "S" is only used when a particular model is offered in both a lacquered version and silver plate version. If a model is only available in a silver plate configuration it would appear that the "S" is not used, eg: YTR This is made more confusing as Yamaha themselves market some particular trumpets with an "S" in their marketing material but not actually stamped on the same instument, eg: the Xeno Artist Series trumpets, only available in silver plate but marketed by Yamaha as YTRCHS in all of their published material.

I guess if you are looking at purchasing a Yamaha trumpet 2nd hand you must know what configurations it was originally offered in before knowing if a particular instrument has been modified or not. Also note that there is NO denotation for a lacquered instrument. I deperately need more close up photos of model number to actually confirm what is actually being done by Yamaha. The letters "GP" have been used for a very few select models offered with gold plating as the only available finish or as an option.

It would appear that gold plating is available as an option from the factory through their Custom Workshop or Alteliers. Genrally, I believe that gold plating is applied over silver plating or nickel as it does not adhere to raw brass very well, and as such most gold plated Yamaha trumpets will have started life as a lacquered or silver plate version of the trumpet.

I have found one instance of this being used to denote a tinted Gold Lacquer in a range available with standard clear lacquer also. Not used anywhere else even when Gold Lacquer is used. The only instances of the letter W being used are on a particular range of rotary trumpets and flugel horns designed in conjunction with the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, based on the Heckel model trumpets.

Used in the Yamaha saxophone range for a while but new to the trumpet range. The letter "G" is used to denote a bell made from Gold Brass. Again, it was originally only used when a model was available in two different versions, a Gold Brass belled version and a Yellow Brass version.

If the model was only available with a gold brass bell it was not used. In more recent models it appears to be used even if the model is only available with a gold brass bell, I would presume as a marketing tool by Yamaha. In the earlier 3 digit models, it appears that there is the occasional use of rose brass, a higher copper content again, but ther is no letter used to indicate this. I have not found any material to classify the percentage of copper in each of the bell materials yet, in a fashion simialr to those used by Vincent Bach on each of the individual shop cards he kept for every single trumpet.

Note that this does not have any bearing on the material used in the leadpipe. Again, this letter is only used when a model is available with both a standard or a reverse construction leadpipe. It is not used when it is only available with one or the other.

There is no letter used to denote the material used to construct the leadpipe. Used to denote a mechanical trigger for either the 1st valve slide or the 3rd valve slide. It is model dependent as to which slide it is. Again, only use where the trigger is an option within a particular model range, although i think there are instances where it is used just as a marketing tool on models where it is the oonly set-up.