Howard Piano Industries of Tampa, Florida, provides access to a wealth of piano information, parts, and piano care products at their website: Howard Piano Industries

Piano Price Point – Glen Barkman’s Free Online Piano Guide

Glen Barkman is a piano technician on Vancouver Island, Canada, and he has created a terrific piano information website, Piano Price Point: https://pianopricepoint.com/

Glen has written entertaining and informative articles on all aspects of pianos. For example:

How Much Is My Piano Worth?

How Old Is Too Old?

Piano Buyer is an excellent free consumer guide to buying, selling, and maintaining new, used, and restored acoustic pianos and digital pianos, and is published online twice a year (Spring and Fall): Piano Buyer

The Steinway & Sons Serial Number and Piano Age Lookup: https://www.steinway.com/pianos/serial-lookup#/

Piano Age Information: http://www.bluebookofpianos.com/pianoage.html

The Stars & Catz Free Suite of Music Tools and Resources:

https://www.starsandcatz.com.au/free-music-tools-and-resources/

Player Pianos: http://www.mmdigest.com/Home

Yamaha Piano Information Links:

The Yamaha Piano Serial Number Search page will tell you if your Yamaha piano was designed and built for the United States market. Yamaha “gray market” pianos are designed for the moister climates of Europe and Asia.

https://www.yamaha.com/paragon/piano/serialnumberlookup.html?

Here is why you want to know, from Yamaha:

https://hub.yamaha.com/pianos/p-acoustic/four-things-you-need-to-know-about-gray-market-pianos/

Finding the Age and Manufacturing Location of Your Yamaha Piano:

https://usa.yamaha.com/support/finding_age_of_yamaha_piano/index.html

Yamaha Pianos produced for the U.S. market have been manufactured in 6 locations:

Hamamatsu, Japan
Thomaston, Georgia
South Haven, Michigan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Hangzhou, China
Taoyuan, Taiwan
As a result, there are six different serial number ranges for Yamaha pianos.

If the serial number begins with a “T”, the piano was manufactured in Thomaston, Georgia.

If the serial number begins with a “U”, the piano was manufactured in South Haven, Michigan.

If the serial number begins with an “H”, the piano was manufactured in Hangzhou, China.

If the serial number begins with “YT”, the piano was manufactured in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

If the serial number begins with “J”, the piano was manufactured in Jakarta, Indonesia.

If your grand piano is a GH1G, GH1FP, GC1G, or GC1FP, your piano was manufactured in Thomaston, Georgia.

If your grand piano is a GA1E, DGA1E, GB1, DGB1, GB1K, or DGB1K, your piano was manufactured in Jakarta, Indonesia.

If your grand piano is any other model, it was manufactured in Hamamatsu, Japan.

The Major Piano Brands

Here is a list of some of the largest piano manufacturers in the world. Each has a different method of piano making, and so each brand offers a unique musical tone and playing experience. Together, they manufacture thousands of pianos annually.

Albert Weber
August Förster
Baldwin
Bechstein
Bluthner
Bosendorfer
Boston
Brodmann
C. Bechstein
Cavendish
Cristofori
Eduard Seiler
Essex
Estonia
Fazioli
G. Steinberg
Grotrian
Haessler
Hailun
Hallet-Davis
Irmler
Johannes-Seiler
Kawai
Kayserburg
Kingsburg
Knabe
Mason & Hamlin
Pearl River
Perzina
Petrof
Pramberger
Ravenscroft
Ritmuller
Ronisch
Samick
Sauter
Schimmel
Schulze-Pollmann
Seiler
Shigeru-Kawai
Steingraeber
Steinway
Story & Clark
W. Hoffmann
Weber
Wilh-Steinberg
Wilhelm-Grotrian
Wyman
Yamaha
Young Chang
Zimmermann

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