Piano serial number dating / Chickering
Chickering piano serial number lookup
How old is your Chickering? Enter its serial number and we read it against Chickering’s own production records to tell you the year it was built.
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Type the serial or code from the instrument. We read it as you type.
Example Chickering serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of Chickering’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 812345 | 1982 | Chickering & Sons serial |
How Chickering serials date
- One continuous serial series from 1823, through the American Piano Co. and Aeolian eras
- The table ends about 1982; later Chickering-name pianos are Baldwin-built and date differently
More on Chickering piano serial numbers
How sure is it
A piano year is a strong guide, not proof. The serial dates the instrument to within a year or so, and less precisely where output was small or a whole decade barely moved. When a serial cannot pin a year, we say so.
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