Piano serial number dating / Kimball
Kimball piano serial number lookup
How old is your Kimball? Enter its serial number and we read it against Kimball’s own production records to tell you the year it was built.
Can't read a digit? Type ? in its place. Looked-up serials are kept, never tied to you. How it works
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Type the serial or code from the instrument. We read it as you type.
Example Kimball serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of Kimball’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 91234 | 1900–1904 | Kimball serial |
How Kimball serials date
- A six-digit running serial through about 1975
- From 1976 a letter-prefixed five-digit serial that is not dated here; production ended in 1996
More on Kimball 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.
This is one of many makers the piano serial number dater covers.