Piano serial number dating / Krakauer
Krakauer piano serial number lookup
How old is your Krakauer? Enter its serial number and we read it against Krakauer’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 Krakauer serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of Krakauer’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 58000 | 1930–1939 | Krakauer Bros. serial, USA |
| 75800 | 1964–1965 | Krakauer Bros. serial, USA |
| 82420 | 1973 | Krakauer Bros. serial, USA |
How Krakauer serials date
- The Krakauer Bros. series to 1980; later Kimball-badged pianos do not date from it
More on Krakauer 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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