Piano serial number dating / Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons piano serial number lookup
How old is your Steinway & Sons? Enter its serial number and we read it against Steinway & Sons’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
Type the serial or code from the instrument. We read it as you type.
Example Steinway & Sons serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of Steinway & Sons’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 337123 | 1952 | Steinway serial |
How Steinway & Sons serials date
- One continuous serial series since 1853 covering both the New York and Hamburg factories
- Dated from the year the serial was reached; approximate to within a year near a boundary
More on Steinway & Sons 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. Confirm with Steinway's serial-number lookup.
This is one of many makers the piano serial number dater covers.