Piano serial number dating / Welmar
Welmar piano serial number lookup
How old is your Welmar? Enter its serial number and we read it against Welmar’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 Welmar serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of Welmar’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 54500 | 1954 | Welmar serial, England |
| 71500 | 1971 | Welmar serial, England |
| 106908 | 1987 | Welmar serial, England |
How Welmar serials date
- For 1946 to 1986 the first two digits of the serial are the year (63xxx is 1963)
- A new series began in 1987; there is a war gap in the early 1940s
More on Welmar 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.