Serial Number Help

[Mike Masters]

Robert Goodale wrote:
> 
> I am doing an evaluation on a 1930s-1940s era Vose & Sons. I cannot find
> a serial numer anywhere on the piano, including all the usual places.
> The plate has not been painted over. Nothing underneath the rim, on the
> soundboard, inside keybed. Does anyone of know any other special places
> where V&S may have stamped a serial number? I would like to get a
> definative date of manufacture.
> 
> Thanks
> Rob Goodale. RPT

Rob,
	I have a few Vose & Sons that I service, and the only one I had trouble 
finding a serial number, I found by mistake. All of the others were in 
the "normal" places,.....pin block, plate, soundboard, front of key 
frame. This one piano, had the hardest time finding it. I was there to 
replace the lid hinges and when I removed the lid and walked to the 
hinge side of the piano, there it was. In broad daylight stamped on the 
side of the plate on the outside of the bass section. If I had walked 
around to the back of the piano, I probably would have found it the 
first time.
	Hope this helps.

Mike Masters
Masters Piano Service
Lakewood, OH