Ed Even though they are Baldwin products, the Acrosonic have their own serial numbers. Acrosonic with a serial of 374468, according to Pearce, was built in 1946. Another Acrosonic serial of 395074, is 1947 According to Pearce, Howard pianos prior to 1959 and after 1968, used Acrosonic numbers. From 1959 - 1968, they use their own numbers, going from 40000 to 106212. After that they used the Acrosonic numbers again. So your Howard 312706 was made in 1942. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Ed Carwithen <edwcarw at yahoo.com> To: Piano List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:50 pm Subject: [pianotech] Baldwin serial Numbers You chose to allow Ed Carwithen (edwcarw at yahoo.com) even though this message failed authentication Click to disallow You must get tired of us trying to find the manufacture dates of pianos, but you guys always have more answers than me. I have now found three pianos where the serial numbers make no sense. All are Baldwins. An acrosonic with a serial of 374468 which puts it in 2007, but it is obviously older and has a tuner dating it in 1960 something. Today a Howard (made by Baldwin) with a number of 312706 putting it at 1993, but it has a tuners date in 1970. Another Acrosonic serial of 395074 and that is past my Pierce Atlas. WHAT THE HECK????? What is the secret of finding a date on a Baldwin? Ed Carwithen John Day, OR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120112/fbbb460d/attachment.htm>
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