<HTML>In a message dated 4/18/03 11:42:44 AM Central Dayligh= t Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">This same Baldwin L with the "m= agic pitch drop" notes. I had never found a serial number on it, and just by= chance while crawling under it today I noticed a small ink-stamped number o= n the soundboard side of the bellyrail: "K 49123". Looked that up in Pierce = and it suggests 1925. I guessed the piano to be from the 1920s, owner though= t it might be more like 40s or 50s. Obvious question: Is this the serial number? Baldwin ever put serial numbers= on bellyrails (its not in the normal place on plate - but some clown has al= ready painted plate, and pins, and agraffes, and strings......)? And if so, = what does the "K" indicate? Thanks. Terry Farrell </BLOCKQUOTE> Not only on the belly rail, but also on the legs and lyre. It means you have= to take them off, but if you really have to know, that is one place it migh= t be. Don't know what the K is for. Wim </HTML>