Howard Piano Serial Number

Well, to be sure. A mid-size grand bearing the Baldwin name sells for about $20,000 to $35,000 depending on the model, whereas a second line piano such as a Howard, built offshore for Baldwin, would sell for less than half of that. The Howard should probably be compared to other pianos in that price range, such as Young Chang and others.

Piano serial numbers identify the (1) age of your piano, the (2) piano's year of manufacture, as well as (3) the circumstances surrounding the production of your piano, including factory history, manufacturing processes, and company ownership and oversight.

You can look up a free piano serial number history search from this page (see list of manufacturers, below).

Piano Serial Numbers:
Location, location, location..

Piano serial numbers usually have five to seven digits, but may have fewer or more, depending on the manufacturer and age of your piano. Serial numbers may also include a letter as well.

  1. Good question! And a simple one to answer. First, a how-to on where to find the serial number of your piano. Upright pianos will have their serial numbers either painted onto the cast iron backplate, or stamped into the pinblock underneath.
  2. The serial numbers listed below do not apply to KX Series pianos (KX10, KX15, KX21) which are sold exclusively in Canada. To verify a KX model serial number please contact Kawai Technical Support at 800-421-2177, ext.

Here are the TOP FIVE places to locate the serial number of your spinet, console, or upright piano:

Serial number locations are found:

1) On the piano’s cast iron plate. After lifting up the lid, look along the top front area of the plate. The serial number may be to the right or the left, or in the middle.
2) Under the opened lid on the ledge, stamped on a little plaque, to the right or to the left.
3) Stamped on the back of the piano; near the top of the wood frame.
4) Printed on one of the hammers, found on either end of the piano (newer or imported pianos).
5) Printed on one the keys - behind the nameboard, inside the piano (newer or imported pianos).

If you cannot find the serial number in any of the locations listed on this page, please watch the video below, to help find more piano serial number locations.

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Grand Piano Serial Numbers
Where Are They Found? ..

Here are the TOP FIVE places to locate the serial number of your BABY GRAND or GRAND piano:

(See this link for a detailed picture of where to look)

Note: You may have to remove the (1) music desk first and then (2) gently clean out any dust from your piano's plate [using a soft dry cloth + vacuum hose] before these numbers can be found.

Serial number locations are found:

1) On the piano’s cast iron plate, near the tuning pins, as you face the keys. Look to the right or to the left.

2) The Capo d'astro bar. Located on the right, this acts as a 'bridge' to the 'beams' of the cast iron plate.

3) On the piano's soundboard (see link above for a diagram).

4) On a metal plate underneath the piano's top lid, near the strings and soundboard.

5) Immediate interior [front]: On the back of the [a] keyslip (long wooden ledge, runs along the front/bottom of the piano's keys. The serial number is often hidden and stamped on the other side, facing the keys). On the front of the [b] action frame (after the keyslip is removed), or stamped on [c] one or both of the cheek blocks, viewed to the right and left of the piano's keyboard.

On older pianos, you may find 3-5 screws, underneath the keyslip, that will need to be removed (or, simply lift up, if no screws are present) to view the action frame. The serial number may be stamped on the front of the frame's wooden base, immediately under the keys.

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To the right and left of the keys are two end cheek blocks, which are each secured down with a giant bolt or screw, which passes through the piano's keybed, both of which must be removed, to access the interior of the piano (see video, above).

Caution: When unscrewing and removing the cheek blocks, do not mistake the piano's leg screw/bolt, with the cheek block's screw/bolt.

Also, be careful not to drop the cheek blocks once they are removed, which can gouge and permanently damage the piano's case, and the block's delicate condition.

To recap: the piano's serial number may be hidden on the back of the piano'skeyslip (immediately in front of / below the keys), on the action's frontkeyframe, on the cheek blocks (each side), or within the action itself, once removed from the piano.

Scroll down below to find the (1) manufacturer of your piano, and then (2) click on the link to find the serial number.

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Baldwin
Bluthner
Bosendorfer
Broadwood and Sons
C. Bechstein
Cable-Nelson
Chickering and Sons
Estonia
Everett
Hallet and Davis
Hobart M. Cable
Kemble

Sohmer
Steinway and Sons
Story and Clark


Vose and Sons
Weber
Wm Knabe
Wurlitzer

Yamaha
Young Chang


Zimmermann


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Baldwin Pianos are a musical legacy that for over a century, continues to live on. Each piano that carries the name Baldwin, is a piece of that legacy which has contributed to American piano history and manufacturing.
Company History
The company was founded by Dwight Hamilton Baldwin in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1862. Also known as D.H. Baldwin, the name has always been one of the most widely renowned names in the American piano industry and history.

The company originally began as a retail enterprise, who sold Steinway and Chickering pianos. They began manufacturing their own pianos in 1889, as 'D.H. Baldwin & Co.' In 1903, shortly after the founder's death, the name became the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co.

Baldwin also manufactured pianos under the names Acrosonic, Chickering, Ellington, Franke, Hamilton, Howard, Kremlin, Manualo, Modello, Monarch, St. Regis, Sargent, Schroeder, Valley Gem, Winton, and Wurlitzer.

Recognition and Design
In 1904, the Baldwin piano was awarded the Grand Prize at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., and another Grand Prize was also awarded to the Baldwin pianos and Manualos at the Anglo-American Exposition, London, 1914.
The Baldwin piano is recognized as a universal favorite between the leading operatic artists and virtuosos of the pianoforte.

The Baldwin Grand Piano, which was designed, manufactured and guaranteed by the Baldwin Company in Loveland, Ohio, is exclusively enjoyed by top tier of artists in all areas of musical expression – ranging from pianists, composers, conductors, singers, and instrumentalists - as well as outstanding symphony orchestras all over the globe.

Baldwin Pianos:
Modern Times

Baldwin purchased the Wurlitzer and Chickering names in 1988, but in 2008, both names ceased production. Samick (Korea) manufactured pianos with the DH Baldwin name in the 1980s, as pianos were purchased by Baldwin and sold through Baldwin dealers.

Around the decade of the 1990’s, the company was sold and relocated to Arkansas and Missouri. Today, Baldwin is owned by the famous Gibson Guitar Company (in 2001).

Howard Piano Serial Number Lookup

The following brands have been in use or are in development by Gibson, since 2003: A.B. Chase, Aeolian, Ampico, DH Baldwin (built in Arkansas since 2004, discontinued in 2008), Cable, Ellington (2003, made in China), Hamilton, Howard grand pianos, Ivers & Pond, J & C Fischer, Kranich & Bach, Monarch, Mozart, Pianola, Pianovelle, Sargent.

In 2006/2007, Gibson purchased the Dongbei Piano Group, the third biggest Chinese piano maker in the world.

In 2008, Baldwin moved all production of pianos to factories in China (owned by Gibson Guitars, Nashville, TN). Pianos are manufactured there for the US market, the Chinese domestic market, and other international piano markets.

Baldwin ceased piano production at its only remaining U.S. factory in Trumann, Arkansas in December 2008. This facility remains open as a US distribution and service center.

Without any doubt and dispute, from the nine-foot concert grand to the five feet, two inch baby grand, every Baldwin piano demonstrates the most modern ideas of acoustical science and piano making; its manufacture is precision engineered, which gives each instrument the highest degree of excellence. Any Baldwin made piano is worth the time, money and energy to rebuild or refurbish.

Find the age of your Baldwin piano using the serial number chart found below.

Howard Piano Serial Number

1890 - 1100
1895 - 6000
1900 - 10400
1905 - 12300
1910 - 16400
1915 - 24000
1920 - 35800
1925 - 48000
1930 - 63000
1935 - 74600
1940 - 88700
1943 - 102000
1948 - 105000
1950 - 110243
1955 - 128167
1960 - 145002
1961 - 148635
1962 - 152706
1963 - 156591
1964 - 160868
1965 - 165701
1967 - 175821
1968 - 179702
1969 - 184661
1970 - 190028
1971 - 192401
1972 - 195485
1973 - 199649
1974 - 204113
1975 - 208742
1976 - 213470
1977 - 217853
1979 - 228858
1980 - 236654
1981 - 242984
1982 - 248306
1983 - 253274
1984 - 257293
1985 - 262256
1986 - 266329
1987 - 270416
1988 - 278556
1989 - 284228
1990 - 290656
1991 - 293772
1992 - 301774
1993 - 305110
1994 - 310000
1995 - 313000
1996 - 316000
2000 - 366583
2001 - 377023
2002 - 380584
2005 - 383836
2006 - 384472
2008 - 386496

Baldwin vertical pianos, serial numbers: Models up to 42' tall

1984 - 1343955
1989 - 1453070
1994 - 1521569
1999 - 1556889
2005 - 1575074
2008 - 1577265

Punarvivah serial. Vertical piano serial numbers: Model 248A Pro, 48' tall

1990 - 427993
1991 - 435212
1992 - 440915
1993 - 445623
1994 - See numbers below

Baldwin vertical pianos 44' tall and up: Models 6000, 5050, 248 (after 1993), 243

1984 - 387119
1989 - 416254
1994 - 450198
1999 - 474091
2004 - 485396
2008 - 486686

Baldwin Acrosonic serial numbers

1895 - 2000
1900 - 9000
1905 - 31000
1910 - 57000
1915 - 83000
1920 - 127000
1925 - 172000
1930 - 217000
1935 - 251000
1940 - 304000
1946 - 365000
1947 - 385000
1950 - 450300
1955 - 559490
1960 - 679844
1965 - 784017
1970 - 912986
1975 - 1035719
1980 - 1220374
1985 - 1365505
1990 - 1470443
1995 - 1529416
2000 - 1563029
2005 - 1575074
2008 - 1577265


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