The final three numbers are the unit number 111. The fourth and fifth numbers are the day 18th. The second and third numbers are the month 09=September. Kaohsiung Factory, Made in Taiwan, 1971-2001: The last four numbers are the unit number 21. Tenryu/Wada Factory, Made in Japan, 1985-1986: The final two numbers are the unit number. The second two numbers are the month here, May. Tenryu/Wada Factory, Made in Japan, 1969-1984: No year of manufacture can be determined. Tenryu/Wada Factory, Made in Japan, 1946-1968: The three numbers are the unit number 123. The first two letters are the year Q=0 and I=2, so 2002. Letter-letter-letter-#-letter, like so: QIL123A. Yamaha Music Craft, Made in Japan, 2001-: (See previous entry for Yamaha Music Craft for more on the numbering.) During 1999, they starting the count each month at 200 rather than 500. The last three numbers are the unit number. The three numbers are the unit number this started over each month at 500, so unit number 21. (That first letter is an “oh” not a zero.) Yamaha Music Craft, Made in Japan, 1997-1999: 111 is the unit number and the final letter is an internal code. Letter-letter-letter-#-letter, like so: QLY111C. The three numbers are again, unit number. 213=unit number and that last letter is an internal code. Using the charts, we see that H=1991 and P=September. The last three numbers indicate unit number. The number following the letter is the year, in this case. The letter at the beginning represents the month, so J would be March (see chart above). If you still can’t figure it out, please see Yamaha contact info at the bottom of this page.Īlternate serial number configurations for Yamaha Classical and Acoustic Guitars First LetterĪ lot of people have written in to say, “Hey! My Yamaha serial number looks nothing like this!” To you folks, we offer the following: Several other serial number configurations used by Yamaha over the years. The last three numbers represent order of production on the day the guitar was made.Įxample: hm02316 = the 316th unit made on June 2 of 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, or 2001. The first two numbers indicate the day of the month. (Their numbering system began with “H” for 1.) The first letter indicates the last digit of the year of production. So, for example if the serial number were 0201-14725 the guitar would have been made in January 2002.Serial numbers on Yamaha guitars repeat every ten years due to the way they are formed. The rest of the digits are factory specified i.e. Reading left to right, the first two digits represent the year and the second pair of digits represents the month. Since 1996, each Landola guitar has featured a serial number that pinpoints the year and the month when the guitar was manufactured. Production strategy was changed from quantity to quality. For example guitar number 9 - 500606 was made in 1989.įor example guitar number 2 - 523527 has been made in Īudiosal Oy Ab bought the company.
In 1989 production exceeded half a million. For example serial 5 - 300000 was given to a government minister in the opening party of the new factory in 1975.Īnnual output 20 000 guitars, 40 % exportedĪrctic birch were re-entered in to production The decade has to be judged by the rest of the serial. Since the early 1970s the first digit of the serial number has denoted the year of manufacture. The annual output 40 000 instruments, 75 % exported In 1973 Landola Ltd was sold to Musiikki-Fazer, the largest firm in the music business in Finland.
He annual output 40 000 instruments, 85 % exported The new company was called Oy Landola Ab (Landola Ltd)įirst time participating in the Frankfurt Music Fair. The company concentrated only on the guitar production The company invested in export and marketed guitars abroad.Įstimated, 10 000 Landola guitars in October 1952 The first factory made guitar was launched on the market in. In September 1945 the company became Ab Munkers Oy (Munkers Ltd). Company was called Veljekset Mattson Oy (in english The Mattson Brothers Ltd).
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