🎹Where to Find the Kawai Piano Serial Number? & Where are Kawai Pianos Made?🎹

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Welcome to a fresh piano video from Merriam Pianos. In this video we’re showing you how to find your serial number on your Kawai piano, and what the digits actually mean.

Where to find the serial numbers:

Kawai serial numbers are printed directly on the iron plate of the piano and are typically 5-7 digits in length. Numbers with NO letters associated with them are normally made in Japan. 5 or 6 digit numbers indicate instaruments built prior to the early 1970’s, when Kawai surpassed 1 million pianos for the first time. 7 Digit numbers beginning with 1 are usually 1970’s or 1980’s Kawai’s, where instruments beginning with a 2 are usually later 1990’s and beyond.

Pianos that begin with an “F” indicate a piano that was built at the Karawan factory in Indonesia, and are normally 5 or 6 digits long.

There are also pianos that have an “A” in front, and that is the North Carolina plant which briefly built furniture-style pianos in the United States.

How to know how ‘old’ your piano is:

The easiest way to know is to consult Kawai’s official serial number page, found here:

Kawai Piano Serial Numbers: How Old Is My Kawai Piano?

This will quickly tell you what year your piano was produced at the factory.

Why would my date of sale be different than the year of production?

Unlike industries where product turn-over is extremely quick, like fashion or electronics, sometimes there is a relatively long delay between the time the piano leaves the factory and the time it actually arrives at your home.

It is not unusual for there to be between a 3-6 month lag time between the completion of the piano and the time where it actually gets received into a piano dealer’s inventory. From there, lower volume pianos may take 6-12 months to sell a single example, which can lead to 1-2 year discrepancies between your date of sale and year of production.

It’s important to note that this doesn’t necessarily mean that a dealer has been misleading by selling this as a ‘new’ piano. In every legal sense it is, and it’s not a sign of neglect, poor business practice, or deception – rather, it’s a symptom of a niche industry with global manufacturing…it’s just par for the course, as they say.

Remember that your factory warranty always begins from the first day you receive the piano at your home, not the year it was built.

Also, because a well-made piano has an extremely long shelf-life, the difference of a year doesn’t have a material impact on resale value, unlike automotives, where such a difference might mean a double-digit percentage change.

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