Yamaha Guitar serial numbers – dating your guitar. My Yamaha serial number looks. Alternate serial number configurations for Yamaha Classical and Acoustic. I am compiling a list of 6 & 7 digit serial numbers with. When the guitar was made. Serial Number. My Yamaha FG 180 serial number and red label as.

Thank you SO MUCH for all your kind comments. I did have a look at the Yamaha serial decoder, and yes it comes up as invalid, but there are only the 5 digits I mentioned, and they're very clear. I now believe the '3' at the start makes it a 63/73/83 but since this model is from the 70's I'm sure it's 73. I've since found an almost identical one on eBay. Violator Depeche Mode Torrent Tpb here. com and they call it an SA-90 so thanks for confirming that. I had a look thru the F-holes & can't see any further id.

Thanks again & best wishes!! It's also possible the numbers 30268 are the actual date of manufacture. March 3, 1968 (or, in the common European dating manner, 3 February, 1968). For a guitar not to be sold for several years after its date of manufacture wasn't that uncommon, especially a guitar of a relatively better quality (which that one appears to be). Also remember back then playing the guitar was nowhere near as commonplace as it is now and so they sold much slower and sat in shops longer. (There were no guitar 'superstores' like Guitar Center or musiciansfriend, etc. So a guitar made in the late '60s could easily not have sold until the early '70s.

I only knew two other guys in my whole school of almost a thousand students who played back in the '60s.) Anyway, Yamaha did make some decent guitars 'back in the day' often using much higher quality woods and parts than are usually seen now. It looks like a nice one. And welcome to GTU. The Warriors The Game Pc.

It's also possible the numbers 30268 are the actual date of manufacture. March 3, 1968 (or, in the common European dating manner, 3 February, 1968).

For a guitar not to be sold for several years after its date of manufacture wasn't that uncommon, especially a guitar of a relatively better quality (which that one appears to be). Also remember back then playing the guitar was nowhere near as commonplace as it is now and so they sold much slower and sat in shops longer. (There were no guitar 'superstores' like Guitar Center or musiciansfriend, etc. So a guitar made in the late '60s could easily not have sold until the early '70s.

I only knew two other guys in my whole school of almost a thousand students who played back in the '60s.) Anyway, Yamaha did make some decent guitars 'back in the day' often using much higher quality woods and parts than are usually seen now. It looks like a nice one. And welcome to GTU. Back in the late 1970s and on into the eighties there was a music store in Enterprise, Alabama that still had unsold instruments that had been sitting in there since the sixties. They had a bunch of late sixties Fenders, at least one Gibson Firebird, a bunch of Harmonys, Kents, Supros, and a Gretsch Streamliner. They also had several Kustom and Kasino amplifiers.

And they had a few old fuzz boxes. And everything was really clean.

Last time I was in there, about three years ago, they still had one of the Kasino amplifiers. On that same visit I bought two books that had been in there since the seventies. I paid the prices that they had been listed for in the seventies. I also bought a Claricon monkey on a stick archtop pickup for $25.00.

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