Yamaha is the world’s largest wind instrument maker — the YTR-2330 alone has started more school trumpeters than any other horn. But Yamaha has never published a public serial number chart for winds: numbering is sequential and tracked per factory (Japan, Indonesia, China), not encoded with dates. The maker’s own service will date an instrument from its serial number on request.
The record makes room for uncertainty when a precise year is unavailable.
Factory and production era appear alongside the date when supported by a source.
See the source behind a match and what still needs to be confirmed.
No public serial tables.
Open the serial lookup →Not yet — no public serial tables are connected for this maker, and the archive does not guess dates.
Japan: on the bell and the second slide (common practice; no official diagrams). The exact spot varies by era and instrument type — the serial number guide walks through the common locations.
Recheck the characters exactly as marked, including any letters and leading zeros. Letter-prefixed numbers often belong to student or non-domestic lines that cannot be dated from the number. Some production periods may simply not be covered yet.