According to my Pierce piano atlas, 12th edition, page 202, it tells me that your piano was made in 1949. I will list two years and the first serial number made in that year.
1949-------510000
1950-------517000
So that tells us that Kimball made 7000 pianos in 1949 or an average of about 583 each month. Assuming that is true, serial number 512559 was made about the first couple of weeks in April of 1949.
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The age of a Kimball piano with the serial number 36415 is 119 years old. The serial number indicates it was manufactured in 1895.
The extant serial number list for Kimball would indicate it was built about 1904.
made in 1999
It was manufactured in 1928, serial number 372100.
A 5-digit serial number on a WW Kimball piano indicates a failry early model. As far as we know, Kimball pianos produced in 1900 started at serial 71000, so this would have been built BEFORE then, but sometime after the company's inception in 1893.
A Kimball piano with serial 25944 would have been sometime in 1893. That makes it a very early instrument, as Kimball had only started manufacturing its own pianos 5 years earlier in 1888. Prior to this, pianos with the Kimball name had actually been made by other companies.
In 1890, Kimball was still using 4-digit serial numbers (starting with 3200). By 1895, however, the company had jumped to 35000. Considering this, a model with serial number 28527 would have been built at some point during this fiver year time frame, most likey in 1893-94.
nobody can tell you that there would of been heeps of them made in different years
Higher 6-digit Kimball models, although technically "vintage" are generally of much modern design and manufacture than their 5-digit older brothers. A Kimball labeled with serial 878178 would have been produced sometime later in 1973, as the started with serial 901000 in 1974.
According to my Pierce piano atlas 12th edition on page 202, serial number 197333 was made in the middle of September, 1908. Les erosinspirit@hotmail.com
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