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Paul, your 37 was manufacturer’s after 1965. I own a new old stock Bach 37 cornet, absolute pristine. The serial number of my cornet is 30836. The factory shop card indicated that it’s production date is April 15, 1965. My tax day horn! My guess is that yours was produced late ’65 or sometime ’66, but not 1964. Were some parts from Mt.

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Brass Serial Numbers

Place of manufacture	Year	Serial	Notes
Elkhart, IN	1968	L20454
Elkhart, IN	1969	M prefix
Elkhart, IN	1970	N prefix
Elkhart, IN and Hamamatsu, Japan	1971	P prefix	Last year of Elkhart production
Abilene, TX	1972	P / R prefix	First year of Abilene production; some Yamahas carry over
Abilene, TX	1973	R prefix
Abilene, TX	1974	R prefix / GA400000	First year using new serial number system
Abilene, TX	1975	GA500000
Abilene, TX	1976	GA600000
Abilene, TX	1977	GA700000
Abilene, TX	1978	GA800000
Abilene, TX	1979	GA900000
Abilene, TX	1980	HA000000 / 100000 also, I've seen HE011431 on a Century trumpet	Henkin bought Conn in late 1980, and the serial numbers began to change, with different prefixes and an extra digit appearing in the HX-serials
Abilene, TX	1981	'HH110156' / HA100000 / 100000 / S prefix*/ S0 narrow-letter	100000 and 200000 / S prefix serials are not for Director student horns only, as this Century trumpet has an S19746 serial putting it at 1982
Abilene, TX	1982	[S]16500-[S]23430	100000 and 200000 / S prefix serials are for Director student horns only
Abilene, TX	1983	[S]23431-[S]33388 and 919737 [Century trumpet] also, I've seen HE011431 on a Century trumpet	100000 and 200000 / S prefix serials are for Director student horns only
Abilene, TX	1984	[S]33389-[S]45521 and 919737 [Century trumpet]	100000 and 200000 / S prefix serials are for Director student horns only
Abilene, TX and Eastlake, OH	1985	[S]45522-[S]58991 and 919737 [Century trumpet]	100000 and 200000 / S prefix serials are for Director student horns only First year of Eastlake production, as Conn had been sold to Skäne Gripen/UMI
Abilene, TX and Eastlake, OH	1986	S58992-S68841	Last year of Abilene production
Eastlake, OH and Nogales, AZ	1987	S68842-S76617 and 37 prefix	First year of Nogales production, apparently for some brasses
Eastlake, OH and Nogales, AZ [?]	1988	S76618-S81115 and 38 prefix	I do not know if Nogales brass production continued past 1987
Eastlake, OH	1989	39 prefix [all models]
Eastlake, OH	1990	40 prefix
Eastlake, OH	1991	41 prefix
Eastlake, OH	1992	42 prefix
Eastlake, OH	1993	43 prefix
Eastlake, OH	1994	44 prefix	Last year for serials indicative of year [add 50 to the first two digits to get year]
Eastlake, OH	1995	5 prefix for brass, 7 prefix for saxes	The serials and model lineups changed considerably, and instruments can only be dated by era, as there are few tabs kept on when a specific horn was made
Eastlake, OH	1996	5 prefix for brass, 7 prefix for saxes	The number prefixes, indicating the instrument type and factory, did not last long
Eastlake, OH	1997
Eastlake, OH	1998
Eastlake, OH	1999	Last year with prefixes
Eastlake, OH	2000	845371 (Conn 1BS 34)	Apparently a Conn Vintage One from 2000 has serial 845371
Eastlake, OH	2001

* The S prefix, while used until the mid-80s, was not always seen on serial numbers. The Conn-Selmer resource guide appears to leave out the S prefixes on its serial number list, deduced from an observation made here: http://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?158653-Conn-Sax-Serial-number and http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb/f139/conn-18b-53120-3.html#post555667