He told me again where to look, I told him directly below the serial number is the bow seam!!īetween these two calls I was referred, on a parts matter, to Mark, a higher up in their service organization. He said our horn would be marked "made in Japan" on the body tube below the serial number, as surely any 52 with this low of a number (004902A) would have been made in Japan, and, at the very least the body tube would have been. Thus older horns could go out before those made in a now new location. YTS 23A) but this would only appear on the box, for warehouse purposes, not on the horn.
There can be, however, an A suffix to the model number (i.e. He says that the "A" is simply part of the serial number, and DOES NOT denote made in American or anything!! Any letters as a prefix might denote country of origin, especially on modern horns, but not so on the A suffix. Very nice, enthusiastic, and free with his time. Tried again yesterday, and got "Jon" as he answers. Later I left another than I had found the A. When I pressed a little she said I should talk to Jonathan, (ext 9445 btw) where I had to leave a message. She worked on it for a bit, then put me on hold for a long bit, then came back and very unconvincingly told me our horn was made in Japan.
Getting to a nice, helpful Linda, I gave her the serial number, but turning the horn in poor light I stopped short of the A. A call to the number I saw on SOTW, for the American Yamaha guys in Anneheim, 71, works if you select a non-listed option of "0" as the long menu curiously doesn't have a Band and Orchestra prompt. An "A" suffix a bit to the right of the serial number seemed to denote "America". After seeing this thread and another dealing with the previously unknown to me plant in Grand Rapids, MI, I was astonished to think my daughter's YAS 52 "purple logo" (on semi-permanent loan until I die) was "made" in the US.
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