Observed arrival · 2026-10-17
Windlookup: a serial-number archive for woodwinds
A free lookup tool for dating saxophones, clarinets, flutes, bassoons, and oboes using maker-specific serial records.
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- Owners identifying the age of vintage woodwinds
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- Its examples include Lorée’s letter-coded oboes and Heckel CREST bassoon strings that encode month and year.
Field notes
Numbering is not uniform: the page describes Lorée oboes using letter codes, Heckel CREST bassoons embedding month and year, and some Conn horns combining a letter block with a number. It says conflicting published readings are shown side by side, while unsupported makers—including Yamaha and Couesnon in its examples—are declined rather than assigned a guessed date. These details make the archive’s limits part of its method.
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