Help in dating a vintage baritone

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I have a solid Koa, white label, vintage Kamaka baritone. Gold decal but no date stamp. Kamaka says they didn't stamp baritones. Anyway it has ivory keys with large screws, which appear to be original. It was sold as a '75, but Kamaka also says the larger screws weren't used until 1978. Anyone have any more insight into how I might tell when this was made. I'm guessing late '78-'80.

 

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Sorry, but I'm still married.

 

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Sounds like you want to go out with an aging opera singer...

 

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Early Eightys to mid eightys...I'd say better larger pictures would help

 

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rls3800 said:

Help in dating a vintage baritone

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Bring flowers. Baritones love flowers.

 

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Damned handsome baritone. I'd say get mm stan some more/bigger/better pictures. He correctly dated my white label soprano quickly enough.

 

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PhilUSAFRet said:

I'd say get mm stan some more/bigger/better pictures. He correctly dated my white label soprano quickly enough.

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And he has the sopraninos to prove it

 

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These should help. Thanks.

 

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first, you must determine if it's a boy or a girl, and don't ask me how to do that...

 

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And he has the sopraninos to prove it

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:rofl: I was sitting in my recliner about 45 minutes after I read this before I got it. Sometimes I feel ld:

 

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first, you must determine if it's a boy or a girl, and don't ask me how to do that...

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Check under the saddle?

 

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The white label suggests 1969-2001.

The Schaller tuners with thumbscrews (not very usual on a Kamaka baritone) narrow that down to post-1974.

Since you didn't mention any date or serial number stamp on the inside (on the heel block), that's even closer: 1975-1999. But still a 24 year time frame... I don't suppose the construction details changed that much during that period, perhaps you should ask them.

 

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VegasGeorge said:

Sorry, but I'm still married.

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You beat me to it . . .:bowdown::bowdown: