Every Haynes has a history.
More than a century of workshop records. One serial number at a time.
Find yours in the archive
Enter the serial number stamped on your Haynes instrument to see its manufacture date, instrument type and original factory specification.
A century of beautifully imperfect paperwork.
Haynes records stretch back through generations of makers, workshops and recording habits. The archive is unusually rich, but it also contains the quirks that make a working factory ledger human.
About the records
Dates are transcribed from historic factory records. Some entries, particularly in later years, were recorded as the first day of a month even when that was not the exact completion date.
The years 1928-1932 contain several out-of-sequence records between October and March. Before Haynes adopted a broadly sequential system, some model-based numbering also means that a small number of instruments in the 10200-12300 range were actually made in 1900, 1901 and 1902.
Most 13xxx serials were skipped. A tiny group of fourteen 138xx instruments appears in the 1943 records, completely outside the normal sequence.
Reading the ledger
| LP | Low Pitch |
|---|---|
| HP | High Pitch |
| Regular Model | Commercial Model, closed hole, Y arms, C footjoint |
| Open / Op. / OP G# | Open G# |
| Closed / Cl. / CL G# | Closed G# |
| Db | D flat piccolo or flute |
| Eb / E Flat | E Flat Soprano Flute |
| Sil. | Silver |
| Band / Bd | Band Model |
| Orch / Or. | Orchestral Model |
| French Model / Fr. / Fr. Mod. | Open holes, pointed keywork |
| Special Model | Contact Haynes for interpretation |
| B / Bft | B Footjoint |
| B-C# tr. | B-C# Trill |
| 440 / 442 / 444 / 445 / 435 | Pitch specifications |
| Con. / Conical | Conical Bore Piccolo |
| Cyl. | Cylindrical Bore Piccolo |
| Bb to B | Modern style B flat shake key |
| Gold Emb | Gold embouchure, lip plate and riser |
| HMFM | Handmade French Model, open holes, pointed keywork, soldered toneholes |
| HMCH | Handmade Closed Hole, closed holes, pointed keywork, soldered toneholes |
| LD | Lewis J. Deveau Scale |
| .205D | .205 depth riser |
| RW | Robert Winn Scale, designed primarily for the German market |
| GW | Gold Wall riser |
| TH / THM | Super Thin Wall, around .010 or .011 tube thickness |
| .016 / .018 / .014 / .012 / .010 | Tube thickness |
Explore the archive
If you prefer to browse the records directly, the complete 1900-2005 archive remains available online.
Wm. S. Haynes Co. does not buy or sell vintage or used Haynes instruments. For buying or selling a pre-owned Haynes, please contact an authorised Haynes dealer.
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