That would be the recorded shipping date. When a specific quantity for a specific order was built, then they were shipped to the customer. On that sticker I believe is the date it was packed. However, the very day the sax is finished it was packed into the shipping box and tagged with a printed sticker. I never seen any serial numbers that matched any type of pattern, and as far as I could see, there is no way of actually knowing the exact production date. The Vito (Yamaha) list shows that Yamaha has got all the lists and gave this list to Leblanc for the Vitos and it also shows the Yamaha serials are mostly sequential with the next instrument coming off the production line just getting a 1 added to the previous instruments serial number. I have found a Yamaha serial list but it's for the Alto Model 7131RK Vitos which were made by Yamaha and I think the Vito Alto serial numbers apply to the Yamaha YAS-21 up to 1980 and then after that the Vito and Yamaha serials seem to be different after the YAS-23 was introduced around 1980. It makes it hard to know what year a used Yamaha is from. The only thing I can come up with is that they must be afraid of serial number piracy or something like that. Yamaha's serials are mostly sequential and they do have year of manufacture lists and them saying they just have the shipping date is just not believable.
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