United States · since 1960
Emerson serial numbers
An American student flute without a chart.
Emerson built student flutes in Elkhart. No serial chart exists in any source checked; the archive carries an honest refusal.
The numbering
- emerson-no-table
Flute
Emerson (Emerson Musical Instruments, USA) has no published serial-year table and no lookup; the brand does not appear in the Conn-Selmer tables, in dcsax/Stohrer, or with numbers on the aggregator sites.
No Emerson serial chart exists in the sources checked (connselmer.com/serial-numbers official tables, the dcsax 12-brand tool, Stohrer's 17 lists, the adams-music index, woodwind.org). Emerson flutes are dated by the model (e.g. the Boston / DeFord lines), the headjoint and the badge style. If a horn carries a Conn-Selmer-era number, the Artley or Armstrong tables may apply instead, because those brands shared the Elkhart numbering.
Questions
Can this archive date Emerson instruments from the serial number?
Not from the number — no public serial chart exists for this maker, and the archive does not guess dates.
Where is the serial number on a Emerson instrument?
For Flutes the common location is on the barrel (head joint) and again on the body — the barrel number rules.
What if my Emerson serial number is not found?
Recheck the characters exactly as marked, including any letters. Letter prefixes often belong to student or stencil lines. Some periods may not be covered yet — every refusal here says why.