Yamaha BB450's year (bass)

Jon has told you about the serial number.

Don't get Fender Fenders confused with Squier Fenders either.

Once you know the serial number you should be able to find out the year here

http://www.guitardaterproject.org/fender.aspx

Then you could try Googling:

"reverb.com Fender Jazz Bass (year)"

and you will see a range of used prices.

fixya doesnt do evaluations

Tracing a Yamaha serial number is tricky, as they weren't terribly consistent about it. That serial number could match a guitar made

30th Nov 1979 at the Kaohsiung Factory Taiwan, or
30th Nov 1999 at the YMMI Indonesia factory

If you know the approximate age you may be able to sort that.

something is wrong here the serial number is missing either a # or letter the G denotes a Japanese bass and the year would be 87-88 the prefix GO and 5 #'s wood mean it is a walnut p bass special from 1982 ?

It would help if you had identified the guitar maker and location of the serial number. I assume it's a Yamaha, but the serial number doesn't coincide with any of the typical systems they used. The first two numbers could be the year of manufacture, but the earliest Yamaha I could find was 1966, so you may want to go direct to Yamaha and ask if they recognize the number based on the model number.Yamaha Corporation of America
6600 Orangethorpe Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90620
(714) 522-9011 Email Inquires:[email protected]

What is tthe problem? You don't state any symptoms. If you are after dating information try this site:

http://www.yamaha.com/apps/guitararchives/serialnumberwizard.asp

Here is the link you need:http://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-basses/rbx/rbx374/?mode=model The manual is down loaded in pdf. Scroll down the page. The serial number has nothing to do with the manual only the model number applies.

LOOKING FOR THE YR OF A YAMAHA BASS GUITAR SERIAL # YAMAHA BASS BB 414.

According to yamaha's site, that's an invalid serial number??!!??

I would guess that might be the date code.

Other sites report 5, 6 and 8 "digit only" serial numbers.

Nothing for 7 numbers.

If i had to guess, the earliest...1971
Hope this helps.

Check www.yamaha.com/apps/guitararchives/guitarserial.html
It gives dates from old serial numbers