Saxophone.org - created by saxophone players for saxophone players. Features an active saxophone forum, buy sell trade your sax, saxophone museum, sax teachers and more. One of the things they told me was that Yamaha starts serial numbers from scratch with each model number. YTS-23 has been around a long time and your serial number is pretty low. Based on that information, my best guess is that your horn was produced some time in the 1970's.

Yamaha Pianos produced for the U.S. Year of ManufactureSerial NumberUprightPianosGrandPianos. Mac study bible. Year of ManufactureSerial NumberUprightPianosGrandPianos00.

Contents.History Vito is a brand name for USA, now part of Conn-Selmer USA.The Vito name was used for student through professional (Yanagisawa baritone saxophone) instruments. Leblanc USA was formed in 1946 by Vito Pascucci,and the French woodwind manufacturer, G. Leblanc Cie of France. To meet high demand, Leblanc USAstarted to manufacture clarinets in the US from plastic bodies and French keys.

Eventually all of the partswere made in the US. These student clarinets were named 'Vito'.There were also Vito saxes and flutes. Some saxes may have been assembled in the USA, but they werebasically of foreign manufacturer. This author has no information concerning where the flutes were manufactured.Addendum: Many, if not all, Vito flutes were 'stencil' instruments manufactured in Japan by Yamaha.They were roughly the equivalent of a Yamaha YFL-200 series student instrument.The following information was provided by the original author of this post concerning the origin of Vito saxes or component parts. Beaugnier of, - Beaugnier made saxophones as Beaugnier and stencils labeled Leblanc, Vito and Noblet for the French market and U.S. Export and also Selmer for U.K.