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The Definitive Piano Buying Guide for New, Used, and Restored Pianos and Digital Pianos

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A piano is one of the most expensive purchases a household will ever make, and buying a piano can be difficult, confusing, and time consuming.

Piano Buyer is a semiannual piano buying guide that will help you make a fast informed decision concerning the purchase of a piano or digital piano. Read free online, or purchase the 272-page, full-color print edition, The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, containing the most useful articles we've published in the past nine years.

Editorially independent of any manufacturer or dealer.

Spring 2019 Featured Articles

At North Bennet Street School, A Passion for Craft Launches Pitch-Perfect Careers

At North Bennet Street School, A Passion for Craft Launches Pitch-Perfect Careers

SCOTT REITZ

The three piano technicians whose stories are told here came to the profession from diverse backgrounds and by different paths, and are employed in the piano industry in varied capacities. But they have one thing in common: the North Bennet Street School. For most people, finding a career is difficult enough; finding one they can fall in love with is even harder. For more than 135 years, North Bennet Street has been bridging that gap between work and love in ways that most schools rarely do.


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Review: Yamaha Clavinova <br>CSP-170 and CSP-150

Review: Yamaha Clavinova
CSP-170 and CSP-150

STEPHEN FORTNER

The Clavinova CSP series (CSP-170 and its less-expensive variant CSP-150) boasts two marquee features: First, cascading Stream Lights above the keys guide your fingers to teach you songs and exercises, lending a game-like vibe to practice. Next—and this is the big deal—songs a CSP model can teach include those in the music library on your Apple iOS or Android device. Via what Yamaha calls its Audio-to-Score function, the CSP can analyze chords in ordinary stereo audio files, then display them as notes on a staff or as jazz-style chord charts.


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Review: Roland FP-10 Digital Piano

Review: Roland FP-10 Digital Piano

JERRY KOVARSKY

The last few years have seen digital-piano makers strongly focusing on lower-cost keyboards whose sounds and features belie their low prices. The Roland FP-10, a scaled-down version of the company's model FP-30, and selling for only $499, is one such instrument, offering a piano-playing experience far above what its price suggests.


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Ode to Joy: The Korg KDM-3 Digital Metronome

Ode to Joy: The Korg KDM-3 Digital Metronome

OWEN LOVELL

Piano students have a longstanding and complicated relationship with the metronome, the ubiquitous timekeeping device that their teachers often prescribe. As the market has shifted from mechanical to digital metronomes, the forms they’ve taken have been many. Frankly, most are terrible. However, the battery-powered Korg KDM-3 is a better metronome because it combines more of the features a pianist wants, it works intuitively, and it’s attractively designed.


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<i>Introducing:</i> The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer

Introducing: The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer The Piano Book for the 21st Century

LARRY FINE (from the Editor's Preface)

Welcome to The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, a collection of the best and most useful articles we’ve published in the past nine years on buying a new, used, or restored piano or digital piano.


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Trending Articles

How to Sell or Donate Your Piano

How to Sell or Donate Your Piano

STEVE COHEN and Piano Buyer staff (Spring 2017)

Selling a used piano can be a challenge: Since the Recession, used pianos at all price levels have plummeted in value. Used pianos for sale far outnumber shoppers to buy them, making it a buyer’s market. Several conditions—some inherent to used-piano sales and some specific to current times—have tended to increase supply and/or drive down the prices of used pianos. In his article, Cohen, with the help of other Piano Buyer staff, advises how to make the most of a difficult market.


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Acoustic or Digital:

Acoustic or Digital: What’s Best for Me?

ALDEN SKINNER and LARRY FINE

Should you buy an acoustic (traditional) piano or a digital (electronic) piano? For many, there will be no easy answer to this question. Many factors play into this seemingly simple decision, some practical, some not. Ideally, perhaps, the answer should be “Both”. But assuming that, for a variety of reasons, “Both” isn’t an option, careful consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of each will probably quickly reveal which will be best for you.


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Piano Purgatory:

Piano Purgatory: The Donated Piano

SALLY PHILLIPS (Fall 2013)

Piano technicians will tell you that the worst pianos they are asked to service are usually found in houses of worship and other institutions that accept pianos as donations. How do such institutions become populated with so many inappropriate instruments? This article helps institutions develop a plan for fulfilling their piano-related needs, including valuable guidelines for the donation of used pianos, so they will not be sitting ducks for well-intended but inappropriate donations.


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