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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.

Featured Articles

<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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MIDI Apps for the Technology-Equipped Piano

MIDI Apps for the Technology-Equipped Piano Going Where No Piano Has Gone Before!

GEORGE F. LITTERST

Deeply meaningful—even transformative—customer experiences are available when technology-equipped pianos are connected by MIDI to intelligent, interactive apps running on a mobile device or laptop computer.


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Is My Old Piano an Antique? — Part 1

Is My Old Piano an Antique? — Part 1

SALLY PHILLIPS

One of the most common types of call that piano dealers receive is from owners of old pianos who are convinced that their instruments are antiques of great worth. Most times, these calls end with owners being disappointed to find out that their old pianos are worth less than the cost of moving them.


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Is My Old Piano an Antique? — Part 2

Is My Old Piano an Antique? — Part 2

LAURENCE LIBIN

Laurence Libin, a noted curator of antique musical instruments, tells why we should be alert for old pianos that have historical value, and how to distinguish them from instruments that are just plain old.


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Software Piano Review: Pianoteq 6.3

Software Piano Review: Pianoteq 6.3

JERRY KOVARSKY

It’s a great time to be a performing or recording pianist. Those of us who don’t always get to perform on an acoustic piano in great condition, or have the ability to cleanly and quietly record our pianos, now have a wide assortment of choices to use on our computer that have never sounded better. Among those choices, Pianoteq should absolutely be a contender in your research.


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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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