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Meeting Your Instrument | |
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Why Play the Piano? | |
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Soothing the Soul | |
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Creativity and Other Mysteries | |
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The Uniqueness of All Keyboard Instruments | |
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The Great Teacher | |
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Following the Footsteps of Immortality | |
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Hammers and Strings | |
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Like a Harp, But Different | |
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Parts of the Piano | |
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Keys to the Piano | |
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Hammering Home the Sound | |
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V-V-Vibrating Strings | |
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The All-Important Soundboard | |
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The Solution to Bored Feet | |
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Grand and Less Than Grand | |
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Whopping Big (and Heavy) Keyboard | |
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The Keyboard in Black and White | |
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Key to the Keys | |
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Higher and Lower | |
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Stretching Across the Octaves | |
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Black and White Keys | |
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Sitting on the Bench | |
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A Hundred Ways to Make a Piano Stool | |
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Posture Has a Bearing | |
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Where to Sit | |
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Playing Footsie with the Pedals | |
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Placing a Home Keyboard | |
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Give Yourself Another Hand | |
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Learning the Right-Hand Notes | |
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Knowing the Letters | |
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Finding C on the Keyboard | |
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Lines and Spaces | |
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The Staff | |
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Clefs | |
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The Notes | |
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Expression Marks | |
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Finding Middle C When Reading Music | |
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Finding Other Notes | |
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Making Music | |
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Sharps, Flats, and Fingerings | |
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Accidentals Are No Accident | |
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Whole and Half Steps Revisited | |
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Pinching 'em Upward | |
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Pushing 'em Downward | |
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Sharps and Flats in Written Music | |
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The Black Sheep of Accidentals | |
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Using the Right Fingers | |
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Making Music | |
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Whole Notes and Their Offspring | |
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Counting in Music | |
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Note Values | |
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Wholes, Halves, and Quarters | |
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Making Music | |
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Dividing the Quarter | |
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Dotted Notes | |
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Making Music | |
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Bars, Time Signatures, and Rests | |
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Organizing the Music Staff | |
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Where's the Bar? | |
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Sign of the Times | |
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Taking a Rest | |
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Making Music | |
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Unlocking Keys and Scales | |
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What Keys Do | |
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Climbing a Hill of Scales | |
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Major and Minor Scales | |
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Scales and Key Signatures | |
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Key Signatures in Written Music | |
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A Natural Thing | |
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A Little Less Major | |
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Close Relations | |
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Scales a la Mode | |
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Give Yourself Another Hand | |
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Learning the Left-Hand Notes | |
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Middle C for the Left Hand | |
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Left-Hand Notes on the Staff | |
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Time and Key Signatures in the Bass Clef | |
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Making Music | |
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Putting One and One Together | |
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Starting Simple | |
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Practice Tips for Two-Handed Playing | |
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Making Music | |
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Basics of Accompaniment | |
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What Is Accompaniment? | |
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Left-Hand Playing Styles | |
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The Simplest Accompaniment | |
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Chords | |
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Striding Along | |
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Using Keyboard Auto-Accompaniments | |
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Making Music | |
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Striking a Familiar Chord | |
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A Basic Chord Explanation | |
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Triads and Intervals | |
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Learning the Basic Triad | |
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Intervals of the C-Major Scale | |
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Intervals in Other Keys | |
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Different Types of Intervals | |
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Finding Intervals by Using Half Steps | |
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Major and Minor Triads | |
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The Common Chords | |
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Master Class | |
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Details of Music Notation | |
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Note Groupings and Ties | |
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Roadrunner Notes | |
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Tying Notes Together | |
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Triplets | |
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Play It Again | |
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Expression Markings | |
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Dynamic Markings | |
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Pass the Dictionary | |
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Miscellaneous Expression Markings | |
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Slurs (But Not Insults) | |
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Legato and Staccato | |
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Making Music | |
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Pedals: Where's the Clutch? | |
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Plugging in the Pedal | |
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Trying Out the Pedal | |
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Pedal Technique | |
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Using the Piano's Other Pedals | |
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Making Music | |
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Faking It | |
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How Music Charts Work | |
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Fakery Tips to Remember | |
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Making Music | |
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The Rigors and Joys of the Classics | |
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How Classical Music Works | |
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Adhering to the Letter and Spirit | |
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Even the Masters Wrote Easy Music | |
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Begin With the Baroque | |
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Classic Classics | |
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Virtuosity Emerges | |
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The Impressionists | |
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Jazz-America's Music | |
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Power Practicing | |
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The Goal of Practicing | |
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Knowing How Much to Practice | |
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Take Apart the Parts | |
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Slow, Slower, Slowest | |
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Making Things Harder | |
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No Strain, Big Gain | |
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Facing the Music | |
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Technical Tips | |
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Getting Relaxed | |
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Mastering Octaves | |
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Speed and Power | |
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Repeating Notes and Chords | |
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Out of Thin Air | |
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Sight-Reading Tips | |
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Committing It to Memory | |
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Ornaments and Flourishes | |
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Trills | |
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Glissandos | |
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Arpeggios | |
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Next Steps | |
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Keeping It Interesting | |
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Finding a Teacher | |
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MIDI and Home Music Studios | |
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The Many Types of MIDI Keyboards | |
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MIDI Recorders | |
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Tone Modules | |
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Drum Machines | |
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Hooking It All Up | |
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Listen to the Music | |
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Jazz Pianists | |
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Classical Pianists | |
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Bringing It Home: Buying an Instrument | |
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Buying a Piano | |
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Why Buy a Piano? | |
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The Real Piano Sound | |
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The Mechanical Piano Action | |
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Appearance | |
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Educational Value | |
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The Big Questions | |
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Upright or Grand? | |
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New or Used? | |
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The Asian Connection | |
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Piano Maintenance and Repair | |
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Why Upkeep Is Important | |
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Where Should We Put This Thing? | |
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Pampering Your Piano | |
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The All-Important Tuner | |
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Regulating, Adjusting, and Tinkering | |
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Understanding New and Used Warranties | |
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Buying a Digital Keyboard | |
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A Trio of Keyboards | |
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Basic Keyboard Features | |
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What Does This Button Do?--Oops! | |
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A Sound Is a Sound by Any Other Name | |
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Tiny People Inside the Keyboard | |
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Immortal Music Deserves to Be Recorded | |
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Oh Joy! A Stick! | |
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Where to Shop | |
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New or Used? | |
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Portable or Not-So-Portable | |
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Shopping for a Digital Piano | |
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Shopping for a Home Keyboard | |
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Making Sense of the Bells and Whistles | |
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Taking It Home and Turning It On | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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Resources for the Beginning Pianist | |
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Index | |