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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 | |