Customer Reviews

2008-2009 Annual Supplement to The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano

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Great book if you are shopping for a Piano. It gives you a wealth of information regarding pianos, piano manufacturers and the whole industry. This is the supplement to The Piano Book - so it has the updates on manufacturer reviews (lots of changes in the last 5 years due to Asian manufacturing, company mergers, and ones that are no longer in bus).

Once I got my copy of the piano, I could hardly put it down. Being a piano enthusiast (and pianist) all my life, I was interested in the history of all the different piano manufacturers and how they rated one against the other. This book definitely does that and more.

Also, having played a lot of different pianos (love those large grands, ha) during my life, and now owning both Yamaha C5 and Kawai KG5 grands, this book not only confirms my prior purchases; but also opens up many possibilities for future ownership of pianos from different manufacturers.

As for the yearly supplements, these are a must, especialy in this climate of every changing situations with the different piano manufactureres, e.g. Baldwin, Chinese pianos, etc.

Way to go, Larry Fine. We piano players salute you.

Very well written and complete. It includes the details that most of us not working in the piano field need in order to make a good decision.

a necessary addendum to Larry Fine's Piano Book. However, this Supplement is now over two years old. A look at the book's website reveals none of the Consumer Reports style information (cost, etc) we get from the Supplement. Does anyone know if a new one is contemplated? Or is this another info-artefact that has been Internetted out of existence?

Once again, Larry Fine updates his extremely useful Piano Book. The basic information about pianos, piano makers, piano buying, etc. is all in "The Piano Book", and every couple of years he puts out a supplement. That way we can know what's improving and what to look out for. Thanks, Larry!