The Blue Book of Pianos website contains an entire book’s worth of high-quality, professional and well-researched information at no charge.

Keep in mind that the E-book of Pianos is exclusively a (very useful) listing of piano prices. The e-book is objective, too, in that it compiles actual selling prices for used pianos of most makes and models, so you can easily see the price range within which your model typically sells. The online Blue Book of Pianos has a wealth of information about used pianos, and their E-book of Pianos contains price lists for most every brand on the market. That said, a blue book of pianos is a highly useful starting point, and I’m happy to recommend it here. This will cost about as much as a tuning, and it may even end up saving you thousands. If you’re seriously considering investing a lot of money in a used piano, it’s imperative that a qualified piano technician perform a professional piano appraisal in advance. Although more accurate than a blue book’s general information, it is by no means the whole story when it comes to determining piano value. Similarly, there are online services that offer piano appraisal given basic information about your piano. It is vital to understand that piano values are determined by many factors, and a blue book can by its nature only give you a ballpark figure. A blue book of pianos is a compilation of prices of new and used pianos, which can be used to give you an estimate of a piano’s value. Many people looking to buy or sell a seek to appraise its value by means of a so-called “blue book” of pianos.

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