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Title: Beautiful but useless
Review: This is a gorgeous, glossy tome, easily nice enough to be a coffee table book. I was very impressed when I picked it up and read about the history of the piano and studied the detailed diagrams of how a piano's mechanisms work.Too bad I didn't stop there. I tried to actually learn to play piano using this book. I didn't get more than a few pages into that part before becoming hopelessly lost.I'm a rank beginner, so your experience might be better if you are already a skilled pianist.For a beginner, the Alfred Adult All-In-One has a much better pacing, better explanation of topics, and more pleasing choices of material. "The Complete Piano Player, Omnibus Edition" also looks pretty good. Just pass on this one, unless you want a coffee table book or are already an advanced piano player.
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