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Traditional bluebook values for items like cars are easier to track because a car has a. Have an old piano and are wondering about its value. Kawai digital pianos are the only instruments with alfred lesson songs built into them. Organ blue book 19851986 i must second zeuslesabres comment. This is a list current used piano prices of these models made after 1985.
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