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Are you sure? Have you ever seriously tried to buy a good piano? I have, and I couldn’t find any cheap ones (i.e. cheaper than a very good digital piano). The
by iainmerrick 8y ago
Are you sure? Have you ever seriously tried to buy a good piano?
I have, and I couldn’t find any cheap ones (i.e. cheaper than a very good digital piano).
The ones that look cheap in the small ads are generally in poor condition. The vintage ones in good condition are expensive, and new ones are expensive.
- eigenvector 8y agoThere's degrees of good. You can buy a respectable upright piano like the one I learned on for a few thousand dollars. A few years ago I was looking at a Schimmel grand for $30,000 (CAD). That's a big purchase, but I could afford it, especially for something I'd use daily for the rest of my life. A modest house in Toronto is now over $1 million, and appreciates annually as much as my entire annual net income. I will never afford that.
- aheilbut 8y agoThough it's probably not a good time to buy a house in Toronto, it's easier to employ much more leverage on a house compared to a piano.
- btrask 8y agoThat's a big part of the problem.
- iainmerrick 8y agoMaybe cars are a better comparison, since the price is in the same ballpark? I bet you could get a personal loan for a piano about as easily as you could get one for a car (from your bank, of course, not a car dealership).