Cheap pianos don't age well - quality ones do. I sold some shares (stock)in 1993 for around $8000. I bought the best PC I could get with about $3500 (a 488DX66

Cheap pianos don't age well - quality ones do. I sold some shares (stock)in 1993 for around $8000. I bought the best PC I could get with about $3500 (a 488DX66 with 8MB RAM...). I bought my wife a 30 year old Yamaha U3 upright piano for about $4000. (It was built the same year I was born). We still have the U3 (I just looked and they are worth about $7K now). I think it is overdue for a tune but it still has that beautiful near Grand piano tone. The PC and the next one and the next one I bought are all in in landfill or melted down somewhere.