Abacus..... ensnareyou said he had a Abacus Duo pro, fully loaded.... On Wersi's US site, they quote $19,900 for this, so maybe $16K+ with a discount?

So a T2 and a car doesn't seem that outrageous as a shopping comparison.....

A few organ manufacturers left over from the old days still haven't decided to join the 21st century, and are willing to build boutique organs at the inflated prices these things used to go for before modern keyboards decimated their sales. Back in the heyday of Hammonds, and Lowries and Wurlitzers, buyers knew, if they wanted a quality instrument, they would have to pony up $10k+ and break their backs trying to move it. But times and technology have changed.

Only a few holdouts remain with the business model of 40 years ago. Perhaps they can get a few buyers to invest capital amounts of money for something that is only incrementally better than other instruments an order of magnitude cheaper. Perhaps not.

The generation that is retiring now grew up on keyboards and synths from the seventies and eighties, with top prices being in the $3-4k range, not the$10-20k monsters their parents bought. And they have personal computers to compete with their discretionary spending, something their parents didn't. These personal computers are capable of doing most of what Wersi want to ask $16k+ for. So it's a tough sell.

Lionstracs are going to eat Wersi for lunch if they don't revise their business model. Mom and Pop are gone to greener pastures, and they are going to have to sell these things to US......