Actually, it should be the other way around. Manufacturers will keep selling at the cost of your arm and leg as long as people keep buying. A friend of mine used to play a MIDI accordion. A brand new one would be around $20,000. He says it is a Rolls Royce of midi accordions. You can do the same and a lot more and better sounds if you just get a MIDI foot controller and a good sound module. I've noticed that accordion players are so used to paying top dollars that they take it for granted. I have an Italian friend whose father was an accordion dealer in SF years ago. He used to say that accordion dealers priced themselves out of business. I bought all my Roland digital accordions at cost from a dealer friend. Still, I couldn't help but thinking that if I paid the same amount, I would get by far a lot more keyboard.

Let me be quick to point out that for example a Kronos for 3 to 4 grand is worth it. You do get what you pay for, but in many other cases, you get a lot less than what you pay for. You are paying for the hype. That is insulting besides the money issue.