Although they can be too expensive. You can buy a guitar for $200, or you can buy one for $20,000. Is the second guitar better than the first one? Probably yes. Is it a hundred times better?? Probably no.

Age, of itself, doesn't change the value of an instrument either. A one hundred year old piece of junk is still a piece of junk. In my town there are a lot of "Antique" shops selling old stuff at high prices, to people who should know better. There is one born every minute.

Then there are collectors, who buy anything they think they can re-sell at a profit. It's legal, but it's driving up the cost of good instruments beyond the reach of many. Oh well, sigh. == Johnny