I feel your pain. As a guitarist, it is not unusual to find outstanding used instrumets for aroud the $300 price point, and even brand new ones.

As a keyboard player you have to pretty much double that before you walk out the door or log on to search. I guess part of it is the amount of material that goes into making it. It doesn't take all that much to make a solidbody guitar, just some wire and wood. A keyboard has a lot more moving parts that have to work perfectly for years to come. Also it's difficult to get in there to fix a broken part so the components are a much higher spec, unlike some of the above mentioned new guitars. Many people that buy these end up upgrading most or all of the components.

My guess is, if one of the bigs did come out with a fully weighted board in that price range, it might attract some buzz at first, but it would't be around for long. Just my .02, YMMV

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