Why didn’t anyone tell me…

We have a quite good Roland digital piano. Or maybe had is a better description. The piano remains, but the sound does not. We got it from Craigslist a while back (measured in years), and it behaved nicely. Last fall (I think) it just stopped turning on. We did manage to find a local shop that was willing to do the repair, found the parts, and put it back together. But here we are some months later and it’s gone busted in a new way – power but no go. Some days I miss wood, leather, cast iron, and hard white and black plastic.
Those that know me will know that I don’t always take this view. Frequently I’m the champion of the newest API, the latest way to take a mountain of paper and turn it into an indexed hard drive of text-tagged PDF files, blah blah blah, but sometimes, stuff just doesn’t work.
In my mind, I have the same opinion of televisions. I know the new flat panels are (were?) more power efficient, lighter, easier to transport, etc., but my dad’s CRT at age maybe 20 is still functional out there somewhere. Anyone here think the backlights, colors, etc. on their TV are going to last that long? I just don’t believe it yet.
Some days I’m glad that my shoestrings are still made of silk and that my shoes are still made of leather. Maybe not everything needs changing.
Welll, off to load a 250 lb. piano into the back of my car. Which just rolled 150,000 miles today, by the way.