> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use
The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
Very true especially in this day and age. I think by “professional” I mean someone already successful rather than an up and comer.
Musicians who landed a successful sync licensing deal, have that kind of money. Likewise producers who got points on something that took off.
Anyway, $11,000 for a musical instrument is not that much for a musical instrument even when it is a lot of hamburgers for a given musician.