Growing up, I had a 150 year old upright (I forgot the make). It had a great sound, but a bad move between homes cracked a major support in it and it would have cost more to restore it than to buy a new one.<p>My parents finally sold it to a tuner for scrap long after I moved out.<p>In high school I was an exchange student and had a chance to play on a late 19th century &quot;grand&quot; style piano forte that was still in perfect working order and seemed like it would be good to go for quite a while. It didn&#x27;t sound quite a nice or bright as a modern piano and had a smaller keyboard, but it worked well enough.