I was pleasantly surprised to see and play A Yamaha S900 and a Korg PA800 today. Where? At Sam Ash in Margate, Florida.

And yes you are right � The salespeople have not the slightest idea what these keyboards are capable of doing. Aaaaaaaaah!

A brief assessment based on playing in a live band most of my life.

1-I own a PSR3000 � I know and can hear the difference in the S900, it�s a good keyboard. I love getting a new keyboard it comes with a lot of excitement and exploring, but I could find enough in the S900 to warrant trading up.

2-The PA800 was about $1,100 more than the S900 so the comparison was not very fair. What I heard I liked very much, from what I heard I felt there was at least a $1,100 difference. Key feel is solid, rounder sounding instruments and great drums. Then I search for the memory registrations. On Yamaha and Technics keyboards the registrations are right up front, I could not find any on PA800.

I asked the salesmen � aaaaaaah. He bent at the waist staring at the keyboard with a blank look on his face � he had no clue.

Does Korg save set-ups in a different manner? How does Korg save a selected instrument, tempo, volume and a style for future use? What does performance do?

Confused John C.