Rikki,

You may be on track here. Young people seem to want everything faster and work less to achieve their goals. Music and mastering a keyboard requires a lot of hard work and dedication--something most young people I've met during the past decade are just not willing to do. Granted, there are exceptions, but by and large, the younger generation, at least in this part of the world, wants everything now, they want it fast and they want it for free. Accomplished musicians will eventually be somewhat rare. Schools are cutting out art and music programs to save money, but they dump lots of hard-earned dollars into teaching kids how to use a computer. Most of the high-school kids here cannot perform simple math tasks without the aid of a computer or caluculator. Imagine, they cannot add, subtract, multiply or divide simple numbers without the aid of electronics. Music seems to be going in the same direction. Kinda' makes me glad I'm old.

Gary