Those oriental keyboards are not quit made in USA. it's always in Italy or Japan. so I guess they view the middle east that way.

Mosiqar,there is another reason that I'm thinking of.when we say oriental in arabic it's "sharki" and western is "garbe".if any body asked ( in the middile east) what style you play, an arabic musician answer would say "sharki songs or gharbi songs" or "just sharki songs" and vice versa.what I'm trying to say is I think that if you have a keyboard that can play middle eastern styles and sounds then in our words it's a sharki keyboards or oriental keyboard if you were to translate it to english.make sense?