Aside from classical music performed by symphony orchestras where strings dominate (slight edge in female players), I would guess from my own half-century of experience in music, that female instrumentalist make up no more than 2% of professional musicians working in 'pop' music. Probably no more than 50% of that number are keyboard players and of that number, only 10% (I'm being generous here) play arranger keyboards. Using those figures, we would need 1000 active male posters to produce one single female poster. Add to that the fact that the average female poster would never involve themselves in most of the bulls**t that permeates this board, and it's a wonder we see any female posters at all. Just my take on it. Is that on-topic, Bill?

chas