We called them "portable keyboards" (Yamaha still has a "PK" division) before the name "arranger" was stuck on them.

I think Roland came up with the word "style" for the accompaniments.

Arrangers sure have come a long way from the cheesy "boom-ticky-ticky" sort of "fun" keyboard from which they started out from.

Ian
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