Changing to a new keyboard has increases my overall knowledge of keyboards --- besides it�s fun. Does this make ME play better? Not necessarily; but it does give me incentive to play more. It also releases some of my boredom. If not careful arranger keyboards can become boring.

The criteria for judging are important. Is it to please an audience? Is it to supply a need that lies in my personality? (I get bored easily) Is it because I am reading with is in our forum daily? The forum does lean towards NEW. The most important feature for ME now is the weight; it�s the first Spec. that I look at.

My opinion: A keyword can affect your playing indirectly. My Korg keyboard offers so many options that I find I am learning and adjusting more than I am playing. People who change keyboards often never get to find the true value of the keyboard. Because I stayed with Technics for many years I performed netter, recorded many more songs � I played/performed with the Kn7000 with very little thought about the keyboard itself; my attention was on my performance. I loved my Kn7000 because it was so friendly that most of my focus was on me.

Soooo, Donny I feel you hit on great subject: Who am in my relationship with keyboards, or my talent, or my ability to please the people and get more jobs? It�s very possible that I am relying less on my talent and more on the keyboard.

One more opinion: I hate midi files they take away from me. Do I used them? Yes, but not because I like them, I use them because they are needed where a keyboard runs short.

John C.