Spent some time looking on YouTube at stage piano videos...Nord Stage 3, Montage, Casio etc. Being a guitar player, performing with an arranger, and wishing I could learn more about piano, I just love watching these artists play 88 keys. Many build orchestral, rich sounds.

I even sent my cousin, who entertains with a Casio 88 key piano 5 times a week, a video of the new Nord Stage 3.

But as much as I could appreciate the talent it takes to play these digital pianos, I realized again these pianos could not do what an arranger does.

My cousin(digital piano) hauls a drum machine and a harmonizer with him. His piano can't do, voice wise, anywhere close to what my PA 4X can do. He often needs a bass and guitar player as well.

Thing is, when entertaining, it seems that the arranger can do everything and more that the latest and greatest stage piano can do.

Thoughts?