Gary, even if every thing you say is true, it is so NOT THE POINT. Every time someone tries to make a valid point about arranger keyboards, some devotee' will perceive it as some kind of slight and immediately go to defcon 1 and rattle off the same old irrelevant BS. Even when the OMB, 'sketch pad', home amusement exceptions are noted, it seems to make scant difference. Out come the sabers (in the form of unrelated arguments). You don't need to be a great driver to make a living driving for Uber or Lyft but you do to compete in Formula One. What does job frequency or your saving habits have to do with anything Bill or I said? It just means that you're a responsible family man who was able to maximize a minimal skill set with the help of a semi-automatic keyboard. It does NOT de-legitimize anything Bill or I said in our last post.

Hey, my thing is organs, specifically Hammond organs or their digital clones. Everybody doesn't share my love of organs; truth is, I literally can't stand the sound of theatre organs and/or pipe organs; they grate on my nerves the same way accordions and bagpipes do. So I guess you could say I'm more a fan of the JAZZ organ/rock organ sound rather than the physical instrument. Whatever. No need to take every observation about arrangers (especially the true ones) as arranger bashing. Also, the old "why are on this forum?" thing is getting kind of old as well. I can't speak for Bill but for me, after all these years, there are people on this forum that I genuinely like and enjoy communicating with AND...I OWN THREE (3) ARRANGERS (and two more in storage).

chas