Hiya Keith
We better keep this subject going as it's collected a 'flame' as a popular subject...
And we better come clean and admit that we both help run the same Technics Keyboard Club in North Wiltshire in England, as you say mostly populated by elderly gentlemen every fortnight.
Now I wonder if Technics (who surely read this stuff) would be interested in a cost free marketing experiment to see whether we/they can really interest younger folk to learn to play the KN2600 model if as you say it is designed with a younger audience in mind.
Please Technics - if you are listening in - e-mail me and we'll take it from there...Keith and I live not far from your Berkshire HQ.
Roger M