When you get to the video of his wife, you will know why he is so darned happy and I thought it was because of the T4. ;-)

Bill G

Hi 124,
Yamaha is actually well aware of Steven Gail's talent ,
as Mr. Gail had entered Yamaha USA's Arranger Keyboard Freestyle Performance Contest last year,
and was subsequently selected by Yamaha as one of the 7 semi- finalists.
Unfortunately the contest went awry as Yamaha later stated that the integrity of the contest had become compromised.

At that time, I had originally posted here on Synthzone, 2 of the videos that Gary provided above.

Excellent playing. He sounds better than he did in the contest video.

Very inspiring.

Thanks for posting those earlier videos, Scott, I missed them on the first go round. Shame about the contest being scuttled. Maybe Yamaha can do something about the way votes are collected/scrutinised if they run the contest again.

Suppose I do Scott now, what with the new hearing aids.