When your 6’ under, in an urn, or your remains have been scattered.

If none of the above, just get stuck in and enjoy yourself.

Bill

Wow what a fantastic schedule, and what stuff.

Bernie would you mind explaining your number of keyboard and computers to my wife it might help. (grin)

John C.

I am 87 and I believe that "Age is ust a number" I play each
and everyday. I have a Pa4X, a Ketron SD7 and will own the
next Yamaha keyboard when it's available. It keeps my brain
workin and my fingers nimble. Enjoy your music, Lloyd

I must be dying because I'm tired of learning stuff.
I play only two or three nights a week now, and learn a new song only when a customer requests one I don't know and that I think I can do o.k. Most weeks I don't take the kb out of the bag from Saturday night to Friday evening.
Weekdays I have to decide whether to play golf or go fishing.
I have four or five guitars that I don't play. One, thanks to Captain Russ, I keep handy so that if I feel inspired about something or the grandson wants to jam a little, it's right there.
There are hundreds of things my PA4X will do that I don't get into. I mainly just play styles and sing songs, and play whatever my right hand decides to do. Main mistake is that I tend to overplay sometimes. I suppose that is for my own enjoyment.
Life is good! I'm not complaining.

Tx all. Great responses.

Guess when I sit down to a keyboard, I feel like a kid again. Even my wife says it's good for my grey haired brain.

I have several guitars that don't get played anymore. But I played them pretty regularly for 50 years...just don't have the drive anymore.

Don't know that I'll take the plunge on the SK1. I've already got three keyboards and the SK1 wouldn't work live for me unless I got into some sort of combo.

This is an interesting thread to read.

I have heard that when the brain stops working, so does the rest of you.

About 20 years ago I moved to North Florida to a nice lakefront home with beautiful natural surroundings. I spent the first year improving my property, but then what. I had almost no place to play, and became tired of practicing for what. I was in a slump. My wife really preferred civilization, so we sold the house and moved back to South Florida. Being new to the area, I lined up a nursing home, and built clientell from there.

For me, I have to anticipate playing someplace, however simple. I begin to get my songs together that are appropriate, and tell myself that my image is worth putting out my best effort.

This is how I avoid lethargy and boredom. If that starts to wear off, I learn another keyboard.
Bernie

Have you played with the drawbars on the PA4x yet? It's a darn good simulation of the organ your friend has. Nothing beats the real thing, but most of the clones are about head to head.

Hi,
I think it's true.
Sort of happened to me a couple of years ago.
Hubby's mum passed away. 6 months later my dad passed away. Basically what to do with my mum, she was left with a house that was slowly crumbling around her 600 miles away. Anyway, all sorted out and is happily living in a retirement village.
Meanwhile I all but talked hubby into moving into a retirement village, didn't want to end up in the same situation as mum if something happened to hubby.
Thank goodness our house didn't sell immediately , and had time to withdraw it from sale.
He would have died of boredom without his garden to work on.
I'd given up my keyboards and went back to making my teddybears. Not great stimulation for the brain. Too much time to ponder about NOTHING.

A few weeks ago decided to check back into Synthzone.
New keyboard. Caught up with old friends. Back to feeling like my old self again.
The old brain is active again. Taking a tad longer to work out some of the newer functions, but never too late to learn

Right on Rikki. It's use it or lose it.