i know several excellent jazz pianists who play substandard keyboards and amps. of course if you sat them down in a room of kb's, they would pick one they liked better..but they don't want to be bothered keeping up w/technology. they play what they got a deal on years ago and that's that. it's a lot like most people who invest in a stereo and that's that for the next 20 years. and there are those "audiophiles" who are constantly searching, searching, searching for better components (and who listen so critically for every nuance it's hard to understand how they can just relax and enjoy the music. I was playing sax at a jam where the kb player had an old old Yammie kb set to piano sound that was nowhere near anything you can get today, yet he was a great player so nobody cared--he was surprised when he heard i played some kb and asked me to sit in..i begged off and told him i was just a synth guy, not a pianist-- he said "oh yeah synths are cool, i've played a DX7 every now and then." to him, synth means DX7!!! guys like him never keep up with the latest..they don't care about it (for good or bad) the live in another world from most of us here. ------------------ Miami Mo

[This message has been edited by keysvocalssax (edited 10-23-2007).]