What's odd is that this seems to be the deal with PIANO. With guitar, I guarantee you I can go into any music store anywhere and if there are three youngsters in there, they can play circles around me. I know extremely talented guitarists who regularly are amazed. Of course, just because they can play doesn't mean they can perform. But the amount of whiz kids on guitar never ceases to amaze me.

Part of it is cost. You can buy a pretty amazing guitar for a few hundred bucks. And coolness. Kids think guitars are cool. But now Casio and Yamaha have these keyboards for a few hundred bucks. I just visited someone who bought the granddaughter a Yamaha dgx505.

It's FAR harder to play piano than guitar. Learn some power chords on guitar and get after it. Those are the ones who tick me off. Making noise. Who learn three power chords and then think they can gig. It's laughable, what with the talent in the music store.