Yes, the "real piano" issue. We have had piano teachers come to our home to give lessons for the past several years. They, of course, would prefer that we have a real piano and have encouraged me to get one. I have considered buying one.

But I have hard time spending lots of money on a keyboard without a selection of voices. My kids enjoy practicing piano music using a variety of voices--it takes some of the tedium out of practice. While they are learning piano, they are also learning about synthesizers.

A Yamaha Disclavier would be a good "compromise", but they are too pricey. Anyway, dare I say this? I sort of think of pianos as musical dinosaurs.