Hey Peter,

How exciting it must be to live in Sydney. I have a couple of friends here from Sydney that say San Francisco is in many ways similar to your beautiful city. Sister cities?

Wow, so many exciting new arranger keyboards coming out "just on the horizon" . . . .

Yamaha PSR9000-Pro
Technics KN6000 with piano expansion board
Technics KN7000?
Korg PA80
GEM WK8-SE

I'm getting dizzy trying to figure out which one to get for my next arranger board. If I could afford it, I'd get them all but being a working musician. . . . I can only afford one . . . at least for now.

I'm beginning to think that the possibility of a KN7000 being released in January 2001 might be 'just speculative' rumour, especially in light of the recent release of the KN6000 expansion board. I must admit though, that it does seem pretty odd that a Technics sales guy would try to convince me to hang on to my KN5000 and wait for the KN7000 (missing a great sales opportunity for him to sell me an 'in stock' KN6000). Perhaps he was having a great month and already exceeded his sales quota (yeah, right!), who knows?

I certainly am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the new KN6000 expansion board and its' new "acoustic grand piano sample" when it arrives in Australia.

Regards,

- Scott

California (SF Bay Area), USA