I am beginning to wonder if some of you good musicians aren't being too defensive. The comments that the keyboard seems to be playing itself may be less of a denigration of your skills than a hope that they (the unskilled) could make music with an arranger keyboard. This type of thinking should be encouraged, first of all, because it is true, and second, it might sell more arranger keyboards, which means more attention to the arranger market by keyboard manufacturers.

The fact is that someone with no musical ability or skills can play a good accompaniment on an arranger keyboard with less than an hour of training. (Just hit C, F, G, in that order, changing chords everytime that blinking light (tempo indicator) indicates a new measure. But once that is accomplished, the neophyte will soon realize how much more the skilled keyboardist can do with an arranger keyboard. So next time someone says your keyboard seems to play itself, encourage them to get their own. Just an opinion.