Hi Bryan,

You must have fairly narrow "slim" fingers I am guessing. The real trouble does not lie on the front part of the keys, ie., before you reach the black key area. The main problem lies in the black and white key area, ie., the white key area within the black key area. Those 2 extra millimeters (approximately) could mean the difference between an excellent rendition/performance or a mediocre one. I realize some Keyboardist's probably don't even play within the black/white key area but if you notice most if not all of your professional, ie., "world class" Keyboardist's do. I am sure there would be far less of them if they had to play within the constraints of Yamaha's less than true full size Keys of their portable Keyboards. PS: A 1/2 inch for 5 octaves states my point. I mean, the Keys are not made of ivory so I don't see why Yammie is penny pinching on Key size. It doesn't make sense. I am not trying to be sarcastic toward Yamaha because I enjoy my PSR 2000 as much as the next person who owns one and Yamaha makes great Keyboards no question but if nobody ever raised their voice expressing their opinions on ways to make a product better and more advantageous not only to Yamaha in possible product sales increases, ie., "a better product will sale more and stymie the competition in the process", but in better satisfaction and enjoyment for their customers. My next Keyboard besides having 76 Keys, onboard speakers, at least 128 note polyphony (preferably 256 or more), and besides a host of other must's, it must also have TRUE full size keys. If that means jumping ship, so be it, although I would like to stay with Yamaha if at all possible because of some of their other great features and quality sounds, but only if they start making true full size keys on their Arrangers.

(True full size keys is like High Speed Internet. Once you have a taste of it you never want to go back to using dial up).

Forgive my ranting but if nobody spoke up about anything the wheel would of never been invented either and we would still be living in the dark ages.

Best regards,
Mike