"Although I haven't been in a lot of churches, all the ones I HAVE been in had acoustic pianos. Why not use that?"

1. I am not a piano player and actually dont like the piano action
2. The degree of tuning varies from piano to piano and the sound will vary from room to room, or hall to hall.

Next time you go to a church, stay a while and play an acoustic piano. I gaurantee that there will be several keys out of tune or broken. Churches dont spend a lot of money on maintaining their musical equipment. When i bring my keyboard, there are no nasty surprises for me when i get to the venue. Its always best to perform on the day on the instrument you rehearsed on.

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Bill (Semi-live), I'll try to simplify the title in my next post. Sorry it caused you so much emotional upset.

chas