Many of you say: go to your local music store and compare all these keyboards. Before I purchased my KN-6500, I wanted to look at a Yamaha-9000. I live in Michigan, a large midwestern state, with many large cities. I tried all the Organ, Keyboard stores, I could visit and return in one day. Six of these cities were over 100,000 population. Each town had Yahama Franchised Dealors, but not one of them STOCKED the 9000 or the 9000 pro. And many had never heard of Ketron or GEM. I e-mailed Yamaha for help in disclosing a STOCKING DEALOR in my state, and their answer was: "any dealor could order one in for my inspection of the instrument, and if not sold, could return it." I'm sure you understand it is not always easy to play and compare these many keyboards, and that calls for a difficult decision, of what and where to purchase. Personally, now that I have had my 6500 for a year, I'm really glad it turned out this way. Have a great 4th. ARJ