I perform two restaurant jobs a week, both of which are Italian, using a Bose L1 and PSR-3000. The owners at both locations don't have a clue what I'm using to produce the music, and they don't care! I keep the dancefloor packed to capacity, and at the end of the evening the cash register is overflowing. In more than 50 years of being an entertainer I've never had a club owner mention anything at all about my equipment. When I was playing an Ibanez guitar and switched to a Yamaha 12-string, the only person that took notice was ME. As it has been stated so many times in the past, it's not the number of keys--it's the player.

When I switched to an arranger keyboard many, many years ago, and at the time was playing rythm guitar with a 5-piece country band, the keyboard was 61 keys and used primarily as a piano. Everyone in the band loved the sound, and when the drummer died in a car wreck, the keyboard filled the gap. It took a bit of time for some of the guys to get the hang of playing with strict timing, but after a couple weeks everything went along just as smooth as silk.

Amazingly, the band members still get together once in a while for a jam session, and for the most part they all love the aspects of an arranger keyboard. And, I never recall them asking about the number of keys--not once.

Cheers,

Gary