I enjoyed music as my main thing from a kid on. My dad had a very good and popular dance band. I saw them perform for a dance when I was 6 years old and I was hooked. My dad who was an excellent drummer, bought me a toy drum set about the time I was in kindergarten. He showed me all the drum beats and I sat in with his band when I was in about 5th grade.

Took piano lessons from a nun in 3rd and 4th grade. That's about all I could take of her as she was quite strict and I wasn't having fun.

Started playing cornet in 5th grade. Started my first dixieland band in 7th grade. Started playing chord organ in a rock band in 8th grade. I was the trumpet soloist and section leader in concert band and dance (jazz)band.

I was a music major at the University of Wisconsin and graduated with a BA.

Worked for Getzen, the company that made trumpets for Doc Severinsen.

Started working in a full line music store which I eventually bought and operated for a number of years while still playing out as I had been for years.

Moved to Florida and worked in sales and instruction in the countries top home organ companies.

When I was working at the music store, the Baldwin FunMachine was very popular. I loved it, and continued in this home organ thing for 30 years. I was a soloist with the organ companies I worked for in Florida. One day I thought what if I ever leave this company? I won't have an instrument. I wished I could get a portable that could do what the big expensive organs could do. Along came my first PSR2000. (This was after having a KN1000, a Roland E35, a KN???, but none of these sounded like the big organs, until the PSR2000, then the Tyros, the Tyros 2, a Midjay,etc

Discovered SynthZone, psrtutorial, etc in about 2000 and the cool community of players.

Since 2005 have been teaching and playing out.

I played drums for a long time in a wedding band when I was in college. Have done solo organ in dinner clubs, etc. I have played in bands doing rock, polkas, (hehe, Wisconsin, you know. You played polkas there, or else Dixe, big band, jazz etc. I also played sax besides trumpet, drums and keyboards.

That's the most of it I guess. And oh, yes, I guess I started playing for dances in about 8th grade

Hope not too many went to sleep on this one



[This message has been edited by Scott Langholff (edited 05-17-2010).]