I never mentioned anything about actually being 'able to' play it , but rather learning about & developing an appreciation for 3rd world music genres & their unique instruments used.



Taike, good question. Several reasons: As a 4th gen asian american whose music performance specialty has been the american songbook (20's to present), I've now grown interested in exploring my ancestral musical heritage too, and perhaps find some way to integrate trad asian music with american pop. In addition, I've recently become acquainted with a musician from Iraq that's coincidentally, a Yamaha Tyros arranger keyboard player too, so he's shown me how to 'custom scale' my Tyros 4 keyboard for playing middle eastern scaled music, with custom middle eastern uvn instrument voices and custom middle eastern styles as well. I'm finding this new & fascinating. As far as far east ethnic instruments go, in addition to those included in the Tyros 4, I've recently discovered these custom uvn voices available for importing into Tyros 4 as well.



True. I'm definitely gonna to need the 'most luck' to keep this one, but if there's some way the new synthzone forum could be configured to prevent people from going back (hours later) and re-editing/changing/deleting what they originally posted just to suit their ever changing whim (say no more than 3 minutes after the original posting) , it would insure that members are accountable for what they had originally posted. Seems more than reasonable to me.