John,
First of all in no way do I see you as a, (quoting you), “ a 76 year old opinionated 'Fart'”. I fact my opinion is that you say/write so much on all subjects --- you go and on and that is what is needed here because (After saying this I’m going run for protection) most of the old farts here have very little to say, they share very little; only a hand full keep sharing and keep this place on the move. So John, don’t make any changes.

Before I leave this:
Sharing can be a song you heard which reminded you of ------. Or possibly that you may be having difficulty fingering a particular chord. There are people on this forum who jump to share their knowledge; they wait in anticipation ready to help. Ya know it feels great when you help someone!!

John as to your post; nice and Boooooo. (Grin)
You wrote: “I have to agree with you that the owners of the KN7000 who are actually musicians, and not 'players' are definitely hanging on to their KN7000's” I consider a musician someone who is actively playing each week and not an occasional job. I say this because of our age an active playing schedule is no longer possible. . Visit some other forums where there are younger active musician and their conversation is different.

For me I love this forum because of the respectful gentle ways we deal with each other. If not I would say, “John you really don’t know what you’re talking about”. No, no, Joke, Joke!!!!

I owned Yamaha keyboards for eight years and found their OTS to nice but not great. The Kn7 is friendly – easy to work with. I feel the reason why we differ on this subject is that we are different; if we all had the same method of solving and working we would all own the same make keyboard.

My suggestion : When a statement is made we should back it up with criteria we use to make that statement it would help us to understand.

Wow – a lot of words, but fun to write, John C.