Diki,

If you want the audiences to see your hands, which in reality, doesn't make a damned bit of difference, you had better cut the top off your G-70 because it blocks the view. Whoops, better not climb on a stage either - they can't see your hands from the dance floor or tables. Whoa! Better get rid of that folding display, can't see beyond that either. Forget a music rest/stand, no one can see anything through those sheets and books of sheet music.

In reality, it really doesn't make one damned bit of difference if they can see your hands. How may of us have experienced audience members walking up to us, while we're playing and singing, and have that person strike up a conversation just as if our hands were not doing a thing, and we were not singing at all. I would venture a guess that it has happened to everyone that has ever played an instrument. It happened when I played a guitar in honky-tonk bars and it happens while I'm playing the keyboard and singing my heart out. They could care less what you are doing, and that's if they're drunk or sober.

I've personally watched people walk up to a good friend sitting at a full size grand piano and singing and begin asking really stupid questions about songs, such as "Who sang that?" or "Do you know anything by Elton John?" while all the time he's singing an Elton John song and playing that piano.

So, it's totally irrelevant whether that tiny, 9-inch netbook PC blocks the keyboard player's hands or not. The audience REALLY doesn't care one way or another.

Gary