Many years ago, I played stacked keyboards, mainly because I had the ungodly fear that one might crap out in the middle of a job, something that never happened with any keyboard I've owned. I did that for about four years, and in order to see the audience I had to position the keyboards like you would position a piano to play to an audience. The audience was always to my left side, and they could see me playing, which was nice, but after a couple hours of being a bit contorted, I was in real pain.

Finally, I said to Hell with this, went to a single keyboard setup and never looked back. It was so nice to be able to sit behind the keyboard and see the audience, they could see me, no longer had to sit sideways, I was comfortable. One of the best days was when Donny Pesce talked me into using a laptop PC for the lyrics. Thought I'd died and went to heaven. No longer had to haul 8 3-inch loose leaf binder with me and set up a separate music stand. Life got a lot easier.

Now, if you intend to use one keyboard, and have your wife use the other, well, that's a different story, but keep in mind that setup times will be twice as long as setting up a single keyboard.

All the best,

Gary