One other thought...
My brother, plus two close friends have made a good share of their living playing acoustic pianos. They seem to have very little interest in arrangers...don't see them as the real thing. I don't think I could give them an arranger if I tried.
And, they could care less what arranger functions a piano has.
Well....
To me my setup is
- piano
- synthesizer
- organ
- arranger
- sequencer
- drum computer
All united in 2 instruments...
I am a home player
And i use them to have fun..
To play my music...
But then maybe if i had the skills of a professionall classical piano players, i would have a different opinion
Even for pro players arrangers have some use, however not many realise how they can turn them into anything usefull.. Not so much for playing live, but for composing and trying out new musicall ideas arrangers are very usefull...