So what you’re saying Bill is that arranger keyboards are bought mainly by old people?

Do you have any numbers to support that?

Because my understanding is that the vast majority of arranger keyboards that are purchased are bought for European and Middle Eastern market as well as China Japan et cetera and the vast majority of those customers are not old people. You may be expressing your views about high-end arranger keyboards bought in the UK or America. But that is not true of the rest of the world.

Secondly the majority of arranger keyboards that are purchased are not the high-end tyros/Genos or Korg P a 4x. That cost multiple thousands of pounds /euros/dollars .

In fact the most commonly bought arranger keyboards are the low to middle price range and type such as the portable keyboard Casio or PSR Yamaha which are mainly bought by parents for their children. Also the vast majority of keyboards at most schools in the United Kingdom that teach music are arranger keyboards. That is likely to be true in most countries because of their low cost point and multiple features/applications .

So I respectfully challenge your first argument

But for arguments sake, let’s just say your first srgument is true in that most arrangers are bought by old fogies. You say as the older folk die so will arranger keyboards. But I bought my first Arranger keyboard when I was 20 . Which is not an old it was a Casio . And I moved upwards as affordability became less of an issue .

Considering I am nearly 50 now that’s a good run for this type of instrument and it’s still going strong . But I have noticed the strangest thing bill. The styles that were on my original Casio keyboard and that I thought were cutting edge and up-to-date , are I considered old now compared to the latest iteration from Korg and Yamaha. Quite astonishingly, these manufacturers are producing styles commensurate with the music of today as well as the music of the past.

This is because there is a generation behind me who 20 years from now will consider the music off today as being music of the era/generation but also have a eye to the music of their current period .

You use the word “evolution“ but evolution in this sense merely means change over time . It does not mean the instrument has died but that it has adapted to the environment that it has to exist in .

Have arranger keyboard involved? Well the answer has to be resoundingly yes! And it will continue to evolve.

How long it will continue in its current form is anyone’s guess but if we are going to discuss the death of the arranger sensibly ,then we need to agree on some kind of definition of what dying is as by your definition Bill everything is dying ! Which of course must be true .