Chas, I think YOU have misunderstood what I posted, but as you have stated many times, age has a way of interfering with things.

Now, I can play a guitar, and did so for many years and made side money performing in honky-tonk bars in Baltimore. I also can play a harmonica, and at one time, owned a half dozen very expensive models. I played a mandolin in a country band, then hung it on the wall as a decorative piece and went back to playing a 12 string guitar. I was never good at a trumpet (didn't have the lip for it), and tried to master a fiddle, but never did. Never tried to play a B3, and never really wanted to after watching those bands wrestle those things on to the stage.

For me, when I purchased my very first arranger keyboard, I considered it an instrument, a very complex instrument. I never considered them a crutch or a toy or treated them as such. Throughout the many decades I have played music, I have always striven to improve my playing skills and ability. It made no difference which instrument I was playing at the time. That is my point entirely, Chas.

Gary (The old fart!)