I love your enthusiasm, DonM and Gary. I have troubles with mine :-)

It takes me just two hours to get to Moscow where there’s a music store, but last time I was there I had some feeling like “what am I doing here?”. But in the same time people remark that Genos is indeed like refreshment, so maybe I felt like that for real reasons (maybe there wasn’t anything to get excited about). I see that Zuki is also looking for refreshment when he’s trying new Korg keyboards and it turns out to be not that simple.

As for me, somehow I regained some inspiration with my old PSR-S950. The funny thing is that now I’m using “GrandPiano” voice, which is quite old (PSR-S950 comes with a newer “ConcertGrand” voice). I thought that after playing this “GrandPiano” on PSR-3000 for several years I’m bored to death with it, but now after playing “ConcertGrand” for 5 years this dated “GrandPiano” sounds fresh again.

I guess there’re two realities we all are dealing with… One of these realities is what we call “real”, when we face some challenges, have some priorities, deal with people around us. The second reality is considered to be an idealistic one; this is our thoughts and dreams, but since that we have to deal with it all the time as well, it’s also reality, not just an optional thing. Speaking in this context of keyboards of course we should be happy with what we have. But in a dreamy way I just want something different from what is on the market right now. I want it to be sort of… “airy”… I want it to be light, with a white case, for a reasonable price. Because in this world of iPhones it is no longer seems okay to be large, heavy, with a gloomy appearance and to cost 5K. See how I’m going unreasonable!..

What I think is that we shouldn’t become prisoners of our instruments. It means, that they should be actually portable, movable, and also financially friendly. If I had to choose a keyboard right now, I’d think of PSR-S670. I prefer to believe that any resources are usable when they are manageable.

Even when it comes to playing an arranger keyboard… When you want to try an accompaniment. What people usually do not do? They do not mute all the parts. Instead, they listen to all parts altogether. It’s too much! And when all parts are on and then a player tries all the OST within 30 seconds…. This is how a keyboard starts to sound cheap, even if it’s Genos!.. But minimalism is not really popular so far. There’s some association between “to have it all” and to feel secure. Okay, enough for now! Thanks!