Personally I’m often dissatisfied with keyboards. I came up with some explanations, although they contradict to each other.

One of them is so called “deficiency of deficiency”. It means that after reaching a decent level of equipment, like PSR-S970, there’s not much to look forward. Like this story is told. This is a today’s arranger keyboard, you can find some additions to it in other models, but you already got the picture.

Another explanation is rather opposite to the first one. Sometimes I blame keyboards that they don’t evolve fast enough. In recent years we got tablets and smartphones as cheap as $100 per unit and they are as powerful as personal computers; but when it comes to keyboards we still pay big bucks and, honestly, there’s still a lot of rather dated stuff inside.

And the third reason I came up with is that playing a keyboard needs a purpose; to play for people or to make recordings; or maybe to learn music. Not just to be happy by owning an item. When there’s a purpose, it’s easier to compromise with imperfection, because it’s no longer about a keyboard itself, it’s about a task.

Well, I can add one more reason, it is that it’s okay to be dissatisfied with no reason at all. Maybe it’s a call to think about some stuff, to have a walk of a trip, to meet some people or to find some other activity. Personally I try to be outside as much as I can, but I should mention that I live in a city and there’s no much room in a flat and there’re a lot of streets to walk on.