You know Dave, we all have reasons why we do things. Everyone has different needs in their life. These needs temper our reasoning therefore affect the reason for our actions. I have never met you but feel I understand your reasoning when you decide to use the type of keyboard you use. Also you have made it clear the technique you use to accompany your singing. Very nice results, I must say. However, cut your throat and what’s left? Only the board used to accompany the main part of your act. The determining factors for choosing the board you have are no longer completely valid. You state you are a one or two finger left hand chord player and are not willing to change. Now that the main God given part of your performance is gone and you want to play music using a keyboard as the sole source of sound and performance, I would bet you would be out evaluating them all again. In other words the reason for purchase would change. Ease of operation, versatility, quality of sound, quantity of sounds and rhythms, reliability, and on and on. I do not and do I know anyone of my acquaintances who have purchased their KN’s because of loyalty to technics. Loyalty? For what? Because they take my money? Because they cost a tad more than most others? I bought mine because of the reasons I stated above. I think by reading all the posts on this forum it is apparent most all the others are of the same reasoning. I have mine, as must of us do, because we consider it a very fine musical instrument sitting on the cutting edge of technology. Top of the heap for making authentic music. Designed to do just that and do it with ease and reliability. On the other forum there are those who buy because of cost. Buy because of weight. Buy because of color, LED lights, gadgets, loyalty, of what others think and on and on and on? Childness, to say the least. If your singing is the product, then use the accessories needed to present it. Accessories that you are capable of using with the ability you posses. Dave, your right. Most all of us are not singers. Most of us are instrumentalists of one kind or another. That link you think is missing is not missing for us. You think our choice of boards is as good as any other but no better. You salute our continued enthusiasm and seem to not understand why. We express emotions and our artistry through our fingers and you through your voice. The keyboard for you is only a backing for the main attraction. Not to take the spotlight off of you. For us the keyboard is our voice. Not being blessed with a naturally gifted voice we must purchase one. After experimenting and evaluating different ones we have chosen the best for our type of singing. Yes, we are very enthusiastic. We had to buy what for you was a gift. Our ears are very pleased with what we hear and the people we play for, confirm this. What other keyboard is so well received that a book has been written on ‘Getting the most from your KN7000’. What other forum has a man so knowledgeable and so willing to share it, than we have. Is it no wonder we bubble over with enthusiastic words of delight? When people have shelled out upwards of thirty to forty G’s for their organs and then drop another three to buy a KN7000 because it sounds better than their organ, WHY? There must be something there to trigger their enthusiasm. I can only hope you will have a little better understanding. Our voice is not like your voice. When people buy us they buy a little different product produced in a little different manner. Dave, your posts always stimulate the brain. As the book of books says, ‘My people are parishing for a lack of understanding’. I hope understanding has increased for the good of these forums and for all of us. Sometimes not quite understanding what one says and thinks is like that man who in a twinkle of an eye was eighty years old. So Dave and the rest of you guys, open up the old brain and let some of the wisdom flow out. Good for understanding and then we can all play a better song and be more in tune.

Grandpa Doug