Willum, I really like singers, I really do. I admire someone with a good voice and especially those who know how to use it well. I really do. With that said I hope you can’t sing a lick. I mean it, not to be mean but so I can get an opinion of a non singer. The only way to really get to know someone is to live with them for awhile. And so it is with keyboards. After you have had her for awhile I would be very much interested in your opinion of your new music maker. How is she built. How does she sound when you play with her. Which of the two sounds like the real thing, like a live band? Which is easier to use in a live performance. I had a rolands once because I liked the piano on the thing. After I had it for awhile and learned how to use the thing I had a brainstorm. At that time I also had my KN5000. About six of us guys would meet at each others house every so often to shoot the boloney and play music. We each would try to conjure up something of interest for the guys when it was our turn for the get together. I had just read an article on evaluating things and the methods used. One method was the blind test. Brainstorm, ya, that’s it. Took my 5 and recorded a song I was going to play at the dinner dance gig coming up. Done the same on the rolands. Talking to myself, as I do frequently, I said, why not? So went into the closet and dug out the old 1000 and did the same, picking out a similar fox trot style and recorded it. Double the plot, I mused, and done the same with a waltz. The other guy I talk with in my brain said, it ain’t fair. Ain’t fair? Ya, ain’t fair! Ok, OK and dug out my mackie mixer and my pair of Yamaha MS 60’s and rigged it all up. Can’t fault the different speakers or amps, but sure was a lot of work. After Ruthie and me rigged up one of her sheets in front of the whole mess we declared success and agreed we were ready. Let’s party. Just like those guys, first thing out of their mouth when coming in was a comment on our new decorating scheme. Shut up, sit down and don’t touch. Whats a matter, we going to play spooks or something? Ruthie, watch em, I’m gona get some drinks. After everybody flushed their tonsils I said we’re going to play a new game, ‘Which One’. Which one? You ain’t even given us a choice yet. All right, all right the only thing needed to play ‘Which One’ is your ears, so relax. I got a big dinner dance gig coming up. I have to choose one out of three to play the thing. If you were one of those at the dance which would you choose to listen to. I will now go under one of Ruthies’ sheets, which I am used to doing, and play the same song on each board. Here goes. Never heard these guys be so quiet for such a long time. Emerging, I said, Well......? OK OK, interesting, can you play a different style. Disappearing again I lit off the waltzes. After another period of silence I said, SOooo.....? Number two board won on both styles. With great flair, Ruthie and me then rolled up her lilly white sheet exposing the three beauties. So, the one with the biggest screen sitting in the middle, is the one I played the dinner dance with. Shhhhh.....I was going to use it anyway.

So Willum, this is the kind of evaluation I am confident you can and will give. I will be waiting with bated, and hopefully not bad smelling, breath. Boy, I hope your not a singer.

Grandpa Doug