Dave, if you think three fingered chords are tricky you haven’t met my Ruthie yet. She’s taking my resourcefulness to the limit. That darn list of things she wants me to do keeps growing week by week, month by month and year by year. So far I have been able to ward off that bugger of a list. The other day old tricky Ruthie almost had me trapped. Just about cornered and with her long flowing list in hand I started sweating and thought I might be a goner. Digging deep into my bag of ideas I managed to slip out once again. Staring at that multi page list I decided to agree with her. Honey, I said, your right. It’s about time I started to whittle away on it and try to get it down to size. You deserve a lot more consideration than I have been giving you. Lets start on it right now. First time I’ve seen her speechless for any length of time for quite awhile. With a touch of wetness shining in her lovely big eyes she kind of draped her arms around my neck and gave me a big one right on my lips. After I got my composure back and with a small twinge of conscience I suggested she might first go over that list and order them in importance. That way might be a tad more logical than just doing any one at random. Good idea, she coddled. With pen and legal pad in hand, off to the desk she scooted. At lunch the next day she started to complain about the arthritis in her right hand. I wonder, she said, if we could use the computer to get my list in some kind of order. I keep changing my mind what I want done done first and the like. Maybe you could help me with some of the typing and I think with the word processor we could move things around better than all this pencil work. Great idea, babe! The word processor crashed the other day and as soon as I get it up and running again, we’ll start. OK? Well, I guess. That-a-girl! Put that old pencil away and relax. Now I ask you, is that is, or is that aint good for at least a few more months and maybe even till the golf season is over? Did it again.

Now, Dave, I would consider that a feat if I could just figger out why the guys who don’t own or play a KN keyboard always take such pleasure and are so devoted to finding something they can fault with the thing. The multitude of KN owners on and off this forum hardly ever are concerned about these things. They are mostly awed at the great versatility, ease of use and the wonderful rhythms and sound samples, not to mention the reliability of the board. You might say the standard that the others strive for. For Pete’s sake Dave, as much as this vocalizer thing has been beat to death over the years, don’t you think we all know about it? If you guys think the other boards are better than the KN’s and would never buy or play one, why all the concern over the price of them. Why should that even bother you? Heavens to Betsy, most all of us here on the technics forum, I think, would prefer to have a keyboard dedicated to making great music than to cut corners on quality of sound for a few crooners to make a few bucks with their V cords and a vocalizer. All the real good singers, Frankie, Bing, Ela and a host of others throughout the years probably never even knew how to spell vocalizer. But some, I suppose need all the help they can get. I would be willing to lay money on the fact that if technics made the best vocalizer on the market, there would be those that would complain of price, two finger chord system, weight, color, size, mike input and on and on and on. Maybe Bebop could set aside one day a month for a reminder thread. A thread devoted to things we should not forget. Such as, crappie vocalizer, too pricey, KN is obese (too heavy), wrong color, mine is better than yours or what not. Sort of a ‘get it off your chest’ thing. You know, a thread for everybody. You might call it a Vent Thread. Now you guys and gals got to admit, these are some great ideas, don’t you think?

Got Ruthie figgered but not quite sure about some others. Grandpa Doug