Gary (from comment a while back in this thread) ... thanks for your comments and great photo of you at your rig! I should have added to my post that I do the "not facing the audience, let them see me play" thing when I'm doing "concert-style" events, which is over ~50% of my gigs. For those "concert" style gigs, the audience is all seated and all "facing forward" (toward me); not standing.
When I'm playing a party, dinner, dance, those sorts of things, I angle my rig so that I can face the people (often at a 45º angle rather than straight at them) ...
and when it's my band playing the party and not just me "solo", of course, all of us are facing the audience ... it's only the solo, concert-style gigs where I do the "organist" style of rig placement ...
-Jim
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