Having owned arranger keyboards with semi-weighted keys, and an electric piano with fully weighted keys, I wouldn't even consider anything other than the lightweight touch of the PSR-S950 and other PSR keyboards. When you play every day for a living, 3 to 4 hours a day, 5 to 7 days a week, your hands and arms will thank you for those lighter keys. And lets be real, it's not the keys that make the difference - it's the person playing those keys. Key weight, IMO, has absolutely no bearing on musicianship. Now I know this will stir the usual comments about expression, but this is just my opinion and opinions vary.

Joe Ayala, who recently passed away and was a very good friend of mine, is an incredible piano player, owned a Yamaha Baby Grand, but when he went to work, even in places that had a piano, he played his S-950, and those who were here for the Synthzone Jam a couple years ago, know just how well Joe played and sang. He was among the best I ever heard.

Cheers,

Gary

In my guitar playing days(55 years)I played acoustic guitar/mandolin. All the dynamics had to do with hand strength.

My 65 year old brother, who has played acoustic piano since he was 12, retired this year from many years of teaching. He bought a Yamaha acoustic piano for his retirement years.

The point is, using hand strength to effect dynamics on an acoustic instrument...be that of guitar or acoustic piano...those says are numbered. I still have visions of me playing bluegrass mandolin or guitar...ain't going to happen.

Dynamics can still happen on an electric instrument. My Les Paul playing buddy has known that since he was 17. He is now in his 60's and continues to make great music on a Marshall stack through a Les Paul.

My mandolin is now hanging on the wall, where is should be and I sold all the guitars.

Gary

Maybe the hardest part of giving up 'perceived' control of an instrument is letting go of control by hand strength.

I didn't start out on piano, so I don't associate dynamics with control by hand. That's not true of stringed instruments for me. It's still difficult for me to play electric guitar because my brain tells me that volume and dynamics are controlled by my hand strength.

However, with my S970 and Tyros, it only seems natural to control volume/dynamics by controlling a volume knob.