I have a shirt tail cousin who lives not far from me. He is usually doing between 3 to 5 gigs a week mostly nursing home assisted living places. About half his gigs are solo gigs .

He brings an 88 key piano to the gig when playing solo. But in addition he needs to bring a drum machine and a harmonizer. I have suggested an arranger to him more than once. However he's a little overwhelmed by all the buttons.

He's using the new 25 pound Casio keyboard and likes that quite a bit.

But still I look at all the stuff he has to haul and it takes him three times as long as me to set up.

Glad that I'm using an arranger.