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Heh, I too used to haul around an Ensonic TS-10. Aluminum chassie makes a *heavy* keyboard. For what? I mainly used it to sequence beats and do some synth drones. My Roland MC-307 was a great replacement, and it's about the size of a physics textbook. (our stick player Katrin has a book called Gravity that we joke about. I swear it's got it's own measurable gravity well!) Anyway, I never felt that anyone was dissiponted when I rarely touched the TS-10's keys, however I felt it was a waste. It's got a good home now, so all is well. Part of it's replacement was with a Roland GR-30/XV-5050 setup. I kept telling myself that I'd start playing the keyboard, but in reality, I never did. Why be mediorcre on yet another instrument, I ask. The guitar synth is a great patch for me. I don't have to learn another instrument and I get all the cool sounds one could imagine. Once, while lamenting on my inability to purchase a GR-30, I had an idiot guitar sales man say to me, "Well, you've got to ask yourself if you're a guitar player or a keyboard player." Why? Limitations can sometimes be useful, but if you've got the desire, the time and the hardware, why not? Mark Sottilaro ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote: > > BTW -- those little, dinky phrase samplers that are out today are a vast > improvement on the days when I had to haul a couple of old Roland > keyboard samplers around to gigs -- in addition to my guitar, rack, >pedals > and cabs. I may be an almost semi-okay guitar picker but I am a miserable > keyboardist. Put something as big as a keyboard (or 2) on stage with you > and folks actually expect you to PLAY it. When it appears that you don't > really (and only diddle with a few keys every once in a while) they are > often pretty darned disappointed. Oh well. > > Looping along . . . > > Ted Killian > > www.mp3.com/tedkillian > http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html