Glen the last 12 to 15 notes of a regular piano are gone, side effect of chemo. And the hearing aids that are supposed to boost what's left around there make the piano unbearable. I was going to get an 88, but....

The keyboard has a very interesting function, there are 2 buttons on the left for dropping or boosting an octave. If I use it I drop it of course, and push up an octave on the right to compensate and grab some great bass. There are tuning variations beyond 'honky tonk' which I've never found a use for. Some of the electric sounds are usable as stand ins for what I'll call harpsichord sounds the wife I and use for old gaelic music. We have about 30 pieces of stuff in that repertoire, 'Suo Gan' would maybe be a tune one might recognise, and we do have some Scots stuff a few would know.

I'd be more accepting of the deafness which they call profound, however it got replaced by a perfect fifth which I can't hear without amplification, drum sticks clicking (send me around the house for days looking for it), then some kink of cricket clicking. I'm experimenting with 'noise' in the bedroom to help me sleep.

I did keep my lower end hearing, but lost my voice.

When you get a hearing chart with frequencies marked on it it's a bit of an eye opener. I had no idea that some sounds like K and C were so high in relation, and those are the ones i can't hear from women in particular. Some men I can't understand at all. I swear all 2500$ worth of hearing aids got me is misery in the stores. I have to turn them off, grocery carts crashing, kids screaming, those scanners beeping, I hear none of that with them off, but I can hear the darn scanners at the very back of the store and if it's busy YIKES!

Anyway, the wife and I spent 2 hours last night with the new keyboard, and I'm doing a bunch of new stuff I found. I looked at a bunch of other keyboards, but i don't need it to do the salsa for me, if I want that I have the band in the box ...!

John Conley
Musica est vita