>If your priorities are composing software, practicing with headphones, etc., then the new digitals can be fantastic. William R. Monroe< Hi Bill - I understand fully the strong points of digital instruments. When my youngest daughter was a music major at Iowa State, moving each year from dorm room to dorm room, I swallowed my pride and went with her to a store in Des Moines and helped her pick out a nice Roland electric keyboard. It did what she needed - it would record what she played for play-back. She could play it with her head phones on. It had all the voices she needed for composition, etc., etc. Now, however, she's married, has twin one-year olds and a full-time job, and when she does take a break at the end of the day to sit down to play, it's on the restored Gulbransen-Dickenson upright I gave to her. The Roland is in an upstairs room with a cover over it and stacks of boxes on top that testify to the fact that it is never played. Which for me, is very satisfying. Best wishes, Chuck