<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> David (Weiss) (incidentally my own piano is a Weissbrod!), thank you for posting your information sheet. I especially like your paragraph on why digital keyboards are no good for children; the missing "pleasure" element.  I have often explained something very like this to parents, and have quite often had parents say that when they got a real piano - even an old birdcage - the child abandoned the keyboard and is never off the piano. I am not a pianist but I have learned a few classical and other pieces, and from my own experience too, I can say that the pleasure is just MISSING from the digital keyboards, whereas sometimes on a good day if I am playing my linited repertoire well, there is real delight and pleasure in the real piano.  I can see, of course, that if I was a professional musician, able to play at a good standard, the digital keyboard could be a fantastically useful tool. Chuck, I love your method of demonstrating the difference!  Not quite so easy, perhaps, with the beat-up old birdcage. And yet, in my experience, even the beat-up old birdcage has the pleasure factor (the physical aspects that you describe so well) which the digital instrument does not. Best regards, David Boyce. </body> </html>