DDT--

If you think that every synthesizer player can also play the piano, you are sadly deluded.

However, I suspect that any concert pianist would have no problem playing a synthesizer.    You like synthesizer "music"--for whatever reason. I don't. No problem. Herbie Hancock, etc, are fine---on the piano. I never said they were not.   If they could only play synthesizer, my opinion of them would go way down. Fortunately, that is not the case--I'm sure they were quaking in their boots at the prospect.

Synthesizers in my view have no place in "folk" music--yet they are infesting it more and more--especially Irish music.    When they put synthesizers in bluegrass, I will stop going to sessions or buying it. Fortunately Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, etc. are safely on record already. Perhaps you think a synthesizer would give them some pep. I don't. "Newgrass"--who knows what will happen? That's already not my cup of tea.

I'm a traditionalist. You aren't, it seems.   I won't be coming to any of your gigs, you may be relieved to hear.    And please don't bring a synthesizer to mine.

And we'll get on just fine.

And your reading skills seem to be lacking a bit.   All you have to do is read this thread and you realize how real musicians are under pressure from synthesizers. Our own GfS was waxing lyrical on the wonders of a synth/ electric piano which sounds as good to him as a Steinway.   So, if he had a gig where the sound of a Steinway was desired, do you think he'd have a real Steinway--with somebody who could do justice to it? Give your head a shake.

And he is just dreaming, no doubt.    Plenty of others are actually making the calculation.    If you can't see this, your head is in the sand.

And as I've said more than once, it's not just pianos.   Technology has improved--and continues to do so--such that other instruments can be imitated with amazing fidelity--and more range than the actual instrument. Perhaps you're still living in the 70's. That would explain a lot.