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I have both a grand piano (Steinway AA, ca. 1893) and a two-manual harpsichord (after Taskin, 1769). I have never owned an electric keyboard.

We have a Yamaha Clavinova and a cheap kids' keyboard that makes oodles of whacky sounds. I am looking to add an electronic drum set, various horns, and a guitar or two. My kids love picking something new up and just tinkling around.

I have a Young Chang PG-150 (4'11 1/2"), Polished Ebony baby grand, that I bought about three years ago. I also have a Korg M1 synth and a Kurzweil MicroPiano module.

I have a virtual Bosendorfer Imperial grand piano that permits me to indulge my keyboard moments without disturbing my wife or son (or the folks in the hotel room next door when I travel for business). My notebook PC-based sampling-synthesizer Bosendorfer is predicated upon the Bardstown Audio Bosendorfer Imperial Grand (24-bit, massively multi-sampled, multi-gigabyte) sampled piano, running via the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler, the output needs handled quite ably by the Echo Audio Indigo high-resolution audio I/O PCMCIA card, all driven by a Kurzweil weighted-action MIDI keyboard controller (I use a lightweight Studio-Logic USB MIDI controller when I'm on-the-road). While my Etymotic in-ear headphones are quite good at rendering my virtual Bosendorfer when I need to maintain peace and quiet for others, it's always a thrill to plug-in to the main audio system!

If master pianist Artur Rubenstein wouldn't play it, neither will I.

My kids have a piano, a keyboard, and a bass guitar—at least the saxophone (phoooAT!) and the violin (screeech) went back.

Being the tuba fanatic that I am, I would like to know how many of Stereophile's readers actually have a tuba in their homes. Yeah, I desperately wanna know. Seriously, what is the point? I'd be able to understand his point if Mr.Marks had asked how many of us could play a musical instrument, but why just the keyboard? And he just wants to know if we have it in our homes, he is not interested in whether we can play it or not. My apartment-mate has a piano in her room, but neither she, nor anybody else in the apartment can play the thing. It looks good in her room. It occupies a huge place, though.

I recently purchased a wonderful electric piano made by Kawai. Real pianos are too big and (more inportantly) too expensive for my condo. It was really a wedding present for my wife, but now that it's in our home, I'm learning to play. (I have played the trumpet for many years, as well.)

My wife has a electric keyboard, can play it with one hand! Doesn't get much use. Maybe someday (like so many other things).

My teenage daughter plays our piano—a rather nice-sounding Baldwin full-action console—and is agitating for me to replace it with a grand piano.

I actually have two uprights and an electric for MIDI hookup to my computer.

The piano is indeed the holy grail of all musical production.

Okay, I have an electric piano (as opposed to a keyboard). It's really a social thing. At almost every party, there will be someone who plays. It's social in the way that a big home theater, or Xbox is not. Return to a simpler time? Maybe.

I also have three organs! Two electric and one pipe.

Have a great Krakauer upright piano, but nobody in the family plays it. The only time we get to hear it is when the technician comes once a year to tune it.

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A home is not a home without a keyboard, guitar, and a didge.

Kawai UST-7 studio and a Kawai KG2 grand.

Just a cheapie, for fun holiday picking. I played alto sax (Selmer Mark IV, the best ever made) for fun and money as a younger man.

Have both, can't play either! One day I'll get round to starting to learn.

I am a pianist and public school music teacher, so I couldn't live without it!

It's a grand piano. My wife plays and I love to look at it.

My wife and I bought a (high-end full 88 key) Technics digital piano about six years ago. It's great! She uses it as a piano and I can feed the MIDI out into a computer and re-create all kinds of electronic instruments.

I have been toying with the idea of an electronic keyboard for the purpose of hooking it to my Mac for digital recording.

The "electronic keyboard" is a bent circuit device with input buttons (see www.anti-theory.com) and the piano is just a piano that is not well played by us.