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That's the hella craziest keyboard I've ever seen. When I first saw
the thing, I thought you tip it up on its left side and play it like
a squeezebox button accordion Acadian style. The short power cord
kind of limits strutting your stuff on stage however! I just can't
imagine someone seated in front of it with its lovely red painted
stand and playing it with two hands like a piano...especially
buttons meant to be played reaching down from the long side like an
accordion on a neckstrap.

No wonder Italians have such a pool of great prog keyboard players.
They first have to master something like this.