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in my case i am a (bad) keyboardist and i have a little yamaha 37-mini-keys thing with speakers and batteries that sits in my lap and even though i have other instruments and bigger keyboards i find myself constantly drawn to it because it's SO easy to just PLAY whenever

this is not the specific keyboard i have but from what i've seen i can highly recommend it: you should get a Yamaha PSS-A50 it's like 100 bucks it's a tiny little keyboard that's self-contained and fun and tons of features and also a MIDI controller

i might actually just let myself get a PSS-A50 too it's so small and cheap that i can't possibly regret it

holy shit it's actually 999 swedenbucks (moral equivalent of 99 americabucks) on thomann i can't believe it i might actually have to

in any case ALLOW YOURSELF TO CAPTURE THE INSPIRATION WHENEVER IT STRIKES YOU

if you will allow me to gush more about this thing i somehow still haven't bought, maybe this will pique some of you's interest further

(i'm really not here just to convince you to buy yamaha products though!!! there are many small convenient instruments, this is just the particular one i feel qualified to recommend if you want that experience with keyboard)

@hikari thats the abridged version of how I picked up the accordion
Except in my case it was blocket instead of thomann

@deepy this sounds like a great time!

@deepy somehow hadn't realised until now that you had been to ireland and back. i think that makes me feel some kind of affinity for you. i haven't lived in ireland, but as you probably know, i have lived in the uk

@hikari moving to Ireland was the best decision of my life and moving away is something I regret on an almost daily basis 🥲
But yeah, I think the same here, though I think you're on the more interesting route

@deepy were you forced to move back?

@hikari yeah, my contract ran out and I couldn't find another software development job in time
So I moved to Denmark with my partner at the time, where I couldn't find one either, so shortly after we moved to Sweden

Where I found one pretty quickly by applying to a 4 year old ad
So now my life is here, but my heart is elsewhere, and I'd need to get rich to change that 😛

@hikari I've got a great life here though, can't complain about anything but the weather - and that's the national sport

@hikari Oh god now I really want one. Dammit. Thomann is where I do my musical instrument shopping too.

@codefolio …and i was already planning to buy stuff from thomann this week, i need one or two more cables…

@hikari highly recommend melodicas for this. cheap and such a nice tone, plus breath control is sooo fun. though i don't actually really use mine regularly anymore unfortunately due to having roommates