Is a keyboard not an instrument then? After all you're just pressing buttons and it shares a lot of similarities to a synthesizer. i think what he means is that instaments take skill to lern how to play even simple songs and a sythisizer is... well.... "look at me i make music by pressing simple buttons. and: synthisizer :An electronic apparatus with a keyboard capable of duplicating the sounds of many musical instruments, popular among Post-Modernist composers and musicians and why has this forum turned into a full out war between the awesome punk music and the rap music punk would win easily]