I learned to play the piano and then the organ as a child and used this to great advantage on stage for many years, playing for the Hammond organ company and the ARP sysnthesiser company among others. I was taught to use synthesisers by Dr Robert Moog (Credited as being the father of the music synthesiser).
Later on I played the £50,000 Yamaha GX1 synthesiser on some of its world tour before Keith Emerson used it for the famous E.L.P recording of "Fanfare For the Common Man".
These days aside from teaching, I have my own band Crisium which includes some fabulous professional musicians.