Who picked up a new instrument because of prog?

However, more recently, I bought a number of innovations inspired by prog:

a) Fernandes electric guitar with sustainer circuit - Both Robert Fripp and Steve Hackett play similar instruments (Les Paul copies by Burny, made in Japan).  A very, very fine instrument!!  See photo.  

b) Mellotron iPad app - I saw King Crimson use these in concert, and was blown away.  Great fun, and much less hassle than a real Mellotron!!  (they use actual Mellotron tape samples). 

c)  Allsorts - I have many recently purchased guitar sound processing toys that I am only now getting around to learning how to use.  Sadly, I am not a full-time musician, so life keeps interfering.  

I have tried flute, but without lessons I don't think I'll ever learn it. Well, I can do Rhayader that's easy enough, but very few more. 

         Actually, before getting into prog, I dabbled in playing the bass guitar, but it did not really go anywhere. Oh, well.

          Luckily, typing on one of those old style computer keyboards with the fat digits works, or I wouldn't be here...

I'm one of those that could never get a reasonable/good instruction to anything. Have 2 basses, but rarely touch them these days, and then I tried a keyboard ... with poor results ... the Midi keyboard was nice and I enjoyed fooling around with the Arturia stuff, but the real issue was being able to record it, and then add something on top of it. I was never able to get a DAW to help ... meaning I could listen to what was there and whatever else I was adding to it ... and it got frustrating, as being able to get help for it was getting strange and weird ... all of it was centered on a beat, and my starts were almost all on some keyboard sound ... which I could not exactly add anything to ... frustrating to say the least ... 

And then the crap hit ... got a small synth ... but there weren't W10 drivers for it ... and the dang $600 dollars just sits there ... unused ... totally new! Worse yet, using the USB to connect it to W10Pro on my machine never happened ... and it hurt ... I have not tried since and checked out a couple of places on how to improve this ... NOTHING!

MY great love in music, you could say is "keyboards" ... and how they can bring up images so easily ... as opposed to a beat, or instruments that go by numbers as I call it! The bass and guitar have little color in a lot of music, specially "progrock" ... in my book.

Sadly, I think I got caught in "between" the stuff not being quite compatible with computers ... and the sellers and various companies not willing to help ... as far as I can tell ... originally I started with Abelton (came with the midi keyboard) ... and I think that thing was too intense and intimidated me, and I could never find help.

Music, for me, is my dream and vision ... and will continue that way I think ... not sure I will ever get good enough to play something although I can create some nifty bits and pieces here and there, but have not been able to figure out how to add to them!

Thank you!!  I quite love it!!  I put the tremolo on myself!! 

It is the practical equivalent of my Les Paul (mine is 1973), but with sustainer circuit, I can hold a note until the internal 9 volt battery dies!!

I play stuff like this all day long!!  I especially like to pair the Fernandes with a volume-pedal, to get Fripp-like violin tones.  

Great reason!!  

I'm so busy with work and life that I haven't recorded in a while, and my old stuff needs to be digitized from tape.  Someday, I promise!!  Thanks for the vote of confidence!