When I was in Junior High School, I learned how to play a few musical instruments. My specialty and first love was and still is the Alto Saxophone. Back then in my school all the girls either played the Flute or Clarinet. I was the only girl on that side of the classroom and I was very proud of that. Since the music teacher back then thought a girl should only be playing those 2 instruments and I showed him otherwise. Since then many girls have played what is considered boy instruments, such as the drums, trumpet, saxophones, trombone etc..
We had many instruments in our music class but I don't recall ever seeing a dave smith instrument. Dave Smith is an engineer and guitarist and is the one who discovered first polyphonic and microprocessor-controlled synthesizer, the Prophet 5. He has received numerous awards for his work over the years. He was known as the "Father of MIDI". Look him up you will surely learn something new.