I can't imagine a board meeting where a potential market is deliberately ignored, simply because they failed at it once before with a COMPLETELY different type of attack..

The 9000Pro was a disaster even in a 61 form. It's failure was due entirely to the OS and hardware, and had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the number of keys on the damn thing..

If Yamaha can't se beyond this obvious fact, it is certainly cause to doubt their so-called intelligence!

All I'm asking for is a 76 version of what is already a best seller... I don't want a 'Pro' keyboard from Yamaha with vast changes from the T2 or S900. Far too much opportunity for them to screw it up, like they did before (they obviously have no idea what a 'pro' arranger is!)..! I simply want a 76 S900, at maybe just over the $2000 mark (maybe $500 more than the 61) with absolutely nothing else changed. All they would have to do is put the exact same electronics in a larger case with a cheap 76 action (hard to expect a good one from Yamaha at that price, even if their competition somehow manages it ).

This is as easy as it gets... Yamaha could easily do this with only a fraction of the costs of developing an entirely new 'pro' arranger, which is what they tried with the 9000Pro. So, they would not even be repeating the same mistake. A 76 of an existing arranger is a totally different thing than a ground-up brand new untested arranger.

I simply don't understand why so few see it this way, and are constantly trotting out the poor old 9000Pro as some kind of 'reason' they don't produce this keyboard...

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 08-17-2008).]