We saw the survivors of the home organ attrition bring out new product, Ian, as the market slowly collapsed, but slower and gradually pricier as the transition to synths and then WS's progressed. Sure, at the beginning, things didn't look THAT bad. First one manufacturer, then another got out of the business, or stopped making TOTL's (I WAS commenting about the TOTL sector, primarily, Ian... the low end will always survive because of the 'toy' end of the scale), but others continued, those with the 'edge', those with the best sales teams, etc..

But gradually, even they withered until the home organ market is where it is now. And NO-ONE, back in say the mid sixties to early seventies ever thought they would be here.

I just see a fair degree of correlation, for almost the same reasons. Once a product is primarily used by the elderly, what is left but attrition? Once a product ignores current musical trends, what is left but attrition? Once the cost of a product rises, rather than falls due to sales volume, what is left other than attrition?

The low and maybe mid end will keep going, and who knows? Roland may find something new that puts them back where they were, but at the high end, I see little but stagnation and attrition. First Technics, now (apparently) Roland and Wersi (who know more about the death of the home organ than any of us!), who's next? Ketron? Then Korg, and maybe finally Yamaha?

There wasn't a Wurlitzer salesman in the sixties and seventies that didn't think like you... How could this POSSIBLY ever end?