You know for all the talk about Yamaha’s product having sounds, styles and features that a lot of persons, love, how would making an arranger that would not negatively affect those persons be bad for Yamaha?
If everything on the arranger were to be the same except it has 76 keys, if everything else is so great how would 76 keys be a bad thing?

Do you remember when Yamaha arrangers did not have a sampler and audio recording? There were persons on here saying that Yamaha does not need a sampler and audio recording on their arrangers. They were saying that those are “pro” features and the “home” player does not need that.
What did Yamaha do? They included a sampler and audio recording on their newer arrangers. Did that cause a decline in their arranger sales? No it did not.
In fact, some of those person bought the arrangers with the things they said an arranger should not have. They have either seen the benefit of those features or they just don’t use it. No harm.

Same thing with 76 keys. You would either see the benefit of have 76 keys (which is more than just using it for piano mode) or you would just not use the extra 15 keys.

I would agree that having a 61 and a 76 key version of the same arranger would not be in Yamaha’s best interest.
But if the only version was a 76 key one and the sounds and styles were up to Yamaha’s quality, and the keyboard was not heavy and bigger than the T3, Yamaha would sell more than the T3.


[This message has been edited by to the genesys (edited 09-12-2010).]