BTW

Does any one remember when persons were crying for Yamaha to include MP3 playback and audio recordings on their arrangers?

And you remember the negative response that got. ---we are not karaoke players; that is for workstations; if persons want to record they would use their DAW; it is not needed; it will make the keyboard to complicated; it will jack the price up of the keyboard--- and so on.

Yamaha now include MP3 playback and wave recording on their arrangers. Did they suffer a reduction in sales because of that? In fact, some of those same critics now see the benefit of having MP3 playback and wave recording on their arranger.

It will be the same thing with including 15 extra keys on their MOTL and TOTL arrangers. Users will then see the benefit of having 76 keys on their arranger.

Yamaha and others have been incorrectly addressing the issue as a 61 v. 76 key issue. The issue is not the number of keys but whether the keyboard remains compact, not heavy and mobile. And we all no Yamaha can make a compact, not too heavy and mobile MOTL or TOTL arranger that has 76 keys.