great idea, love the concept . Put some built in speakers and i would certainly be a potential customer......

But you mustb agree there is some considerable finacial risk involved to yamaha even if we cant agree if that risk is i the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions. So to make your proposition palatable to yamaha you need to show hem the potential market.

show yamaha how many potential buyers you forsee actually purchasing the instrument,take into account those existing 61 key yamaha customers that might swap to the 76 key product and factor in those that would swap from another competitor product to the yamaha etc . You know , l;ike a proper forecast based upon some form of questionaire or census or whatever you might use to measure the obvious potential that you see. But they have to be based upon some real numbers.

(i would use the word survey but some people get all weirded out by the word).



[This message has been edited by spalding1968 (edited 10-24-2010).]