Quote by Tony W: “I don't know why it bothers me so much other than the attitude that Technics seemed to have over the harmonizer that people would put up with it because they are so strong in other areas. As a business man yourself surely you must agree that today manufacturers need to cover all bases and be seen to go the extra mile to keep their clients”?

Tony, yes, it would seem on the surface as a business man (that's me), surely must agree that today manufacturers need to cover all bases and be seen to go the extra mile to keep their clients? Well let’s see! From Sears department store I buy most of the tools we use in our two shops. Very good tools. We have six kids. All the years raising those kids, to this very day we do not buy any clothes from Sears because they stink. The quality is not very good. We buy them from another department store, Carson or Fields, where we found we could pass them down from one kid to another. In other words the quality was such that they lasted longer. Both department stores, but neither covers all bases even to this day. I buy my fertilizer from one landscape supply company, my grass seed from another. Why? They don’t cover all bases but they are landscape supply companies. I buy all the grafted plants, all the seedling plants and all the different varieties that I line out in my nursery from different propagating nurseries and greenhouses. They are all successful and have kept their clients for many years without trying to be all things to all people. There have been some who have tried but are no longer with us. As a business man owning my own company for 58 years I do not cover all bases in my business. Neither do my sons who have all but taken over and are running it. I hang around in the office looking important doing some of the computer drawing when I feel like it and taking credit when ever I can get away with it. There are things we have done very well over the years and some things we are not really interested in but do provide. If our clients insist on quality above our ability to provide excellence, we recommend others that can provide the specialty we are not very apt or interested in. We go the extra mile to keep our clients that come to us for our expertise but we don’t feel a need to cover all bases. However we sure do keep our clients. Tony I do hope this makes some sense to you. There is a segment of the population that are brand loyal even to this very day. No matter how shoddy the product or how crappie the service, they are loyal. I really feel sorry for them, they are missing so much. We have been given one life and a set number of years on this earth, how sad.

Tony, you are right, If they are happy to leave it on (harmonizer) they should be happy to accept the criticism. Please, please Tony and the rest of the unhappy campers out there: call them, write them, visit them, send them e-mail or anything else you can think of and criticize them, read them the riot act, tell them how stupid they are, tell them how much money they are loosing because you wont buy one because you have a bug up your rear end. I’m sure they will cry all the way to the bank. You guys, I don’t make them, I don’t design them, I don’t sell them, I just play them, enjoy them, make a few bucks with them and the people like to fill my little jar to say thanks for the lovely sounding music and a lovely evening.

If you don’t get riled up at the (T) word, then what gets you all so riled up? Man, on the other forum nobody picks apart the other keyboards. The only remarks made about the other boards was that some of the guys bought the 9000’s and the Tyros and made a mistake and never play them anymore. They don’t produce Rheims of print finding fault.

Tony, you say quote: “I am not sure that to buy anything other than a Technics infers that you follow the pack rather than innovate or lead but you are as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine”. My opinion is, that is not what I said. This is what I said, Quote: You hit it right on the head, Don. Most of the players around you play Yamaha because you do. Only confirms my observations, most people are followers and not leaders. Here is the quote from Don: “But, in all fairness, they are playing them because I do”. I know you have some kind of a sore spot with Technics but please don’t put words in my mouth. Don was saying there are some guys around him that play Yamaha’s because he does. I remarked that confirmed some of my thoughts on the subject. I could care less what people desire to play. What I do have an interest in is why people do what they do, why they have the attitudes they do and what makes them tick. Because I have to deal with people everyday in the process of selling them my wares it helps me to understand how they think, and why. So to sum my observations to this point, I think the only thing that happened is that I am getting a headache.

Grandpa Doug