Hi Grandpa Doug,
First off apologies if you thought I was putting words in your mouth, believe me I would not dare My mistake. I assumed you were saying something you were not and it is not the first time assumption has got me into hot water!

Believe it or not I did once write to technics (how sad is that) over the harmoniser issue! Not that I got much of a response..... In the grand scheme of things my little £1800 purchase did not register that much and although I did not like the fact I am realistic enough to understand it. I did the only thing I could do as a consumer and that was to change brands next time I was in the market for a board.

Don't get me wrong....I would not cut my nose off to spite my face! Even I am not that daft. Had Yammie or anyone else not had a board that compared favourably to Technics I would have sat on my pride and carried on 'kn' ing

The simple fact is that there are choices out there and I suppose it is a good thing too.

If I have a Technics 'bug up my rear end' then I bet I have two Yamaha ones up there as well keeping it company! I freely admit I am hard to please but I really don't want that to come across as my being so myopic as to blame only one company for all the ills in the keyboarding world!

It is true that the other forum (fori, fora, what is the plural of forum?) do not pick apart other boards but I think they tend to be more brand specific whilst here in the general forum we tend to take every opportunity to justify (not least to ourselves) why we spent so much money on a particular brand / model. It is back to choices I think.....with so much quality stuff out there we like to reassure ourselves that we 'got it right'. Often this materialises in the form of denegrating the competition when in reality we were only a gnats 'eyelash' from buying it in the first place

Of course we could and probably would disagree for the next forty posts over the harmoniser on technics models. It does not really matter though. What is important to me does not have to be important to anyone else. It is only my opinion and I made my choices because of it. The fact that I now have a board with a half decent harmoniser on it and yet never use it (the harmoniser not the board ) only serves to make me wonder why I got so het up about it in the first place......funny things principles!

I am sure the thing we can agree on is that whatever we play, buy, moan about, or adulate we all love to make music and that is what keeps us all here and keeps us all so passionate. Maybe we should all concentrate on that because at the end of the day the Technics v Yamaha contest is as silly as Gershwin v Porter.

Hope your headache improves and that I have not made it worse!
Very best to you
Tony W