Esh, just between you and me, I like rumors about upcoming products, speculation and wishing about new features, discussing the pros and cons features that may never make it to market. I also think manufacturers may be interested in our reaction to a possible TyrosPro.

Information I heard from a person at Yamaha. The present CVP210 is a stop gap until a new CVP Piano range winter 2004. Now normally new keyboards follow new CVP's so to me this means there will be a TYROS 2 in 2005. They assured me they have no plans for a Tyros 76 notes due to costing factors.
Hopefully before this we will see new arrangers from Roland etc:

Graham UK

DNJ: come back when you grow the kind of imagination that the rest of this thread's participants have. The only thing about your posts that went over my head was the troll-attitude behind them.

I'm all too aware that pro instruments make up the minority of the music market as Gary pointed out - but I was under the impression that the 9000 Pro has sold very well in Europe (that came from people at Yamaha I've talked with). I would think that fact alone would justify a 76-note version of the Tyros. It's a little strange that while Korg is releasing it's new PA1-X in both 61 and 76 note versions and Roland released it's VA-series arranger in both keyboard formats that Yamaha chose to only make a 61-note Tyros with no plans for a 76-note model since it would require no new technology to produce the Tyros in a 76-note shell.

But then again, it seems that Yamaha throws all of it's development and marketing muscle behind whatever their prize keyboard for the moment is, which currently is the new Motif ES series. There's not much doubt that the Motif ES will be a well-received and good-selling instrument, which does serve to blur the lines ever so slightly between workstations and arrangers. Perhaps in this light then the Tyros itself was a "stop-gap" instrument, and the rumors that there will ever be a pro version of the Tyros are just that. I could see that Yamaha would be more interested in making arranger-like options for it's bread & butter Mo'ES workstations rather than developing a separate keyboard that falls between the Tyros and Mo markets like the 9000 Pro did.

In short - who knows?

I heard that the Tyro's was going to come out in a left handed version .

Among forum members, there are those of us who drool over "specification subject to change" and those of us who are only interested in technology to the extent it helps them do their job. Neither group is better than the other; no one's input should be excluded from a topic. Derisive comments are uncalled for and I am sorry if Donny felt he had to delete his comments.