Don't be absurd! If eight out of ten people on ANY thread said they preferred Yamaha 61's to any other brand's 61's, the same Yamaha fanboys that want to shoot this idea down would be touting it as incontrovertible proof of how good Yamaha's are!
And if eight out of ten people on any open keyboard thread went in favor of it, you too would be using it as 'evidence' of the validity of your point.
Of COURSE it's not scientific proof. Neither are exit polls, or Gallup Polls used to 'prove' all KINDS of idiotic things about politics. But it's all we got, here. And, sorry, old boy, but if the figures were reversed, and 8 out of 10 people said they WOULDN'T be interested in a Yamaha 76, you would be all over that as 'proof' of whatever YOU feel, too!
When 'there's no demand for them' is the #1 hoary chestnut dribbled out every time this idea comes up, one would at least expect that figures here would reflect figures in general. After all, take a poll, probably there are more Yamaha players on this forum than any other brand. Apparently, that DOESN'T at least give a good indication that Yamaha are the best selling arrangers. No numbers here proves ANYTHING, apparently...
Here's the ridiculous part... If no numbers here account for anything, then those of us that think there IS a demand for them are EXACTLY as right as those that don't think there is!
I made the point that, ON THIS THREAD ALONE, those were the numbers. If you bother to go and look at the vast majority of threads where this topic is discussed, you generally only see a majority of 61 players against the idea. If you look at the responses of ONLY 76 users, the figures go up DRASTICALLY.
This topic has a very 'en point' title. and a fair percentage of those of us here that DO play 76's chimed in. Sorry the results weren't what you wanted..
Why don't YOU start a thread to disprove it?
We've done our bit. At least to dispel the myths. If Yamaha want something more scientific, they could perhaps pay the idiots they have currently doing 'market research' to ask someone OTHER than Yamaha playing 61 users... I don't know about you, but if I wanted to know something about a market I didn't currently operate in, I wouldn't ask my existing customers! I'd ask my competitors' customers...
But hey, what do I know?