Thanks for all the welcomes........I appreciate it

As for my uses for the keyboards.....I'll tell you a wee story, but I'll try and keep it short.

When I was in my teens, I always used arranger keyboards, and when I joined my first gigging band at 16 I still used one of the cheap and cheerful Yamaha's (although we were a live 6 piece, so only used the sounds).

Anyway, a few years later I quit the band, stopped smoking and decided to invest in some "premier" gear and start song writing. I bought a Trinity V3 Pro and a VS1680 a short time later.

However, now that the likes of the Tyros 2 etc., have such a high quality of sound available, I feel I am missing out that I can't put a quality backing on and get lost playing the blues!!

I have never really used the synths for anything other than their preset sounds, and now with the quality available on the Tyros 2 I would get more use and fun out of the arranger aspects rather than the synth side.

I could still continue to use it with Cubase etc.., and not lose out with regards to my songwriting.

Very tempting.........

Does anyone have any experience of importing a keyboard? I have seen a website called "alibaba", with fantastic prices for the likes of the Tyros 2 from Indonesia, but I am sceptical of the method of payments and the viability of ordering such an expensive product and getting it to Ireland.

I have also seen a website called "salehoo", which states that there are more protective methods of payment available normally with them, eg., paypal and Credit Cards, so I am intrigued by this site. However, you have to pay to register, so if anyone has any experience of "salehoo" I would appreciate any advice.

Cheers.

Hello Stein,

Welcome aboard.

About importing from outside the EEC.
I wouldn't recommand to do this.

1. No guarantuee by Yamaha
2. You will have to pay with the import
a. Importduty
b. On top The high VAT rate
Which is calculated as follows;
fob price+freight+duty and then the
VAT percentage on top.
3. If I recall you have 240 volts, so the AC
adapter will have to be replaced

I don't know the price in Uk for a Tyros II, but you might have a look at Musicians Gear in Germany, at least the garantuee of Yamaha stays valid if ordered through them.

About selling your Trinity.
I would keep it (unless you only need standard sounds), as allthough the standard sounds of todays keyboards are good, the arranger keyboards still are no synths.
Same package as 10 years ago, but better standard sounds, and a lot of extra utillities, but unfortunately no synth capabilities at all.

Ofcourse this is my opinion, so others might think different.

Fred

Thanks Fred. I appreciate your comments and advice.

Welcome from an American of Irish decent. Stein67 you've joined the best forum on the internet. If you can't find something usefull here it is not to be found.

Tom