it's very simple, we are right and Yamaha is wrong.

just because they are bigger and richer and cleverer than us doesn't make them NOT be totally a....holes re the 76 issue.

Sony had the superior Betamax and stupidly wouldn't
license it so they lost all the business to the crummy VHS...

RCA came out with a Videodisk system before VCR's..they
wouldn't put a no-profit price on the player to get it
in everyone's home, which would have made them an
unstoppable market for the sale of their disks..they
overpriced it so people chose the vcr they could tape
from . (irony was hardly anyone actually taped) RCA got
slaughtered financially from this stupidity.

Scott, it is foolish to ask why we think we need the 76..
the fact is we want it, we like it, and we don't think we
need to send you samples to justify why. the E60 is my
first 76..I played 61-key boards all of my 7 years of
becoming a keyboard player to augment my sax and vocals. it has been perfectly OK, not a big problem at all
to play the 61...as you point out. but the 76 is just better.
better in a lot of ways you are not considering. we believe
there are a lot of us out there who would buy a 76 if
Yamaha went about it the right way.

the E60 is under 30 lbs.!! The ypg/dgx 88's are much lighter yet. A yamaha 76-key s700 could still be under 30 lbs. A 76 doesn't have to be a behemoth. ketron makes heavy boards..but their 61-key sd5 is a pound heavier than their 76-key sd1. Sure, if it's between a g70 and a T2 that's 45 lb v 32 lbs..a lot to consider for many who
don't want do deal with heavies..but 30 lbs vs 25 lbs?
that's a difference between 2 relative lightweights..a
far different thing.



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