Finally had a chance to sit down and have a listen to both your MP3 demos (btw: very nice REAL accordion playing). After first enjoying your performance itself, I went back and re-listened to each rendition to pay closer attention to the auto accomp rhythm sections of each keyboard with their similarly comparable styles.

I noticed right off that Tyros2's back instrument rhythm (on 2 & 3)is supplied by an organ(?) voice while the same beats 2 & 3 instr. rhythm on the G70 is played by a much more satisfying guitar voice with more of a 'swing feel' as well. In addition the G70's overall ambience & sound has more of a live presence & punch. Though both the Tyros2 & G70 versions both shine (in their own way), I admit that the G70 sounds more satisfying to my ears. Does this mean I'm now going to trade my Tyros2 in for a G70. No. Tyros2 includes features that the G70 that are more important (personally) to me. This includes Tyros2's smaller size (footprint) and lighter weight to benefit quick gig portability. Equally essential to me is Yamaha's auto accomp 'jazz style' rootless chord recognition. Adding this to Roland's current chord recogition palette would be relatively simple (via OS update), and can assure you, that recognized chords are FAR MORE universally recognized as these than the highly esoteric chords these voicing represent now. In FACT, Korg has recently followed Yamaha's & Technics earlier lead on this and has re-assigned these specific chord voicing to recognition them as jazz type (rootless) chords as well. Like I said in my earlier review of the G70, if Roland finally does add rootless jazz chord recognition, I'd seriously consider purchasing one as a master controler keyboard for my studio because I really like it's resposive key feel and navigation. Jim, thanks for taking the time to record and share your comparison demo. I'm now really anxious to hear some more T2/G70 comparison demos in other genres, like: Jazz combo, Big Band Swing, Latin (Bossa), and Country.

Scott