I've always thought this is the department Yamaha always ends up falling short on.. They make such nice keyboards, and the sounds are amazing, and they have a lot of features... However, this comes at at price. They give you all those great sounds and features, but cheese you on the actually construction quality of the keyboard. Take my PSR-550... For the price all one can say is WOW what a nice keyboard, but when you get your hands on it seems hard to put that great sound together with such a cheaply built keyboard. Yes Yamaha's keys are smaller.. They're not really true full size keys. Hell even the Casio's have better keyfeel than the Yamaha.. Also anyone ever use the pitchbend on the 540 or 550???? I swear they must have used the spring from a ball point pen to get it to spring back.. It's sooooo flimsy... I'm just waiting for the day that thing breaks. I was quite pleased with the construction of the PSR-740 (minus the painted buttons).. I felt the wheels, and overall construction was pretty good. I haven't played a 2000 so I cannot comment on the construction on that keyboard. Even for the short time I owned the Casio MZ-2000 I was very pleased with the cosmetics and construction of that keyboard.. It had good key feel, the pitchbend and modulation wheels felt great, and I wasn't afraid of breaking anything on it... Yamaha could improve the build and key feel a little though....

Squeak

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 04-11-2003).]