Actually, Roland and Korg and Ketron will 'take that to the bank'...

What I don't get, Ian, is that these people ARE Yamaha customers. They DON'T want an entirely new arranger, geared to the professional. They just want a T2 (or it's successor) in a case with a 76 stuck on. Just exactly HOW hard is that to do? Yamaha seem to have gotten the process down pretty well with the Motif line (and don't be fooled... almost as few of THEM get taken out from 'home' and used on pro gigs as T2's!). Just exactly how expensive would it be to tool up for a 76 and case when the innards and OS are identical?

I find it perplexing that the VAST majority of 88 note keyboards ARE sold to 'home' users (in fact, the vast majority of ALL keyboards are sold to non-professionals). You think of all the WK's and NP-30's etc., that are strictly 'home' keyboards, and you realize there IS a market for larger keyboard sizes, even to the home market (in fact, ESPECIALLY to the 'home' market).

That Yamaha should chose to ignore these, yet alone the few pros that would love a larger key-bed, too, while other companies happily crank out larger sizes that sell well enough at least for them to stay in production and move on to better models just strikes me as hubris and stubbornness.

Just because Yamaha ARE the market leader doesn't necessarily make ALL their marketing decisions correct ones. If they DID have a 76 line and it prove unpopular, you would have a case. But until they step up to the plate, and THEN prove the need unfounded (while others DO have successful products with 76's on), the constant calling for a 76 T2 (or S900) from so many players here just seem to indicate a need that Yamaha REFUSE to consider, despite it's obvious ease.

Yamaha FORCE 76 users to use other company's products, no matter how much they don't WANT to. And the other companies are taking THAT 'to the bank'...