I must say Mo made a good point about the G70's weight...several SZ members and a few of my new clients were inclined to give it up for a lighter instrument...in spite of it's keyfeel/keybed.

Q: Does that make them wrong?

A: Nope...just different priorities.

On the issue of upgrading too often...

BTW, guitarists are often worse than arranger players...MOST guitarists I know own, at the very least, two or three guitars and more than one amp...some own a lot more...and MOST of them are always looking for a way to get that elusive "sound"; i.e. different pickups, amps, speakers, strings, effects...the list goes on.

Horns and other acoustic instruments are in a completely different category than an arranger...kalimero put it very succinctly with this statement, "...instrument already sound exactly as it is supposed to sound..."

I'm pretty sure if Roland came out with a G80 (or whatever) arranger that thoroughly addressed the issues with the G70 that still haven't been fixed, there would be more than a few owners that would upgrade, even though the latter instrument is hardly that old.

Especially if it had a chord sequencer.

Ian



[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 12-24-2007).]