Sad fact is, Gary and Ian... Until the poll, you were touting NO potential customers. As politics are showing, there's nothing more more pathetic than a zealot that cannot recognize when the figures don't agree with your world view.

A small, but significant percentage of this, the forum that you believe represents a small proportion of all arranger users, extrapolates into a MUCH larger figure... In fact, the very figure that every arranger manufacturer OTHER than Yamaha is making a profit from right now.

You know, if the majority of SZ members somehow came on board, and Ian and Gary weren't the only ones putting a good show on for their favorites, I might be swayed. But, after all, we are democratic, here in the West. If you can't come up with the numbers, you can't win (unless we in Florida decide to recount your vote!) no matter how many times you come up with absurd apologia...

The facts are... there IS a demand for the product. And Yamaha refuse to make the product for reasons that have NOTHING to do with demand, feasibility or profitability (every other manufacturer already knows this). No other reason than corporate divisional rivalry makes any sense in the light of the facts.

Unless, of course, you are blinded by zealotry. Me, I've got NO stakes in the discourse, other than disgust at the spinelessness of Yamaha to sate a proven market need for the sake of corporate divisional tactics. Yamaha zealots, on the other hand, seem hell bent to come up with ANY absurd answer, I guess to compensate for the fact that they can't think of anything more realistic than 'They don't do it, therefore it MUST be right'...

Sorry, guys, but other than the existence of our Lord, I need better arguments than that. Yamaha is not MY religion...