Dnj,

You ask yourself where did this all went wrong?

Well it seems to me that it went wrong from the very beginning. From the initial question of the pool which was:

"This poll is to determine how many keys arranger keyboard players want on their keyboard. Brand names are insignificant--just the number of keys."

We came to a question:

"Why Yamaha doesn't manufacture 76-keys arranger?"

And that lead us to two answers:

"76-keys arranger market is not profitable - therefore Yamaha doesn't produce 76-keys arrangers (anymore, or until further notice)"

and

"76-keys arranger market is profitable - therefore Yamaha is not listening to the appeals of numerous (potential) customers"

I am afraid I'll disappoint some (or all) members here, but I don't think there is such "thing" like "76-keys arranger market".

It's more like there is:

- low budget arranger market (home and amateur users)
- middle budget arranger market (advantage home users and some professionals)
- high budget arranger market (professionals)

Number of keys (and key feel/quality) is just one feature of the arranger keyboard, and almost all arrangers with 76 keys have so many other features, and cost so much that the number of the keys rarely play important role in buying decision.

Most of the complaints regarding arrangers on this (and some other) forum is: it doesn't sound good, I don't like the interface, I miss that feature, it's too heavy, but I still haven't seen anyone complaining: It has too many keys. :-)