'Tyros 2 might not have "Pro" in the name, but sure is considered Pro keyboard in the market I'm talking about, and would be sold at same volume even with 76-keys keybed.'

(thanks for continuing to make great points Kalimero)

You have stated the case just in that sentence. The market you are talking about would buy the keyboard whether it had 76 keys or 61 so where is the incentive to make a 76 arranger keyboard even within the eastern european market ?

kalimero

You are absolutely right and many musicians in the western world use exactly your logic. The tyros is not geared to or marketed to the pro muscician but many pros in the arranger market pick the Tyros to make a living from despite

1.its toyish apearance ,
2. rubbish key feel
3. christmas tree lights
4. plastic poor build quality
5. and lack of 76 keys.

(these are not my opinions, these are the opionions of some of the pro's on this board ) But this is a spin off market. It is not the market that Yamaha put their effort to sell to. Can you see that ?

Who knows Kalimero, some time in the future yamaha may decide to market a board especially to the eastern eurpoean market. As i said before i think adding the sampler on the yamaha PSRA1000 might make a whole lot of sense and would not substantially increase the price point of the keyboard. There are no divisional issues as the A1000 is the only oriental/arabic easten flavoured instrument that they make in terms of arrangers i think and at an affordable price for that market.
It certainly would not take away tyros sales which i believe is the only other yamaha arranger product that has a sampler (recorder). In fact i am pretty sure that this could succeed. Why not drop yamaha a line ?

Also regarding arranger functions in pro keyboards like the Motif XS. Yes they do have some arranger qualities but will yamaha ever refer to them as arranger qualities ? Nope that would be a very bad marketing decision because there is still a stigma amongst pro users against arranger keyboards although this is changing. They could have literally just applied all the arranger functions that we are used to into the Motif XS but they didnt . Why do you think they did not ? They could have just stuck the Super articulation technology as it is into the Motif XS instead of what they have now but they didnt. Why not ? i posted much earlier in this discussion about cannabalisation of sales. Thats yamaha divisions stealing sales from each other instead of the competition without any net increase in profits. Its apparently a stupid theory but trust me yamaha understand it well and are mindful of it.

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