BS...I have been waiting a couple weeks and am told it may be another month before my order is filled..

I sell Yamaha and have to agree with the tendency for Yamaha to appeal to the home user. They assume (correctly) most people playing arrangers are playing chords with their left hand and do not need the extra real estate.

The T3 will be a glorified S900. I don't see Yamaha breaking out a huge jump in the evolution of the Arranger keyboard. I don't even see them doing as much as Korg or Roland has done by a long margin.

I see them having more styles,more SA sounds (or some new technology there) and an EASIER interface, Thats the way they went on the 400 series Clavinovas. Keep it simple. Thats Yamaha. They do sell a lot of arranger keyboards with that "mission statement".

They changed the look of their Clavinova line to make it look like there are LESS buttons not to intimidate the buyers. K I S S

Tyros has a support base that will buy it whether it has 15 extra keys or not. So why bother. I would not buy it if it had 76 keys because it is not as feature rich as the Korg. But a current Yamaha owner would buy another 61 key Tyros in a heartbeat.

Korg and Roland HAVE to appeal to those of us who want workstation like features, even if they are more complicated and have a huge learning curve. They know we are used to it.

Yamaha has always been the "Apple" of keyboards. Appeal to the simple even at the expense of pesky features,



[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 04-25-2008).]