My Sweetwater rep just called tonight to answer my question concerning Roland US selling any of the other GW-8 variants here in the States. Apparently, Sweetwater has an actual Roland employee on site who was able to directly obtain an answer from Roland US headquarters...and the answer is an unqualified "no". I am extremely disappointed and think they are making a huge mistake, considering the number of musicians that perform various ethnic music styles here in this country. I wonder if George Kaye or any of the other dealers will be able to circumvent Roland's policy on this?

Michael