I'm not 100% sure in remembering this but...If I recall Frank, as You were Starting and working Your Butt off (and Still are)to built a Successful Music Business Roland Kinda was their usual not Interested Boneheads!

You are Successful because You have great Character,Honesty,Integity and sell great Products...You go the Extra Mile just as Gearge Kaye does on the West Coast.

Maybe This Slow Economy is a good thing for Roland. Especially in this product division. Maybe they can get there Heads turned arround straight...Very Simple Roland US...First talk with Your two top Sales people,The people who actually sell the Keyboards George Kaye (California) and Frankie (East Coast)...Oh Yes LISTEN...LISTEN....LISTEN....

Next Hire a Products Support Specialist like Yamaha's Steve Demming (Not sure I have the last name correct)...They don't come any better...See if Dave(formally with GEM would be Great!)Maybe even would accept an offer?

Yes Roland, Without a Doubt Frankie can sell a few Expensive V-5 accordions...But at the Same Time Hundred's of Korg PA-500's,PA-800's,PAx2,....Yamaha PSR500,PSR700,PSR900,TYRO'S3 and Ketron Products are being sold!

I hope You are reading This Roland, because if You are planning on Dumping the European Market, It's a completely different ballgame here in the US...You have Completely failed in Your Previous Marketing attempts the last 3-4 Years in the US.

By they way I 've been a Roland Product user for many Years. If fact I Have a Roland RD-300sx Stage Piano and a E-60 Arranger in My Home Now!...Plus More...

Enough Said Harold E. Surrena