Originally posted by Diki:
A piano is a piano, is a piano... Is that it, Ian?
For someone to not cringe every time they play the S900's tack piano (even if they don't call it that, that's what it sounds like, IMO), I would imagine that to be the case... 
Correct, my friend...exactly my point.
And yes, I know the S900's piano doesn't appeal to you, but it works perfect for me...sits real nice in the mix...a great "arranger" piano, because the S900 is an arranger....not a digital piano...it makes no pretense at being something that it isn't, and it does what it was designed to do very well...it is a very popular arranger, one of Yamaha's most successful.
I love playing the S900, actually more than the T3, but less than playing a piano...and I have an 88 key weighted hammer instrument for those times when I want the real deal.
Calling the piano in the Yamaha S900 by less than complimentary terms still does nothing to change the one trick pony nature of the V-Piano...it just tells everyone how you feel about the former...and that's been common knowledge for some time.
It means nothing to those of us who are very happy with the S900, and even less to those interested in the Roland V-Piano.
Ian