In your position Donny.., I completey understand that yes it's a drop in the bucket because you see a fast return. However.., on both sides of the fence the home player outnumbers the performer by a huge difference.

Every so often I go into local stores to do demos for their keyboards.., and boy you guys have no idea how many younger players want an arranger.., but when they see what they can get on the other side for less.., well it's a lost game right there. Did a demo not too long ago and had a guy I knew who uses an S-900 in his church let me use his when I did a demo. I had 20 somethings wowing over the sound of the S-900..., but how many of those 20 something's do you think went for the semi and pro workstations after they saw what the price was for a plastic home keyboard.....

KingFrog.., Let Yamaha start putting plastic cases on their top end synths and watch how fast people start complaining about how easily it is to damage them on the road. Sure.., plastic does have a great benefit.., and that's a decrease in weight.., but put a platic shell on a synth that costs over $3,000 and consumers will go nuts. I don't see metal pro keyboards trading for plastic anytime soon. Maybe if the plastic was Kev. inforced

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 05-15-2009).]