Maybe they will, but I don't think a company as savvy as Yamaha would make that kind of mistake, although I do see your point.

In "Yamaha speak" ..."Sweet" voices capture the delicate nuances of wind and brass instruments. "Live" voices accurately reproduce the unique characteristics of acoustic instruments and "Cool" voices reproduce the subtlest tones of electric instruments.

There are also "Natural" voices found on the Clavinova CVP arranger/piano...ie. "Natural Grand" piano....when will it ever end?

Have you heard anything about a new Roland arranger to replace the G-70 or even the E-80/60/50? Perhaps they will make a 76 note version of the GW-8 (the GW-76?), with more features, of course.

I'm pretty sure Yamaha will have a Tyros4....but, what I would really like to see them make, is something like Korg's PA-588, but keep the weight down to about 30 lbs...maybe have 76 weighted, rather than 88...speakers optional, like the Tyros, that would help keep it from being too heavy.

We live in interesting times, that's for sure.

Ian

[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 09-16-2009).]