Well, Fran, you want to do a head count as an indicator of sales, why not stick to arrangers that are actually in production? You can't rule out other models like the Technics, or older Korg's, Yamaha's etc unless you rule out your OWN arranger. The E80 and G70 were VERY different (at least as different as the T2 and T3), and the E80 was two years newer than the G70, so, once again, by your own rules, you rule out the G70..

There's absolutely NO WAY that what we use here on SZ has any correlation to sales figures in the real world. You were in retail, for Pete's sake! You know this better than most of us! I mean, look at the number here with G70's, and its' abject failure in the real world...

The only thing you could possibly say about your 'head count' is that, amongst fanatical bloggers of arrangers in the English language that own current TOTL arrangers (and G70's) and post at SZ's General Arranger Forum, G70's are more popular than you might think! We certainly don't represent the vast majority of arranger users here, so how could ANY kind of internal poll provide any relevant data other than to the tiny cross section we are?

Mark Twain had it nailed... There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics

And those that frame the question in the first place get to shape the resultant lies...

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 05-31-2010).]