How do you find out there's no demand until you MAKE one? There certainly seems to be a fair number of this forum's membership that use 76's. So much for no demand...

There are even those amongst us that state quite unequivocally that if Yamaha DID make a T3 or S910 in a 76, we would actually buy it!

And sorry, but ALL arrangers are 'piano based arrangers'. In fact, the piano sounds in the S910 and T3 definitely blow this toy out of the water. What makes these 'piano based'? More than 61 keys, and that is ALL.

Let's call a spade a spade. If there were NO demand for 76 note arrangers, there would be no NP-V80, and there would be no DGX's. And if there IS a demand for 76 note arrangers, it extends, quite obviously, up into the MOTL and TOTL lines, too. Or there would be no sales of PA2Xpros, Audya's, SD-1's, E60's, G70's G1000's and all the innumerable other 76 arrangers that, apparently in Yamaha's addled mind, are not bought and used...

Stick your fingers in your ears, your head in the sand, and go 'La la la la la' as loud as you can, and just about ANYTHING that is patently obvious can be denied. But if there's a market for a DGX, for an NP-V80, there IS a market for a 76 S910. Why would any toy 61 arranger player want to upgrade to maybe an S910 as he got better, and an NP-V80 or DGX user NOT want to?

You are defending patent absurdity, Ian...