Research is not only the way you ask the questions, but also how you interpret the answers.

However Yamaha conducts their marketing and business practices, is solely their idea of how things should be done which will give the company the most profit...not your idea, or mine.

I'm merely stating what Yamaha are doing...I did not do the market research, but I was informed of the results.

For all purposes, it appears, that Yamaha is doing very well in arranger sales...why should they change what works, to gamble on something that their marketing department says is a segment with a small demand?

If you have actual evidence, done by your research and by your pertinent questions and your interpretations of the answers, that Yamaha would make substantial profits by making 76-note high end arrangers, why not bring it to their attention?

BTW, Roland no longer makes 76 note arrangers...they only make 61 note instruments.

Ian