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Originally posted by ianmcnll:
Wrong again.

It has EVERYTHING to do with what the customers want...the majority want 61 keys...there are not enough indicated in extensive surveys to warrant a 76'er.

The DGX instruments are pianos with some arranger features...they are meant to compete with Casio. They do very well at what they are designed for, which is primarily, a home digital piano with some goodies.

No divisional rivalry...that's long gone by the wayside, and only was really happening way, way back with the CVP Clavinova and the Electone division, an odd pair of combatants, but true nevertheless.

That was settled long ago.

The arranger division and the pro workstation division have been working together quite nicely ever since the days of the PSR-8000/9000/9000Pro, and even more so with the introduction of the Tyros arrangers.

So, don't give yourself another breakdown, and just feel confident that every thing is hunky dory.

No more conflicts, except for the ones you are inventing.

You do a lot of that on SZ...why?

Unhappy with yourself?

What's really amusing, is that you (and Genny) believe you are smarter at marketing than a whole team of well chosen and highly educated experts, many of which are pro musicians. They aren't just "suits"...they know the industry from many angles.

Get those big egos down to a manageable size, guys...I'd hate to have to buy hats for both of you...the amount of material alone would be outrageous, to fit over those swelled heads.

And look up the word "NO" in your little dictionaries...you haven't grasped the meaning at all.


Ian





LOL!!! I'm sorry to laugh out loud, but that is probably the funniest and most outstanding case of the pot calling the kettle black that I have ever seen in my entire life.

Perhaps I might not know the meaning of the word "NO" when it applies to something I personally want (and yes, I DO want a 76 key Tyros 4, however was never approached by the omniscient Yamaha marketing research army), but quite honestly, I no know the term "blowhard" when I see someone engaging in such a grandiose fashion in public.

It's pretty obvious you have never run your own business, had to deal with marketing, and never had your ass on the line trying to figure out how best to be successful against competitors. That the way you COMPETE is by offering potential customers what they WANT, not what YOU want them to have. Again, any company saying "NO" to their potential customer base is just down right stupid to the nth degree.

And when Yamaha marketing calls you in for words of wisdom from you, please tell them that I, for one, would buy a Tyros 4 in a heart beat if it were a 76 keyboard. Right now I am waiting to see what Korg offers, but had they come out with what I want, they would have my order on their desk right now. I am also looking at the Audya, but it was so slow coming to market that I'm afraid it is pretty much obsolete coming right out of the box. Any keyboard using IDE drives and USB 1 is woefully behind the times in technology.

But back to Yamaha. It probably never dawned on them that perhaps people are buying the 61 keyboard Tyros simply because they are "settling" for what Yamaha is offering instead of "getting" what Yamaha thinks they want. They are likely interested in the features (styles and voices) and willing to overlook the shortcomings of that short stuff keyboard in order to get them. They are compromising between what they WANT and what they can GET from Yamaha. Perhaps they made the Tyros 4 outstanding enough in that above mentioned features that more will toss aside their WANTS and settle for 61 keys. Maybe that is their strategy. Heck, EVERY release of a product is an experiment in marketing to see if it really sells or not. The experiment is to see how much of the target market says "NO" to their offering.