Once AGAIN (how many times does the obvious have to be pointed out? ) I repeat...

YAMAHA DO ALREADY MAKE 76 ARRANGERS.

Calling an SUV a sports car won't make it one, Lexus or otherwise. If Lexus stuck the word Sport Car on a minivan, you would do nothing but laugh and deride their decision. As we are this desperate attempt by both Ian and Yamaha do deny that the NP-80v and the entire DGX line are anything other than arrangers, pure and simply.

Once you swallow this bitter pill, the rest of Yamaha's 'logic' falls completely apart. They HAVE done market research that shows people will buy 76 arrangers. Or they wouldn't make them. They HAVE acknowledged that a significant number of players need more than 61 notes to be content, and are prepared to make keyboards for them... Every argument you make against them, of your own and on behalf of Yamaha collapses once you acknowledge this undeniable truth.

But perhaps those of us wanting this change are going about things the wrong way...? Perhaps it would not be against your religion (Yamahism? ) to simply, instead of asking for a 76 PSR or Tyros, we simply asked for a DGX with EXACTLY the same OS and sounds as those keyboards? Then you could continue in your delusion that Yamaha don't MAKE 76 arrangers, and we could get exactly what we want...

I would be PERFECTLY happy to play a 76 PSR even if it had the words 'Piano' printed on its' front panel, and the letters DGX before its' numbers...