IMO you don’t even have to do a petition. Yamaha is quite aware that a 76 key arranger is welcomed. That is not the issue. Again, they do make 76 key arrangers in the DGX and the Motif XS. Also, all the other manufacturers of arrangers make 76 key arrangers. So don’t be fooled Yamaha knows there is a market. The concern for Yamaha is would it prevent their existing customers from buying their keyboard and would it help to fuel the existing divisional rivalry?
As Yamaha has shown is if you create a great sounding product, giving more to existing customers would not prevent them from buying the keyboard. Just look at the T4, some persons could have done with out the blue lights, but is that stopping them from getting the T4? No because there are a lot more interesting things that would compel them to buy the T4. Same thing with the voices in the styles. In fact the voices in the styles may help Yamaha to get sales because they were lacking in that area compared to Korg and Roland.
And, persons saying that they don’t need 76 keys is only being said now because they don’t have it. The same thing was said about audio recording on a Yamaha arranger, a sampler on a Yamaha arranger and probably was said by some persons about blue lights but some of those same persons still bought the next T arranger despite it having those features they claim to despised. . The fact that persons would buy a T4 when they already have a T3 or T2 only shows that persons are more concerned with how the keyboard sounds. That is the strong point of the Yamaha keyboards.
BTW 76 keys are not just for piano players. And to suggest having a controller 76 key keyboard is not the answer because it defeats the purpose of having a 76 key arranger (that is having every thing all in one). And, it is kind of strange a suggestion like that coming from a person who things having a module is too much work to set-up.
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