Let me get this straight....

Gary, you asked here and at Yamaha for FOUR YEARS before you got what you want.

One simple question... did you have to put up with all this negative bullshit from all the Yamaha fans while you did it? I sincerely hope not. Nothing gives you a better grip on just how LITTLE good will and empathy for our fellow musicians exists on this forum than listening to the sheer unadulterated GLEE that some like to take in slamming the door shut on what SEEMS to be a perfectly reasonable request...

But then, you wouldn't be one of those guilty of that now, would you..?

Seems like I've got another three years or so, to match your persistence. Hope the rest of you don't mind while I keep it up..! Yes I have written to Yamaha. And NO, they still have found no way of polling non-Yamaha users. Ater all, if Yamaha refuse to make good 76's, you can't blame those that WANT one from staying away from Yamaha Days (or whatever they happen to be. To be honest, I haven't heard of one anywhere NEAR me). Why should we attend demos of products we have no intention of buying?

Would YOU...? Didn't think so...