Originally posted by Diki:
All the arranger players will be dead, by then! Unless someone comes out with something in the way of an arranger to attract YOUNG players, this dodo is headed for the happy hunting grounds, alongside the 'home organ' and the modular synthesizer...
Maybe you're right, Diki, but since the average ages for arranger buyers, in my experience, is between 40 and beyond, arranger manufacturers only have to keep adding things to cater to that group.
It's a home keyboard...home entertainment is paramount and big bucks...these instruments compete against home theatres, and other systems.
You're thinking that we'll be playing arrangers for the "younger" crowd, where, in most cases, we'll be playing for our own entertainment and to our own age group.
As the age bracket shifts, more 40- somethings will join the club, and the type of styles and features will change to suit them...those companies that don't change, stay behind.
Consider Casio...watch what they do...they know the arranger market, and it's future.
Former Casio owners buy MOTL and TOTL Yamaha, Korg, and at one time, Roland, arrangers.
Ian
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