Originally posted by Irishacts:
Hi Ian.Ultimately Yamaha's undoing it's own market and it's own business by not advancing arrangers or providing them with relevant content to draw in and keep hold of new users.
Well, considering I've been with the company for almost 30 years, I respectfully can't agree with that statement at all.
You are looking at it from the perspective of a self admitted non-arranger user.
Are 40-50 year olds going to suddenly die off, or will people jump immediately from 39 to 60?

Today' kids will be 40 some day; today's 30-something's will be there sooner...when they get there, you can bet there will be a Yamaha arranger to suit
their musical taste...will they play polkas? Who knows? I never thought I would be playing music from the 40's, but I do.
New arranger users start at the same age...around 40...so, relative content, is, well, only relative.

Ian