That's basically what I'm shooting at. But obviously, to show a keyboard in a store, you need styles in it. But having say two different sets of styles, old and new, basically fill the entire arranger, I think that it is easy for stores to show the keyboard off in its best light depending on who you are showing to...

I am not sure having us pay for the style sets we want at purchase time is a good idea. The arranger should come filled with styles when we purchase it, as they do now. But the buyer should have a choice of which style Pack he gets, and then the option to purchase the OTHER pack if he wants both...

To a certain extent, some arrangers already use this approach. There are arrangers based on current models that have Oriental styles and soundsets. Roland experimented with having Latin, Oriental and Eastern European variants of the same arranger. I simply feel that, while regional variants is a good thing, an AGE variant is also good marketing. And probably would have a much greater impact on getting a new generation to be interested in music making on an arranger.

There's nothing wrong with the basic form, but just like cars get face lifts to appeal to younger buyers, it's time for arrangers to nip and tuck, lose the flab and the wrinkles, and start wearing a hoody and baggy pants!

Or they are going to go the way of the 'home organ'... Gathering dust in Granny's house, no longer made except as hugely overpriced luxury items. The Tyros is already heading down that street!