Nice review Fran! I have to disagree on the quality of buttons - rather cheap and Yamaha like. You are correct, the sound- samples are shorter and sound more compressed than on the BK9. Another shortcoming is the MFX section - lacking 2 MFX blocks for the upper tones. However, to me it's worth it the price simply because of the accordion sounds. All in all, I love the little toyish looking thing.