In Russia prices for instruments are also about 15% higher than it used to be in January-February. Although now I see that Korg has lowered them a bit.

I often try to imagine what would I buy right now if I had to start everything from scratch; an arranger used to be my priority; but right now, I guess, I would consider Yamaha MODX 7.

For this money I don’t really see other instruments which provide such a quality of acoustic sounds while being also capable when it comes to contemporary music.

While sound wise Montage or Genos are not that superior to MODX, as I understand, they are better mechanically.

Still, I have a feeling that Yamaha targets a different group of people when it comes to Genos; perhaps they don’t expect them to be very pragmatic about this purchase. But I know that professionals have to buy it as well.