Happy enough with what is already on the market today...

For me there's more then enough great gear out there today to make music for many lifetimes..I'm content right now
...what do you think?

YES ...
they stopped making the BEST KBs when technics stopped !!! ...

Yes!

Very happy with the tyros-3. I guess it's all up the individual.

At the very least it would force people top really DIG IN to what they now have and learn what these fantastic instruments are capable of.

Donny,

If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
Nothing else would matter in the world today



You will be getting a T5 shortly or my name mud!!!

Wonder if Rolls Royce will do the same with their cars Tony, they can't have been the best, can they, they would still be selling them.

If arrangers were never made at all it would make no difference to me. I'd simply play the piano, organ, or other keyboards and synthesizers available like always.

Good topic, Donny.

I'm pretty comfortable with the Tyros4, and wasn't tempted in the slightest by the Tyros5...or anything else from the other brands.

My arranger has all I need for the present and whatever comes along...it provides a good base to work from.

I have learned to dig in and maximize what I use, which in the case of the arranger, means editing and putting together new styles, as to me, that's what will make a person's arranger, and music created on it, have it's own signature. I believe the styles are the soul of the arranger. Yes, sounds are as well, but I have all the basics, like a great piano, electric pianos, guitars, saxes, strings, organs etc. and the memory expansion that lets me add more.

I honestly can't see me buying anything else for quite some time.

So, yes, I'd be happy with what I have, and more importantly, I don't think it needs anything to make my experience any better.

Ian

Technics ceased making arrangers because the numbers they sold were insignificant to Matsushita to matter. It doesn't mean the products weren't top notch or sold poorly, it just means the numbers weren't high enough for Matsushita to keep Technics viable to the corporation. When you're a multi billion dollar corporation, selling a few hundred thousand or so MOTL and TOTL arrangers is inconsequential. Those are the cold hard facts.

Yamaha is worth but a small fraction of Matsushita. What Yamaha may consider viable sales because a product generates a smaller revenue Matsushita sees it differently.