Hey, Ian... Sorry, my post wasn't meant to diminish what you do in any way, merely to point out to those that go around ASSuming that what you say, and your opinions, are in any way an official communication from Yamaha (as that prior post seemed to do) or a statement of their official position.
You are always the first to point this out, but somehow the point seldom gets through, does it!
Let's face it, anyone doing this at Yamaha's bequest would be pushing the T2 primarily, not their lower models! We BOTH work and play in little backwaters (I don't worry about that!), so it wasn't meant as a slight. How could it be, if I am in the same position..? There's no bitterness towards you personally, you just tend, because you DO jump in with a 'pro-Yamaha' opinion on just about ANY thread (Yamaha related or not
), to get a lot of the flack and bitterness that is really MEANT for Yamaha.
We're sorry for that, but at times, you DO seem to relish it, in good humor...
Trust me, my recuperating friend, what I posted wasn't meant as a put-down, simply as an acknowledgment of your 'non-official' Yamaha booster stance. I thought you were unfairly singled out in that post, and sought to address it, but I obviously threw the baby out with the bathwater....
Neither of us back off much in our posts to each other, and that's a good thing, as long as we BOTH know it's in a friendly ribbing mode. But occasionally, one or the other (or sometimes BOTH) will get a bit carried away and leave a bad taste... But I know that it's in good faith, and I hope you remain feeling the same way...
Sorry if this one upset you. It wasn't meant to (I THOUGHT there were enough smilies!
). We BOTH toil along in obscurity, and, as much as we both love our particular choices of arrangers, both of us only speak our personal opinions. I represent Roland Corp. as much as you represent Yamaha Corp.
As fans, NOT official spokesmen!