Not much that Yamaha does can be called arbitrary, nearly as I can tell. They have multiple decimal place reasons for anything they do. building lousy student designs by the tens of thousands wouldn't be a very good fit to the rest of their marketing practices. The only thing I have come up with that makes any sense at all (to me, at least) is this: It was pointed out to me many years ago that you can't sell one of anything. If you have two, a buyer will have the illusion of choice, and you'll sell one of them. Having a nasty cheap item to contrast with a much nicer expensive item means you'll sell more of the expensive items than if you didn't have the, nasty one beside it for contrast. Even when the customer fails by buying the nasty item, Yamaha wins because they made a sale, and the customer who bought the nasty item wouldn't have bought the expensive one in any case. So by having a few of those little horrors in the floor, they sell more of the better instruments, and they also sell a bunch of the nasties as well. If the nasties were better sounding instruments, they'd sell more of the cheap nasties and fewer of the better instruments, for a net revenue loss. You can bet they have percentage figures somewhere in the corporate file cabinets. Ron N Jackpot, Bulls eye, Bingo, yes,yes,yes, You pass go and get $200 Ron. This is what is happening. Smoke and mirrors to get you to buy and they win whatever you buy. Milkie,P ____________________________________________________________ Banking Click here to find the perfect banking opportunity! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Tu_96OJzDpvCwcZF-ydvqwAAJ1ButuDroy30iobj4ZCrBRnSAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXeAAAAAA= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100122/67832f69/attachment.htm>
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