Even a good quality plastic part needs to be dimensioned properly to be strong enough. In the case of the Peter Pan a single bracket held in place with two nuts and washers puts too much strain on the plastic to survive repeatedly lifting the accordion by the shoulder straps. I know, you should not carry an accordion by its straps, but that is usually said because the straps may fail, not the treble case or the bracket.
The manufacturer usually designs the molds. They are quite expensive and heavy. I was in the industry for a while. This is nothing, just think of the liability involved in making football helmets!
The obvious answer is yes, there was testing. Also, no one from the first batch had this issue, it was the 2nd batch that suddenly showed issues. It was what it was, somewhere in production something happened.
With so many components that are sources from different places this can happen and no testing process is going to exhaustive though to catch everything.
very well said dingo ........It's how the problem is quickly resolved that matters NOWAll right, all right, we've all had our say and people are in danger of getting heated.
Can we just say sh*t happens even to the best product.
Let's not become petty over it.
I just want to say, Cory is a great accordionist whom I greatly admire!
He's also a great ambassador for the Korg Fisa Suprema, a great product of a great company!
OK, there's been a glitch but that's the price of doing something as opposed to doing nothing: look at the car industry, the mobile phone industry, the aircraft industry, at NASA if you want glitches!
There's no need to turn on each other over things that won't matter in a hundred years.
Press "reset" and let's start over!
I sincerely hope Cory, an ornament to our hobby, will stay on as the valued and appreciated member of our forum which he is!
The same thing happened with the ARP piano from the early 1980s. I had one, and it was a really nice sounding electronic piano for it's time. It used a real wood piano action together with an analog tone generator that actually sounded quite piano like. The problem was they used membrane switches for the key contacts. When a key was at rest, a small rubber roller rested on the upper contact, keeping it closed. When you pressed a key, the roller moved down to the lower contact. The time interval between the opening of the upper contact and the closing of the lower contact controlled the volume of the note.
In this case, the obscurity of the accordion might be a blessing in disguise. I'll be surprised if the FISA makes up even 0.1% of Korg's revenue. Even if they have to redesign this and send every affected customer a newer replacement, it won't make a noticeable dent in Korg's margin.
Lucky that Korg is not that a small fish in a big pond... lol
… and what per cent of Roland’s sales are V-Accordions?
I don't know. I looked at ebay for used Roland accordions and used Roland synthesizers. There are 20 accordions and over 7000 synthesizers and drums. That should be an indicator (ignoring other factors) of the ratio of Roland accordions and keyboards out there.
That nobody uses anymore. Roland has the FR-1 to FR-7 regarding the outdated generations (and there really is no substitute for the speaker-less and consequently lighter instruments), and one could consider the FR-4x as a successor to some of the x series. So the number of "clearly outdated" or "held onto by some old player for 20 years who is now no longer around to play" accordions vs synthesizers might be a bit of a misrepresentation. But the V-accordions were always more of a hobby-horse of the late Roland CEO/owner (?) I think and divesting themselves of that branch entirely would not likely harm Roland.
Thanks for the info on bellow straps. One owner mention they do open a bit when powered off. I would say you need a perfect seal on the bellows.
