About 6 years ago I completely rebuilt my grand piano. I did everything but the restringing and the action. During that time I did a lot of research about pianos and tuning and all that. Tuning a piano to absolute pitch sounds like crap. Stretch tuning is what pretty much everybody does. It simply makes it sound richer and that's where the art is in tuning a piano.

String resonance is a very big deal and is a big part of designing a piano. When you read the specs of these expensive piano sound libraries they talk a lot about the resonance and how you can control it with software. People will ask about that on this forum sometimes when they refer to either the freebie Roland VSC or the Forte DXi synth. You don't get that level of control for that kind of money. It costs real bucks and then it's not controlled by General Midi either you have to do it yourself.

Then there's string length. There are whole books on nothing but the history of string length of pianos and how the various companies handled it. Over the years certain standard sizes emerged while other sizes died as failed experiments. Baby grands are 5'2", parlor grands are 5'8". Those sizes didn't happen by accident and there's a huge difference in the sound. 7 footers are pretty common but has anybody ever heard of an 8 foot grand? Me either, not to say they don't exist but if they do they're pretty rare. It jumps to 9. It's all about the physics of sound and our perception of it. It's not simply can it be done it's does it sound good.

Bob

Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.