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color=#0000ff size=2>The sampling differs across makes and models, but except
for perhaps the high-end Kurzweil it is not every note. The general rule is they
sample about one note every octave and then mathematically extrapolate the one
note to the next five semitones up and down. Play an electronic keyboard
chromatically and you can often hear the jumps when the sample
switches.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David
Ilvedson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 20, 2006 8:40 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Stretching and electric
pianos<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>When they sample a piano they are sampling the sound and the
tuning. I don't know if they sample for every note?...but it
seems to me the tuning would match a piano...why not just play one with a real
piano and see if is close enough...? It will be. If
anything playing together will give a fatter sound if not perfectly in
tune.<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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Original message<BR>From: "Philippe Errembault"
<PHIL.ERREMBAULT@SKYNET.BE><BR>To: "Pianotech List"
<PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 3/20/2006 4:32:13 AM<BR>Subject: Stretching and
electric pianos<BR><BR>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all, just a quetion about electric
pianos...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does any of you have an idea if electric pianos are
stretched to allow to have them tuned with a real piano, or not ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippe
Errembault</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>