<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff>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> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> 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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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>