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FREE Grand Piano Soundfont
for Your Soundcard !!


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Sound samples recorded from a Steinway Model-C (7foot,5inch) grand piano.
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**FREE** Soundfont version can be downloaded from this page **FREE**


Since many other folks use Soundblaster or SF2 format compatible sound cards for MIDI playback, I thought I would share the piano soundfont file I created with those of you using cards which allow for sample uploads.

Mr. Anthony Ponaras, another member of the Northern Virginia Ragtime Society, graciously allowed me to spend a great many hours recording his 1897 Steinway model-C (7foot,5inch) grand piano. I collected several gigabytes of piano samples, recording each of the 88 notes at several strike velocities.

This latest Grand Piano Soundfont is a 25MB full stereo, 44kHz sample version. I think you will find this to be one of the best sounding piano files for your soundcard available for free on the internet.
Even compressed and zipped, the download file is still about 7 Megs, so it may take a while to download using a dial-up modem connection.

Download The Free Zipped Piano Soundfont File by Clicking The Link in The Table Below
Download the 25MB soundfont
USERNAME = july
PASSWORD = flag

Use the username and password shown above

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SoundBlaster
SF2 Format file
Self-Extracting RAR archive inside Zip file.
compressed archive file size = 7MB
Soft-synth users may want to try my 80MB and 40MB versions for the LiveSynthPro and similar DXi plugins. These larger piano soundfonts are available on my CD#4, but they are also available for immediate download by clicking the Amazon.com Honor System contribution link below.
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Self-Extracting RAR archives inside Zip files.
compressed archive file sizes are = 14MB and 22MB
Date of File Revision
09/22/2000
Date of File Revision
08/12/2001

NOTICE FOR "SOUNDBLASTER LIVE!" SOUNDCARD USERS:
The SB-Live card is limited to a maximum useful soundfont size of 32MB. While you can load larger soundfonts into the card, only the first 32MB of samples will play. The rest will be muted. This means my larger (40MB, 80MB, etc.) piano soundfonts will not work properly on the SB-Live card. They will, however, work with the newer Audigy cards.

Also, be sure to download the latest driver software update from Creative Labs (http://www.sblive.com/) to correct several problems with the soundblaster "Live" card. Otherwise, these (and many other) soundfonts may not sound correct when used with the "Soundblaster Live".

For instructions on how to install the soundfont in a Soundblaster AWE-32/64 & Live series soundcards, click here.
Alternatively, check the documentation and help files for your soundcard.

SoundFont® is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. The SoundFont logo is a trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. Sound Blaster® is a registered trademark of Creative Technology, Ltd. Advanced WavEffects, AWE32, AWE64, and the Soundblaster logo are trademarks of Creative Technology, Ltd. All other brand and product names listed are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective owners.


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