Well known? Sure, Ian

Roland may pick different pianos for different products (unlike Yamaha, who probably HAVE to sample theirs, no matter that many of their customers MIGHT like a nice Steinway, B'dorfer or Kawai!), but I haven't heard of different pianos being assembled into one. Rumor and innuendo do not a FACT make, Ian...

But you know the strangest thing? Yes, you WOULD think that a piano manufacturer would make the best sampled pianos.... But P.Creek is the proof in the pudding (or lack thereof).

IMO, Yamaha sampled pianos, especially those relegated to the arranger line, are some of the nastiest, brittlest, tinniest, thinnest pianos it has ever been my displeasure to listen to. Which their REAL pianos are NOT.

How do you account for this?