Unfortunately I don't have enough spare money to buy an actual grand piano (nor the place to put it; it would probably have to double up as a dining table). But the next best thing seems to be Pianoteq by Modartt. This makes your computer sound like a grand piano (the actual piano keys and pedals being provided by my existing digital piano, which hooks up to the computer by USB), and not by playing sampled notes from real grand pianos either, but by actually calculating the physics of an actual grand piano in real time. Wild. And it even runs natively on Linux!

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