Software Instruments Don't Sound Like the Instrument?

I am new to GarageBand and find it has great functionality - I've been very quickly able to link up a MIDI keyboard, and mix that with some iTunes tracks etc to get the final output I want.
But there is one area where I think something must be going wrong and that's the sound that the various software instruments make. There are a huge variety of them, some of them with quite subtle differences between them according to the name. But many of them don't sound anything like the instrument they proport to represent.
Starting with pianos - when I'm creating tracks I frequently start with a piano playing the tune. However, most of the piano software instruments sound nothing at all like a piano.
Take Grand Piano as an example - this just sounds like an electronic keyboard. Pretty much the only piano instrument that sounds like a piano that I've been able to find is "Grand Piano on Stage".
Seems somehow like with only some of the instruments GarageBand is using the synth data to produce a real instrument sound and with others it is just playing an electronic tone that bears no relation to the instrument sound.
Has anyone else seen this problem?

it means those instruments are not actually installed on your machine, for some reason. you should reinstall GB:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#reinstallgb
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

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