Bad bad SoundFonts

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Since I am crawling SF repositories for some time without success in finding any SoundFont I could use to produce quality sound, I am starting a list of SoundFont banks that really made me feel bad about downloading them. I hope that these lists will help somebody else elude what isn't really worth a try.

File name	Unpacked size	As SFARK	Comment
[SF2] GM SoundFonts [shared by ZSF] - Pro Audio 1.0.sf2	372MB	129MB	I didn't find anything worth it. Nothing that I couldn't have with a 4MB SF bank.
000 Classical Piano.sf2	310MB	-	Alright. Something possible with it, but I like more the piano from FluidR3.
[SF2] Piano Mats Helgesson's Yamaha CF-III 3.2 (281,873KB).sf2	275MB	69.6MB	Sounds like a good stuff. But soon I realzed this can happen only in case tones are used isolated from each other. I do not think I will use it for anything.
[SF2] Piano Splendid Grand S6000 (252,351KB).sf2	246MB	70.6MB	I do not know what they filled this bank with but it is not a good piano for certain.