Tied to a grace note.

[vincentl]

How do you play this? If a note is tied to a grace note, do I still play the grace note?

[fleetfingers]

Play the F, not the G.

[vincentl]

Ah, yes, that is what I do in situations like that, but my dilemma is, I think I sort of hear the G, F, E in some recordings, oh and this particular passage is from Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 3.
But maybe my ears are only deceiving me, although I am quite positive that I hear the G,F grace notes.

[gyzzzmo]

The legato bow is just there to emphasize that it is supposed to be played smoothly. If Chopin didnt want to hear that 'G', he wouldnt have written it.
So yes, you have to play the G-F-Eb.

Gyzzzmo

[pianowolfi]

The legato bow is just there to emphasize that it is supposed to be played smoothly.

Yes that's right, the legato slur is just printed badly in this example.

[stevebob]

From John Petrie Dunn’s Ornamentation in the Works of Frederick Chopin (in the chapter called “Examples of the Slide”):

[vincentl]

Thank you for replying everyone, and thank you stevebob for the informative picture. Now I am sure how to handle this passage.