I don't know if you read all comments, but I'll try to reach out to you anyway. I thought about the knot you used to tie the strings together (råbandsknop, don't know an English name). Maybe the strings didn't always snap but instead it was the knot that gave out? There are probably better knots for this purpose. I would try fiskarknop. Here's a video tutorial for that. th-cam.com/video/3aR6J-sOK3Q/w-d-xo.html
They are soo much expensive here in Brazil. I felt the same as you.The strings were in a good condition too, they were not bad, they were a bit rusty, but OMFG 230 string cost 4000R$ here in Brazil, and I'm not counting the price that the tuner would charge for doing the service of putting all strings. Sorry for my english, I hope you have a great day.
@Jasson Poirier I can tune a piano in 90 minutes Restringing takes hours and requires multiple full tunings, and that's if you're stretching the strings manually, if you let them stretch naturally it takes days before it's ready
I don't get why people are afraid to change strings. I haven't even played for a year (i do play a lot though) and I've changed them like 6 times because i destroy them so fast. It takes like 15 minutes to do all of them.
@@oscareo754 if your head isn't right next to the guitar there is literally no way a broken string can hit your eye lol. Quit whispering in its ear while you're restringing it.
im the piano technician and tunist, you know why that sounds is muted when you are playing, it is because you forgot to insert the strings in the pressure bar between tuning pins, i also congratulate you for your determination in piano tuning, good job 😅
When my father was 12, he actually did this to a tiny children’s piano in order to teach himself how to play because his family couldn’t afford one. He said he was amazed by this video
I think it was the piano making the sacrifice but yeah that was a ton of work lol. I wonder though if cutting the strings in order maybe tweaked the harp a bit?
some suggestions for you: - Use bass strings for the lower octaves, they're longer and stronger. - Start with tuning the lower strings as they add the most tension, and will have the largest overall effect on the other strings tuning. - But cheap strings like the ones you bought will rarely go above F4 - G4. High quality strings will usually go up to A#5 I know this was just an experiment for the lolz, so I wouldn't expect you to go into too great lengths to make this sound better. Nonetheless great video!
Pianos have to be tuned to harmonics, since the strings are not ideal and the harmonics are progressively sharper the higher the harmonic number. Not a problem on string instruments where there’s
_Mattias: starts cutting piano strings_ _Every fan of his that's a musician:_ *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
Just some advice from someone who has restrung a piano before: - Personally I suggest cutting the strings off between the pressure bar and the tuning pins as it is a lot safer. If you want you can even carefully use the angle grinder to cut all the strings off. - After restringing the piano I suggest putting the capo bar back on but in your case you used thin guitar strings so they would have probably broke when you screwed it in anyway. - Also for the Bass overstrung section if possible try using using bass guitar strings but I doubt they will fit through the tuning pins anyway. fact: A set of new piano strings would be cheaper than guitar strings coming in at around $800 or so. Really good job of the video 👍
@@MrFlashpoint1978 Thank you MrFlash!!! It was out of tune as a piano, and now it's worse! His mom should be yelling: "You could have cleaned your room 236 times in the time you wasted on that stupidity!" You know what... At least now we know not to do that. Thanks Matt
Absolute piano gore. I think every piano tuner cried out in horror at the same time. Pianos may be built to withstand a lot of tension, but they're built to handle EVEN amounts of tension. If he'd loosened the strings by making several passes it would have been much safer for the piano. If he had done it by sequentially cutting every third string, it probably would have been fine too. But man... going from right to left at full tension, I guarantee you he warped the damn thing. Who knows how many cracks were introduced into the wood as well. I know he's probably using some throwaway piano, but good god that was horrifying.
Many of you are asking me to sample this (or make a VST not sure what is the smartest). But OMG it seems complicated even finding someone who I can hire to do it. If you know someone, or are interested yourself to make it happen, please contact me at the e-mail in my bio. I've sent a mail to all the companies like spitfire, splice, spectrasonics but from looking at their website, I can tell that it's very unlikely they would be interested. Because it's barely possible to get in contact with them for any request what so ever. but I'm trusting the power of internet now because I think I've done what I can! :D
There is a cool website called www.pianobook.co.uk that was created by the peeps at spitfire audio. It's a place where people can upload their sampled instruments for everyone to download. You should be able to get in touch with a contributor there!
You'd probably want to get someone from one of the smaller sample companies that's just one or two guys (like me). But Sweden is pretty far from California. I think you'd be pretty lucky to even get an e-mail response from one of the larger companies, but there are a lot of smaller companies, a few in Europe. There are also a few that specialize in weird sounds - soniccouture comes to mind, they are based in London. You could also make it yourself using something like Kontakt and some decent microphones, but it's a lot of work, hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours - I don't keep track, but it's pretty time consuming, especially editing the samples. Personally, I like taking the time to make the VST/AU/AAX plugin versions because not everyone has the proper license to run a third-party Kontakt library, or else you have to pay Native Instruments a royalty fee to make your plugin compatible with their Kontakt Player. Not all of these companies know how to do audio DSP C++ programming to make VST versions though, a lot of them just use Kontakt, which is a drag+drop GUI and some simple scripting when needed.
@@helenagutierrez284 Not really. This is something that would happen in a piano workshop if the strings are in bad shape. Most of the time piano players don't even tune the piano themselves.
it sounds so pretty. i didnt expect it to sound like a guitar cause like pianos and guitar strings are played in two differnt ways but i certainly didnt expect it to sound like this- kinda like an old piano
Yoooo!! I'm a piano technician in training, this actually was really fun to see. Usually when we restring uprights, we will tip it on its side and it makes the whole process much easier. (our strings usually don't break and we also cut them to the proper length haha). The tuning wasn't bad at the end, definitely could've used improvement, but not bad for a guitar tuning app! You did a great job this makes me want to totally mess up my piano haha. Also if you ever decide to do more things like this, get a tuning hammer/tuning lever, it's the tool we use to tune. A cheap one may be around $100 or so, but it fits the tuning pins easily and you'll have much more control over the pitch than with a regular ratchet
You can find a much cheaper tuning hammer that will serve his purpose. But never encourage this kind of Tom foolery. He could have busted the plate cutting the original wires like that and possibly injured himself when that 35,000 lbs of tension broke loose. Only a fool with a death wish would attempt something like this. - piano technician 36 years
I actually really like the way it sounds both before and after tuning. before it was tuned it had a clock chime like sound then after it was tuned had a somewhat ruff but still somber sound.
lol i remember the comments from the "i put piano strings onto a guitar" and everyone was telling him to do the reverse and the mad lad actually did it
Does anyone else unironically like the sound of an out-of-tune piano? I work as a videographer, and a lot of the time, clients have random old pianos in their house or garage. They are never in tune, but I always play them anyway. There is something comfy about that sound, as if the piano is saying "don't worry brother, I'm still here for you. I'll do my best"
I create soundtracks and often try to find pianos that aren’t perfect but have some persona. Every time I use the Mrs Mills piano sample set people say it sounds like the Beatles. Well it’s the exactly same piano!
It did hit me right at the start, it gives it a pretty sad extra tone to it, like, trying as well as it can to play it but just not making it by a little. Honestly, can enhance the song even on some cases (here as an example)... yeah not as badly out of tune as the guitar string one but the beginning, that one sounded honestly awesome.
I think it's formally called a "brasted piano". It works better if the piece is composed with that sound in mind as opposed to River Flows in You. Here's an example I love: th-cam.com/video/9OYD-iS5pmI/w-d-xo.html
Well it depends... if you can't really notice it bc it still sounds kind of harmonic on it's own it's okay but this E was so horribly out of tune I couldn't take it 😂
Hi Mattias, just came across your video. What an amazing thing to do! I am/was a fellow inventor (when I was younger), and some time ago I worked on what could be called a version of your project that sits at the other end of the spectrum to yours - I designed and built an instrument with 81 electric guitar strings fastened onto 3 vertical wood planks about the same length and thickness as a Gibson SG guitar, and with extra-long electric guitar pickups mounted in them. I made small metal triangle-shaped hammers out of very strong wire, bought a set of upright piano keys and the piano action that went with them from a company that manufactured those, changed the hammers over to mine, built an aluminium frame with lots of triangular shapes to make it all rock solid, married up the piano keys and action to the vertical planks with the strings and pickups, added the usual wiring and an electric guitar lead, then plugged the other end of the lead into a traditional Marshall valve amp for electric guitar and a 4 x 12 speaker cabinet. Then I sat down at the keyboard and played it. It took 12 years and around £14,000.00 to do this. What was I thinking? It was a labour of love, that's for sure. The first time I tried playing the instrument was a wonderful moment. I was really satisfied, because all the mechanism and everything really worked, even better than I had expected - so in terms of the design of all that, it was a complete success. But it didn't sound right, for various reasons I eventually was able to figure out over the months that followed. By then I had run out of money though, so I had to pull the plug on the project. Around 6 years ago I dug out some 8mm film a friend had shot not long after the instrument was finished, of me putting it all together in my bedroom and then playing it. With the help of Great Bear Audio & Video Digitising in Bristol, we turned that old film and photos of some of the notes and drawings I had done during the initial design phase of the work, into a TH-cam video. That video has been on TH-cam for the past 6 years, but often I have not gone on there and checked it for many months. Today I did that again and found a few new comments, so I replied to them. Then I saw the link to your video here, and was intrigued and so had a watch. All I can say about what you have done, is that you are a genius! I used to play acoustic piano too, and I taught myself how to tune those, so I really appreciate how much effort you had to put into this project, and how difficult it was for you to get it to work. Inventing is often a challenging business, a solitary one that tends to bring little reward to the inventor, except for the simple satisfaction from achieving the end result itself. And as you well know, it's always expensive. I tip my hat to you!! I called my instrument the upright electric guitar. Here is a link to the TH-cam video, in case you want to take a look: th-cam.com/video/pXIzCWyw8d4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NelsonJohnson Great Bear Studios also have a client blog page, and I did a full write-up of the project to create the instrument as seen in the link above, which is still on their blog page, as a "Guest post": thegreatbear.co.uk/video-tape/8mm-hi8-video-tape-digitising-upright-electric-guitar/ Here's wishing you success in whatever you are up to now. People like us are few and far between these days... All the best, Nelson
Being a pianist and piano repair person, when he cut the strings off with snips....that made me uncomfortable because we never do that. At least at the place I work for. 1 because it’s unsafe being that the strings are under high tension, and 2...because we loosen the pins and unwind the strings. But granted, with guitar strings that are tied together, and being that they’re under that much tension, the mid range notes sound pretty good. However the bass notes don’t sound very good. They don’t have enough sound.
Here's the question that has to be asked, probably already has been asked, and maybe already has an answer: Have you strung, or do you plan to string, a guitar with piano wire?
@@codymurdock3111 I did find this after posting my comment, and I mostly expected to, which is why I said maybe the question was already answered. th-cam.com/video/u1ITBxBD-wg/w-d-xo.html
@@xortab I expect you realise it's be smarter to look at literally his other post and realise he's done this than to type a weirdly articulated paragraph asking about it.
I feel like if someone took the time to really work out the technical kinks and stuff, and made actually proportional strings, this could be an actual instrument of its own. It really does kinda sound like the cross between a guitar and a piano when you start playing it.
Fender: you made us look bad! We aint gonna sponsor you for our strings on a piano! You: oh yeah? Well viewed this is how well fender strings hold up past tuning! (Snaps past 2 notes) Gibson: well done! We reel in in dough now! Thanks bro! Our strings would hold way better. Ours work for an entire octave! Honestly amazing though. People like you inspire new ways of making music.
this is what the internet is for.... i'm glad when my stupid questions or ideas are answered by somebody else doing all the hard work... THANK YOU... i will sleep well tonight
I'm amazed you were able to get this to work at all, doubly amazed at how good it ultimately sounded, and triply amazed you actually went through with this huge amount of work. I think anyone else would've given up.
God, and I’m scared when I have to tune my high E string after putting new strings on... Can’t imagine the fear I would have doing what you did at the end lmao
It was super out of tune to start with. Often pianos like that people put outside their house with a free notice on because they don’t want it anymore or they moved in and the house already had one the previous occupant didn’t take with them
@@Mattiaskrantz hey man, anyone that can tie those strings and string them BY HAND and sit through that many string breaks and STILL produce a video this good deserves to be on the YT front page!
Guitar string brand: "what a bad idea, i wont waste my money giving u strings" Also guitar string brand: *loses probably the best guitar string merchandising in history*
Rafael Vázquez The brand can’t exactly be held accountable for their product breaking when it’s pushed absurdly far beyond the limits of anything that was ever intended or even necessary for what a guitar requires. It would be like walking into a China store and testing the quality of the implements by dropping them on the floor A modern piano requires a giant cast iron plate so as not to implode from all the string tension, meanwhile a nylon string guitar can implode just from the added tension of switching the strings out for steel guitar strings As pointed out at the timestamp I left, the strings breaking every 5 seconds is _exactly_ to be expected and should in no way reflect negatively on the quality of the strings themselves but on the craziness of the task at hand
I could imagine in a post-apocalyptic movie, the MC found a piano in a ruined down building. Took it back to his lonely shelter, restored it with everything he/she found over the course of months, finally playing a lullaby his/her parents sang to them while they were a kid. I wonder if someone already did this kind of movie?
Didn't someone do this in a way in real life but in an asian country with a violin when western instruments were banned? Ah, yes, it was the red violin and with the in china segment. Always a cool character background story.
Missilion Productions Considering I don’t exactly have in person lessons rn and the guy I was going to, while a great guy and fun to jam with, wasn’t really qualified to teach, I’m considering fender play. should’ve realized that from the beginning. He was a dude in a band at some company party and I was his first ever “student.” Don’t get me wrong, he still taught me an incredible amount of skills, but I feel a real teacher would probably be more effective.
I bet that string company really wished they had sponsored this now. Instead of a great timeless add they now just have Mattias breaking their strings for all eternity.
JOIN DISCORD NOW! I will be there and chat: discord.gg/vErcrzU5Ud
jeg bliver så forvirret, er du fra Danmark?
I don't know if you read all comments, but I'll try to reach out to you anyway. I thought about the knot you used to tie the strings together (råbandsknop, don't know an English name). Maybe the strings didn't always snap but instead it was the knot that gave out? There are probably better knots for this purpose. I would try fiskarknop. Here's a video tutorial for that. th-cam.com/video/3aR6J-sOK3Q/w-d-xo.html
Dude I just noticed that the music in the description is the video title
He’s from Sweden
Loved the pink panther
I highly respect the amount of depression and anxiety this probably caused.
never again plz
Let’s Change subject please😂
@@Mattiaskrantz why would u torture urself like this my friend 😂😂😂 good job tho the way u shot this video was very cool.
Mattias Krantz so whens the “I PUT NYLON STRINGS ON A PIANO” vid coming out?
@@lvrbass
Would the cuts from strings breaking be better or worse?
wow, I wasn't expecting it to sound like an actual guitar piano hybrid but it does
oh hello
recommended?
Especially on the left hand. Kind of grungy. I like it.
Hi guys, what’s up!
@@Mattiaskrantz I was expecting more of a piano soundlike honestly. Really hard there, thanks for your time
Someone tell jared dines this man made a 210 string guitar.
Hahaha
Thank you😂😂
0 frets 210 string guitar
@@erikgelfat367 but the sustaaaaaaiiiin
But...
Does it djent?
this is actually hella impressive, I'm surprised it worked at all tbh
joe mama , my *man*
Wow you are here
Thanks Joe! Yeah haha same
its the anime piano man
@@ed-fm joe my mama man
now call up a piano technition, and ask him whats wrong with ur piano.
And when he say that these are not Piano strings, tell him that the music shop attendant assured it that they are.
HAHAHA pls do that
This comment chain is so good. I’m the worlds worst actor but I will see what I can do😂
Just say that the piano was passed down for years as an heirloom, looks old enough right?
You just bought it on eBay and want to know if it can be tuned and fixed. Lmao please do it !!
As a pianist, I screamed when you started cutting the strings.
They are soo much expensive here in Brazil. I felt the same as you.The strings were in a good condition too, they were not bad, they were a bit rusty, but OMFG 230 string cost 4000R$ here in Brazil, and I'm not counting the price that the tuner would charge for doing the service of putting all strings.
Sorry for my english, I hope you have a great day.
My heart broke and my family’s ancestral cow passed out
As a human being, me too
Not a pianist but I started to scream too
@@MiruKado 🤣
yo this is actually an insane amount of work
I'm a piano tech
Putting strings on is probably the worst part of my entire job
Hahaha yeaah... it was😂
@Jasson Poirier I can tune a piano in 90 minutes
Restringing takes hours and requires multiple full tunings, and that's if you're stretching the strings manually, if you let them stretch naturally it takes days before it's ready
And money
Now he has to put piano strings back on
"Number 5: I need to buy 210 guitar strings"
Me: So this is how math problems are created
Underrated comment
More if you count the variable of many of them breaking in the process
🤣 that’s fabulous!
Piano has 88 keys, but some keys have 3 strings per note
I'm scared when changing strings on my guitar and this guy just did a whole piano.
Hahaha😂
I don't get why people are afraid to change strings. I haven't even played for a year (i do play a lot though) and I've changed them like 6 times because i destroy them so fast. It takes like 15 minutes to do all of them.
Squid Master coming from someone who was struck in the eye by a b string (whilst wearing glasses) there will come a time where you fear tuning too
@@oscareo754 if your head isn't right next to the guitar there is literally no way a broken string can hit your eye lol. Quit whispering in its ear while you're restringing it.
Squid Master you don’t understand the guitar needs positive affirmation while being tuned for it to sound right
I just discovered a new deeper meaning for the word ''determination''
This was a quicker build than Martin Molin's MMX.
you cannot spell it without Termination
and "maniacality"
I love your videos
You spelled “masochism” wrong
“So what do you play?”
“It’s uhh.... Complicated”
"I play the Guiano"
@@facepalm7606 i would've say "i play the Piatar
Tienes mucha suerte créeme.
I play Tascam+pedals alot but this is even harder to explain to people I think.
Acoustic Keytar
im the piano technician and tunist, you know why that sounds is muted when you are playing, it is because you forgot to insert the strings in the pressure bar between tuning pins, i also congratulate you for your determination in piano tuning, good job 😅
"So, I spent days of labor putting guitar stings on a piano, anyway, here's Wonderwall."
Hahaha
So i starterd shooting
When my father was 12, he actually did this to a tiny children’s piano in order to teach himself how to play because his family couldn’t afford one. He said he was amazed by this video
mad respect for this guy willing to sacrifice so much for us
Thank you😂
Mattias Krantz I would quit after the first string, you are extremely dedicated
Much respect this is one of my favorite videos!! It was so worth the time!!!
I think it was the piano making the sacrifice but yeah that was a ton of work lol. I wonder though if cutting the strings in order maybe tweaked the harp a bit?
"If your piano has six strings, you have a guitar, my friend."
--Jon Batiste
The next video should be “How to install new piano strings.” Step 1: remove old guitar strings.....
Step 2: install new harp strings
Step 3. Get new piano.
Step 4: Repeat
@@jameswolfe6195 HA!
Why using the Harpischord effect on my electrical piano when I can just buy a piano and replace the strings with 210 guitar strings? I’m so dumb
Yes just ordered a piano bro?
authentic
very dumb of you
exactly
I mean, probably still cheaper than buying an actual harpsichord.
some suggestions for you:
- Use bass strings for the lower octaves, they're longer and stronger.
- Start with tuning the lower strings as they add the most tension, and will have the largest overall effect on the other strings tuning.
- But cheap strings like the ones you bought will rarely go above F4 - G4. High quality strings will usually go up to A#5
I know this was just an experiment for the lolz, so I wouldn't expect you to go into too great lengths to make this sound better.
Nonetheless great video!
As if replacing the strings isnt hard enough 🤣
LOL, I was just "LIKE" number 666.
Pianos have to be tuned to harmonics, since the strings are not ideal and the harmonics are progressively sharper the higher the harmonic number. Not a problem on string instruments where there’s
Yes, but I love the sound. Please keep working on it.
He made it this far, it's not the time to quit.
_Mattias: starts cutting piano strings_
_Every fan of his that's a musician:_
*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
im not even a musician and i had the exact same reaction
@@Fighter_Builder it's hurts
Whyyyy amskxkaozla
Me being a pianist feeling all of the pain:
I could of used those....
Friend: "oh can you play guitar?"
Mattias: *YESN'T*
Well ye but actually no
Well technically but not really
I usually don’t leave comments, but after seeing that price tag.... this guy needs all the support he can get
Thank you Tom😂🙏🙏
@@Mattiaskrantz next is harp with guitar string
Tom LeBlanc Offspring 🔥
It sounds like one of those old jovial pianos you’d find in a western saloon.
Might’ve found a future use for the old beast😂😂
The good ol’ Honky-tonk sound.
Hannah Crenshaw was thinking the same! Or haunted house.
Just some advice from someone who has restrung a piano before:
- Personally I suggest cutting the strings off between the pressure bar and the tuning pins as it is a lot safer. If you want you can even carefully use the angle grinder to cut all the strings off.
- After restringing the piano I suggest putting the capo bar back on but in your case you used thin guitar strings so they would have probably broke when you screwed it in anyway.
- Also for the Bass overstrung section if possible try using using bass guitar strings but I doubt they will fit through the tuning pins anyway.
fact: A set of new piano strings would be cheaper than guitar strings coming in at around $800 or so.
Really good job of the video 👍
And I thought re-stringing a 12 took a lot of time
😂😂
😆
Who knew: piano + guitar strings = loosely string harpsichord
Hahaha true Kelly
lol you beat me to it
Totally agree!
As a pianist who's also learned how to tune, I cringe. However, I at the same time find the tone appealing in some ways. Quite the experiment.
It's like nails down a chalkboard.
So much out of tune it hurts
@@MrFlashpoint1978 Thank you MrFlash!!!
It was out of tune as a piano, and now it's worse! His mom should be yelling:
"You could have cleaned your room
236 times in the time you wasted on that stupidity!"
You know what...
At least now we know not to do that. Thanks Matt
Its out of tune to imitate at best the average guitar player. Genius
It's just too out of tune to make any kind of assessment.
7:02 they had us in the first half, not gonna lie
The wonder wall doesn’t actually sound too bad on the guiano
No actually not, it’s like it’s made for it😂
pitar*
guiano?
guiarno?
giarno?
giorno? :0 is this a jojo reference
Looking for a full Version! (Subscribed)
I searched up Guiano on TH-cam and it took me to a channel named Guiano with over 100k subs.
I believe this is what Adam Neely would call a “high effort meme”
Hahaha thanks😂
Imagine having to tune a piano every day for a month until the strings finally set.
All those damn G's.....
Do they do that😅
A piano in production usually gets 2-3 pre tunings and then 2-4 regular tunings
knallfroosch still sounds like a lot of work
I don't play piano but seeing the strings get cut so quickly and violently had my heart totally stopping in my chest
Friend: So you play the piano?
Me: Yes but actually no.
Hahaha😂
When he cut all those strings i died a little inside
Hahah so sorry
Lol ikr
Me too! And I don't even play the piano.
i felt my heart break when he snapped all the piano strings. yikes.
Sorry😭
@@Mattiaskrantz I don't have any know how of piano strings but can't you take them off for re use later instead of yanking them?
@@MetaDude ikr
Absolute piano gore. I think every piano tuner cried out in horror at the same time. Pianos may be built to withstand a lot of tension, but they're built to handle EVEN amounts of tension. If he'd loosened the strings by making several passes it would have been much safer for the piano. If he had done it by sequentially cutting every third string, it probably would have been fine too. But man... going from right to left at full tension, I guarantee you he warped the damn thing. Who knows how many cracks were introduced into the wood as well. I know he's probably using some throwaway piano, but good god that was horrifying.
Yeah it was physically painful
Next video : "Why is my house haunted by Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven and Bach?"
Many of you are asking me to sample this (or make a VST not sure what is the smartest). But OMG it seems complicated even finding someone who I can hire to do it. If you know someone, or are interested yourself to make it happen, please contact me at the e-mail in my bio. I've sent a mail to all the companies like spitfire, splice, spectrasonics but from looking at their website, I can tell that it's very unlikely they would be interested. Because it's barely possible to get in contact with them for any request what so ever. but I'm trusting the power of internet now because I think I've done what I can! :D
Ok dad
Well, only one man is crazy enough to fly out and sample this.
Time to summon Mick Gordon.
GREAT VID🔥
There is a cool website called www.pianobook.co.uk that was created by the peeps at spitfire audio. It's a place where people can upload their sampled instruments for everyone to download. You should be able to get in touch with a contributor there!
You'd probably want to get someone from one of the smaller sample companies that's just one or two guys (like me). But Sweden is pretty far from California. I think you'd be pretty lucky to even get an e-mail response from one of the larger companies, but there are a lot of smaller companies, a few in Europe. There are also a few that specialize in weird sounds - soniccouture comes to mind, they are based in London. You could also make it yourself using something like Kontakt and some decent microphones, but it's a lot of work, hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours - I don't keep track, but it's pretty time consuming, especially editing the samples. Personally, I like taking the time to make the VST/AU/AAX plugin versions because not everyone has the proper license to run a third-party Kontakt library, or else you have to pay Native Instruments a royalty fee to make your plugin compatible with their Kontakt Player. Not all of these companies know how to do audio DSP C++ programming to make VST versions though, a lot of them just use Kontakt, which is a drag+drop GUI and some simple scripting when needed.
Lort just changing strings on my floyd rose stressed me out. No idea how you survived this lol
Hahaha I don’t know either😂
I was just bitching about that then I saw this video and I feel better now
Not to be ignorant, but pianists change their strings? :0
Sup Famelot!
@@helenagutierrez284 Not really. This is something that would happen in a piano workshop if the strings are in bad shape. Most of the time piano players don't even tune the piano themselves.
it sounds so pretty. i didnt expect it to sound like a guitar cause like pianos and guitar strings are played in two differnt ways but i certainly didnt expect it to sound like this- kinda like an old piano
See you in 4 years when youtube recommends this randomly
See you then Lars😂
IT DID.
Yep
okay
See ya
Yoooo!! I'm a piano technician in training, this actually was really fun to see. Usually when we restring uprights, we will tip it on its side and it makes the whole process much easier. (our strings usually don't break and we also cut them to the proper length haha). The tuning wasn't bad at the end, definitely could've used improvement, but not bad for a guitar tuning app! You did a great job this makes me want to totally mess up my piano haha.
Also if you ever decide to do more things like this, get a tuning hammer/tuning lever, it's the tool we use to tune. A cheap one may be around $100 or so, but it fits the tuning pins easily and you'll have much more control over the pitch than with a regular ratchet
You can find a much cheaper tuning hammer that will serve his purpose.
But never encourage this kind of Tom foolery.
He could have busted the plate cutting the original wires like that and possibly injured himself when that 35,000 lbs of tension broke loose.
Only a fool with a death wish would attempt something like this.
- piano technician 36 years
Pianist heart attack as he started cutting the strings...
My anxiety went 📈
Broooo frrrr
Can’t make a gui-ano without breaking a few strings
Han dödade pianot och skapade ett monster!
My favorite types of pianos to play are gritty upright ones like that and watching the strings being snapped en masse was painful.
I actually really like the way it sounds both before and after tuning. before it was tuned it had a clock chime like sound then after it was tuned had a somewhat ruff but still somber sound.
lol i remember the comments from the "i put piano strings onto a guitar" and everyone was telling him to do the reverse and the mad lad actually did it
Hahaha😂😂
I was shocked when he cut ALL the strings and not just two octaves!
I didn't think he'd do it, this man is a folk legend
him: spends days on end on this project
him: anyway, here’s wonderwall
Hahaha I just saw your comment right before the actual wonderwall song.
This is incredible, I hope this video makes back the money and time you spent doing the Lord’s work
“The lords”
He IS the Lord.
What Lord??
Love you guys
The Lord's work? 😂
1:33 if you listen close enough, you can hear my heart cracking 😄
This version of "River Flows In You" sounds like someone's being chased in an old factory by a mad killer
Honestly it was beautiful I loved it
River of blood flows out of you
Dude mad respect for this v big brain 🤯
Shut up
Lmao
he coulda solved all these sound issues with an ott or three
@@randommusic4u163 yea u right
Hahaha thank you😂
This man really has a portrait of davie casually sitting on his counter
He’s just so beautiful
Slap like now
Do it now
He needs it for therapy session lol
Yah
Love the "fan" that slipped out at 9:57
Also fun to see another swede on youtube =)
Great content mate =D
So, yes. It sounded like a jacked piano. It’s still a hammer on strings.
Hahah yeah good description
like a guitar piano
When you love to play piano but your crush says she likes guitarists
😂
Does anyone else unironically like the sound of an out-of-tune piano? I work as a videographer, and a lot of the time, clients have random old pianos in their house or garage. They are never in tune, but I always play them anyway. There is something comfy about that sound, as if the piano is saying "don't worry brother, I'm still here for you. I'll do my best"
I create soundtracks and often try to find pianos that aren’t perfect but have some persona. Every time I use the Mrs Mills piano sample set people say it sounds like the Beatles. Well it’s the exactly same piano!
It did hit me right at the start, it gives it a pretty sad extra tone to it, like, trying as well as it can to play it but just not making it by a little.
Honestly, can enhance the song even on some cases (here as an example)... yeah not as badly out of tune as the guitar string one but the beginning, that one sounded honestly awesome.
I think it's formally called a "brasted piano". It works better if the piece is composed with that sound in mind as opposed to River Flows in You. Here's an example I love: th-cam.com/video/9OYD-iS5pmI/w-d-xo.html
"Don't worry brother, I'm still here for you. I'll do my best," sounds like the most wholesome and sad thing I've ever heard
Well it depends... if you can't really notice it bc it still sounds kind of harmonic on it's own it's okay but this E was so horribly out of tune I couldn't take it 😂
5:56 That... That was...
Beautiful..
I will never complain about the time it takes me to restring my 7 string guitar again
Hahaha
Get a set of locking tuners, takes like a quarter of the time to restring
Unless it has a floyd rose.. Then you're fucked
Ramadan Steve I would have shot myself by now if I had a Floyd trem on it or just took it to a luthier😂
I play a twelve string so it takes a fatass minute
Jose Lopez requinto? I also have a 12 string takamine g30
MIDI piano players: yo this is old shit for me
Hahaha
Lmao WORD
Fr tho
HAHAHAHHA It hurts
What the string even is?
As a huge horror fan I actually really like the sound in the end result.
Lol so true
Hi Mattias, just came across your video. What an amazing thing to do!
I am/was a fellow inventor (when I was younger), and some time ago I worked on what could be called a version of your project that sits at the other end of the spectrum to yours - I designed and built an instrument with 81 electric guitar strings fastened onto 3 vertical wood planks about the same length and thickness as a Gibson SG guitar, and with extra-long electric guitar pickups mounted in them. I made small metal triangle-shaped hammers out of very strong wire, bought a set of upright piano keys and the piano action that went with them from a company that manufactured those, changed the hammers over to mine, built an aluminium frame with lots of triangular shapes to make it all rock solid, married up the piano keys and action to the vertical planks with the strings and pickups, added the usual wiring and an electric guitar lead, then plugged the other end of the lead into a traditional Marshall valve amp for electric guitar and a 4 x 12 speaker cabinet. Then I sat down at the keyboard and played it.
It took 12 years and around £14,000.00 to do this. What was I thinking? It was a labour of love, that's for sure.
The first time I tried playing the instrument was a wonderful moment. I was really satisfied, because all the mechanism and everything really worked, even better than I had expected - so in terms of the design of all that, it was a complete success. But it didn't sound right, for various reasons I eventually was able to figure out over the months that followed. By then I had run out of money though, so I had to pull the plug on the project.
Around 6 years ago I dug out some 8mm film a friend had shot not long after the instrument was finished, of me putting it all together in my bedroom and then playing it. With the help of Great Bear Audio & Video Digitising in Bristol, we turned that old film and photos of some of the notes and drawings I had done during the initial design phase of the work, into a TH-cam video.
That video has been on TH-cam for the past 6 years, but often I have not gone on there and checked it for many months. Today I did that again and found a few new comments, so I replied to them. Then I saw the link to your video here, and was intrigued and so had a watch.
All I can say about what you have done, is that you are a genius!
I used to play acoustic piano too, and I taught myself how to tune those, so I really appreciate how much effort you had to put into this project, and how difficult it was for you to get it to work.
Inventing is often a challenging business, a solitary one that tends to bring little reward to the inventor, except for the simple satisfaction from achieving the end result itself. And as you well know, it's always expensive. I tip my hat to you!!
I called my instrument the upright electric guitar. Here is a link to the TH-cam video, in case you want to take a look:
th-cam.com/video/pXIzCWyw8d4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NelsonJohnson
Great Bear Studios also have a client blog page, and I did a full write-up of the project to create the instrument as seen in the link above, which is still on their blog page, as a "Guest post":
thegreatbear.co.uk/video-tape/8mm-hi8-video-tape-digitising-upright-electric-guitar/
Here's wishing you success in whatever you are up to now. People like us are few and far between these days...
All the best,
Nelson
Being a pianist and piano repair person, when he cut the strings off with snips....that made me uncomfortable because we never do that. At least at the place I work for. 1 because it’s unsafe being that the strings are under high tension, and 2...because we loosen the pins and unwind the strings.
But granted, with guitar strings that are tied together, and being that they’re under that much tension, the mid range notes sound pretty good. However the bass notes don’t sound very good. They don’t have enough sound.
Thanks for your kind advice. It was for dramatic effect, but realized later that it was a sacrifice😂
Here's the question that has to be asked, probably already has been asked, and maybe already has an answer: Have you strung, or do you plan to string, a guitar with piano wire?
Have you looked at his other videos?
@@codymurdock3111 I did find this after posting my comment, and I mostly expected to, which is why I said maybe the question was already answered.
th-cam.com/video/u1ITBxBD-wg/w-d-xo.html
@@xortab I expect you realise it's be smarter to look at literally his other post and realise he's done this than to type a weirdly articulated paragraph asking about it.
@@ahhhhyes It was a TH-cam comment, not a subpoena.
@@xortab precisely my point fine sir
This man deserves more respect
He did everything himself
It wouldn’t be fun if I cheated!
And thank you!!!
It souns metallic 👍🏼
I amazed about how it worked with the deep tones
I feel like if someone took the time to really work out the technical kinks and stuff, and made actually proportional strings, this could be an actual instrument of its own. It really does kinda sound like the cross between a guitar and a piano when you start playing it.
someone please do this
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic5825 Look for Harpsichord or Clavecin :)
It's sounds like a piano that hadn't hit the puberty yet lmaooooo
Hahahah
i wheezed at this comment 😂😂😂
piano strings on guitar :- exists
mattie :- *UNO REVERSE CARD*
Hahaha
I feel like the piano strings would break the guitar 😂
Killed a piano for science.
Fender: you made us look bad! We aint gonna sponsor you for our strings on a piano!
You: oh yeah? Well viewed this is how well fender strings hold up past tuning!
(Snaps past 2 notes)
Gibson: well done! We reel in in dough now! Thanks bro! Our strings would hold way better. Ours work for an entire octave! Honestly amazing though. People like you inspire new ways of making music.
This could 100% be used as an instrument in a horror movie.
Yeah hahaha
this is what the internet is for....
i'm glad when my stupid questions or ideas are answered by somebody else doing all the hard work...
THANK YOU... i will sleep well tonight
“I swear to God if you play Wonderwall on that guitar one more time”
Hahaha
T O D A Y
I S
G O N N A
B E
T H E
D A Y
I'm amazed you were able to get this to work at all, doubly amazed at how good it ultimately sounded, and triply amazed you actually went through with this huge amount of work. I think anyone else would've given up.
the piano needed to be tuned before you even replaced the strings lmao
Yes hahah it sounded really bad😂
It hurt so much I had to skip that part
Bruno Neureiter lol
Yeah I legit thought that that intro part was the one with the guitar strings because it sounded so out of tune 😂
@@procrastination2204 Same 😂
Mattias, Mom said you weren’t allowed to take apart the piano?!??
Ooh... I don’t think she will notice?
wait is he ur brother😰
😳😳😳
Seriously is he your brother?🤔
@@advaitsawant2451 looks like it :)
Lets give this guy a billion views so hes work won't be pointless
Hahaha it was for a great cause😂
I hope it does, hes super talented and he would deserve it
I'll share it to my friends
Everybody here is already viewing the video tho...
6:02 I love how the song played was Wonderwall and it actually sounded like Wonderwall good job 👏🏻👍🏻
the buzzing sounds like waiters carrying stacks of plates at a busy restaurant
Hahah true how did you even think about that connection😂
More like waiters carrying stacks of plates at an actual orchestra.
God, and I’m scared when I have to tune my high E string after putting new strings on... Can’t imagine the fear I would have doing what you did at the end lmao
I was scared 90% of the time😂😂
Oh yea, the countless times my E string got ripped when I tuned it 😂😂
Me: Mom can you buy me guitar pls?
Mom: We have Guitar at home Son
Guitar at home:
Hahahaa
son of bill gates or what
lOlllll
@@simonjohn5059 son of a Bill
The low E buzzes like it's on a Fender and the darn G string won't stay in tune. It plays like an Ibenez. Trippy!
The most impressive part about this is that he didn't give up
I impressed myself almost😂
1:24 so what you're telling me is, is that there is a harp in my piano
Dude...don’t make me go pull the piano from the wall
As a pianist, I can confirm.
One of the pre-piano "keyed" instruments is called a "harpsichord", in fact.
They pluck instead of hammer the strings.
This guy is just so cool. He took all this time to do this. And now he has replied to almost all comments. Thats dope man🔥
Afro Sleem thanks for noticing. The comment sections is where it all happens😂
you played river flows in you now i’m officially invested
Imagine after this video, he dicided to put piano strings back on... - a lot of hours
So MANY😂
Man you should consider buying a new(harp like thing) deck of strings of a piano
Teacher: So, what instrument can you play?
Me: *Guitar* *on* *the* *Right* *hand,* *Piano* *on* *the* *left*
Hahaha
OMG LOL I can't imagine the amount of money he will have to use to replace the entire piano strings laKJDKSADLAKDJALD THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE
Hahaha now I know how to do it myself😂
Not only money but also the amount of time and hard work
It was super out of tune to start with. Often pianos like that people put outside their house with a free notice on because they don’t want it anymore or they moved in and the house already had one the previous occupant didn’t take with them
Replacing all the strings on a concert grand harp (47-strings) is around $500 or so, so you can imagine it'll be more for a piano. ☺
My heart at 1:40 stopped
This guy actually replies to comments. Wholesome great content, admirable fan interaction, super talented. Man, why is this not trending?!
I got it in my recommendation, so something is right lol
Thanks Tommy!! Nicest comment ever🙏🙏
Nice thanks for actually clicking Naneomi🙏🙏
@@Mattiaskrantz hey man, anyone that can tie those strings and string them BY HAND and sit through that many string breaks and STILL produce a video this good deserves to be on the YT front page!
Aaaaaand it's trending
Guitar string brand: "what a bad idea, i wont waste my money giving u strings"
Also guitar string brand: *loses probably the best guitar string merchandising in history*
So true😂😂
If the strings could resist a bit more, probably would be worth it... Otherwise, watching strings breaking every 5 seconds is not good for the brand
Rafael Vázquez
2:25
@@littlefishbigmountain Yeah, they compare 18 Tons to 90 kg, what now?
Rafael Vázquez
The brand can’t exactly be held accountable for their product breaking when it’s pushed absurdly far beyond the limits of anything that was ever intended or even necessary for what a guitar requires. It would be like walking into a China store and testing the quality of the implements by dropping them on the floor
A modern piano requires a giant cast iron plate so as not to implode from all the string tension, meanwhile a nylon string guitar can implode just from the added tension of switching the strings out for steel guitar strings
As pointed out at the timestamp I left, the strings breaking every 5 seconds is _exactly_ to be expected and should in no way reflect negatively on the quality of the strings themselves but on the craziness of the task at hand
I could imagine in a post-apocalyptic movie, the MC found a piano in a ruined down building.
Took it back to his lonely shelter, restored it with everything he/she found over the course of months, finally playing a lullaby his/her parents sang to them while they were a kid.
I wonder if someone already did this kind of movie?
Ok, that just me in the feels just reading that. Get this guy a producer!
We need some indie film director to do this
Didn't someone do this in a way in real life but in an asian country with a violin when western instruments were banned? Ah, yes, it was the red violin and with the in china segment. Always a cool character background story.
0:30 ok, now I want a full version of Astronomia played on a piano's strings by hand
Me: **reads the title** ... you did *_w h a t_*
Me: **hears the Guipiano** ... again, you did *_W H A T_*
i just signed up for fender play man. great service
Bro I love you no joke🙏🙏
how is it? honest question
@@A-Wa honestly it's pretty good.
@@Mattiaskrantz thx man appreciate it
Missilion Productions Considering I don’t exactly have in person lessons rn and the guy I was going to, while a great guy and fun to jam with, wasn’t really qualified to teach, I’m considering fender play. should’ve realized that from the beginning. He was a dude in a band at some company party and I was his first ever “student.” Don’t get me wrong, he still taught me an incredible amount of skills, but I feel a real teacher would probably be more effective.
Everyone else: Ok we are going to set this piano professionally, we start by...
Howtobasic: 1:33
Hahaha
I bet that string company really wished they had sponsored this now. Instead of a great timeless add they now just have Mattias breaking their strings for all eternity.
It just kinda sounds like a harpsichord. But hey, you answered one of life’s questions. Your patience and skill is impressive.
Love you Vinny😂
"This is because the guitar string brand did not want to sponsor." 😂
As a pianist, this activated my fight or flight response.
Hahaha really funny comment for some reason😂
Horror movies: I’ll TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK