I Modified A Barbie Sized Piano To Control ANYTHING - Mini Midi Keyboard

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  • @IrregularShed
    @IrregularShed ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Hearing Barbie say "Lovely jubbly" has made my millennium

    • @yukimoe
      @yukimoe ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It sounds like a Barbie with the soul of a LMNC

    • @Jawst
      @Jawst ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sam's Barbie honestly reminds me of photonic induction 😆

  • @Farull
    @Farull ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Nice! I so wanted to hear Barbie tell you that you didn't know what you were doing though.

  • @DirtyHairy1
    @DirtyHairy1 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Is this a new world record for the biggest instrument played by the smallest mechanical input device?

  • @pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591
    @pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    Now I want to see a Barbie with robotic hands that can play the keyboard.

    • @higihups
      @higihups ปีที่แล้ว +25

      With MIDI in?

    • @InsideOfMyOwnMind
      @InsideOfMyOwnMind ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He could make a device that works like a pantograph so he could play normally on the tiny keys

    • @UmmmmmmmWhat
      @UmmmmmmmWhat ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Especially if Sam can find a Barbie nun outfit complete with a wimple.

    • @Aleph-Noll
      @Aleph-Noll ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeah! do this haha

    • @FrancSchiphorst
      @FrancSchiphorst ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@higihups MIDI to BIMI* to MIDI
      *Barbie Instrument Manual Input

  • @matthew-Williams
    @matthew-Williams ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Barbie needs a spin off series, where she upgrades all her accessories with your help.

    • @markedis5902
      @markedis5902 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Look mum no Ken

    • @quillclock
      @quillclock ปีที่แล้ว +1

      idk how many instrument accessories Barbie has had. i know my sisters had a saxophone and a drum set.
      the sax was just a bent plastic cone with a handle. it was a bigger handle so i think it went to a Ken originally. the drum set was really cool it was all plastic but i remember that every drum had a different tone when you hit them.

    • @rainy2063
      @rainy2063 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreeee

  • @c42cly
    @c42cly ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Hilarious! More Barbie builds please! Love that she is in charge and your the assistant!

  • @tmwinkler
    @tmwinkler ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sir, you are a genius. Love the Barbie voice-over. Love the special effects. And most: love the exquisite irony: a miniature grand piano (ironic in itself) playing a real-life HUGE pipe organ! LMAO! How about emulating a "toy piano" on the synth? Double irony? You never cease to amaze. Well done... just.. well done.

  • @CuriousMarc
    @CuriousMarc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want Barbie to help you build all your future contraptions. It was hilarious!

  • @douglasboyle6544
    @douglasboyle6544 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The fact that you even kept up the Barbie thing for three- and a half minutes amazed me, way to commit to the bit.

  • @Zebra_M
    @Zebra_M ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Between the project itself and your puppeteering skills I was grinning like an idiot the entire time. This is one of my favourite things on the channel now

  • @orlandomicele
    @orlandomicele ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Absolutely love the fact you can play the church organ on that tiny barbie piano total genius

  • @Veptis
    @Veptis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Isn't there like keychain toy Instruments that do a little noise? This is an actually useful experiment. Great.
    This is such a great gag to bring on tour with you too.

  • @kajicky
    @kajicky ปีที่แล้ว +56

    You had way too much fun making this 🤣

  • @azertyytreza8947
    @azertyytreza8947 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    All my life I wrongfully assumed that barbie was all beauty and no brains, but now she appears to be an electrical engineer! Nice 👌🏻

    • @forton615
      @forton615 ปีที่แล้ว

      And a talent for classical music.

  • @niklaswejedal463
    @niklaswejedal463 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Absolute GENIUS!!! 😂🤣😂🤣 Please do make those 3D-printed finger extensions (or at least try to get a hamster to play it!) - I need to see that! And, yes - that is exactly the voice I always imagined Barbie to have! 😂🤣😂🤣

  • @chrisingle5839
    @chrisingle5839 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The original organ builder would never have guessed. Well done!

  • @Kragatar
    @Kragatar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad I was an 80's kid... toys were awesome in those days.

  • @danniielle
    @danniielle ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That is just ridiculous, hilarious and thoroughly entertaining! Cracked me up Sam!! 😁😎

  • @maxmustsleep
    @maxmustsleep ปีที่แล้ว +11

    plugging the barbie keyboard into the church organ was a stroke of genius! so funny :D
    and it worked just perfectly

  • @martinleonhardt1541
    @martinleonhardt1541 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just laughed my A off, so magnificent! With sheer determination it could be marketed with the Barbie STEM collection. Keep it up, Sam!

  • @Caluma122
    @Caluma122 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Liked the fact you persisted with the Barbie act in the video. Very entertaining and the mods were cool too!

  • @killito12
    @killito12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just noticed that all the hymn numbers are one less than some very popular numbers. Well played, Sam. Well played.

  • @AndyGadget
    @AndyGadget ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Sam, you are a strange and twisted genius. Absolutely love it!
    I really didn't expect that keyboard to be polyphonic.
    (And your new co-presenter is a bit of all right :¬)

  • @Zach010ROBLOX
    @Zach010ROBLOX ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm imagining a fingertip setup a bit like a typewriter where you have 3d printing prongs shaped up to map bigger keys to tiny little pokeys to hit the actual notes

    • @Jasper_S
      @Jasper_S ปีที่แล้ว +2

      why 3d print the prongs when you have barbie arms that work just fine :P

  • @jamesburke2759
    @jamesburke2759 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow there's the thing of the day i thought i'd never say. I actually really enjoy watching a grown man play with a barbie piano. im sure you were as astonished as we are to see how well you can get it to sound on the synths.

  • @edwardyoung7280
    @edwardyoung7280 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your videos really are works of art in their own right.

  • @TeeborGames
    @TeeborGames ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This seems like a great opportunity to create a computer controlled animatronic barbie that can actually play the piano

  • @Lurkley
    @Lurkley ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The way Barbie just casually picks up that circuit board at 1:58 made me chuckle for some reason 😅

  • @sparkyprojects
    @sparkyprojects ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Funnily enough, i was thinking you could grow your nails and file to points (or use false ones), or to get the finger plectrums
    And then you mentioned 3D printing :D

  • @ryanbrownnew
    @ryanbrownnew ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i'm glad the barbie set this up cos its beyond our ken.

  • @SXTransmission
    @SXTransmission ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love toys being slightly anarchic and violent, and this had a bit of a Eurotrash/Young Ones vibe. The surreality (not a word, should be though), of the massive organ and tiny plastic keys is up there with your "tv electrocution skeleton" from waaay back, for crying with laughter brilliant silliness.

  • @jeffredd9965
    @jeffredd9965 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Obviously, this needed to be made.

  • @robwgeorge
    @robwgeorge ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You never fail to amaze. I love the quote "Let's try Barbie hands"

  • @mikededmon
    @mikededmon ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The best example of sticking with the bit!

  • @skelseh
    @skelseh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why can't I like this video more than once?! Absolutely brilliant!

  • @MrAsBBB
    @MrAsBBB ปีที่แล้ว

    Truly the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages and she sounds so right. It sounds like she knows what she is doing. Made my night and as others have said, millennium.. The phrase was “I am definitely holding it”.

  • @fthagn
    @fthagn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm sure you could get a budgie to play some bizzare tunes with one, too!

  • @a_d_a_m
    @a_d_a_m ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this was hilarious, i think my favorite video of your ever. i love the 3d printed finger bits idea, they could each be shaped like little hands with a finger sticking out or something

  • @JeffHanke
    @JeffHanke ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome. I love the commitment to the bit. I was going to suggest "finger sticks" to play it better, but you already had the idea!

  • @stardustjustlikeyou
    @stardustjustlikeyou ปีที่แล้ว

    lol BRO like 2 years ago I got really into synths and your channel and circuit bending and all that, I literally bought like 4 of these barbie pianos because it was such a fun thing to circuit bend. I've got a box full of them on my shelves lol. Finally something to do with them all!

  • @stevenmayhew3944
    @stevenmayhew3944 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember seeing other kinds of keyboards with unusable black keys. Some have black keys playing C, D, F, G, and A instead of C#, D#, F#, G#, and A#, while others have black keys which provide an automatic rhythm instead of sharps.

    • @8bitwiz_
      @8bitwiz_ ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it was Tantacrul that did a video about how so many musical toys lack black keys, forever cursing parents to hear children smashing on keyboards only in the key of C.

    • @stevenmayhew3944
      @stevenmayhew3944 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@8bitwiz_ Except that I saw the ones which I described face-to-face, not on Tantacrul's channel. And that was so many years ago. 😀

  • @shanedownes
    @shanedownes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been watching your channel for years, but this is the first video that made me cry from laughing. At times the Barbie reminds me of techniques used when filming the old TV show Thunderbirds

  • @Alexander.0671
    @Alexander.0671 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the fact you can toss the entire barbie keyboard into one of the organs pipes

  • @stoatystoat174
    @stoatystoat174 ปีที่แล้ว

    The number of different skills start to finish to get this video made is a big number

  • @jochenstacker7448
    @jochenstacker7448 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cyberpunk Church Organ Barbie!

  • @drakeeldridge9693
    @drakeeldridge9693 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I really can't overstate enough how I want to live in your world.

  • @roblow8126
    @roblow8126 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not going to lie, a couple of minutes in I began to start thinking "she really knows her stuff" 😂

  • @annikania2682
    @annikania2682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The bits where you used the organ with it do sound so good. I think that is mostly the organ, but, wow, that was so pleasant!

  • @TheDistur
    @TheDistur ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love this stuff. Thanks Sam.

  • @clauscombat418
    @clauscombat418 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watched this at half the speed, and it was fine 😗

  • @hectorgrowsveg
    @hectorgrowsveg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant 🤣😂😂 Barbie is an electronics whizz 👍

  • @vernonzehr
    @vernonzehr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You could possibly, maybe, create small hands to scale for the keyboard that can be controlled via "gloves" wired to the small hand. sort of virtual hands. You could at a minimum control tiny fingers that move up and down scaled from larger motion.

  • @Enigma758
    @Enigma758 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hilarious, Andy Kaufman would have been impressed! (even more fun to watch at 2x)

  • @marksmith7147
    @marksmith7147 ปีที่แล้ว

    My face actually aches from smiling. This has to be your best video ever! Brilliant.

  • @savagemessiah.
    @savagemessiah. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Clearly you need to make a little robot to play that keyboard which is itself controlled by midi. Then you can play a normal human sized keyboard which will play the barbie keyboard which will do the thing. Keyboardception!

  • @brujua7
    @brujua7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A great all time favorite video addition to LMNC's lengthy tradition of all time classics

  • @BlackToof
    @BlackToof ปีที่แล้ว

    I wrote your channel off when you visited the Italian museum of synths, I was really annoyed how you manhandled those synths, but the organ stuff brought me back. You are def top notch smart dude. Love all things analogue

    • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
      @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER  ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't manhandle the synths. I mean they spent the last 2 decades piles on top of each other in a damp warehouse. I have no idea why people thought it was manhandling you weren't the only one. I'm confused how other people handle synths. Anyways all good

  • @alexb.1320
    @alexb.1320 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic creation! A few more barbie pianos for donor keyboards and a 3d printed mini church organ console....

  • @dustinmorrison6315
    @dustinmorrison6315 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I really hope the casting director of the next Barbie film is watching cause this is hilarious.

  • @Fatal_Jinx
    @Fatal_Jinx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now you gotta bring it to a gig, and put it on a pedestal center stage 😂😂😂

  • @UberAlphaSirus
    @UberAlphaSirus ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

  • @anthonyfn
    @anthonyfn ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love seeing Barbie upgrade her piano!

  • @martindooley4439
    @martindooley4439 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My sister had one of those back in the day, closest thing to synth or keyboard we had growing up.

  • @erwindewit4073
    @erwindewit4073 ปีที่แล้ว

    Freaking brilliant! SO cool that that thing actually works!

  • @CausticCatastrophe
    @CausticCatastrophe ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This was a blast. I love videos like these!

  • @mrln247
    @mrln247 ปีที่แล้ว

    Barbie is working like the Furze safety hand, enjoyed it.

  • @territhetankedupterrapin6592
    @territhetankedupterrapin6592 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love jow the first thing Barbie played on it when it was finished was nothing to do with Barbie, but The Rugrats! 🤣👏 Well done for your hard work Barbie!

  • @halbrown6224
    @halbrown6224 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish I could get my hands on the shell to give it a paint job. Specifically the string system the rest of the body is awesome as a pale yellow

  • @tomahzo
    @tomahzo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Barbie is surprisingly violent, throwing things around - did not expect that ;D. Hilarious idea for a video!

  • @8bitwiz_
    @8bitwiz_ ปีที่แล้ว

    2:35 Barbie holding a soldering iron was so awesome that I just lost it.
    5:12 And now the size of that hole for the DIN plug made my eyes get big!
    6:58 WAAAAAH! AWESOME! [evil genius laughter ensues]
    So convenient that they wired it the way they did! Maybe you could hold two or three toothpicks in one hand to make chords? But yeah, maybe some kind of 3D printed hands that slip onto your fingertips? That would be suitably mad.

  • @DynamicRockers
    @DynamicRockers ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let's go for the 3d printed mini fingers' extensions!

  • @merman1974
    @merman1974 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant! I love the fact that the Barbie piano is polyphonic.

  • @murdokiwi
    @murdokiwi ปีที่แล้ว

    This may just be my favourite LMNC post !!!

  • @nat7278
    @nat7278 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sam! You mad bastard! That is the silliest most awesome just for funzy project EVER! Amazing

  • @nidgrv1946
    @nidgrv1946 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is brilliant and hilarious. Love it.
    I’m deffo getting 80’s Howard Jones vibes off Sam. Genius.

  • @WeaselFace
    @WeaselFace ปีที่แล้ว

    So, for some reason I've become fascinated with Alvin and the Chipmunks lately, and just the other day i was pondering how people might go about making instruments for the Chipmunks to play live.
    Imagine my surprise when I see this...basically explains exactly how I imagined someone might go about it.

  • @chrishahn3834
    @chrishahn3834 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really appreciate the dedication to the bit. Fun vid. :D

  • @ChipGuy
    @ChipGuy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A Barbie Piano controlling a real pipe organ, sounds like a world first to me. Hat's off to making the Barbie Doll scenes. They must have been a pain in the neck to prepare and shoot.

  • @misterjib
    @misterjib ปีที่แล้ว +1

    probably the funniest thing i've seen since my dad tried to build my sister's Sindy house christmas '82

  • @davidpiper3652
    @davidpiper3652 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Don't be afraid to try it" on steroids. Fantastic!

  • @GGXjimmy
    @GGXjimmy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    69 - meal for two
    420 - blaze it
    42 - The answer to everything
    8008 - teehee
    1337 - leet skillz

  • @CaptNumbNutz
    @CaptNumbNutz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    LOL. First thing he plays once he gets it working is the RugRats theme. Quite fitting.

  • @Benjamin_Reese
    @Benjamin_Reese 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a fantastic video! Love Barbie building the thing! 👍🏼😄

  • @clomb1234
    @clomb1234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Why can’t I feel my arms?” Wonderful video.

  • @HSKCHER
    @HSKCHER ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was just smiling from ear to ear the latter half of the video, your stuff is great!

  • @AlexFalkenberg
    @AlexFalkenberg ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the commitment to the bit, incredible.

  • @colinframe7095
    @colinframe7095 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One word: Amazing!

  • @dieSpinnt
    @dieSpinnt ปีที่แล้ว

    A genetically modified Barbie with the brain and lovely-bovely accent of Sam.
    These are wonderful prospects for the future.
    Great work, Sam!;)

  • @gregbowie3695
    @gregbowie3695 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s like Sid from Toy Story grew up and used his powers for good.

  • @AnalogDude_
    @AnalogDude_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Korg Monotron and CO, also has a smililar keyboard.
    You know the Megatron, a heavilly modified Monotron?
    despite it's size, it's 1 Volt/oct.

  • @bzqp2
    @bzqp2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I trully admire the dedication.

  • @basspartout
    @basspartout ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You, sir, are crazy and I love it!!!!!

  • @johnnyjohnson6643
    @johnnyjohnson6643 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my god, I love this. So well done!

  • @ab3000x
    @ab3000x ปีที่แล้ว

    This is about the best thing ever on TH-cam.

  • @CarfDarko
    @CarfDarko ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am sure this has always been part of your plan.
    You magnificant bastard

  • @nonesocruel
    @nonesocruel ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What is this? A piano for ants! I think we need a mini instrument series now!!! 😀

  • @ChaoteLab
    @ChaoteLab ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The reason the internet exists.

  • @ybtech
    @ybtech ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Again, another fantastic creation! Love it! Very creative. Thank you for the belly laughs. Cheers!

  • @andreewert6576
    @andreewert6576 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:00 : This is weird, but fun.
    2:00 : The effort in Barbie holding up the PCB alone surpasses many trending videos on YT.
    later : Sam must be procrastinating, there is no other explanation.

  • @DetroitMicroSound
    @DetroitMicroSound ปีที่แล้ว

    I think they always wanted to get into the electronic music instrument business. I have had two Synsonics Drums. One in the 80's, and one in the early 2000's.