It's right up there with the Sega Game Gear's TV Tuner, which only accepts now obsolete analog UHF and VHF signals.
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@@Mike-nf6nf Yeah but that as an add on when we did have analogue wasn't useless. Only the killing off of the old signal. When the signal was available it was actually a pretty neat idea.
@@peterg.8245 I think we've all seen how Boos are only effective behind the player's back and how shy they are up front ... they wouldn't do for a piano.
One of the pre-installed songs is “What A Fool Believes” by The Doobie Brothers?!?! I’m sold. Also, I’ve been rick-rolled by tech moan in some of the most elaborate ways. RESPECT
Reminds me of an old joke about a young man given one wish by an elderly fairy. She was a bit hard of hearing and Dudley Moore suddenly appeared! (RIP Dud.)
There are a few wonderful archives online of piano rolls - the paper rolls with punched holes to tell player pianos when to play which notes - that have been scanned in by volunteers and converted to MIDI files. Some amazing stuff, like ragtime pieces recorded directly by famous performers. A search for "piano roll midi" should turn them up. My grandparents had a player piano years ago, and I always wanted my own, so good lord, does this thing stir my gear lust.
It would be really interesting to see how it looks like disassembled. If you ever replace the caps inside I'm sure people here would love to see the other parts of it's operation. I'm really curious how it manages to actuate that many keys in that small of a space.
A little bit of a sad fact but its an interesting one. In a certain area of New Orleans, theres a hospital by the name of Oschner. When my grandmother was in there after she went into a coma (she died shortly after, it was 2006 so ive had some time to cope) I would always go to the main area of the hospital where all the vending machines and gift shops were on the main floor. They had this piano always playing some beautiful tune and i can never stop thinking about it. I want this piano just for the memory of my grandmother. Even in the harshest times, it brought the sweetest memories of her. Baking and gardening all the time, I miss her dearly.
What would've been really cool is if something like this came out in the early 90's, and if Sega let you hook up your Sega Genesis to the piano so that the game audio could be played back by it.
Brilliant! I would have liked to see a teardown but still. Brilliant! This is the kind of piano I would have wanted to build myself. Plays MIDI files, looks real with all the keys working, can be taken with you when you relocate, and doesn't cost a fortune (Arguably).
@@twqwhy6763 literally the exact same here... it reminded me of Charlie Puth's performance of "We don't talk anymore", but I'd forgotten he was covering the Doobie Brothers, and got stuck there until I found this comment after literally an hour of frustration. Great song!!
So close to 1 mill Been here since 20k I am so impressed So amazing, I love all your videos. Keep up the good work, so few TH-cam ers are dedicated like your self From the anxiety issues that I have have been diagnosed with, you have helped me much by your videos thank you so much for all of the therapy of given me God-bless you.
4:32, I almost lost my tea! What a cool device, and I was very pleasantly surprised to hear What a Fool Beleives is in there. Thanks for making this video. Bravo!
I remember watching your videos religiously for years and then I forgot why I stopped! So glad this came up in my recommended. Subscribed again! What a cool gadget.
If your speaker and the piano are connected to the same power source (which they probably are) there can be interferance in the audio. You may need a ground loop isolator to prevent the noise if its not the input/output sockets themselves
Just ordered one from Ebay! Shipping now from Japan to California! Cant wait to start making and sharing midi files! Very exciting for me as my 83 year old father is a retired professional NYC pianist. I'll be converting his piano recordings to midi and getting this little miracle machine to play them much like he does. SEGA 2007 tech for the win! Has anything like this been made/updated since??? :D
@@sirkristoferTV hi there here is the info you need you will need google translate to view it it shows how it works.link here www.nax.ne.jp/~rider/piano/index.html
I had no idea such a device existed! Thank you for sharing this. It's amazing the level of detail they went into, as you said. Can the strings be "plucked"? I know they don't make sound; I'm just curious. I've been playing keyboards/piano for a long time. Not well, but I try. I work for a TV/Radio network, and we're lucky enough to have a Yamaha Disklavier -- I think it''s a 7 foot model. It is an incredible machine. You can turn off the piano mechanism such that the keys trigger MIDI notes. I can finally practice on a grand piano with no one hearing me! Plus, it comes with a General MIDI sound module, so it'll play multi-timberal MIDI files and have all of the channels for the proper instruments (drums, bass, keys) play just fine. And it's worth $28K USD, so it's out of my price range! Anyway, hello from Maine, USA and my day is always made better by a Techmoan video. Especially if it has puppets. But no pressure.
No string- plucking - just threads for looks, but they really did recreate a 6ft. Yamaha in miniature pretty well here. I have had one for ten years - still working fine.
I remember a mall based chain of music stores had full size versions of pianos like that from Yamaha (aka real player pianos with proper midi connectivity) back in the 90's. Dunno if any are still made like that but that music store chain is long gone (nearly, down to a single store among several big box stores)
Fabulous, the production quality that you put in your videos is really professional. I am not a TH-cam video publisher by any means, but I really enjoy when content providers such as yourself include more about their personal life and involvement with the products and electronics. I really enjoy your videos thanks for everything
This is GREAT. Wish they would have released this here. My only quip is the keys are noticeably loud, but you said you can that off, but I think it's pretty cool seeing the keys manipulated.
In case you still read this: if you convert midi files with multiple tracks than it also has a drum track with it on midi channel 10, if you play that back on a piano the drum track will be converted into notes and becomes rubbish, if you however use a midi editor to mute or delete this drum track then it will sounds normal again.
me: *seeing the self playing piano* "he has to play Cuba Baion on that thing" techmoan: *plays Cuba Baion on that thing* me: 😆 me: "please make a sketch with the muppets and the the self playing piano" in my head: "even for me the keys are to small" / "playing music as midi on a self playing piano is the most hipster way to play music" techmoan: ... me: 😫
I love my player piano. Just a bit of info. You can purchase the "player" part and have it installed on any piano for about $2000 dollars. It is called QRS PianoDisc. You can also get the older roll type in great shape for a few hundred dollars.
Watching the keys clicking without the sound reminds me of a BBC quiz (called "face the music" if my memory is working today). One section was a song played on a dummy keyboard and the contestants had to name the (classical) piece. A clever bod called Robin Ray usually got the correct answer.
for the folks that think a different power supply would fix the noise. After looking through the photos of the circuitry online, I suspect there isn't and optical isolation circuit to drive the mechanics of the keys... not a trivial thing to add without knowing circuit design
the fact that speaker and jacks are on opposite sides may also be a factor. (the DAC may be on the speaker's side, allowing the audio to pick up electronic noise as it travels from the DAC to the jack ... just as with the first generation of PC's with front-panel audio-jacks.)
Song List based on Everything I Recognized: 3:31 It plays Hall and Oates 5:11 It plays Rick Astley 5:28 It plays Billy Joel 5:36 It plays JAY-Z featuring Alicia Keys
(3:37) "... By adding your own unique contribution ..." hilarious, loved that bit. ^_^ I think you're supposed to reduce the midi files down to just piano, eliminating any unnecessary instruments for it to sound right. I can think of several copyright songs I'd love to hear play... (5:28) yes, like "Piano Man". Are you able to play that song because it's in the United States National Recording Registry?
I guess some older people might not hear the high pitch chirp the mechanism also seems to make in addition to the clacking sound of the "hammer action".
something interesting about that 2 gig card size. that's the limit for Fat-16 formatted drives. interesting thing too note Fat-16 was on the market for a little over 20 years at that point, and that means that file format dropped in to to public domain around the time this was coming out. where as the newer formats where still locked. I would guess that's what they went with. Also aside from not needing any sort of license for the file format, due to it's age it was also likely cheaper to have the mcu try to read that then one of the newer formats.
In the beginning you said you had a small house ... now you got a small piano that's perfectly fit for it. If I had the money, I would buy one for the same exact reason you did.
You might be able to get rid of the noise on the speaker output by changing the pianos power supply with a better quality one. It sound to me like an switching noise from the PSU. Would worth a try.
To get rid of the buzz we are running the piano on a 9volt battery! Seems to work more happily this way. Added a jam speaker to help the sound quality while in a small scale too. Bliss. We do have a small unrelated issue with the piano we have, the keyboard lid will not stay open. Should this be sprung? Magnetic? Love your video so much. Thanks LJ and MJ
1:25 Missed opportunity there to play Chopsticks with chopsticks.
That comment made my day.. cheers!
Omg. That would of been Perfect. Gonna search if anyone has done that
More like toothpicks, or wooden skewers, but essentially the same thing.
@@Christopher-N Never heard of tunes called 'toothpicks' or 'wooden skewers' but the irony of the tune 'chopsticks' has a certain ring and notation!
Just was I was thinking.
5:11 Rick-Rolled again. Never thought it would be on Techmoan's channel.
I knew from the first sounds
You got rickrolled by an old guy filming a self playing piano model.
Nowhere is safe. No. Where.
I didn't even notice
fuck me
This thing is so useless, and I absolutely love it because of it.
It's right up there with the Sega Game Gear's TV Tuner, which only accepts now obsolete analog UHF and VHF signals.
@@Mike-nf6nf
Yeah but that as an add on when we did have analogue wasn't useless. Only the killing off of the old signal.
When the signal was available it was actually a pretty neat idea.
Same
Why the hell is your comment 6days ago?
@@deadaccount4411 Dude yeah..
I'll take your entire stock
Chris Kogos lol ur verified with 11 likes
@@nosleep8236 ikr i was the 17th
I want to say something random, so my computer’s processor is ARM
I woke up at 5 in the morning with a hangover just to get rick rolled by a Japanese piano
What would past (And future) generations think of such a quote I wonder? XD
It’s “what fool believes”
Sorry raised in the 80s
Living the dream
Amateur, that time you should still be drinking 😜😅
I read your comment and proceeded to get Rick Rolled by a Japanese Piano
Imagine playing a dark MIDI on that.
That's exactly why I want a real self playing piano someday
you mean black midi
Most keys are silent in a black midi
You know, the crappy thing is, black midis are often larger than 2 gigs, so they wouldn't fit on the SD card
@@wesleyesq7306 Well, he mentioned the piano only takes 2 gb SDs, so unfortunately, not possible.
A large part of the manufacturing costs went into capturing the tiny ghosts that play the piano.
I think you'll find its miniature monkeys.
Couldn’t they’ve stolen them from Nintendo? They were putting thousands in Mario Bros games
@@peterg.8245 I think we've all seen how Boos are only effective behind the player's back and how shy they are up front ... they wouldn't do for a piano.
Look up Irma the piano playing ghost on Google. I was lucky to have seen this in person. Amazing!
As a former indentured tiny ghost, I can attest.
I liked it, and then I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT when it started playing "What a Fool Believes" by The Doobie Brothers! 3:30
Thank u for this! Was trying to find out what song it was
thank you! came down to the comments exactly for this!!!
No kidding, was not expecting what a fool believes. My jaw dropped when I heard it, too.
same omg, I did not see that coming. I almost jumped out of my seat, It's one of my favorite songs lol
3:31 That tune sold it for me too 😁👍 Imagine if you could time the player... that would be my morning wake up song 🤩
One of the pre-installed songs is “What A Fool Believes” by The Doobie Brothers?!?! I’m sold. Also, I’ve been rick-rolled by tech moan in some of the most elaborate ways. RESPECT
The Japanese have a great appreciation for Western music ;)
Finally a piano that my tiny desk engineer can use
Wonder how many people will actually get this lol
Introducing, The Tiny Desk Piano by Tiny desk Company and SEGA
Hahaha i get it
If a tiny desk engineer had this what sorta music would he play?
@@matthewrayborn8557 Country music
Again: SEGA does what Nintendon’t
they had mario paint like 18 years ago
Miracle Piano: Am I a joke to you?
while that might be true, it was useless
SEEEEEEyGAAAAAh!
WELCOME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
5:11 How dare you Rick Rolled us like that.
I went from "this is stupid" to "I need one right now" within five seconds.
Did you ever get your hands on one?
I kind of want to see 8 Bit Keys have a crack at this
That reveal at the beginning was perfect. Well done!
I didn't expect you here. ASTEROID 2020
Love you Andrew. Talk about the audit!
5:10 I never thought I would be Rick rolled by a heckin self playing piano
SEGA: Screw it, let's make a self-playing piano while we're at it....
now THAT'S what I call "fuck around and find out"
Got to love Japanese conglomerates. They have a massive captive to play around in, and don't care sticking to one niche.
@@digiowl9599 I can't tell if that's a compliment to Sega or not...
Slaughter Round
It’s a... fact?
let me reiterate: I don't know if that comment was made in spite and sarcasm or not
Today i learned that the "rollie wheelie circles" are called casters
Joshua *_whoa dude whoa_*
I always thought they were called wheels
@@seanhaydongriffin The wheels are part of the casters.
The More You Know 🌈
They're not. They're called CASTORS.
"grand pianist envy"
Thanks I'm going to go flagellate myself for laughing at that
Be careful--you could go blind! :)
@@ingridfong-daley5899 we may be thinking of a different flagellation! ;)
@@SpartanMJO12 oops :)
Now here is the Techmoan mug I bought from Techmoan. As always, thanks for watching: th-cam.com/video/ZC0k77CVu_M/w-d-xo.html
5:10 I can't believe I just got rick-rolled by a robot piano...
That's the second time he's rick-rolled us with Midi recently! th-cam.com/video/QYBv6KXSfGI/w-d-xo.html
Right lol
Your comment said it was posted a week ago, I must be time traveling....
@@djemergency512 I think the video was unlisted or private before it got re uploaded again
Just my thoughts...
I issued my first ever EP on a miniCD thanks to you.
Damn. Was hoping it would come preinstalled with some Sega video game songs.
That's seriously what I thought too!
Maybe they wanted to do something different than games and which gamer would buy this lol.
Major Skies yeah lol
I wanted it to play Green Hill Zone
@AlyCatVR Yeah but still that isn't targated for gamers
Missed opportunity: playing classic Sega tunes with the Sega Piano 😁
Green Hill zone act 1 theme would be the best.
I was waiting for at least the SEGA startup jingle
no, it wasnt made by SEGA just by another company that shares the same name
@@stpidstuff Sega Toys?
Isn't SEGA Toys part of the SEGA video game company? I always thought so
I like to imagine there's a small ghost playing the piano
It'd need to be a 9-inch pianist
Reminds me of an old joke about a young man given one wish by an elderly fairy. She was a bit hard of hearing and Dudley Moore suddenly appeared! (RIP Dud.)
It's the ghost of Alex Kidd.
A pac man ghost 👻!
😁
Corporal Wagstaff
It's not the size of the pianist that matters. It's how you use the pianist that gets you the best results! 😂😂😂
There are a few wonderful archives online of piano rolls - the paper rolls with punched holes to tell player pianos when to play which notes - that have been scanned in by volunteers and converted to MIDI files. Some amazing stuff, like ragtime pieces recorded directly by famous performers. A search for "piano roll midi" should turn them up.
My grandparents had a player piano years ago, and I always wanted my own, so good lord, does this thing stir my gear lust.
It would be really interesting to see how it looks like disassembled. If you ever replace the caps inside I'm sure people here would love to see the other parts of it's operation. I'm really curious how it manages to actuate that many keys in that small of a space.
to be honest, that clacky feel and sound is what we truly want in the keyboard
The click-clack of the keys with the volume turned off sounded like a performance of Riverdance!
Ahahaha!!
A little bit of a sad fact but its an interesting one. In a certain area of New Orleans, theres a hospital by the name of Oschner. When my grandmother was in there after she went into a coma (she died shortly after, it was 2006 so ive had some time to cope) I would always go to the main area of the hospital where all the vending machines and gift shops were on the main floor. They had this piano always playing some beautiful tune and i can never stop thinking about it. I want this piano just for the memory of my grandmother. Even in the harshest times, it brought the sweetest memories of her. Baking and gardening all the time, I miss her dearly.
Just right to go with the 12 inch pianist I got from the hard of hearing Genie.
I knew someone would have beaten me to the 12 inch pianist joke
haha :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembered this joke.
😂😂😂
Boom Boom!
What would've been really cool is if something like this came out in the early 90's, and if Sega let you hook up your Sega Genesis to the piano so that the game audio could be played back by it.
That's what I imagined it was like before hearing when it actually came out 😂
Did I just get casually Rick Rolled lol
Yes.
This is so beautiful... Simple and nice
Hello again my dude
Brilliant! I would have liked to see a teardown but still. Brilliant!
This is the kind of piano I would have wanted to build myself. Plays MIDI files, looks real with all the keys working, can be taken with you when you relocate, and doesn't cost a fortune (Arguably).
Just imagine it playing black midi tracks!
Yes, how the heck are the keys actuated? It’s a lot of keys in a small space!!
*There’s more information in the video description.*
The perfect accessory for my Action Man Liberace.
Good one. 😃
Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry at 3:11, and the Doobie Brothers, this piano has quite the selection of music.
Right lol
It looks like it has several Yachtski-approved yacht rock tracks.
For some reason I keep seeing Hard to Say I'm sorry on Japanese instruments. Even my Japanese Casio lighting keyboard has that song.
@@twqwhy6763 literally the exact same here... it reminded me of Charlie Puth's performance of "We don't talk anymore", but I'd forgotten he was covering the Doobie Brothers, and got stuck there until I found this comment after literally an hour of frustration. Great song!!
ODCOLE, doobie brothers! Cool!
“Grand Pianist envy” cracked me right up.
5:28 - Sing us a song, you're the piano, man. (note the comma/slight pause)
wow
I see what you did there.
So close to 1 mill
Been here since 20k
I am so impressed
So amazing, I love all your videos.
Keep up the good work, so few TH-cam ers are dedicated like your self
From the anxiety issues that I have have been diagnosed with, you have helped me much by your videos thank you so much for all of the therapy of given me God-bless you.
Me: "Mum, I want a grand piano!"
Mum: "We have a grand piano at home."
Grand piano at home:
Giovan Pangku shut up mate!
We all have our dreams, Mat. Way to realize yours. :)
4:32, I almost lost my tea! What a cool device, and I was very pleasantly surprised to hear What a Fool Beleives is in there. Thanks for making this video. Bravo!
I remember watching your videos religiously for years and then I forgot why I stopped! So glad this came up in my recommended. Subscribed again! What a cool gadget.
If your speaker and the piano are connected to the same power source (which they probably are) there can be interferance in the audio. You may need a ground loop isolator to prevent the noise if its not the input/output sockets themselves
4:13 so you're telling me that I am able to put "il vento d'oro" on an sd card and the piano plays it by itself? Nice.
i need to see that now
🎹
looks at the piano CONGRATULATIONS YOU JUST PLAYED YOURSELF
I made a midi for Metallica's One, and once I get my hands on this..
I will do great things.
DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME
ALL THAT I SEE
ABSOLUTE HORROR
I CANNOT LIVE
I CANNOT DIE
TRAPPED IN MYSELF
BODY MY HOLDING CELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just ordered one from Ebay! Shipping now from Japan to California! Cant wait to start making and sharing midi files!
Very exciting for me as my 83 year old father is a retired professional NYC pianist. I'll be converting his piano recordings to midi and getting this little miracle machine to play them much like he does.
SEGA 2007 tech for the win!
Has anything like this been made/updated since??? :D
I wonder what the mechanism is, presumably lots of small solenoids.
off I go on a google hunt to find out
Most likely with tiny electromagnets under the keys activated by an electric DC current turning on and off.
@@stormchaser300 Could be. My google foo came up with nothing
It's a system of levers and pulleys.
@@sirkristoferTV hi there here is the info you need you will need google translate to view it it shows how it works.link here www.nax.ne.jp/~rider/piano/index.html
This is probably my favourite piece of hardware you've ever shown. Love it!
3:15 What is Chicago's Hard To Say I'm Sorry doing on there???
3:59 Ah. That explains it...
6:45 Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme. 🎵when you get caught between the moon and New York city🎵
7:35 The Girl From Ipanema
Thank you! Arthur's Theme sounded familiar, but the slower tempo was tripping me up.
I love Arthur's Theme so much
2:25 Music name?
@The Big
I think that's A Lover's Concerto.
m.th-cam.com/video/FmJ1AqtTuyo/w-d-xo.html
I had no idea such a device existed! Thank you for sharing this. It's amazing the level of detail they went into, as you said. Can the strings be "plucked"? I know they don't make sound; I'm just curious.
I've been playing keyboards/piano for a long time. Not well, but I try. I work for a TV/Radio network, and we're lucky enough to have a Yamaha Disklavier -- I think it''s a 7 foot model. It is an incredible machine. You can turn off the piano mechanism such that the keys trigger MIDI notes. I can finally practice on a grand piano with no one hearing me! Plus, it comes with a General MIDI sound module, so it'll play multi-timberal MIDI files and have all of the channels for the proper instruments (drums, bass, keys) play just fine. And it's worth $28K USD, so it's out of my price range! Anyway, hello from Maine, USA and my day is always made better by a Techmoan video. Especially if it has puppets. But no pressure.
They can - they’re thin metal rods. Although I found they resonated/vibrated/rattled with certain notes, so I had to wedge them down.
No string- plucking - just threads for looks, but they really did recreate a 6ft. Yamaha in miniature pretty well here. I have had one for ten years - still working fine.
Let me be among the first to say in advance:
Congratulations on the 1 000 000 subscribers!
You’ve *earned* them!!!
Scott Joplin, Chicago, and The Doobie Brothers? Whoever did the song selection deserves a medal.
6:32 Probably I'm the wrong age to recognise this track from the key sounds. I thought it was Smash Mouth - All Star
The fact that all keys are real and playable is just incredible. They had no reason to do it, but still done it.
I remember a mall based chain of music stores had full size versions of pianos like that from Yamaha (aka real player pianos with proper midi connectivity) back in the 90's. Dunno if any are still made like that but that music store chain is long gone (nearly, down to a single store among several big box stores)
You can connect midi devices to normal acoustic pianos now with enough patience
Every SimplyPiano ad is filmed using it
While awesome, and absolutely lovable, the clacking of the keys would really annoy me after a bit.
Fabulous, the production quality that you put in your videos is really professional. I am not a TH-cam video publisher by any means, but I really enjoy when content providers such as yourself include more about their personal life and involvement with the products and electronics. I really enjoy your videos thanks for everything
I'm in California and its 1:30Am well worth the wait , my favorite British channel for sure
Same! I’m always hoping for an upload in the middle of the night!
Dude it's 4:40am
Washington here notification startled me
@@lyndon2487 I'm in California so you must be in the east coast
@@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo correct!
Congratulations, you played your self
5:10 the rickroll was inevitable.
I thought it was kinda cute, but then it played What a Fool Believes. Now I think it's amazing.
I for one found myself picturing "Borrowers" sitting down at this piano and actually playing it. :D :D
This is GREAT. Wish they would have released this here. My only quip is the keys are noticeably loud, but you said you can that off, but I think it's pretty cool seeing the keys manipulated.
You just gotta love that authentic keyboard clatter sound. Andre Previn would be proud.
Finally a piano that can automatically rick roll someone
In case you still read this: if you convert midi files with multiple tracks than it also has a drum track with it on midi channel 10, if you play that back on a piano the drum track will be converted into notes and becomes rubbish, if you however use a midi editor to mute or delete this drum track then it will sounds normal again.
me: *seeing the self playing piano* "he has to play Cuba Baion on that thing"
techmoan: *plays Cuba Baion on that thing*
me: 😆
me: "please make a sketch with the muppets and the the self playing piano"
in my head: "even for me the keys are to small" / "playing music as midi on a self playing piano is the most hipster way to play music"
techmoan: ...
me: 😫
‘Congratulations, you played yourself’
"pianist envy" lmao
I can't get over how little and cute it is. Totally impressed at the tiny moving keys.
But the real question is:
Does it play Cruel Angel's Thesis?
Is that the one that’s impossible for a human to play needing more than 2 hands?
@@peterg.8245
No. The other one.
@@peterg.8245 it's the opening theme song to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I love my player piano. Just a bit of info. You can purchase the "player" part and have it installed on any piano for about $2000 dollars. It is called QRS PianoDisc. You can also get the older roll type in great shape for a few hundred dollars.
I saw YMO's Rydeen in that list.. a lil sad you didn't play it! :(
Isn't that the one in Super Locomotive?
It was used in Super Locomotive yes! But didn't from from it~
No matter the external speaker issue, that's an absolutely lovely little item
7:15 Gliiiitch a e s t h e t i c
Watching the keys clicking without the sound reminds me of a BBC quiz (called "face the music" if my memory is working today).
One section was a song played on a dummy keyboard and the contestants had to name the (classical) piece.
A clever bod called Robin Ray usually got the correct answer.
3:43 "Unique contribution"
for the folks that think a different power supply would fix the noise. After looking through the photos of the circuitry online, I suspect there isn't and optical isolation circuit to drive the mechanics of the keys... not a trivial thing to add without knowing circuit design
me:*buys the piano*
also me: *makes the piano play tons of anime openings and ending songs*
also me: mission complete
this is what our comments have resorted to
AnEggProductions//aestheticStenographer yes.
the fact that speaker and jacks are on opposite sides may also be a factor. (the DAC may be on the speaker's side, allowing the audio to pick up electronic noise as it travels from the DAC to the jack ... just as with the first generation of PC's with front-panel audio-jacks.)
My new favorite channel
Song List based on Everything I Recognized:
3:31 It plays Hall and Oates
5:11 It plays Rick Astley
5:28 It plays Billy Joel
5:36 It plays JAY-Z featuring Alicia Keys
at 3:31 it actually plays "What a Fool Believes" by The Doobie Brothers
There was also "It's hard for me to say I'm sorry"
Finally a piano that fits my home
(3:37) "... By adding your own unique contribution ..." hilarious, loved that bit. ^_^
I think you're supposed to reduce the midi files down to just piano, eliminating any unnecessary instruments for it to sound right. I can think of several copyright songs I'd love to hear play... (5:28) yes, like "Piano Man". Are you able to play that song because it's in the United States National Recording Registry?
Probably because the cheesy sound can't be matched by the IP bots.
Ray Prill content ID is actually really good at identifying covers and doing a proper revenue split.
Usually a few seconds is considered fair use but we will see
Wow, my dad is such a good pianist!
If I ever acquire this piano I will have to make it play all the songs from OutRun.
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
I guess some older people might not hear the high pitch chirp the mechanism also seems to make in addition to the clacking sound of the "hammer action".
I love how humanly impossible some of these songs look to play on a real piano.
i never thought i was going to get rickrolled by a sega machine
Plot twist: the Sega mini piano was the original and the 20,000 real one is the replica
something interesting about that 2 gig card size. that's the limit for Fat-16 formatted drives. interesting thing too note Fat-16 was on the market for a little over 20 years at that point, and that means that file format dropped in to to public domain around the time this was coming out. where as the newer formats where still locked. I would guess that's what they went with. Also aside from not needing any sort of license for the file format, due to it's age it was also likely cheaper to have the mcu try to read that then one of the newer formats.
I was really hoping for a teardown. It would be so nice to see, how the actuators work for so many small keys...
Amazing video nevertheless!
This. I REALLY need to see the mechanism that works all those keys. Is there a solenoid for each one?
Video description has a link to a teardown
In the beginning you said you had a small house ... now you got a small piano that's perfectly fit for it.
If I had the money, I would buy one for the same exact reason you did.
You might be able to get rid of the noise on the speaker output by changing the pianos power supply with a better quality one. It sound to me like an switching noise from the PSU.
Would worth a try.
To get rid of the buzz we are running the piano on a 9volt battery! Seems to work more happily this way. Added a jam speaker to help the sound quality while in a small scale too. Bliss. We do have a small unrelated issue with the piano we have, the keyboard lid will not stay open. Should this be sprung? Magnetic? Love your video so much. Thanks LJ and MJ