Building a Piano from Scratch (with no experience)
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Rob, love your channel. Also I miss Chicago area, despite the awful weather. Love that you are having so much fun.
Keep going, Rob. Thank you for your videos!
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Your welcome rob
I love that mid-way through the build is when rob decided to take a look at an actual piano for reference. not in the planning phase because that would make too much sense. This is amazing
@Carlose ® 🤍 They said "I love NBA Loo" 😂
I can't wait for the Sca-Taylor bass with barbed wire strings. Just feels like the natural progression of the company.
Simon the magpie did that, well he didn't build the bass but put barbed wire on it
barbsichord
The Sca-Taylor theremin: it electrocutes you.
I saw this come up with and I thought OMG they've made a theremin too! Amazing, sad it's only a comment
Some basses are fretless. Sca-Taylor makes a bass that's all frets
Very interesting. A suggestion, because your pipe at the back of the "piano" is angled I would think the strings would roll down hill, if you will, as they are tightened which negates your tuning effort. You need to file a groove into the pipe to trap each string at its location.
Yea I was thinking about something like that, but it also seems like cutting grooves/nut slots in a metal pipe would lead to the strings breaking all the time due to their vibration creating a sawing effect against the sharp metal.
@@TheDarkMessiah OK, drill and tap some holes at each string location. Then thread some nylon screws in place with either a spade style screwdriver feature or file a groove in the nylon.
This is the kind of wisdom I expect from someone named, “oldretireddude”
Clearly Sca-Taylor Guitars knows what they’re doing
I will say, when played like how you did...it sounded pretty decent. Honestly causes a sense of uneasiness which for it being a monster piano is perfect.
Fun fact, this is technically a zither, because of the doorstops as hammers. Still super cool
I was thinking a marxophone, but I guess it's a type of zither
more of a Dulcimer than a zither...
@@timothywhieldon1971 my understanding is that if you want to get super technical hammered dulcimer are a type of zither. Zithers other than hammered dulcimers that I have seen typically have a striker on a spring.
@@timothywhieldon1971 you just said "more like a zither than it is a zither, innit?" a dulcimer is a type of zither ya walnut
So percussion or stringed or wood? Yes...
Where can I order one?
You have to sign a waiver saying you won’t sue if you spoke yourself or if it randomly breaks
The problem with murder pianos (planimusicas homicidus) is that they are such rare creatures. Science does not yet know how or if they reproduce. Only one is currently confirmed to exist (though some have been spotted in the wild), and the legality of buying and selling them as pets is in question. As such, your best option is to go to your scariest local forest, at midnight, where sightings in the wild are considered more likely. Hope this helps!
You don't choose to order it. It shows up behind you at night and then you can't get rid of it.
Just get an Apprehension Engine. Its cooler.
At your local IKEA, but you have to build it yourself.
Kudos to the editor for cutting down 9 HOURS of footage into a really condensed, entertaining half hour.
sing us a song, you're the guy-with-foolhardy-impulses-to-try-and-build-your-own-instruments-in-a-day-and-a-friend-who-has-woodworking-tools man. sing us a song tonight.
We're all in the mood for a melody
*Dio voice*
Play me a song on Sca-Taylor
Do it all wrong, you're the bringer of evil
The devil is never a maker
the instruments made by Sca-Taylor
As they started tightening the strings, I started getting really nervous that the whole thing would violently tear itself apart. Even though they showed the finished instrument at the beginning of the video.
I love how you just hear Rob say things like "Piano" and"High quality broom" in between power tool sounds
These "building instruments from scratch" videos are starting to become my favorite Scallon Segments.
I love the way Simon's family support the Sca-Taylor project
Supports, or just let’s it happen?
@@JedrekVRoscoe what’s the difference really
@@JedrekVRoscoe The ambiguity is what makes a family a family.
Scataylor and sons..
or… SCATAYLOR AND PARENTS!!!
Yeah, it sucks that this video didn't do too well and they likely won't make another one together.
Sca-Taylor Guitars is getting really into the avant garde/experimental music world. Amazing!
Next first of October album should be recorded exclusively using Sca-Taylor instruments.
All they need is a bass, then they have all the instruments needed to record a whole album
@@cobgod1415 ScaTaylor need to start making amps and mics for the full setup
Nah that's a different thing
@@fisheatsyourhead I'd be watching through my fingers if this method of working included electricity.
@@fisheatsyourhead They would blow up the amp 💀
Für Elise would sound awesome coming from that piece of art 🙂 I also have a "small" request: Can you please make a sample library out of this. I think 57 vel. layers and about 96 round robin samples per key should do it 😅
I love how he tries to understand the piano in the way that it has to work the same as a guitar, which is totally not the same lol, I love it
I mean the principal of strings making a box vibrate is correct, but that's about where it ends lol
yeah, I noticed that specifically in how he made 'head stocks" for all the tuners LOL . He could have just put them all in a line and saved a lot of work ( and it would stay in tune better)
@@Cristofre he didn't put them there because he had the idea to make headstocks. Just was only logical place to put them without modifying the piano further
the makers of an instrument saying "You gotta be careful" when playing it, shows the expert craftsmanship
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can never own too many clamps. If you run out of room on your pegboard from all the clamps, that means you need more pegboard.
Most true statement on youtube
F = X + 1
Where F is the number of clamps you need, and X is the number of clamps you have.
@@Dropaprayer As said by someone who bought a tungsten cube:
"Did you just justify my -cube- clamp addiction with an inductive proof?"
@@DropaprayerI get what you were trying to say but in your equation X = F - 1 so if F represents the amount you have then X = F + 1
I’ll show myself out
I love these trainwrecks, but I would love to see an honest second attempt at making a guitar
I actually think the guitar is the best out of the three, especially with the newer work that has been done to it. It can actually stay in tune, if they re-fret it it can be a down-to-earth normal guitar, with a lot of spikes of course 😆
The problem is: doing it correctly would require much more time than is allotted for those videos. Rob has some other activities to do and, probably, a life.
He kind of did that... He built an acoustic with an excellent luthier.
its not sca-taylor made, but rob made a classic guitar last year
Does that mean we're also getting a vid about how to make a piano from a "professional" that's less skilled than Simon like Marshall was?
Hopefully! Might be more than a 2 hour video
Damn why are you firing shots at Marshall
@@Vedgy smh my head, spending so much time sanding a guitar when he could just embrace the spikiness...
Building shit like this is a surprisingly good way to do a science on the components, like those locking tuners. You can't tell how reliable a company's tuners are when you buy 4 .. 8 of them, but when you buy 88?
On a related note: Would you like access to an actual, more fully outfitted wood shop in the Chicago area?
True, I've learned more from these videos than I ever would from watching lecture after lecture about how guitars work
An album will totally be made exclusively with these instruments, I already know it.
"Making an album in one hour using dangerous home-made instruments... without hearing it
Metal album. It will sell. 110%
If you dont bend the strings on top of the rod, then you can hear a better sounding piano. Its like youre making a Japanese Koto but on a grand murderous piano. Now you've exp, make MP V2. Working keys, more function, more dangerous, put great finish paint etc etc. Thanks Rob
Sca-Taylor is objectively the best instrument brand
Make a series of flutes/recorders next, I can't wait to see you guys' spin on that
I love how positive Rob is and how supportive his friend is of all the insane things he comes up with
This series is so awesome. The people who do change history.
Also you really truly need to build an analogue synth, and I need a live commentary by LMNC on the second channel for that one.
The sounds will end up coming from them being electricuted...
Rob spent so long looking for an instrument he couldn't play, til he gave up and decided to start making them himself.
And then managed to play them
Sca-Taylor will never cease to amaze me!
You made my childhood nightmare come true. The piano from Mario 64 scared the shit our of me.
Great job, this just looks awsome!
Keep doing the instruments it’s awesome, by the time you get every instrument wonky it’s going to become an archive of beautiful designs.
I always enjoy these
What if you guys had a friendly contest where you build the same instrument and see who did it best :O Maybe start with something small like a flute?
I love the chemistry between Rob and Simon. I could watch them build anything and love it.
Pretty sure I’ve been subscribed to you since like 2010. You’re my favorite channel on TH-cam and watching your videos always reignites my love for music when I’ve seemed to have lost motivation. Thanks rob!
God, imagine this plus the guitar and the drum, all end up in a musicians’ museum or something like that.
Probably will cause what else do new generations have for heros? The days of nirvana are over. Internet stars will be remembered now
You feel like you are watching a train wreck unfold, and then it turns out to be freaking amazing - and then the sentient laughing murder piano makes it just that much better. I would be curious how it sounds if you mic it in the cavity. This is just madness...love it.
Finally, my favourite brand of musical instruments is back to cut our hands
Congratulations on your 15th anniversary on TH-cam, Rob! I've been a follower for more than half the way through (8 years or so), and it's incredible how you can always bring so much fun, art, positivity, inspiration and a lot of times education into the world with your videos. I wish you many more years and happiness to come on this amazing journey and thank you for the fantastic content!
Ever since i started watching rob again, I've started to get more into playing and writing music. Thanks rob!
Sca-Taylor never fails to disappoint with their cutting-edge instruments
Your song could totally be on a Tom Waits album and I love it! 😆.
I love your videos like this! You seem like you are having such fun doing these kinds of creative videos! Please don’t stop having fun and making things that make you happy! It really shines through!
I just love seeing people staying true to themselves and seeing that joy radiate through! You be you Rob! At some point money won’t make you happier, but doing stupid S#!? like this sure will!
This just looks like toddlers arts and craft but they have powertools and infinite wood. And I'm so here for it!
Rob you never cease to amaze us, your creativity and musicality is insane! Much love!
We need Sca-Taylor guitars merch imagine how epic that would be so this is a proposition that we say #ScaTaylorMerch on every Sca-Taylor video
this thing is gonna sell at auction in 100 years as a "rare folk instrument"
1000 years in the future, archaeologists are going to interpret it as a ritual artifact representing an unrecorded mythical antagonist.
My piano and organ construction books are some of my favorites. I got them from a guy who had a dream telling him to build a little pipe organ in the 1960's. Beautify made table top replica of a gothic cathedral in mahogany with the pipes sticking out the top at the back, keys down one side. Ran on an ancient vacuum cleaner motor. I wish I had it.
Congrats on 15 years, Rob! Keep up the great work!
31:44 Just love how the piece at the right corner falls off :D
I love that at 31:44 when the stand hits the top, one of the spikes breaks
These Sca-Taylor projects are one of the entertainingestest things imaginable hahaha!
And they make noises plus they're good enough for proof of concept, so I'd LOVE to see at least some of them eventually have a version 2.0 !!!
You know, you've seen the initial problems so v2.0 would be sooo much better, then there is a diminishing return effect and I guess v5.0 or v10.0 is not worth it and also too serious.
But a second generation would be something, right? :D
Thank you Rob and everybody behind the scenes - we enjoy watching you enjoying what you are doing!
The song at the end was actually surprisingly good. I could imagine that in a weird horror film for sure.
It's time for an album featuring all the Sca-Taylor instruments
Such a fun project. The tuners sticking out makes it look like the piano ate six guitars.
I'm almost halfway through this vid and I've already abandoned what I think I know about the piano lol. I'm probably going to have to watch more than three times because I'm absolutely enamored that someone would make a DIY piano and also I would like to improve on the design. Good stuff, ALL OF THE THUMBS UP!
also, congrats on 15 years!
I'm a first year piano tech student and that makes this whole thing both more enjoyable and more infuriating. At 9:20 they talk about sound holes. Those aren't really sound holes in those pictures. I mean technically speaking they are holes for letting sound out but in an acoustic guitar you have an enclosed resonating chamber so if you didn't have a hole, the pressure created inside would have nowhere to go except into the back and sides of the chamber. That would lead to extra resistance for the sound. A piano however has an open resonating "chamber" where the soundboard is the one that does all the amplification. There's a reason that in the chapter on acoustic construction, the outer "cabinet" (I'm translating from Dutch so I don't know the proper English jargon) of the piano isn't in there. That is considered to be part of the structural construction. Think of the difference like an open backed speaker (piano) vs a closed back speaker (guitar). Those holes in the cast steel frame of that grand piano in the picture is like a mesh in front of the speaker. There the frame provides the structural strength needed but the holes allow the sound to pass through.
Anyway... Back to the video.
Congrats, Rob S. Great work. Cheers! Keep us posted. From, Ethan Moeckel.
I was thinking, hammers could be done by just hammering the string from underneath, then using a spring or just gravity to have the hammer (and key) go back down...
In case you'd ever want to do a V2!
Love this and it's monstrous sound though!
Man, I love these Sca-Taylor builds. What's next? Maybe you'll learn to solder and make your own synthesizer? lol Also, need a full Ska-Taylor ensemble track using all Ska-Taylor products...
My favorite thing about sca-Taylor is how the plans for the build are literally drawn out on a shoe box in the parking lot right before picking up supplies.
That legit sounded dope, I can imagine that on a video game soundtrack
I had just taken such a huge mouthful of tea when you said "pianos are expensive, I dunno why because they're clearly so easy to make" and I had to really fight to keep it in
It takes Steinway one whole year to make ONE grand piano from scratch. What's taking them so long?!
If you dont bend the strings on top of the rod, then you can hear a better sounding piano. Its like youre making a Japanese Koto but on a grand murderous piano
i like that you drew your design on the inside of a shoebox on the back of your car in the parking lot in freezing temperatures
The started trying to build a piano, ended up building one of those chests that eat you in Dark Souls :')
Next video -- Building a Rob Scallon from Scratch (with no experience)
dude this sounds like a fighting game stage song, like Killer Instinct or something, license that shit and make bank :D
Since its sentient, selling would be akin to slavery or prostitucion, depending on your world view
Ali Spagnola made a door stop piano, but it didn't really work. Always love seeing you guys try your best LOL
should've been tayllon guitars since all your instruments are dangerous. or talyon idk like a hawks talon
I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what state they were in because i was curios then rewinded it to look up where it was 2 degrees a few weeks ago and realized it said they were Illinois im a dumbass
I feel a bit sorry for the tuners. They could have ended up on any instrument, but this is their fate now
Getting some weird Combichrist-like vibes from that piano lol.
Y'all could've made a 1-2 octave toy piano which would have been way easier, but no y'all went all out and made the big thing. Respect
Why the fuck does the final song sound like something Tom Waits would make
That music video was the most amazing and at the same time hilarious music video I have ever seen.
I could see this being used in the score of psychedelic horror video game or something
I don't know about the sound, but its certainly a conversation starter!
Now Rob needs to get Andrew and do a First of April just using these instruments
When I heard it, the only words that came to mind were "Djent Koto"
I watched this whole thing thinking that they'd find a way to make the doorstoppers connect to keys, I should have known it would end with you having to flick the tonsils of a monster piano
"Every Spike is Necessary"
Sca-Taylor Guitars
Ending song is straight Aphex's acoustic album
I hate that this actually has a practical use for a cool percussion effect
Guess you could say he pulled out all the stops for this one..😏😅
The song & music video part was pretty great :D
Sca-Taylor: innovating music technology
The thing I really love about Sca-Taylor is they're never afraid to innovate! 🤣
"Excuse me but where can I find the door stops?" "Someone completely cleaned us out. Bought every single one we have." "Look if you don't want to help me just say so."
"Excuse me sir? Do you have any tuners?"...
maybe make a violin next? that would be cool!
Rob Scallons doohickey signature piano
wow!!! id love to see a sca-taylor pipe organ 🤔
You are incredibly talented man! The music video is amazing!
It sounds like the piano from Mario 64 too
i will say id love to see you guys like actually spend as long as you need on an instrument to getting it right because these videos are great
piano!
who's idea was this?
You really should’ve recruited the expertise of Mattias Krantz for this. He’s an engineer!
I bet all the piano players and technicians in Sweden have been warned about him by now. too bad he is far away from rob in Chicago
Come on matthias, doorstops instead of hammers, I feel like it would sound incredible on an actual piano
I am trying to do this on my channel, it's not easy! Good effort Rob!