Here's an idea, tune lots of pianos so they all account for one note on a normal piano each and then play a song by pressing 1 whole piano at once instead of a note. Probably not something you'd actually do, but still funny
I feel like you should see if the Piano tech wants to collaborate. With his knowledge and experience you two could make something even crazier than you’ve already done.
Have you considered turning a wall into a piano? Like basically running piano strings through a full wall and seeing if the wall itself is acoustically adept at being a piano?
Piano house can mean many different things if you think about it. A house shaped like a grand piano architecturally would be neat. A basis for a horror movie. Or a house containing lots of pianos.
This is the atheist version of a pipe organ and I love it for one of the same reasons I love pipe organs. An instrument embedded into the very architecture of a building can only be conceived by an utter madman, whose idea is then trusted by other madmen who go and build such a mad idea.
It could potentially be quite dangerous. The total amount of tension in a grand piano is usually around 20 tons. I'd be afraid to be inside that house.
Hahha I have boxes of tuning forks everywhere still. Problem is I don’t wanna get rid of them (since they got so expensive) but at the same time they arrived out of tune so not sure what I can use them for 😆
I think every medium deserves the unabated passion of taking the thing you love and turning it into an expertly crafted monstrosity using all of the skills you've learned.
I find it fascinating that even though you tuned each string on the E-board to one note, you can still hear the original note as an overtone because that's still predetermined by the actual length of the string, as opposed to how tight you wind it up
@@daydodog The tech points it out briefly. There's actually two waves on each string. One is the oscillation of the string itself, as it's vibrating with it's resonance frequency after being hit, the other one is the impulse wave of the hammer traveling up and down the string from the point of impact. It's the difference between sound moving through a solid object (which is determined by the speed of sound for any given material) and the whole object moving itself, which is determined by its size and mass. Usually the two are the same if the string is tuned correctly, but as it isn't on the E-board, you can always hear both notes. The one that is natural to the string and the one the string is tuned to. You can sort of hear it when he's hitting the single keys in a row
I love how the outcome of this is "wait is this all I've done in all this time" The tuning fork one is strange, it has the more bell-like sound with the panels open, but with them closed it almost sounds like a guitar combined with a piano. Which is especially ironic given that there is also a guitar string piano that... doesn't sound line that.
I would love to see a piano with the innards reversed, like a mirror. The low keys playing the high notes and vice versa! The keys should have the standard layout though, as to not give it away instantly. The challenge is probably the amount of custom work required to create a mirror version of the string assembly.
@@pjotrkolster You're right that there are indeed some videos about backwards pianos and left handed pianos on youtube. But the charm of Matthias Krantz's videos is the surprised look of the piano techs.
It's great watching the smile when he plays the more silly pianos. He just can't stop giggling when he plays notes on the EEEE piano. Then you can see his pain when he realizes you filled a piano full of water. His reactions are great!
@@penguin_reader_yt9510 That's actually still technically incorrect. It should be EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@jpoy21 OR would it be * TAkes a dEEp brEath * EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ?
This would really fuck with some heads. I play guitar left handed, and whenever someone who plays guitar comes over, they'll ask if they can try. They think they'll be able to play it, but after the first note they already get stuck
That GIANT E sounds like a really cool intro sound for like a production company that has its logo before a movie, and maybe after the E rings out for a few seconds, it fades slightly but then cuts out, and then the sound of a single triangle tuned to E being struck. I think that would sound really really cool! Also the tuning fork piano sounds a bit like a harpsichord, but with a hint of banjo. It’s really interesting!
--- You having said this, I personally was right away reminded Lucasfilm's "THX" and the 1982 logo-tune of "United Artists" (especially from "Revenge of the Pink Panther). ---
The main theme for Halo 3, if I recall correctly, uses exclusively E on a piano. So yeah, actually, not only could you make something really epic out of that meme piano, it's basically actually been done before.
The piano tech really seems to enjoy you and your projects, even if he doesn't like the result of all the pianos. You should collaborate with him to come up with a piano idea. What's something HE would want to see or try? That's what I want to see next.
I actually did ask him this in the end of a video but I can’t recall which one it is. Anway he wanted to hear something soft as the hammers. So I suggested making 88 replicas of my thumb out of silicone so I could slap the piano. But the idea does not excite me enough when I compare it to other ideas I have coming up. It will also be very hard because they won’t fit etc. But idk, I could make it one day
@@Mattiaskrantz Make a silicone thumb replica, 3D scan it, scale it down, 3D print it smaller, make another silicone mold from that and cast 88 of them, lol
“ I created the craziest piano ever” You combine everything together. Fishing Line for High Notes, Bass Strings for Low notes, hammers for normal notes, tuning forks for the black notes, fill it with water. Profit
Your technician/tuner's looking at the E piano and demonstrating the different effects of scaling and longitudinal mode around 4:15 makes the E-Piano one of the most useful pianos you've got!
I wonder what type of string material has the most pronounced overtones? If you tuned them all to the same note like this, you could play clearer melodies with the overtones.
Another idea: do something nice to piano tech, like a gift or go doing something together, dont habe to be piano related. Let him know he is a beloved part of your channel and community ^^
Yo, what about a plaque that says 'certified cursed piano technician'? It could come with little engravings depicting some of the cursed pianos he's tuned.
This is peak TH-cam, I don't play piano, I know nothing about pianos, I'm not even big into music, but this video piqued my interest and peaked my enjoyment. Good man.
When an actual song is played on the “all E” piano you can hear the song in the overtones of the notes. It was even more obvious on the virtual version. Really really cool.
- "is this the worst piano you have ever played?" - "I'd say so, yes." - ...."it's not leaking though?" I think I pulled a muscle laughing so hard. Thank you for this awful piano and your brilliant channel.
Piano Technician is such a good sport about all of your Piano shenanigans, even though it looks like some of the piano stuff you've made makes him visibly hurt his soul :D
Everytime I watch a video where you call him over, I feel like he is split between two emotions in his heart at the very same time - one of deep pain about the piano and sound, and the other of curiousity, humor and a little excitement/amazement.
From a technical standpoint, a piano filled with sulphur hexafluoride to lower the pitches sounds like an interesting challenge. The main trick will be tuning it while wearing SCBA equipment...
I mean, the thing with sulfur hexafluoride is that it's so dense that very little will actually spill out of the piano, and if you're above it, any that does spill out will sit at floor-level, so inhaling it isn't as significant of a risk.
As someone who has collected things in the past I enjoy seeing a collector and an enthusiastic guest look at a collection. The fact that they are giant dumb pianos is a nice absurd bonus.
The obvious idea I got after watching this and some Nicholas Bras videos is a piano with tuned PVC pipes instead of strings. Fitting the bass notes physically might be a bit of a challenge though. But imagine the sound!
@@protestthebread1046 the way I thought of it was that the piano hammers would hit the pipes, creating the sound. I have seen such contraptions played with drumsticks. Maybe piano hammers are not forceful enough though...
Here's a few ideas: 1. Double the scale lenght of the strings. However, the increased tension might be too strong. Also, pretty technical to do. 2. Do a combination of strings since each note has 3 strings. Ex: one piano string, one guitar strings, one sitar strings or else. 3.Put electric guitar pickups (humbucker to get the noise cancelation) on the piano and feed the signal into a distorted guitar amp. 4. Change the hammer for a mini violin bow. So if it's possible and done well, you could technicaly play the note by releasing the key as well. 5. Change the strings to a metal plate. A bit like a xylophone. However since the plate would be longer, they would resonate more. 6. Tune the 3 strings on a key to a minor or major chord. 7. Transform a piano into a big nut cracker.
@@bongmuon exactly! There are many possibilities there! A delay into a large reverb to give a spacy vibe would be pretty interesting. Pretty much any chain could be done in a DAW, however with a VST you get the sound of a mic'ed piano in a room. With guitar pickups the sound would be totally different. In fact, I really want to see that!
The underwater audio from the water piano totally sounds like the stringed instruments in banjo kazooie! I can’t remember what instrument it was, but I love the banjo kazooie music
As someone whose father has been a piano tech for most of my life I find this video highly amusing. loved to try the tuning fork one! The onle E I'd present to my partner as a composing challange! Thanks for being such a creative madman, it's just wonderful!
The dynamic between Mattias and our good friend, The Piano Tech, feels a lot like Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. Either way, it's a friendship that I am glad we were able to witness as it unfolded from the very first piano video until now.
@@Summertimeislife yeeee! But also I just pictured the guy hitting a note and a single PEZ candy shoots out at high velocity on accident causing a small forehead cut. But also it would be cool if he went extreme with the idea and made it so every key gives a different type of candy. Saying that out loud gives me a huge "Willy Wonka" vibes.
Since it's a sizable volume of water, and water expands when frozen, it is very likely to shatter the piano itself. An interesting thought, but should be approached with consideration!
Wind chimes! Make the hammers into metal tubes, I'm sure it would have a crazy resonance or it would hold notes. I have wind chimes that sound beautifully and when I'm outside near them I try to play them like in instrument, though there's only like 5 notes I can play with my wind chimes.
@@Kukilet organs are wind instruments, not percussion. They don't hammer the pipes to make the sound, the keys open up valves that send air rushing into the pipes.
@@sinteleon Well you see that's the inspiration of course, I've watched the MMX series since its inception. Same concept, different design. I'm sure Wintergatan would be quite supportive!
i used to play piano and although i’ve fallen away from it my appreciation for the instrument and for the artists who play it has never dissipated. i loved watching this!
The E-splosions were definitely my favorite part lol, along with seeing the piano technician's bemusement at the E piano. As far as video ideas go, maybe ask the piano technician what other weird pianos he's always wondered about but never been able to try, and make that.
Try replacing the hammers with glass hammers. Glass guitar picks sound so cool, I wonder what glass hammers would do in a piano. I also made a guitar pick from an agate slice using a diamond bit grinder. So stone hammers may sound amazing. Marble tiles would shape easier than agate.
8:25 it sounds like church bells of every chromatic note put into one box.. it's really pretty. That was a good choice of song for the hammer piano, he's quite a good pianist.
Hmm, I usually come up with an instant list when asked about video ideas but you have a very specific niche. I will give it a try maybe something will inspire you. 1) a piano to play under water, perhaps have the strings in an air bubble and the piano in a pool. 2) can a piano be made from corrugated cardboard ? 3) glass hammers? 4) rubber mallets instead of hammers? 5) reverse the keys on a piano so it high notes on left and low note on right? (Not sure if this is even possible) 6) a piano that uses violin bows instead of hammers. 7) team up with "how ridiculous" and get a recording of a piano hitting from 65 meters drop, make a sample for the keyboard and see what it sounds like. 8) make the hammers on a piano of a conductive material and have them be switches for colored lights as well as music, so when the piano is played flashing lights of different colors accompany the sound. 9) coat strings in different substances to see the effects. Rubber coated strings, house painted, electric wire coating on strings (more items I am sure). Pick one do a whole piano. 10) make a piano out of a car, pop the hood and see the strings. Note: this has been a difficult list to create. I hope something inspires you to keep making videos.
If the fishing line piano sounds fishy, maybe you should try making a fishing line underwater piano. Maybe the tune will be slightly more catchy that way.
By understanding how a piano works, I got a nice idea for a next piano embellishment: One could reverse the hammering system so that the piano makes a sound when you let the key go and that it stops when you press it. I am convinced that playing a song now would become really funny. I already made a little engineering plan for it, so just respond if you’re interested 😊 The idea came while watching this video of Mark Rober: th-cam.com/video/uBEL3YVzMwk/w-d-xo.html
The piano tech guy is just the best! He should start his own channel! Here's a video idea: Hire a group of professional musicians to make an EP with only instruments you have "fixed". Use samples and record live, etc...
6:35 that sounded amazing holy shit, like someone took concert bells or some such and played them exactly at the same moment as the piano There's also a zither-like or even harpsichord-y quality to it in the mid register
I wonder if every single time the Piano technician's phone rings when Mattias calls him, his phone says "That mad man". He then takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, slowly lifts the phone to his ear while reluctantly pressing "Accept".
This was absolute gold. The piano tuner was a real sport about it and it was nice to see all the piano experiments again. Loved the interaction between you two. Is there perhaps a way to string a piano so the when playing the highest note it also plays the opposite/lowest note and continue this for all the keys? The other thought is maybe there is something that could be done with winds chimes. How silly you go with that thought though?
honestly i kinda love the pEEEano, its all tuned to E but you can still play music on and it it somehow sounds... nice would love to see a whole set of "one note" pianos as that would make for a very intresting sound when played together
Love the relationship you guys built it's really fun to see the two of you interract, your crazyness and stubborn force of will and his knowledge and curiosity
Here's a cool idea, I don't know if it's crazy enough for you lol. I once worked on an old piano, one of the big uprights from around 1900, that had a special effect you could manually activate. A bit like a practice mute (felt) that are still common. It was a strip of thin leather spanning the whole piano, sliced for all the notes, with metal rivets on the end that you could flop down in front of the hammers giving it a harpsicord-like sound. Similar to a tack piano, where you stick metal thumb tacks into the hammers, though that is more permanent and can wreck your hammers. This method didn't destroy anything, and I've never seen it done on any other piano!
I have a suggestion for the one-piano-per-note idea: You wire each of the pianos using some sort of midi-controlled actuators so you can actually play all seven from one keyboard. You might have to divide the piano keyboards into maybe four (or more) segments to have more playable range but still retain the larger sound.
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Here's an idea, tune lots of pianos so they all account for one note on a normal piano each and then play a song by pressing 1 whole piano at once instead of a note. Probably not something you'd actually do, but still funny
Maybe you can do river flows in you, but you tune a piano to every note, and edit it together.
Video idea: I made the smallest piano in the world!
I feel like you should see if the Piano tech wants to collaborate. With his knowledge and experience you two could make something even crazier than you’ve already done.
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Oh no.... XD
@@ProjectExteria You mean Oh YES.
Y e s
Have you considered turning a wall into a piano? Like basically running piano strings through a full wall and seeing if the wall itself is acoustically adept at being a piano?
“GUYS, I turned my HOUSE into a PIANO, let’s see the piano technician’s reaction!”
Piano house can mean many different things if you think about it. A house shaped like a grand piano architecturally would be neat. A basis for a horror movie. Or a house containing lots of pianos.
This is the atheist version of a pipe organ and I love it for one of the same reasons I love pipe organs. An instrument embedded into the very architecture of a building can only be conceived by an utter madman, whose idea is then trusted by other madmen who go and build such a mad idea.
that is a crazy cool idea that I can totally see him doing xD
It could potentially be quite dangerous. The total amount of tension in a grand piano is usually around 20 tons. I'd be afraid to be inside that house.
The tuning fork piano actually sounds delightful. It reminds me of a harpsichord. I think it would sound great in a carousel lol
Yeah it is my favourite hahah
I was also thinking about the harpsichord part!
Ify. Made me think of the music from the first Final Fantasy games tbh
Sounds a lot like a tack piano (and works kind of similarly but is obviously VERY cursed because those tuning forks look awful heavy)
King Sombra? 😏
You can hear the pain in his voice as he opens up the water piano. He sounds like a broken man 💔
SHIT UP
Your are the e piano
I like watching people be in pain
It always puts a smile on my face when I remember that the tuning fork piano drove the price of tuning forks up
Hahha I have boxes of tuning forks everywhere still. Problem is I don’t wanna get rid of them (since they got so expensive) but at the same time they arrived out of tune so not sure what I can use them for 😆
@@Mattiaskrantz they’re an appreciating asset because of you, you should cash out lol
@@Mattiaskrantz Tuning forks that are out of tune? Sounds suspicious to me ;:/
@@skedizzle But it says so --- they're tuning forks. If he'd bought tuned forks he would be fine.
@@Mattiaskrantz make an out of tune tuning fork piano?
I think every medium deserves the unabated passion of taking the thing you love and turning it into an expertly crafted monstrosity using all of the skills you've learned.
I'm glad that the piano tech is back, he looks like he's having fun.
he absolutely loved the E piano!!
i believe they’re dating. that’s why he’s back
id be having fun. its like playing a game with mods
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!
I love that dog
With the amount of weird pianos you're assembling, you could almost start a tiny novelty museum
@baba is you What did the dude say lol? I'm curious, since they deleted their comment.
@@TabbyCatq same. I need to know now
I would love that but it would be chaos. Like 10 pianos in a room constantly playing different things by different people simultaneously.
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@@whatswiththisnewhandlesthing We’re gonna have a big line.
I love how the piano technician immediately starts playing the Twin Peaks theme on the keyboard.
Thats some really good music taste
His 'no' to the pool piano is like... amusedly devastated
He wanted to tune it!!! That moment made me happy that he would take on the challenge...
@@pinkbiohazardmercurialcoll7133 When he accidentally used his own felt mute thing, his immediate "NOOOO!" reaction was hilarious!
I find it fascinating that even though you tuned each string on the E-board to one note, you can still hear the original note as an overtone because that's still predetermined by the actual length of the string, as opposed to how tight you wind it up
Uhhhhh, what, how
@@daydodog The tech points it out briefly. There's actually two waves on each string. One is the oscillation of the string itself, as it's vibrating with it's resonance frequency after being hit, the other one is the impulse wave of the hammer traveling up and down the string from the point of impact. It's the difference between sound moving through a solid object (which is determined by the speed of sound for any given material) and the whole object moving itself, which is determined by its size and mass. Usually the two are the same if the string is tuned correctly, but as it isn't on the E-board, you can always hear both notes. The one that is natural to the string and the one the string is tuned to. You can sort of hear it when he's hitting the single keys in a row
@@Dragongaga acoustics are a wild science
Huh (I didn’t understand nothing)
@@gigi_luigi543 you can tune a fork, but it'll still be a fork.
I love how the outcome of this is "wait is this all I've done in all this time"
The tuning fork one is strange, it has the more bell-like sound with the panels open, but with them closed it almost sounds like a guitar combined with a piano. Which is especially ironic given that there is also a guitar string piano that... doesn't sound line that.
I would love to see a piano with the innards reversed, like a mirror. The low keys playing the high notes and vice versa! The keys should have the standard layout though, as to not give it away instantly. The challenge is probably the amount of custom work required to create a mirror version of the string assembly.
Für Elise sounds like this, played on mirrored keys: th-cam.com/video/twQI14InhpM/w-d-xo.html
Ah yes, finally a left-handed piano
IIRC those already exist…
@@pjotrkolster You're right that there are indeed some videos about backwards pianos and left handed pianos on youtube. But the charm of Matthias Krantz's videos is the surprised look of the piano techs.
@@cbuchner1 I guess that's true. :)
It's great watching the smile when he plays the more silly pianos. He just can't stop giggling when he plays notes on the EEEE piano. Then you can see his pain when he realizes you filled a piano full of water. His reactions are great!
EEEE is incorrect
it is
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@penguin_reader_yt9510 You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
@@alexlowe2054 :) VEry truE, tEchnically corrEct is thE bEst kind of corrEct.
@@penguin_reader_yt9510 That's actually still technically incorrect. It should be EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@jpoy21 OR would it be
* TAkes a dEEp brEath *
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ?
Make a backwards piano. Make the C8 sound like an A0 and the A0 sound like a C8.
I was just popping down here to propose a backwards tuned piano, you beat me to it! :P
@@craigb.5902 great minds think alike, mi amigo!
It would literally be a left piano
I doubt it would be as easy as taking the frame out and turning it around 180.
This would really fuck with some heads. I play guitar left handed, and whenever someone who plays guitar comes over, they'll ask if they can try. They think they'll be able to play it, but after the first note they already get stuck
That GIANT E sounds like a really cool intro sound for like a production company that has its logo before a movie, and maybe after the E rings out for a few seconds, it fades slightly but then cuts out, and then the sound of a single triangle tuned to E being struck.
I think that would sound really really cool!
Also the tuning fork piano sounds a bit like a harpsichord, but with a hint of banjo. It’s really interesting!
Reminded me instantly of halo
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You having said this, I personally was right away reminded Lucasfilm's "THX"
and the 1982 logo-tune of "United Artists"
(especially from "Revenge of the Pink Panther).
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The main theme for Halo 3, if I recall correctly, uses exclusively E on a piano.
So yeah, actually, not only could you make something really epic out of that meme piano, it's basically actually been done before.
Need to use that piano for the EEEE in Halo 3's finish the fight soundtrack.
*E*
m o t i o n
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Man, the Piano Tech is the real MVP! He's such a chill guy, despite you torturing so many pianos :P
I was expecting him to hate it but it's fun watching him genuinely enjoy messing around and seeing some of it
The piano tech really seems to enjoy you and your projects, even if he doesn't like the result of all the pianos. You should collaborate with him to come up with a piano idea. What's something HE would want to see or try? That's what I want to see next.
I actually did ask him this in the end of a video but I can’t recall which one it is. Anway he wanted to hear something soft as the hammers. So I suggested making 88 replicas of my thumb out of silicone so I could slap the piano. But the idea does not excite me enough when I compare it to other ideas I have coming up. It will also be very hard because they won’t fit etc. But idk, I could make it one day
@@Mattiaskrantz Make a silicone thumb replica, 3D scan it, scale it down, 3D print it smaller, make another silicone mold from that and cast 88 of them, lol
You should open a piano museum! I love this content it's great, congrats on 1M subs 👍
What are you doing here?
That would be epic😆 thank you Dave 🙏🙏
@@Mattiaskrantz No worries, I dropped you an email...
Ooh I have not been checking that for months sorry lemme check
Yoo sup. Big fan xD
Massive respect to the piano tech for playing the twin peaks theme. He's awesome
i was so surprised and pleased, i rewinded to hear it again. it makes me very emotional though
what was the piece he played @8:53?
What time?
@@00bean00 he plays the Twin Peaks theme @2:55 and @4:45
What was he playing @0:47
“ I created the craziest piano ever”
You combine everything together.
Fishing Line for High Notes, Bass Strings for Low notes, hammers for normal notes, tuning forks for the black notes, fill it with water.
Profit
Don't forget the E
@@NoctinTilandir the entire bottom half of the piano is tuned to e
The piano would break 💀😭
That piano would fucking ascend to the heavens are you kidding me
it has two keyboards (or whatever you call em) and the second one is all tuned to E
Your technician/tuner's looking at the E piano and demonstrating the different effects of scaling and longitudinal mode around 4:15 makes the E-Piano one of the most useful pianos you've got!
I wonder what type of string material has the most pronounced overtones? If you tuned them all to the same note like this, you could play clearer melodies with the overtones.
Your idea about making the hammers hit the forks is actually an incredibly popular thing! Rhodes pianos actually do this! It's a wonderful sound
I actually kind of like the tuning fork piano. Its so bright sounding. Reminds me the harpsicord
Yes!
Very true.
I thought so too. Reminder me of pianos I hear in old westerns. But I also no nothing about pianos.
Yep it must have reminded the piano technician, since je started playing Bach Goldberg variations.
Lol he played dueling banjos at 5:18
Another idea: do something nice to piano tech, like a gift or go doing something together, dont habe to be piano related. Let him know he is a beloved part of your channel and community ^^
Yo, what about a plaque that says 'certified cursed piano technician'? It could come with little engravings depicting some of the cursed pianos he's tuned.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 maybe "certified technician of cursed pianos" so it doesnt sound like he's the one with the curse
@@katie42496 A beautiful, lofty, prestigious title
@@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice A beautiful, lofty, cursed, prestigious title.
he already did, it was the first piano in the video
At the pool piano, you are trying with all your might to get him to say the keys sound "dampened", aren't you 😂
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This is peak TH-cam, I don't play piano, I know nothing about pianos, I'm not even big into music, but this video piqued my interest and peaked my enjoyment. Good man.
Same
Neither does this guy so you’re right at home
peak usage of both peak and pique!
Bro I saw this on my feed for too long before I was like okay TH-cam what’s your problem
^^
When an actual song is played on the “all E” piano you can hear the song in the overtones of the notes. It was even more obvious on the virtual version. Really really cool.
- "is this the worst piano you have ever played?"
- "I'd say so, yes."
- ...."it's not leaking though?"
I think I pulled a muscle laughing so hard. Thank you for this awful piano and your brilliant channel.
As though any other piano leaks normally.
Piano Technician is such a good sport about all of your Piano shenanigans, even though it looks like some of the piano stuff you've made makes him visibly hurt his soul :D
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Guten Morgen Frau Fischer anbei
I would love to see an e-piano that remotely controls a real piano somewhere else in the room.
Everytime I watch a video where you call him over, I feel like he is split between two emotions in his heart at the very same time - one of deep pain about the piano and sound, and the other of curiousity, humor and a little excitement/amazement.
From a technical standpoint, a piano filled with sulphur hexafluoride to lower the pitches sounds like an interesting challenge. The main trick will be tuning it while wearing SCBA equipment...
My prediction: the sound will not change that much.
@@johnrubensaragi4125 if at all, because the pitch comes from the strings
@@nightspicer your voide pitch comes from strings too. They’re called YOUR VOCAL CORDS
@@HerrConner627 That's a misnomer, they are flaps. They're calling them vocal folds now.
I mean, the thing with sulfur hexafluoride is that it's so dense that very little will actually spill out of the piano, and if you're above it, any that does spill out will sit at floor-level, so inhaling it isn't as significant of a risk.
As someone who has collected things in the past I enjoy seeing a collector and an enthusiastic guest look at a collection.
The fact that they are giant dumb pianos is a nice absurd bonus.
Mattias bro I love the fact that you've made friends with this piano tech solely by torturing his soul🤣😭
The obvious idea I got after watching this and some Nicholas Bras videos is a piano with tuned PVC pipes instead of strings. Fitting the bass notes physically might be a bit of a challenge though. But imagine the sound!
Or brass pipes for a nice resonance
Couldn’t the pipes extend all the way up to the ceiling out of the lid🤔
I just realized it ends up being a weird carillon.
Isn't that effectively an organ and not a piano?
@@protestthebread1046 the way I thought of it was that the piano hammers would hit the pipes, creating the sound. I have seen such contraptions played with drumsticks. Maybe piano hammers are not forceful enough though...
Here's a few ideas:
1. Double the scale lenght of the strings. However, the increased tension might be too strong. Also, pretty technical to do.
2. Do a combination of strings since each note has 3 strings. Ex: one piano string, one guitar strings, one sitar strings or else.
3.Put electric guitar pickups (humbucker to get the noise cancelation) on the piano and feed the signal into a distorted guitar amp.
4. Change the hammer for a mini violin bow. So if it's possible and done well, you could technicaly play the note by releasing the key as well.
5. Change the strings to a metal plate. A bit like a xylophone. However since the plate would be longer, they would resonate more.
6. Tune the 3 strings on a key to a minor or major chord.
7. Transform a piano into a big nut cracker.
F me sideways. I hope he´ll do the violin one :D :D
I was thinking of the pickups, that would be cool to get someone with a big collection of effect pedals to see how you could make it sound.
Whoa calm down satan
@@bongmuon exactly! There are many possibilities there! A delay into a large reverb to give a spacy vibe would be pretty interesting. Pretty much any chain could be done in a DAW, however with a VST you get the sound of a mic'ed piano in a room. With guitar pickups the sound would be totally different. In fact, I really want to see that!
The most impractical electric piano ever
I love listening to both of them having conversations in swenglish
It's easy to be efterklok 😂
I feel like the Piano Tech has become the world's greatest enabler.
"you called me about It" 😂
Timestamps:
0:43 normal
1:46 e
5:01 tuning forks
7:25 hammers
10:34 pool
14:21 fishing line
15:57 bass
16:49 guitar strings
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Why is everyone saying e
The underwater audio from the water piano totally sounds like the stringed instruments in banjo kazooie! I can’t remember what instrument it was, but I love the banjo kazooie music
I love how the piano tech got his sense of normalcy corrupted throughout the videos
As someone whose father has been a piano tech for most of my life I find this video highly amusing. loved to try the tuning fork one! The onle E I'd present to my partner as a composing challange! Thanks for being such a creative madman, it's just wonderful!
Say hi from me 😆 and thank you🙏🙏
I'm happy you didn't damage the Grotrian-Steinweg good decision, some of these pianos are lovely and could be used for years to come
I just feel like it would be a disservice to not recognize the Piano Technician's impeccable taste in playing the Twin Peaks theme.
Time stamp?
@@kynto 4:45
I suggest a piano that instead of levering hammers, you shoot bb pellets (perhaps small metal ball bearings) into the strings. Gun Piano.
I’ve actually done an attempt on gun pianos. But I might reattempt it, it would be really epic
@@Mattiaskrantz If you do it and don't paint it cammo, I'm gonna be disappointed.
this is so american i dissolved into a pile of 50 stars
omg, it'd be like that piano in Animusic.
He needs to colabb with the marble music machine sometime lol.
The E piano was ranked 'E'... this is the quality of detail I love! 💛
Why isn't anyone noticing/talking about it in the comments?!
The dynamic between Mattias and our good friend, The Piano Tech, feels a lot like Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. Either way, it's a friendship that I am glad we were able to witness as it unfolded from the very first piano video until now.
a piano where whenever you play a note it dispenses a piece of candy. not like a whole candy bar but like a few pellet like candies. love your work!
@Mattias Krantz um, is this spam? I think you have a spammer bot or something.
Pez
@@Summertimeislife yeeee! But also I just pictured the guy hitting a note and a single PEZ candy shoots out at high velocity on accident causing a small forehead cut.
But also it would be cool if he went extreme with the idea and made it so every key gives a different type of candy.
Saying that out loud gives me a huge "Willy Wonka" vibes.
I'd love it to either dispense the candy pieces out onto the key, or to launch the candy out from behind the piano, into the air
@@TigerBlackTigerBlackTigerBlack or the higher the note the higher the velocity
The one with forks sounds actually pretty similar to the harpsichord and yes, indeed , is very suitable for playing Bach
Hey Matt! I think its a perfect opportunity to see how the Pool Piano will sound if its frozen. It might not work but its worth a shot.
A very doable project in Sweden!
That will have to wait for a few month since we're heading into summer in the Northern Hemisphere
Since it's a sizable volume of water, and water expands when frozen, it is very likely to shatter the piano itself. An interesting thought, but should be approached with consideration!
@@that_danishdude It would take a while, but if it was done in multiple layers he might just be able to get away with it
The hammers are also in the water
I still want to hear a concert played on 12 single-note pianos.
The pianist is one hell of a runner
12 piano players, playing in tandem with one another to play a single piece lol
@@Modeus_Moon how much does the conductor get paid
It would be like a handbell choir, but with pianos!
4:45 - Piano tech playing the Twin Peaks theme. This man has excellent taste (:
What’s the Twin Peaks theme?
Wind chimes! Make the hammers into metal tubes, I'm sure it would have a crazy resonance or it would hold notes.
I have wind chimes that sound beautifully and when I'm outside near them I try to play them like in instrument, though there's only like 5 notes I can play with my wind chimes.
I was just thinking this too, I'm worried that the chimes would be too big to all fit... But it would be amazing.
You just invented an organ
@@Kukilet I'd say a celesta.
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@@Kukilet organs are wind instruments, not percussion. They don't hammer the pipes to make the sound, the keys open up valves that send air rushing into the pipes.
A tad random, but I just had the most brilliant idea:
*Make a piano into a working pinball machine and play Pinball Wizard*
Kinda like Wintergarten did with his unique instrument?
th-cam.com/video/IvUU8joBb1Q/w-d-xo.html
There IS the marble machine which practically is this, sort of.
@@sinteleon Well you see that's the inspiration of course, I've watched the MMX series since its inception. Same concept, different design. I'm sure Wintergatan would be quite supportive!
I don't know ANYTHING about pianos but I love watching people appreciate things that they love.
Hearing the intro to Björnes Magasin being used to test unique pianos is not something I expected to experience today
It almost brought me to tears…
_han levde_
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@@informitas0117
Nostalgikick
Fun thing about pianos is that they are both a percussion and a string instrument...so get some bellows and kazoos in there and make a wind instrument
Have you heard of pipe organs?
i used to play piano and although i’ve fallen away from it my appreciation for the instrument and for the artists who play it has never dissipated. i loved watching this!
The E-splosions were definitely my favorite part lol, along with seeing the piano technician's bemusement at the E piano. As far as video ideas go, maybe ask the piano technician what other weird pianos he's always wondered about but never been able to try, and make that.
Is it weird that I genuinely enjoy the sound of the Tuning Fork Piano? It sounds much more like a guitar than anything
I love that to every engineer "piano technician" just means calling the one and only *Piano Tech*
Movie Producer: We need to giant note to fill the room for the finale. Like a huge 'E' Note.
Sound Engineer: Ooh! Ooh! I know just the guy!
The tuning fork one sounds great imo, like a harpsichord.
Exactly my thought
Try replacing the hammers with glass hammers. Glass guitar picks sound so cool, I wonder what glass hammers would do in a piano. I also made a guitar pick from an agate slice using a diamond bit grinder. So stone hammers may sound amazing. Marble tiles would shape easier than agate.
I love how he sees the Water piano and just says “no” made me fucking crack up.
8:25 it sounds like church bells of every chromatic note put into one box.. it's really pretty. That was a good choice of song for the hammer piano, he's quite a good pianist.
Hmm, I usually come up with an instant list when asked about video ideas but you have a very specific niche. I will give it a try maybe something will inspire you.
1) a piano to play under water, perhaps have the strings in an air bubble and the piano in a pool.
2) can a piano be made from corrugated cardboard ?
3) glass hammers?
4) rubber mallets instead of hammers?
5) reverse the keys on a piano so it high notes on left and low note on right? (Not sure if this is even possible)
6) a piano that uses violin bows instead of hammers.
7) team up with "how ridiculous" and get a recording of a piano hitting from 65 meters drop, make a sample for the keyboard and see what it sounds like.
8) make the hammers on a piano of a conductive material and have them be switches for colored lights as well as music, so when the piano is played flashing lights of different colors accompany the sound.
9) coat strings in different substances to see the effects. Rubber coated strings, house painted, electric wire coating on strings (more items I am sure). Pick one do a whole piano.
10) make a piano out of a car, pop the hood and see the strings.
Note: this has been a difficult list to create. I hope something inspires you to keep making videos.
Love getting to see all the pianos recapped like this. The piano tech seems like a great guy! Can’t wait to see what’s next - your videos never miss!
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5:34 that was actually amazing
If the fishing line piano sounds fishy, maybe you should try making a fishing line underwater piano. Maybe the tune will be slightly more catchy that way.
Underrated XD
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By understanding how a piano works, I got a nice idea for a next piano embellishment: One could reverse the hammering system so that the piano makes a sound when you let the key go and that it stops when you press it. I am convinced that playing a song now would become really funny.
I already made a little engineering plan for it, so just respond if you’re interested 😊
The idea came while watching this video of Mark Rober: th-cam.com/video/uBEL3YVzMwk/w-d-xo.html
Honestly I really like the tuning fork piano. It has kind of a honky tonk vibe.
The tuning fork piano sounds like a mix of harpsichord and celesta, but with the sustain of a piano string.
Agreed! I actually quite like it.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 same
I thought of almost a Cembalo (though I think that would be more string, less metal)! It's really cool.
The piano tech guy is just the best! He should start his own channel! Here's a video idea: Hire a group of professional musicians to make an EP with only instruments you have "fixed". Use samples and record live, etc...
6:35 that sounded amazing holy shit, like someone took concert bells or some such and played them exactly at the same moment as the piano
There's also a zither-like or even harpsichord-y quality to it in the mid register
I wonder if every single time the Piano technician's phone rings when Mattias calls him, his phone says "That mad man". He then takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, slowly lifts the phone to his ear while reluctantly pressing "Accept".
The water needs to be -moving- _flowing_ in the piano.
River flows in you played on the river flows in the piano
I mean, that was this video right? th-cam.com/video/38VG3oaY4OQ/w-d-xo.html
@@LiterallySoup Now imagine him setting that up on a boat. Or better yet, on a raft in the middle of a lazy river ride on a cruise ship on a river.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 River flows in you on the river flows in the piano on the river flows in the ship on the river flows in the river
I wonder if game developers or animation studios have reached out. New and interesting sounds are always welcomed by them.
This was absolute gold. The piano tuner was a real sport about it and it was nice to see all the piano experiments again. Loved the interaction between you two.
Is there perhaps a way to string a piano so the when playing the highest note it also plays the opposite/lowest note and continue this for all the keys?
The other thought is maybe there is something that could be done with winds chimes. How silly you go with that thought though?
honestly i kinda love the pEEEano, its all tuned to E but you can still play music on and it it somehow sounds... nice
would love to see a whole set of "one note" pianos as that would make for a very intresting sound when played together
Ok honestly making the rest of the one note pianos and then finding people to play them together to do one song would be pretty fun
Love the relationship you guys built it's really fun to see the two of you interract, your crazyness and stubborn force of will and his knowledge and curiosity
Wow that is fantastic, I'm glad your pushing the limits with the pianos!
10:00 i just realised that i used to do these thing, i can not tell you how freaking surprised i was when i saw this
I feel like if John Cage was still alive he would like to borrow these pianos from this crazy man.
For his song 4:33
@@jorgek92 which is literally just resting for 4’33
oh, totally
I've never had so much fun watching a man desperately trying not to cry for 17 minutes straight.
C'mon y'all, lets play the E-ano.
Here's a cool idea, I don't know if it's crazy enough for you lol. I once worked on an old piano, one of the big uprights from around 1900, that had a special effect you could manually activate. A bit like a practice mute (felt) that are still common. It was a strip of thin leather spanning the whole piano, sliced for all the notes, with metal rivets on the end that you could flop down in front of the hammers giving it a harpsicord-like sound. Similar to a tack piano, where you stick metal thumb tacks into the hammers, though that is more permanent and can wreck your hammers. This method didn't destroy anything, and I've never seen it done on any other piano!
5:35 that sounded like a retro RPG. sick.
Love the Björnes magasin cover. It put a big smile on my face, thank you Piano Technician.
Always love to hear the Twin Peaks Theme. Most beautiful song ever created for TV or movies.
😂 omg
The “E” piano sounds so powerful when all the keys are pushed at the same time. It is totally cursed one, but it is impressive.
I have a suggestion for the one-piano-per-note idea: You wire each of the pianos using some sort of midi-controlled actuators so you can actually play all seven from one keyboard. You might have to divide the piano keyboards into maybe four (or more) segments to have more playable range but still retain the larger sound.
None of my piano technicians play the Twin Peaks theme for testing, I'm jealous
I don’t play the piano, and I’m not sure how these videos started showing up on my page but I really enjoy them so thank you
A grand piano, but sawed in half and spread apart so strings can be much longer and have the piano go a few scales scales lower
i adore that this guy tests pianos with the twin peaks intro
One of the best things I’ve ever seen lol 😂