0:30 That's Wintergatan original Marble Machine there... If only he managed to finish the second (third? fourth? 127th?) iteration of the marble machine. Seriously, you two should meet.
Strontium makes red sparks. Barium makes green. Copper makes blue. What if the contact points could be changed somehow to make the sparks an RGB gradient while still not fusing the action? Sounds like a dumb thing that shouldnt work, but that sounds like worth a try on the model.
@@araisikewai lol, "shots fired" indeed. Martin gave up on the MMX/version 3, but just recently started building the fourth iteration from the ground up and he's been uploading new videos about once a week...
The piano actually ended up breaking (like 40 strings snapped) which means this is the last recording of the sparking piano. Pretty cool (that this is the last recording)
I know this is an idiotic death trap. But for some reason everyone that plays it just gets the biggest smile on their face. That's something to be proud of.
Constantin getting completely lost in the sauce playing "Nothing Else Matters" while the piano looks like it's ready to go up in flames any second was absolutely incredible. I thought this piano was gimmicky, but that was wrong. It's art, and I love it.
@@MattiaskrantzWhen the piano is ready for retirement, please invite that man to play something epic while the piano actually catches fire and destroys itself.
@@DominusFeles Well, 'We Didn't Start the Fire' probably wouldn't work, because there would be video evidence that "Yes you did. You totally did!" but there is no reason why not "Through the fire and the flames, we carry on" [until the fire department shows up]
Hey Mattias, thanks for having me in the video. It was so much fun playing that crazy piano. I love the shots. Whenever you need me again, I'll even come to Sweden next time. How about some shorts as some people suggested. Sounds like a good idea
@Constantin Gold Excuse my silly name and profile picture, but: You are really inspiring by agreeing to this opportunity and just letting your skill flow, disregarding all the kind of obstacles with the piano! You are pretty much who I aspire to be 10 to 20 years from now, just a somewhat middle-aged, chilled guy that, instead of using his profession to be overly serious about himself or anything else, still uses it as his hobby and geeks out over these crazy (sophisticated) ideas :). That you got to be involved in a stunt of this kind is really remarkable! As a hobby pianist, I am only a tiny little bit envious of the opportunity and your skill :D.
You should make a piano that spurts up water behind a key when it's pressed, and keeps spurting until the key is let go, like a decorative fountain. You could maybe used the water-filled piano as a reservoir of water.
The sunglasses have two purposes: one is eye protection, the other is to make the pianist look REALLY cool I also just can’t get over how cool the piano sounds with the sparks in perfect time
As my mind became a little numb to the sound of the sparks, I realized the sparks were actually adding a percussive element, more specifically something like step dancing, which surprisingly added well to the "Firework" performance I also loved the thematic statement being supported in "Nothing Else Matters" with the emotion the pianist was putting into the performance and continuing to play while hell was letting loose, and it made for a perfect ending Good job on the video!
The sheer confidence of that pianist is astounding. The original hammer piano players all had so much trouble, but he somehow managed to play with grace and fluidity. Amazing.
that was so amazing to me as well. Towards the end he even managed to play softly, which I as far as I remember a first for this instrument! Huge props to Constantin.
As someone who had played both of those pianos for weeks. Once I added the cables this piano became so much harder to play. It genuinley suprised me he could even play it at all!
14:42 The rendition of Firework by Katy Perry was just epic. As the video progressed it sounded like the pianist was adapting and incorporating the spark sounds into the music more and more. The sparks kind of sounded like someone was tap dancing alongside the pianist. One thing I'm wondering is if the sparks on individual keys could actually be 'tuned' in some way? So the sparks sounds a bit less chaotic and compliments each note more?
@@michaelsorensen7567i think you’d get different notes with different voltages. It would change the length of any actual arcing anyway. To get a meaningful range you’d be up there with some spicy voltages though.
I love that after River his first song is straight into Megalovania. Something about the pro pianist wearing a Rick and Morty shirt launching into Megalovania was very 2016 cathartic.
I love how you can hear the piano progressively go more and more out of tune as he plays it. Great project, and I hope there are many other terrible pianos to come!
Actually he broke 40 strings hahah. But you can’t really hear the strings breaking when the sparks are so loud. This video has limited the sparks a lot! But yeah also tuning ofc
During the mozart part, it feels like a comedy movie where a soldier playing a piano in the middle of battle field, where the enemy bombs keep missing him.
0:38 yea, I know that problem, that's normal here in Germany. We once placed a piano in our living room and suddenly an organist just came around the corner freaking us out cuz all doors were closed. It's called: "Organisiertes Verbrechen".
You don't get much more metal than playing a beautiful metal ballad on a sparking, potentially deadly, built by a mad Swedish engineer, piano as strings break and resistors smoulder. That's fucking hardcore dude.
What was most amazing to me was the pianist audibly adapting to the piano during the first song. The key strokes became regular and crisp, giving a far better sound than any of the other players. That is the mark of a professional, making the instrument sound the very best it can.
in a way its just silly, in a way its genius, but mostly i feel like this is art at its finest. Piano literally starts burning and hes going on it with a huge smile on his face. Thats amazing
I must say, the snapping of electricity adds a lot to the music the piano makes. The sound is not unlike the taps of tap dancing, or some kind of clacker, or ...something, but perfectly in tune and rhythm with the piano. If only there was a safer way to emulate this effect, because I really think some really interesting songs could be made with this kind of sound.
You might be able to add some copper tape and thin flexible wires to the hammers, and somehow connect it to a speaker telling it what sounds to make and when. You could probably run it on 5-24V rather than straight from the wall and it should be fairly safe.
kinda reminded with the whole mark rober piano video. he added effects to make it smoke, i think he did say at the end of the video it wasnt real but i mean still clickbaited
What a beautiful sight! When a professional pianist gets a once in a lifetime chance to play a piano that literally sparks, and when in the end he chose the proper piece of “Nothing Else Matters”, and played until the strings snapped, piano smoked, and nothing else really mattered. I wish I could live like that, like in that magical moment, when it truck so hard that nothing really matters, the entire journey through life. In a way life is that beautiful spark. Fleeting, yet with epic grandeur. Too beautiful to be bogged down by the little things, that, in the end, doesn’t really matter. Don’t miss the spark.
Fabulous pianist to play that heavy weight and engage the use of arm weight and flexibility to keep technical aspects safe and reduce chances of injuries. No easy task.
Being a Vintergatan viewer, following the development of the MMX from the beginning, seeing all the hard work Martin put into it Only for it to cameo in a Mattias Krantz video and get roasted
I love the MMX as much as the next guy, but martin takes a decade to build a new inventive music machine, while mattias can make one of these in an afternoon
The glasses reflecting the sparks and his smirks while playing the piano till it catches on fire is just pure Chaotic energy. It's astonishing, its beautiful.
This is so cool. It seems gimmicky, but the concept is so entertaining thinking that something like this has never existed. I could see so many people wanting to mess around with this thing.
Yo, you both were excellent videographers! Best shots we've ever seen on this channel! No offense to Mattias, just that you both were great. We really needed the extra angles for this piano too...
If it was only Constantin, he wouldn't have stopped playing the song even if the whole piano had burst into flames! It's so amazing that everyone had so much fun doing this!
There’s always been some debate about wether a piano is a percussion instrument but I think this Piano is the most percussive of any piano only because it comes with its own snare beat.
I've seen this comment floating around here in a few places, and it makes me wonder if there's a way to set up a piano to hit a snare or like, little drums or something as well as the strings. Maybe that should be his next project.
Not sure if anyone mentioned that yet in the 2700+ comments, but if not: The "some German idk" part at 17:12 was the camera guy saying "Alle meine Entchen für Professionelle." which literally translates to "All my ducklings (German children song, has the reputation of being the easiest melody there is) for professionals." Just as a little fun fact for anyone who cares. ^_^ Also, really amazing video, Mattias!
Hey Mattias, if you ever film with glass or acrylic like this again and you want to see through it, get a circular polarizer filter. It screws on to your lens and allows you to “remove” the reflections and see straight through and give a better view of the sparks.
i didn’t realize until hearing actual songs played on it, but the sparks actually give it a really interesting percussive layer, which shows off the rhythm of the pieces really clearly the piano’s lack of a percussive element is one of its few weaknesses and it’s something i think about a lot when thinking about the piano in an instrumentation context, so it’s really cool to see something that kind of adds that layer, even if it’s basically a death trap lol i would legit love to see something like this used in pieces that play to its unique strengths (preferably with nothing and nobody catching on fire but whatever works)
piano is literally a percussion instrument. I get what you mean, but you're hitting it with a hammer that's percussive, just the pitches throw people off, but it's the same as like steel drums or vibraphone its pitched percussion. I know I'm being a dick for being a dick sake but it's a little nugget of pointless knowledge.
Oh idk about that. I’ve heard some really good renditions of Magalovania For sure it has to be top3. I will admit it has a certain spark that other renditions don’t have though.
Man, a further modified version of this, maybe a huge grand piano, with added design elements to make it intentionally smoke and glow more as the person keeps playing... Would be incredibly epic. I think you've discovered something really amazing here Mattias, you've got to keep pursuing this crazy idea!
You could absolutely make a short titled "when your piano has an electrical fault, but nothing else matters." It would probably help out a lot with the views.
You know a good musician when you hear their tempo being stable and consistent. This piano is the perfect way to showcase it to someone without any musical knowledge just by hearing each crack the spark makes
Seeing this man play nothing else matters on a piano until its glowing hot and smoking, with others around him concerned and him not having a care in the world, speaks to my soul.
Never thought I'd say it. But the "tics" actually sound nice with some pieces. Like megalomania was nice could listen to it all day. Nice addition to the original piece
I wont lie, the snapping of the steel clacking with the string followed by a quick snap is so satisfying, i just wish it wasn’t a complete death trap waiting for something bad to happen. The sound is amazing.
Dude! That piano went out with a passion. And the pianist chose the perfect song to give it a proper send off. When I die, I want a piano like that playing that song at my funeral. And I want it to start burning and actually ignite my funeral pyre. Then the audience can watch it go up in smoke with me.
I honestly love the percussion the sparks add to the music. Edit: that was one hell of a swan song, hearing the strings break, and seeing the piano literally go up in smoke as he played.
Getting the protective plastic/glass tinted would be a nice addition to it, not only would it be easier to look at it without glasses, but since it's overall darker, the sparks would be the only thing you can see inside.
Life should always be this fun and amazing! I love that you all celebrated melting a piano with electricity using a professional pianist! Becca saying “we didn’t start the fire” at the end was perfect 😎👍🏼
I just love how it is like the piano's own percussion when it makes the crackling sound with the sparks. It is also like tap dancing while keeping in time with the playing. ^^
How does Nothing Else Matters still sound recognizable and kind of awesome even when the piano has gotten hopelessly out of tune!? It's got to be down to the skill of the player and the emotion he put into it. Major kudos to MVP Constantin as well as to Mattias, Rebecca, and their new filming friends! 🎉
It's unsurprising really. The brain is basically created to find and focus on patterns. For instance, everyone recognizes a christmas caroll regardless of it being sung off-tune or in a different language. Your brain automatically 'fills in the blanks' so long as the keys are somewhat on-target. The sound won't be as crisp and accurate, but yeah, your brain does a good deal of heavy lifting. But it's also a good player who adapted well to an unfamiliar instrument that was rapidly going out of tune.
Aside from the difficulty pressing the keys, it's clear that Constantin is really enjoying the receptive feedback of the sparks, the direction that you found to take the hammer piano is fantastic.
Thunderstruck was at: 15:45 Megalovania was at: 5:00. I like that, as a pro pianist, it seemed like the songs he was most excited to play were by AC/DC and Metallica.
@@JacobLeeson-zk1ol Surely you can survive 20 minutes without getting distracted. Is 20 minutes seriously too long for you to watch? Can you watch a movie or is that the directors milking you?
@@JacobLeeson-zk1olif you don't enjoy hearing piano music, to the point that 20 minutes is too much, why are you watching piano music videos? Is it some form of penance? Or just plain idiocy?
Instead of hammers... re-make the piano using the regular wooden hammers, just wrap them with a strip of metal to conduct the electricity. The keys will be much lighter, and maintain their original weight (or closer to it), making it much easier to play, and still conduct electricity for that special 'POP'.
I thought this was going to be a disaster and a half but the pro pianist made it work!! The crackles kept rhythm and almost sound like they themselves could be sampled into interesting percussion samples.
when he played nothing else matters at the end you can tell that was completely personal. it honestly made me chuckle when i saw the smoke and brought a tear to my eye. you can see right thru his sun glasses how memorized he was starring into the sparks and keys moving while he was just ripping it with all he got. such a pure moment. love it
11:22 It needs a foot pedal that pushes a “de-welding” bar forward to unstick any and all welds at once. It’s weird thinking about what new foot pedals need added to this piano, because of new challenges it creates.
The sound is weirdly satisfying and I can imagine it smelling of smoke like a bonfire, honestly I feel like it would be great to watch someone play this
I was not expecting this to become my favorite of your videos, but that is what happened. The extra camera work, and the different songs, and big finale, it was all amazing. You have outdone yourself again! I can't wait to see what happens once you find the time to fill a piano with Sulphur Hexafluoride, and also with Helium. I'm really hoping you can get some new VST recordings out of it.
@@Mattiaskrantz I... what? Gun piano? There are so many ways that idea can go. My American blood wants all of them. You could make a piano with Colt 1911 hammers, or a piano where each hammer stroke fires a 22 caliber round downrange, or fires a 22 (or wax 22) round at a target for each key which is connected to the hammer (but you separate the keyboard and guns from the rest of the piano and keep increasing the distance)... or a Russian roulette piano that doesn't fire every single time and you never know when and it is connected to actual revolvers... This has Demolition Ranch written all over it.
@@Mattiaskrantz I hope you get styropyro involved, he have made some massive electric sparks (with colors!). Wouldn't it be cool to build a laser piano as well? *nudge nudge*
This was a really cool video - great idea for a project. I'm glad the piano music still came through well on the video, because it sounds like it was tricky to hear the actual strings over the sparking sounds.
Dude, I love that you are leveraging the uniqueness of the hammer piano and adding to it. I feel like this is making waves and spreading in popularity to where you can use less money to hire people to come check it out and lean more on allowing people a chance at playing the only piano of it's kind in existence right now.
It sounds like someone operating a typewriter and a classical song is going in the background and the guy starts to type to the tune. Thats exactly what comes to my mind while i am listening to this.
I love the “Something Soft” it’s so soothing and calm, even with the sparks going off. Felt like spending 4th of July with a lover. Like uh “Sparks fly when I’m with you” kind of vibe. Idk now I feel like writing a poem from that experience. I’ll probably put it here once I make it. Thanks for the great song!
Join discord to see what the f I am doing to my poor piano currently. discord.gg/mattiaskrantz you’ll see me in engineers-only (i’m an engineer)
0:30 That's Wintergatan original Marble Machine there...
If only he managed to finish the second (third? fourth? 127th?) iteration of the marble machine.
Seriously, you two should meet.
Strontium makes red sparks. Barium makes green. Copper makes blue.
What if the contact points could be changed somehow to make the sparks an RGB gradient while still not fusing the action?
Sounds like a dumb thing that shouldnt work, but that sounds like worth a try on the model.
Man, imagine someone playing Rush E... I think the conductors would have fried.
it's cool that you got to see wintergatan's marble machine
@@araisikewai lol, "shots fired" indeed. Martin gave up on the MMX/version 3, but just recently started building the fourth iteration from the ground up and he's been uploading new videos about once a week...
The piano actually ended up breaking (like 40 strings snapped) which means this is the last recording of the sparking piano. Pretty cool (that this is the last recording)
That is sad :(
Thats sad
@@maxz8807 Sad times, but what a send-off!!
A toast, to the sparking piano!
Ain't that the perfect way for such a piano to go out, loved every bit of this video
I know this is an idiotic death trap. But for some reason everyone that plays it just gets the biggest smile on their face. That's something to be proud of.
people love idiotic death traps, its the theme of all theme parks!
@@benw7616 Nah… those only feel unsafe but are actually really safe. But yeah… in the end it‘s true. See bungee jumping, skydiving…
I agree... Just don't say this in court🤣
@@benw7616 theme park rides are safe. Cars for example are way more dangerous
I thought the same thing 👍
Constantin getting completely lost in the sauce playing "Nothing Else Matters" while the piano looks like it's ready to go up in flames any second was absolutely incredible. I thought this piano was gimmicky, but that was wrong. It's art, and I love it.
I could definitely imagine him just switching to a fire themed song and continue 😂
He 100% was ready to burn that thing down hahahh. But I actually need it for yet another project!
bro i liked the video in the first second ... when you see this piano you just know ...
@@MattiaskrantzWhen the piano is ready for retirement, please invite that man to play something epic while the piano actually catches fire and destroys itself.
@@DominusFeles Well, 'We Didn't Start the Fire' probably wouldn't work, because there would be video evidence that "Yes you did. You totally did!"
but there is no reason why not "Through the fire and the flames, we carry on" [until the fire department shows up]
"Is this a local kid's woodworking project?" *Shows the ACTUAL Marble Machine X*
That is just peak comedy.
bro really trash talking Wintergram so casually XD
Came here to say this
I love that the first thing he played was Megalovania! Bro understood the assignment - the piano supplies its own percussion!
Hey Mattias,
thanks for having me in the video. It was so much fun playing that crazy piano. I love the shots. Whenever you need me again, I'll even come to Sweden next time. How about some shorts as some people suggested. Sounds like a good idea
I’m working on a piano way worse than this one right now actually! Sounds like a plan and thanks for playing River flows in you on my piano!
If you need a singer as well count me in :D
@@beccanevermind8349 OMG🙏
@Constantin Gold Excuse my silly name and profile picture, but: You are really inspiring by agreeing to this opportunity and just letting your skill flow, disregarding all the kind of obstacles with the piano! You are pretty much who I aspire to be 10 to 20 years from now, just a somewhat middle-aged, chilled guy that, instead of using his profession to be overly serious about himself or anything else, still uses it as his hobby and geeks out over these crazy (sophisticated) ideas :). That you got to be involved in a stunt of this kind is really remarkable! As a hobby pianist, I am only a tiny little bit envious of the opportunity and your skill :D.
@@Mattiaskrantz Oh good lord, next video incoming. And I'm all for it!
You should make a piano that spurts up water behind a key when it's pressed, and keeps spurting until the key is let go, like a decorative fountain. You could maybe used the water-filled piano as a reservoir of water.
maybe one that combines water and electricity
id like a piano that hooks up to your toilet and showers sewage on you while you play.
@@buss3796 we are not gonna make a killing machine
please
great idea
The sunglasses have two purposes: one is eye protection, the other is to make the pianist look REALLY cool
I also just can’t get over how cool the piano sounds with the sparks in perfect time
It’s almost like someone perfectly beatboxing to the song in the background lol
Imagine some mirrored sunglasses with this piano
@@funnypickles that would be sick!
the sparks would honestly sound rlly good with the piano if it wasnt that loud
The kid in th back ground
That guy can now honestly state that he played a piano until it caught fire
As my mind became a little numb to the sound of the sparks, I realized the sparks were actually adding a percussive element, more specifically something like step dancing, which surprisingly added well to the "Firework" performance
I also loved the thematic statement being supported in "Nothing Else Matters" with the emotion the pianist was putting into the performance and continuing to play while hell was letting loose, and it made for a perfect ending
Good job on the video!
"local kids wood working project" killed me. Didn't expect to see the marble machine over here
If you go to the museums TH-cam channel, you can see the restoration
Marble Machine X
Words cannot describe how awsome it was to watch a room full of people just jammin to this complete deathtrap.
Don't worry, it's only harmless as long as you don't put it next to a flooded piano... But no one would be crazy enough to-oh wait, what's that?
The sheer confidence of that pianist is astounding. The original hammer piano players all had so much trouble, but he somehow managed to play with grace and fluidity. Amazing.
that was so amazing to me as well. Towards the end he even managed to play softly, which I as far as I remember a first for this instrument! Huge props to Constantin.
As someone who had played both of those pianos for weeks. Once I added the cables this piano became so much harder to play. It genuinley suprised me he could even play it at all!
The original players of HammerKlaiver went into it not knowing. These folks were fully informed and fully prepared.
It really was impressive, and so was the organ player at the beginning
Why did this pianist randomly have the coolest special arrangements for all these songs 😭 I NEED this guys sheet music!
Yah that meglovaia rendition was fucking incredible.
I'm pretty sure he has just figured out his way of handling the piano and he can feed any song he has digested through it like a filter in your camera
It's like he's a professional musician
14:42 The rendition of Firework by Katy Perry was just epic. As the video progressed it sounded like the pianist was adapting and incorporating the spark sounds into the music more and more. The sparks kind of sounded like someone was tap dancing alongside the pianist. One thing I'm wondering is if the sparks on individual keys could actually be 'tuned' in some way? So the sparks sounds a bit less chaotic and compliments each note more?
You could try a Tesla coil piano, but I don't think just open circuit like this would tune
@@michaelsorensen7567i think you’d get different notes with different voltages. It would change the length of any actual arcing anyway. To get a meaningful range you’d be up there with some spicy voltages though.
I love that after River his first song is straight into Megalovania. Something about the pro pianist wearing a Rick and Morty shirt launching into Megalovania was very 2016 cathartic.
really though
a jazzy Megolovania
The loud sparks actually complemented Megalovania quite well. It sounded like an a abomination with river runs through you.
@@remusthetrashking9255 sounds sooo cool
@@ThisIsArtybased pfp, love that mobile game
I love how you can hear the piano progressively go more and more out of tune as he plays it. Great project, and I hope there are many other terrible pianos to come!
Actually he broke 40 strings hahah. But you can’t really hear the strings breaking when the sparks are so loud. This video has limited the sparks a lot! But yeah also tuning ofc
@@Mattiaskrantz piano idea: Left handed piano with the highest notes on the left and lowest on the righy
@@Kumquat_Lord I second this. Give south-paws some love! Left Handed Piano FTW!
@@Mattiaskrantz How dangerous is it to change the piano wires?
@@RedDogMamaHD if it's unplugged and discharged, not at all
During the mozart part, it feels like a comedy movie where a soldier playing a piano in the middle of battle field, where the enemy bombs keep missing him.
This is exactly how it felt 😀
Thinking about Sabaton - Christmas truce
I read this as he played it and is now that's all i see.
This guy doesn't drag on his videos or milk anything. These videos are totally worth watching and are awesome from beginning to end.
0:38 yea, I know that problem, that's normal here in Germany. We once placed a piano in our living room and suddenly an organist just came around the corner freaking us out cuz all doors were closed. It's called: "Organisiertes Verbrechen".
You don't get much more metal than playing a beautiful metal ballad on a sparking, potentially deadly, built by a mad Swedish engineer, piano as strings break and resistors smoulder. That's fucking hardcore dude.
Ac/DC is not metal it hard rock
@@beer-senpai ill keep it a stack with you i think he's talkin about when he was playing Nothing Else Matters, not Thunderstruck
@@beer-senpai Pretty sure "Nothing else matters" by *Metallica* is metal :D
@@faucillon yea not ac/DC and metallica changed what kind of metal they where a lot so not sure what kind of metal they where in 1992
So that's why he hired technicians to make it safe. Now it makes sense
"safe"
@@irissupercoolsy Relatively safe in comparison of first version
What was most amazing to me was the pianist audibly adapting to the piano during the first song. The key strokes became regular and crisp, giving a far better sound than any of the other players. That is the mark of a professional, making the instrument sound the very best it can.
Yes 💯💯💯
in a way its just silly, in a way its genius, but mostly i feel like this is art at its finest. Piano literally starts burning and hes going on it with a huge smile on his face. Thats amazing
I love the idea of a piano that you can play so hard it bursts into flames, burning itself down while you continue to play it
I must say, the snapping of electricity adds a lot to the music the piano makes. The sound is not unlike the taps of tap dancing, or some kind of clacker, or ...something, but perfectly in tune and rhythm with the piano. If only there was a safer way to emulate this effect, because I really think some really interesting songs could be made with this kind of sound.
It's a drum AND a piano.
You might be able to add some copper tape and thin flexible wires to the hammers, and somehow connect it to a speaker telling it what sounds to make and when. You could probably run it on 5-24V rather than straight from the wall and it should be fairly safe.
That rendition of Nothing Else Matters that destroys the piano is one of the most metal versions I've ever seen
@@debesysg6959 look up Scott D Davis. i think its his version.
How to sum up this video: "When creative minds come together, you set a piano on fire."
Literally
finally, a piano video that is not clickbait with fake sparks, this is the real thing!!!
His videos always look like clickbait to me, but they are not
kinda reminded with the whole mark rober piano video.
he added effects to make it smoke, i think he did say at the end of the video it wasnt real but i mean still clickbaited
What a beautiful sight! When a professional pianist gets a once in a lifetime chance to play a piano that literally sparks, and when in the end he chose the proper piece of “Nothing Else Matters”, and played until the strings snapped, piano smoked, and nothing else really mattered. I wish I could live like that, like in that magical moment, when it truck so hard that nothing really matters, the entire journey through life. In a way life is that beautiful spark. Fleeting, yet with epic grandeur. Too beautiful to be bogged down by the little things, that, in the end, doesn’t really matter. Don’t miss the spark.
LOVE how the pianist adapts to what must feel like a crazy wild touch to adapt to.
I actually love the sparking rhythmic aspect! Awesome!
Fabulous pianist to play that heavy weight and engage the use of arm weight and flexibility to keep technical aspects safe and reduce chances of injuries. No easy task.
Being a Vintergatan viewer, following the development of the MMX from the beginning, seeing all the hard work Martin put into it
Only for it to cameo in a Mattias Krantz video and get roasted
I was looking for this. Didn't have to do Martin dirty like that, Mattias, wow lmao. Funny but still, just r00d.
I love the MMX as much as the next guy, but martin takes a decade to build a new inventive music machine, while mattias can make one of these in an afternoon
@@struanpeat5116 Well, Mattias drives 1000km to get someone to play his creation. Martin spends 1000h to make his machine play itself
@@struanpeat5116 shots fired!
@@withered_dragon_head i was commenting on the volume of content, not the quality fo the machine lol
The glasses reflecting the sparks and his smirks while playing the piano till it catches on fire is just pure Chaotic energy. It's astonishing, its beautiful.
Thinking the same thing at the end there, so dramatically beautiful
i felt the same way! ahaha it was so cool!
only saw the forhead reflections not the sunglass ones
This is so cool. It seems gimmicky, but the concept is so entertaining thinking that something like this has never existed. I could see so many people wanting to mess around with this thing.
It would be better if the sparks could be tuned... possibly with AC
I’m so glad Nothing Else Matters was the final ballad of the Hammer/Sparking piano. Rip legend.
6:07 in the most monotone voice "that's the coolest thing I ever saw".
Most Nordic person alive.
Was a blast to shoot with you! Congrats to the whole team!
Thank you for filming and sacrificing yourself for this piano!🤝🤝
Yo, you both were excellent videographers! Best shots we've ever seen on this channel! No offense to Mattias, just that you both were great. We really needed the extra angles for this piano too...
Die alle meine Entchen rendition wär schon echt gut xD
@@chillaxter13🥹🥹
@@robinmaurer2645genau was ich gesucht habe.
If it was only Constantin, he wouldn't have stopped playing the song even if the whole piano had burst into flames! It's so amazing that everyone had so much fun doing this!
We really tried to get something epic for the end :)
There’s always been some debate about wether a piano is a percussion instrument but I think this Piano is the most percussive of any piano only because it comes with its own snare beat.
I've seen this comment floating around here in a few places, and it makes me wonder if there's a way to set up a piano to hit a snare or like, little drums or something as well as the strings. Maybe that should be his next project.
I agreeJohn Cage wished he had this piano lmao
Sounds fantastic too
@@hatman4818 - look up the historical "Photoplayer" - silent movies had amazing - some very imaginative compositions - accompaniment...
@@IanWagner94this piano is prepared to perfection 😂
I love how the sparks work musically as a hi hat or clap- it doesn’t actually sound bad when a proper song is played.
Not sure if anyone mentioned that yet in the 2700+ comments, but if not: The "some German idk" part at 17:12 was the camera guy saying "Alle meine Entchen für Professionelle." which literally translates to "All my ducklings (German children song, has the reputation of being the easiest melody there is) for professionals." Just as a little fun fact for anyone who cares. ^_^ Also, really amazing video, Mattias!
*looks at MMX* "Is this some kid's woodworking project?" haha I'm dying
he's not wrong tho
He's mostly into metalworking and 3D printing nowadays.
It was nice to see that thing again..
also also, you need to work with this Pianist again, he fricking killed it.
I'm down for it
Hey Mattias, if you ever film with glass or acrylic like this again and you want to see through it, get a circular polarizer filter. It screws on to your lens and allows you to “remove” the reflections and see straight through and give a better view of the sparks.
Will do!
I thought reflections were linearly polarized?
@@thewhitefalcon8539 yeha that the reason the polarised filter will work (the circular is just the shape of the filterl
@@thewhitefalcon8539 A circualar polarizer helps at any visual reflections... about the deeper physics I do not have any clue :)
I like how the spark makes it sound more like a precussion instrument.
Firework sounded awesome. The piano sparks added a kind of percussion to the song.
i didn’t realize until hearing actual songs played on it, but the sparks actually give it a really interesting percussive layer, which shows off the rhythm of the pieces really clearly
the piano’s lack of a percussive element is one of its few weaknesses and it’s something i think about a lot when thinking about the piano in an instrumentation context, so it’s really cool to see something that kind of adds that layer, even if it’s basically a death trap lol
i would legit love to see something like this used in pieces that play to its unique strengths (preferably with nothing and nobody catching on fire but whatever works)
I agree entirely!
sounds a lot like someone tap dancing along to it
@@MarkoDash I know right!
piano is literally a percussion instrument. I get what you mean, but you're hitting it with a hammer that's percussive, just the pitches throw people off, but it's the same as like steel drums or vibraphone its pitched percussion. I know I'm being a dick for being a dick sake but it's a little nugget of pointless knowledge.
Like: CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music by Nigel John Stanford
5:07 : "Oh, it's megalovania."
Few seconds later: "Oh, this is the best rendition of Megalovania I've ever heard."
Oh idk about that. I’ve heard some really good renditions of Magalovania
For sure it has to be top3.
I will admit it has a certain spark that other renditions don’t have though.
Frankly, no other version of Megalovania **explodes** while being played.
:awesome:
I don't understand why people are so scared of it. It's perfectly safe!
It may be safe to the mortal shell, but it hurts the soul >:P
the elecrictiy part is not the big problem anymore but it stays a fire hazard
its even electroboom approved!!
5:00 damn that sparks sound works well with megalovania. impressive.
sounds like someone tap dancing
RIP electric piano
Man, a further modified version of this, maybe a huge grand piano, with added design elements to make it intentionally smoke and glow more as the person keeps playing... Would be incredibly epic. I think you've discovered something really amazing here Mattias, you've got to keep pursuing this crazy idea!
You could absolutely make a short titled "when your piano has an electrical fault, but nothing else matters." It would probably help out a lot with the views.
It's amusing to hear how much extra percussion the sparks add!
On a lo-fi track
You know a good musician when you hear their tempo being stable and consistent. This piano is the perfect way to showcase it to someone without any musical knowledge just by hearing each crack the spark makes
I think that sounds quite similar to playing DDR with clicktrack on the inputs, which is quite helpful
It reminds me of someone tap dancing along with the piano. Gregory Hines in "Tap" maybe.
Seeing this man play nothing else matters on a piano until its glowing hot and smoking, with others around him concerned and him not having a care in the world, speaks to my soul.
I love how he burned out a resistor and was just like "Nah, we ball"
Never thought I'd say it. But the "tics" actually sound nice with some pieces. Like megalomania was nice could listen to it all day. Nice addition to the original piece
It sounds almost like someone is clapping in addition to the piano itself
The museum should put on an exhibition of all your pianos next Halloween.
Liability Insurance goes brrrrrr :D
Fire extinguisher would be 5,000% necessary, but yush.
This pro doesn't just play with fire, he plays fire as well 🔥
The classical piano on fire for sure 🔥
Firework by Katy Perry, and thunderstruck by AC/DC, was truly something magical. Thank you so much for all the content you create.
The pops add such a new dynamic. It's like having actual canons going off during a performance.
I wont lie, the snapping of the steel clacking with the string followed by a quick snap is so satisfying, i just wish it wasn’t a complete death trap waiting for something bad to happen. The sound is amazing.
Oh wtf seeing the MMX randomly was insane. But also calling it a local kids woodworking project killed me a little 😭😭
Nah, it´s okay. It was fun to show the MMX to Mattias. And we are currently working on it to make it museum playable ready.
Don't worry, let them mock the MMX... ¡MM3 would be awesome!
Woah hello there tride, unexpected seeing u here
that guy sucks I'm glad he dunked on it lmao
@@salamandranefarius4205 never gonna happen
mattias being extremely cautious and awkward is such a mood
Dude! That piano went out with a passion. And the pianist chose the perfect song to give it a proper send off.
When I die, I want a piano like that playing that song at my funeral. And I want it to start burning and actually ignite
my funeral pyre. Then the audience can watch it go up in smoke with me.
I honestly love the percussion the sparks add to the music.
Edit: that was one hell of a swan song, hearing the strings break, and seeing the piano literally go up in smoke as he played.
The piano slowly detuning itself to "Nothing Else Matters" was pure art man. Pure art.
Getting the protective plastic/glass tinted would be a nice addition to it, not only would it be easier to look at it without glasses, but since it's overall darker, the sparks would be the only thing you can see inside.
That's a really good idea. Maybe it would be also worth looking into some UV filter, to make it even safer without sacrificing the brightness.
Yes, making the shield tinted would be perfect! No more sunglasses indoors. Melikey.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 unfortunately the piano is dead
There's something just naturally funny about a noble and poetic instrument like the piano modified to just obnoxiously explode with every note
Life should always be this fun and amazing! I love that you all celebrated melting a piano with electricity using a professional pianist! Becca saying “we didn’t start the fire” at the end was perfect 😎👍🏼
I just love how it is like the piano's own percussion when it makes the crackling sound with the sparks. It is also like tap dancing while keeping in time with the playing. ^^
How does Nothing Else Matters still sound recognizable and kind of awesome even when the piano has gotten hopelessly out of tune!? It's got to be down to the skill of the player and the emotion he put into it. Major kudos to MVP Constantin as well as to Mattias, Rebecca, and their new filming friends! 🎉
Probably a natural side effect of years of Lars
It's unsurprising really. The brain is basically created to find and focus on patterns. For instance, everyone recognizes a christmas caroll regardless of it being sung off-tune or in a different language. Your brain automatically 'fills in the blanks' so long as the keys are somewhat on-target. The sound won't be as crisp and accurate, but yeah, your brain does a good deal of heavy lifting.
But it's also a good player who adapted well to an unfamiliar instrument that was rapidly going out of tune.
I am actually surprised you found a pianist who was so accomplished to play this thing. That guy should have his own TH-cam channel.
Aside from the difficulty pressing the keys, it's clear that Constantin is really enjoying the receptive feedback of the sparks, the direction that you found to take the hammer piano is fantastic.
Constantine took to the sparky piano so naturally! That was more than a performance, that was him falling in love💖 now I want to learn to play!
It's impossible not to burst into an uncontrollable smile watching this! Thank you! This just shows the peak of piano is being redefined!
Thunderstruck was at: 15:45
Megalovania was at: 5:00.
I like that, as a pro pianist, it seemed like the songs he was most excited to play were by AC/DC and Metallica.
Life saver. This guy is milking people. videos are way too long. Interesting but he drags it on. Went looking for the time stamps thank you.
@@JacobLeeson-zk1ol Surely you can survive 20 minutes without getting distracted. Is 20 minutes seriously too long for you to watch? Can you watch a movie or is that the directors milking you?
@@JacobLeeson-zk1ol it's not "way too long". It's a pro pianist trying out a ton of different genres on a one-of-a-kind piano.
@@JacobLeeson-zk1olif you don't enjoy hearing piano music, to the point that 20 minutes is too much, why are you watching piano music videos? Is it some form of penance? Or just plain idiocy?
what song was at 4:10?
Instead of hammers... re-make the piano using the regular wooden hammers, just wrap them with a strip of metal to conduct the electricity. The keys will be much lighter, and maintain their original weight (or closer to it), making it much easier to play, and still conduct electricity for that special 'POP'.
The strip would burn off I guess
I trhnk the cables attached to the hammers also are an issue
The hammers are also felt - which might be way more likely to burst into flames after prolonged playing.
I thought this was going to be a disaster and a half but the pro pianist made it work!! The crackles kept rhythm and almost sound like they themselves could be sampled into interesting percussion samples.
The duets with Becca are really cool!! Just when I thought things were slowing down a bit and we'd seen the coolest parts y'all turned it up a notch.
when he played nothing else matters at the end you can tell that was completely personal. it honestly made me chuckle when i saw the smoke and brought a tear to my eye. you can see right thru his sun glasses how memorized he was starring into the sparks and keys moving while he was just ripping it with all he got. such a pure moment. love it
11:22 It needs a foot pedal that pushes a “de-welding” bar forward to unstick any and all welds at once. It’s weird thinking about what new foot pedals need added to this piano, because of new challenges it creates.
This needs to be made commercially available, totally safe 10/10 would play again
I love how it makes it sound like a real awesome rhythm game
Beat Saber at home:
Nah osu at home
The sound is weirdly satisfying and I can imagine it smelling of smoke like a bonfire, honestly I feel like it would be great to watch someone play this
This isn't going to smell like bonfire. It's going to smell like hot metal.
its amazing how he was able to play it so well with how heavy it is
I love the fact that just random people just show up and say “Hey, I can help. I can do that. That looks like fun.”
The professional pianist is really cool guy he has rick & morty hoodie and sunglasses and he plays sparkling piano what more can you ask :D amazing
Thanks! Hahahaha
But no music from the Rick & Morty soundtrack … too bad !
I was not expecting this to become my favorite of your videos, but that is what happened. The extra camera work, and the different songs, and big finale, it was all amazing. You have outdone yourself again! I can't wait to see what happens once you find the time to fill a piano with Sulphur Hexafluoride, and also with Helium. I'm really hoping you can get some new VST recordings out of it.
Appreciate it so much🙏 yup I’m working on a tesla coil piano rn (unfinished project). But then either a gun piano or gas piano would be wonderful!🤝
@@Mattiaskrantz I... what? Gun piano? There are so many ways that idea can go. My American blood wants all of them. You could make a piano with Colt 1911 hammers, or a piano where each hammer stroke fires a 22 caliber round downrange, or fires a 22 (or wax 22) round at a target for each key which is connected to the hammer (but you separate the keyboard and guns from the rest of the piano and keep increasing the distance)... or a Russian roulette piano that doesn't fire every single time and you never know when and it is connected to actual revolvers... This has Demolition Ranch written all over it.
@@Mattiaskrantz I hope you get styropyro involved, he have made some massive electric sparks (with colors!). Wouldn't it be cool to build a laser piano as well? *nudge nudge*
I am so glad I stayed for the end, "nothing Else matters" when that sh!t is burning up in your face like that! What an awesome jam session!
This was a really cool video - great idea for a project. I'm glad the piano music still came through well on the video, because it sounds like it was tricky to hear the actual strings over the sparking sounds.
Dude, I love that you are leveraging the uniqueness of the hammer piano and adding to it. I feel like this is making waves and spreading in popularity to where you can use less money to hire people to come check it out and lean more on allowing people a chance at playing the only piano of it's kind in existence right now.
It sounds like someone operating a typewriter and a classical song is going in the background and the guy starts to type to the tune. Thats exactly what comes to my mind while i am listening to this.
I just realized I want to hear someone play the orchestra piece “The Typewriter” on a piano like this
this just makes me think of Randy Marsh trolling people online and as he's typing he hits the keys in time with the keyboard solo in Smokin' by Boston
Wow!! The chorus for Katy Perry's firework was incredible, the sparks add a nice element of percussion. Well done again!
Man, who knew music and mad science went so well together?
17:13 I'm german and he said: Alle meine Entchen (witch is a German children's song) for professionals
I'm really impressed by how durable the piano was. It seems to work very consistently.
Other than stuck hammers, going out of tune, snapped strings and almost setting fire to itself... yes, it does work very consistently indeed!
@@ruawhitepaw only minor flaws!!
As a piano tech I was extremely impressed with the durability and aesthetic of
I love the “Something Soft” it’s so soothing and calm, even with the sparks going off. Felt like spending 4th of July with a lover. Like uh “Sparks fly when I’m with you” kind of vibe. Idk now I feel like writing a poem from that experience. I’ll probably put it here once I make it. Thanks for the great song!
Love how I totally forgot about Fireworks and was like HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT FIREWORKS
Love this!
i want a full version of somethign soft !!
The cracks during megalovania really made you hear the rhythm of the music, if anything, an improvement
He played so well with this wired instrument. The sound and skill are perfect match! incredible!
It feels very appropriate that I'm watching this while my building is undergoing fire alarm testing.