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job security. I bet they're looking for more youtubers to destroy pianos. "fewer people are buying pianos but the ones that do seem to be buying 12 a year..."
It's actually funny how soothing and fitting a water level soundtrack would be if it was done with an underwater piano, I'm almost kinda bummed we won't be able to use this as a digital instrument, still a really fun video though.
I think these experiments could be sampled somehow (?). That way there could be a way to digitally reproduce the wacky sounds. Although, I don't think Mattias should work more than he already does lmao
@@Basomga played enough notes that you could sample audio from this video and use it, and even if not all the notes are there, you could probably mess around with settings and painstakingly recreate the sound digitally
So update on the piano: Honestly it’s not really damaged. I read some piano techs forum before pooring the water and the general consensus was that one glass of water and your piano was messed up. I poured like 100 liters. I let it dry for 5 days and the keys are still completely stuck. But all I need to do Is remove them and put them back 10 times to loosen them up and then polish the keypins back from rust. Then it’s smooth again. Well this will take me a day but I’m recording a VST in different water levels so we can have a wet/dry knob on the software
For those of you who don’t know, the piano got out of tune because the water level “readjusted” the ends of the strings and reduced the tension, and therefore made the pitch flat. Not because the water was warm
The underwater notes were lower and messed up my scientific brain. Perhaps the sound of speed of water makes you hear it lower, or it is a false effect of recording. Anyway, I wish he had played the song more than 4 seconds.
Water is heavy, thus the strings vibrate more slowly, reducing the pitch. Same thing that happens when people breathe sulfur hexafluoride, as far as I understand.
The last part when you play river flow in you while water is leaking, I love to imagine that it's the rain noise in the background while playing piano. What a nice sound
True. I was genuinely startled by wht he is doing but its just interesting for some reason.. and the fact that he swum on it is scary and funny at the same time ahahahha
@@senorsimon986 Right? I so thought at least break some piece would break. Mattias pulled it off perfectly, as perfect as one can get with this kind of challenge
I'm imagining this piano being modified to work continuously with water in it and it having a pump and reservoir that allows you to exactly control the water volume (and possibly temperature control). It'd be really cool and not at all worth it.
@Michael I do believe it's never been tried. We could have a first here. Never in all my days, have I ever seen a speaker in an aquarium, much less in a piano, or, piano/aquarium.
The ultimate irony of playing "River flows through you" as the water literally flows out your keys. It was like a waterfall piano. Truly, this is performance art at its finest. Honestly, it reminds me of something you might see on a Disney ride for like a haunted sunken ship - a ghost pianist playing on a piano as the water overflows through the key.
18:25 is the exact opposite of that one guy who plays the piano on fire. Now we just need someone to play a piano filled with dirt, and we will have all four elements.
"Watched acoustic guitar filled with water" - That was heavenly. Just like water itself. "Watches piano filled with water" - Never once have I experienced such depths of immeasurable pain in my life.
It's absolutely fantastic. I love the fact that this project is impractical. but we can all learn what happens to the piano sound, when the instrument is filled with water. Projects like this drive the humanity forward into the future. There are no commercial reasons to do it, but it's super interesting to do and that's good enough to spend time and money on this.
"Ohhhh....it's a leak." *pulls out a leek* I laughed so hard man the engineer duck...the singing underwater...casually drinking and jumping in??? man this video is absolute gold
Honestly it doesn't actually sound "terrible", it just starts sounding like a different instrument. At 110 liters I thought it kind of sounded like a marimba or one of those tropical island drums. It sounded like he was playing an east Asian melody as well
The under water mics actually sounded really cool. I could see this music style used for like video games or something. Need to try different liquids now.
Allready done the underwather song from (Between Music) Mattias has in his video, is in the soundtrack for the game (Martha is Dead). It is a nice game btw
what I find funny is that watering a piano is actually a thing, well preserved grand pianos are often humidity controlled and there are people who have to water their piano because its special, I don't remember the actual importance of humidity
I think it impacts the resonance of the wood. Besides that moisture is obviously part of the volume, so without it the wood might contract and make everything not fitting.
One simple reason is that as wood dries up it can bend and crack. The trick guitarists use is to put a carrot inside a guitar case when storing guitar for long.
For version 2 of the Water Filled Piano, you need to paint the inside black, and use a large light directly above the piano to show the ripples in the water, also, when you do the water through the keys ending you should play that song from "flashdance" and shoot it in slow motion with you banging on the keys with all the water going all over, maybe add some compressed air some keys set off to throw water up out of the piano too.
Props to the piano manufacturer... that huge piece of metal, plus the weight of the water sealing, water, and Mattias... all held up by 1 leg? Quality craftsmanship.
So let’s say i repair the keyboard so it’s good again. What would be the funniest prank with a water piano? I’ll tell you my ideas and I’m sure someone will one up me with a better one. So I think hiring a pro pianist would be kind of funny. Then just started watering the piano and saying it sounds a bit dry with a straight face. Other alternative would be to keep the lid closed and just let the water be inside and never mention it. I could ask mr piano tech if he wanna come over but as some of you know he moved far far away from me
Actually the funniest prank would be to have the piano full of water and as soon as the keys are pressed the piano levels outs to dump all the water through the keys.
The best Part was the Part where the water came Out of the Keys....I Wish I Had the Chance To meet such a Piano so I can Play Chopin Waterfall etude on it.
At this point Mattias is going to become a professional piano technician through all of his experiments on modifying and tuning pianos. He’s got lots of piano schematic knowledge on hand.
I was half expecting the legs to break at some point, but even after 130kg of water it was still standing strong. And then he climbed in! What a mad man
i wonder if there could be a whole genre of underwater music, with instruments adapted for water. like even wood winds but only water goes through. maybe with a pump? i wonder if it would vibrate the same as air when pushed through woodwinds?
there is. look up underwater guitars. they are easy compared to this. just seal it up after you plug in the aux/trs cable and seal it up, done. (you cannot change cable or ajust any knobs after you seal it, you seal them too!)
One of these days you're going to just figure out you've invented a new kind of piano. Honestly this one gets close. When you swam in it though, genuinely terrifying. There's so many ways that could have gone catastrophically wrong, but I guess you're the guy who knows about pianos and presumably know just how to lay on them without getting 40 broken strings embedded in your back.
You kinda make me wonder if an upright piano is half submerged in water how would it sound like. Probably not a bad idea for a collab with some random aquarium.
I’m genuinely shocked that the piano didn’t collapse in some way when you “swam” in it. I now have a morbid curiosity about what you could/would do with my instrument of choice, a marimba. I shudder at the thought…
Yeah I mean I guess pianos are built to sustain some serious weight for idk 40+ years so they are probably a bit overbuilt. But that angle on the legs I admit was kind of sus at times. If the piano collapsed though I guess that would be interesting ending too
I’m Japanese. This experiment is very interesting. I admire that you spend a lot of time and energy. The sound of watered piano is felt as if Japanese instrument, koto.
Video idea: Since piano strings are made of copper, you should try to anodize each string and form a gradient from highest to lowest (would probably look better on a grand piano)!
As someone who’s been a pianist for 8 years and would kill for a baby grand of ANY kind, not only does this leave lacerations on my soul but DAMN do you got money coming out the ass bro!
he's got a million subs and 5 million views on this video alone and you think the 400$ piano was a show of wealth? Really doesnt seem like much of a splurge if youre a pianist... and I guarantee he made that back a dozen times over if not more
I'm really sure he has the knowledge to fix it and bring it to a state like before again. And I'm right. In a comment he actually said that he was able to do so.
Please do this again, properly tuned, and then turn it into a VST. I actually really think the sound of the piano after the water is in it is really freaking cool.
In breaking news the US just put in an order for a hundred grand pianos and 13,000 litres (whatever the hell a litre is) of water. *edit* I know approximately how much a litre is, I'm just joking about Americans hating metric.
This guy is adorable. I love the accent and that “Nooo, it’s a leek” joke genuinely made me laugh. So cute! Not to sound thirsty with all that water but the shirtless piano “swim” was the cherry on top to this great video.
I’m actually LOVING the unique sound. Does it sound like a piano? No. But it definitely sounds very cool. It would be awesome to hear some pop songs played on all these pianos. You should put together an album.
That was quite an adventure. It's amazing how the notes in the lower register when the piano was pretty much full of water sounded like a Japanese Koto. You put sooo much work into this project. Thank you for bringing it to life.
As much as it hurts me to see this, I actually think it’s not the worst way a piano could go. Doing something different that no piano has done before, providing a unique sound to be seen by people all over the world. Even if its time is short, it’s given us something really wonderful.
I am curious if the fact that the strings could only be partially submerged affected things. I'd think having one part in air and one part in water probably impacts the vibrations differently from having a consistently liquid phase to vibrate in.
Since a piano is pretty much a slapped harp. Here’s a video I found were the first notes she plays I think is the actual underwater audio ua-cam.com/video/Axr5J_PLdFU/v-deo.html
Now I want to see you build an entirely unique instrument. I feel like you are rapidly gaining enough knowledge and experience, and you already have absurd dedication, to pull it off. I've always felt that there's an immense potential for instruments that operate on fluids, that has never really been quite explored. Like some instrument that functions with water somehow.
I think If you want a working piano underwater that would essentially be a new instrument because you would want it too use friction. But making a piano from scratch a lone with little maker experience would probably take hmmm 12 months? So maybe not piano like instrument😬
yeah I really liked it as well. sure it sounds a bit odd and it obviously doesn't have as much reverberation, but it has its own very interesting style. I definitely was thinking that it can be a great way to create an interesting musical project with some ethereal sounds
The water piano is sooooo cool!!! Our piano tuner told us about a piano he saw 20 years ago at a piano convention; the whole piano, all 88 keys were tuned to one octave. From C4 at the bottom to C5 at the top. All other keys were tuned to micro tones. That would be a cool sounding piano, one octave in 88 keys. Something to consider for your future projects. Thank you for all of your videos. We appreciate your hard work and determination through trial and error.
Oh I like this idea! I've often wondered how a piano song would sound played in a key that doesn't exist, or with notes that don't exist, as per the constraints of piano keys. I realize it can be done digitally, and that some instruments don't have that constraint of specific notes set to specific keys, but an entire piano tuned the way you mention would be amazing. O.o
What a fantastic idea and follow-thru...your commitment to the project blew me away and I was immdeiately hooked!! I knew the weight of the water would eventually cause the hammers to strike differently, but to hear the difference with the same song was exactly what you needed to do...perfect in my book...
Yeah you are a pianist and you have high respect to a piece of musical instrument. And yet, this guy Mattias doesn't deserve to have an instrument either. So many people are desperately looking to buy and learn to play a piano and yet this privileged guy only destroys it for content. Not entertaining for me. :(
It’s because when I researched ”water in piano” i only got grand pianos converted into fountains. I’m still suprised how well the water drained that was surreal
In my opinion, it sounded best at 40 liters. Also, I thought about how cool it’d be if there were a resort or something with what looks almost like a fountain with a piano in it with the water flowing through it like in the video. it seems like itd be so relaxing to play. Hopefully they’d find a way to waterproof the keys though.
You'd have to waterproof the hammers and the hammer mechanism. All of that is wood so it's going to swell and prevent the keys from actuating which is what happened at the end.
40 underwater mic was amazing. That second song too he quickly played before 50 liters. It could be a great instrument if someone digitalizes and samples it.
“Being a UA-camr is hard, but when you can end the day like this, laying in your piano, with a drink, in the water, it’s all worth it.” - Mattias Krantz
All pianos are earth filled… where does wood come from? Earth. Where does steel come from? Earth. Pretty much all of the internal components of a piano are from dirt directly or a derivative thereof.
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the amount of pain this gives me is immeasurable
Such a beautiful instrument succumbed to an undeserving fate
@@Shpringle be aware of that word and it s peculiarly turn outs. Succumbed it s the memest term if you space it up at every 3 letters🗿 i m sorry just passing by. Best eBays
first time here?
I didn’t expect to see you here haha yeah
I feel you🎹🎶
I bet whoever made this piano never would have imagined this as the last days for the piano.
😭💔
why... 🤦🏼♂️
SPOILER ALERT 🚨 😩 the piano DIES?!?!
I saw simply piano before I watched this💀
job security. I bet they're looking for more youtubers to destroy pianos.
"fewer people are buying pianos but the ones that do seem to be buying 12 a year..."
It's actually funny how soothing and fitting a water level soundtrack would be if it was done with an underwater piano, I'm almost kinda bummed we won't be able to use this as a digital instrument, still a really fun video though.
I think these experiments could be sampled somehow (?). That way there could be a way to digitally reproduce the wacky sounds.
Although, I don't think Mattias should work more than he already does lmao
he did it with the hammer piano
@@Basomga played enough notes that you could sample audio from this video and use it, and even if not all the notes are there, you could probably mess around with settings and painstakingly recreate the sound digitally
A forte piano sounds very similar to this piano actually, try listening to one
Seriously ! We keep getting teased with these awesome piano VST ideas 😂
The reason the underwater mic can pick up the sound so well is because sound travels much more efficiently in water than air
So update on the piano: Honestly it’s not really damaged. I read some piano techs forum before pooring the water and the general consensus was that one glass of water and your piano was messed up. I poured like 100 liters. I let it dry for 5 days and the keys are still completely stuck. But all I need to do Is remove them and put them back 10 times to loosen them up and then polish the keypins back from rust. Then it’s smooth again. Well this will take me a day but I’m recording a VST in different water levels so we can have a wet/dry knob on the software
There's really one thing that can be said now -
You did it, you crazy madman, you actually did it.
Hype
Amazing opportunity to play the song from Wet Dry World of Mario 64 with that knob xD
That is a w e s o m e
Dude I need this vst
This is the first time I've heard an acoustic piano imitate the sound of a 1980s digital synthesizer rather than the other way around.
So the 1980 synth is actually justva submerged piano ,the more you know
@@elcidgaming I knew it was all analog!!! They stole it from the vibraphone!! haha!
@@SquirrelTheorist Mystery solved!
@@elcidgaming Yeah! Phew, case-closed. No need to do any more detective work. We've found their little secret
@@SquirrelTheorist Its those damn commies conspiring with those damn capitalists again!!!
For those of you who don’t know, the piano got out of tune because the water level “readjusted” the ends of the strings and reduced the tension, and therefore made the pitch flat. Not because the water was warm
Also the moist air from the water may have gotn in to the pinblock which holds the tuning pins🎹🎶
honey xD
Great information. Check out this short video edit. ua-cam.com/video/ZvEPoR8sARk/v-deo.html
The underwater notes were lower and messed up my scientific brain. Perhaps the sound of speed of water makes you hear it lower, or it is a false effect of recording. Anyway, I wish he had played the song more than 4 seconds.
Water is heavy, thus the strings vibrate more slowly, reducing the pitch. Same thing that happens when people breathe sulfur hexafluoride, as far as I understand.
18:22 this would look so cool in a music video!
Watch the falling (by harry styles) music video
The last part when you play river flow in you while water is leaking, I love to imagine that it's the rain noise in the background while playing piano. What a nice sound
Same here
It really was nice. I love how he ran to refuel the piano with water and kept playing
In the frontground you mean?
@@MavikBow no, as the music is what you are meant to focus on, and the rain is more like a filler on where the empty, sound of nothingness lands.
yeah but why not just play river flows in you and add rain sounds in the background
As a pianist, this is both extremely uncomfortable yet stupefyingly intriguing to watch at the same time.
These are the exact words to describe how I feel too
True. I was genuinely startled by wht he is doing but its just interesting for some reason.. and the fact that he swum on it is scary and funny at the same time ahahahha
thats exactly how i felt
@@senorsimon986 Right? I so thought at least break some piece would break. Mattias pulled it off perfectly, as perfect as one can get with this kind of challenge
Yeahhhh
I'm imagining this piano being modified to work continuously with water in it and it having a pump and reservoir that allows you to exactly control the water volume (and possibly temperature control). It'd be really cool and not at all worth it.
I think it would be worth it, I like how it sounds at 40 liters
@@Elaxkun it would be the BEST kontakt instrument
Might as well make an aquarium out of it while you're at it - complete with living fish.
@Michael I do believe it's never been tried. We could have a first here. Never in all my days, have I ever seen a speaker in an aquarium, much less in a piano, or, piano/aquarium.
Am thinking a piano with an aquarium
so adding water to a piano turns it into an 8 bit video game soundtrack instrument
The ultimate irony of playing "River flows through you" as the water literally flows out your keys. It was like a waterfall piano. Truly, this is performance art at its finest.
Honestly, it reminds me of something you might see on a Disney ride for like a haunted sunken ship - a ghost pianist playing on a piano as the water overflows through the key.
Yes! That would be so beautiful
River flows from piano. Maybe Matias should turn it into a water fixture for the pond outside his house.
watertflows thru u
the fact that i listened to this exact song today is also even more intense
I laughed my absolute ass off at the "it sounds a bit dry" bit. And then you did, too, and it felt like we were friends. Good content.
_“Hey, your tone is a bit dry, have you ever tried watering your piano?”_
parasocial
I vibe with this comment. Its as though were all griemds and hanging out, but im the form of answerimg machine messages.
Timestamp.
@@that_dam_baka 7:04
Matthias is the embodiment of Chaotic neutral.
The sheer absurdity and how well it is done is just amazing
Wow thank you!!
I am chaotic evil
I think the pianos are unanimously saying chaotic evil on that one :x
@@Soken50 dnd reference appreciated.
@@mitchellcagle4819 Well, Viscool started it, I merely stayed on theme with my rebuttal ;)
It honestly sounds like a kalimba or Minecraft noteblocks playing “River Flows in You”.
*this man really poured water onto his piano and played "river flows in you" as the first piece. i am fascinated and horrified. instant subscribed.* 🌚
EXACTLY BAHAHAHA
I wish I had a piano. I'd be playing my favourite song, Maple Leaf Rag :)
90 years ago
I ACCUALLY THOUGH IT WAS 90 YEARS AGO
Same I also wish I had a piano
After all these years someone finally discovered how old midi piano sounds were made.
LOL
LMAO
Pfffffff
JAJAJJS
Exactly
18:25 is the exact opposite of that one guy who plays the piano on fire. Now we just need someone to play a piano filled with dirt, and we will have all four elements.
We'd still be missing the proper air element:
Playing with wind currents going through it. I suggest methods like playing while skydiving
@@forsteri8021 Very true, right now we have a very easy version of air, but with skydiving we'd have the complete set.
Zero G piano anyone?
Air?
@@nightwatch98978 Piano's already play using air, that's how sound normally works.
“Oh….. it’s a leek” got me dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Watched acoustic guitar filled with water" - That was heavenly. Just like water itself.
"Watches piano filled with water" - Never once have I experienced such depths of immeasurable pain in my life.
omg we came from the same video! I’m so glad someone else understands the emotional rollercoaster I just experienced 😭
Biases suck hey
I came from that guitar video too!!!
i came from that vid too what the flip
samesies
It's absolutely fantastic. I love the fact that this project is impractical. but we can all learn what happens to the piano sound, when the instrument is filled with water. Projects like this drive the humanity forward into the future. There are no commercial reasons to do it, but it's super interesting to do and that's good enough to spend time and money on this.
Facts
Agreed
You playing "A river Flows Through" while a river flows through is actually brilliant. Well done sir.
the song is called "River flows in you" but I appreciate the enthusiasm
@@comradevladimir then the "you" here is for the piano
"River flows in piano" literally. That was cool. I wonder if you can submerge a piano entirely in a pool and play
River flows in my piano yes I want Yiruma to come over and make a music video😏🤝
Thank you🙏🙏
0:32 Mark Rober music
this brother Mark Rober lol or idk why so insane experements
😭
"Ohhhh....it's a leak."
*pulls out a leek*
I laughed so hard man
the engineer duck...the singing underwater...casually drinking and jumping in??? man this video is absolute gold
blurgh 🤮
@@JosephGamesYT wdym?
the leek had me dead
Same sentiments, that was hilarious! 😂😂😂
@@jaydengibbs963 blurgh 🤮
Honestly it doesn't actually sound "terrible", it just starts sounding like a different instrument. At 110 liters I thought it kind of sounded like a marimba or one of those tropical island drums. It sounded like he was playing an east Asian melody as well
Yeah, it would've helped if he'd at least played an entire song so we could truly hear what was going on. All we got were tiny snippets.
Definitely not marimba... Maybe kalimba?
@@Bubblegum-Cupcakeim a kalimba player and that does not sound like a kalima maybe a little bit but like i would never guess that as a kalimba
@@shelly_lolz Ah. I’m a marimba player and it definitely didn’t seem like a marimba to me...
@@Bubblegum-Cupcake maybe a harpsichord
8:59 "Nooo...it's a leek!" - This is the quality content we all came for.
Hahahh it’s big one
@@Mattiaskrantz The leek or...?
@@jovetj it was a huge leek
I laughed so hard at that
He actually scared me with that one
I would love to see a piano that is purposefully designed to hold water, with a drainage port and all that. Such a cool concept
The under water mics actually sounded really cool. I could see this music style used for like video games or something. Need to try different liquids now.
Cant wait for oobleck piano the paino where yoy have to play slowly or it gets harder and quiter to play
bodily fluids
@@Ray-mw1fx no
Allready done the underwather song from (Between Music) Mattias has in his video, is in the soundtrack for the game (Martha is Dead). It is a nice game btw
@@warpedmine9682 yes
what I find funny is that watering a piano is actually a thing, well preserved grand pianos are often humidity controlled and there are people who have to water their piano because its special, I don't remember the actual importance of humidity
I think it impacts the resonance of the wood. Besides that moisture is obviously part of the volume, so without it the wood might contract and make everything not fitting.
We indeed used to have a little box with water and newspapers which served as humidifier inside the grand piano!
One simple reason is that as wood dries up it can bend and crack. The trick guitarists use is to put a carrot inside a guitar case when storing guitar for long.
Yes all that black mold adds major improvements
@@TheVioletBunny I can assure you our piano was not moldy.
Everyone: Swedish people are so smart and have invented so good things
Also swedish people: Lets put water in a piano
Martin Molin: I have decided to use water instead of steel marbles... MMAqua
this is why we norwegians keep making jokes about them
@@RealAdelie And then we tell the same jokes but change out Swedes to Norwegians
PewDiePie
@@cuuh. what?
16:42 ''i hope i don't fall'' i hope your piano legs dont break
For version 2 of the Water Filled Piano, you need to paint the inside black, and use a large light directly above the piano to show the ripples in the water, also, when you do the water through the keys ending you should play that song from "flashdance" and shoot it in slow motion with you banging on the keys with all the water going all over, maybe add some compressed air some keys set off to throw water up out of the piano too.
Well I wanted to like this comment but it’s at 69 so it just wouldn’t sit right with me sorry friend :(
@@addyce6005 cringe
I’m thinking if I would make 2.0 it would definitely be a full grand so I could fille it with 500 liters haha. Yes this idea sounds cool
@@Mattiaskrantz or put the piano inside a pool 🙂
@@keu.45-log I spent $30000 on a pool
Props to the piano manufacturer... that huge piece of metal, plus the weight of the water sealing, water, and Mattias... all held up by 1 leg? Quality craftsmanship.
There were actually 2.
@@Daisy_MayLemon-IceCubePenny one, the front legs were topped so all piano+water weight was on the back leg
All while he stuck his head under it to patch a hole with some flex tape 🙈
@@Albirew iirc he added a second back leg prior to the 10 liters
10:17
So let’s say i repair the keyboard so it’s good again. What would be the funniest prank with a water piano? I’ll tell you my ideas and I’m sure someone will one up me with a better one.
So I think hiring a pro pianist would be kind of funny. Then just started watering the piano and saying it sounds a bit dry with a straight face.
Other alternative would be to keep the lid closed and just let the water be inside and never mention it.
I could ask mr piano tech if he wanna come over but as some of you know he moved far far away from me
Pls upvote this because I can’t pin because sponsor paid for the pin
Whoa first upvote
@@stellar_7 hahah hello
Funniest prank would be to have the piano full of water but all the keys are tuned to E...
Actually the funniest prank would be to have the piano full of water and as soon as the keys are pressed the piano levels outs to dump all the water through the keys.
bro is truly giving me mark rober vibes with the backround music at some parts
playing it with the water flowing out of the keys must've been one of the most magical feelings ever
Bro took river flows in you too seriously
@@laila-l1y8vlol
How? Seriously.
As a pianist and piano tuner, When I saw the title of the video, I tought i'd be horrified,
However I found it oddly satisfying.
Have a great day
The scariest part of this video was him putting his drink on the piano.
The best Part was the Part where the water came Out of the Keys....I Wish I Had the Chance To meet such a Piano so I can Play Chopin Waterfall etude on it.
@@redfishplayz4476
lmao
@@omnisexualidiot3750 ye ikr but that wasn’t scary that was just…helarious
The scariest thing is you enjoying it lol
At this point Mattias is going to become a professional piano technician through all of his experiments on modifying and tuning pianos. He’s got lots of piano schematic knowledge on hand.
This is what most pianists get up to in a parallel universe.
thought the same
Hahah it’s funny how (almost) all my knowledge comes from two piano technicians on Discord
@@Mattiaskrantz I'm a piano tech - your stringing was quite good actually!
Impressive effort. And just the thing I never knew I needed, a guy who can tune a piano that can tuna fish. Thanks YT.
I would love to see this with a piano with no wood. Only naturally waterproof materials for the entire instrument.
Hologram piano
Calling it now, this will be a Native Instruments vst in 2 years
3D printed piano
@@danshakuimo 3d prints are unfortunately not waterproof
And placing the entire piano in a pool
I like how making the piano wet made the sounds actually more dry
me with dry reverb
1k likes and only 1 comment let me fix that
you just ruined the entire video for me
haha, true
The underwater mics makes it surprisingly even better for some pieces for example pieces that are more sad in their genre
At one point it even sounds a but like a muted Hurdy Gurdy! I'd look it up if you haven't heard them before.
Yess!!
12:26 is a cool part
I was half expecting the legs to break at some point, but even after 130kg of water it was still standing strong. And then he climbed in! What a mad man
i wonder if there could be a whole genre of underwater music, with instruments adapted for water. like even wood winds but only water goes through. maybe with a pump? i wonder if it would vibrate the same as air when pushed through woodwinds?
Woodwind but for fish. Coralwater.
*string instruments and percussion shudder*
there is. look up underwater guitars. they are easy compared to this.
just seal it up after you plug in the aux/trs cable and seal it up, done. (you cannot change cable or ajust any knobs after you seal it, you seal them too!)
🤯it is insane what people can come up with!
i really like the piano tbh
One of these days you're going to just figure out you've invented a new kind of piano. Honestly this one gets close. When you swam in it though, genuinely terrifying. There's so many ways that could have gone catastrophically wrong, but I guess you're the guy who knows about pianos and presumably know just how to lay on them without getting 40 broken strings embedded in your back.
Or with a broken piano and strings in your back. Thats like 130 kg more than the piano it self + hes weight
I have no idea how to lay on it tbh haha. But pianos are strong it turns out. 130kg+70=200 bonus kg in the back was kind of risky i guess
You kinda make me wonder if an upright piano is half submerged in water how would it sound like. Probably not a bad idea for a collab with some random aquarium.
whats the name of the song at 13:01? i want to listen to the whole piece, i like it.
sry for hijacking the comment for my cause :)
@@certaindeath7776 It's the leek spin song! Also called the levan polkka by normal, real life people
UA-camr: i filled a piano with water
Me: BRO YOUR PHONE IS SO CLOSE
I’m genuinely shocked that the piano didn’t collapse in some way when you “swam” in it. I now have a morbid curiosity about what you could/would do with my instrument of choice, a marimba. I shudder at the thought…
with a synthetic board it might be interesting tbh but would probably just be muted and sad lmao. A vibraphone could be a bit more interesting though.
Yeah I mean I guess pianos are built to sustain some serious weight for idk 40+ years so they are probably a bit overbuilt. But that angle on the legs I admit was kind of sus at times. If the piano collapsed though I guess that would be interesting ending too
Marimba is cool
@@Mattiaskrantz To the video, or your life?
@@41-Haiku I guess both if my brother uploads it
18:43 okay, Mattias is actually mental, and it’s brilliant!
He did not play river flows in you he played river flows through piano
@@lagking8161 he didn't play river flows in you in piano: he stream river flows in you through piano
I feel like it's rapidly approaching the point where it would be easier to just build a piano from scratch on some of these.
I think so too sometimes but then I look at the piano action and change my mind
@@Mattiaskrantz Maybe the next project XD
water leaking from the keys looked magical
I honestly kind of love the sound. It obviously doesn't work for every song, but I feel like one can work with this. The polka sounded real good
WE MAKIN' OUT IN FINLAND TO THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥 VITTU SENTÄÄN OISIN HALUNNUT KOKONAISEN VERSION 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m Japanese. This experiment is very interesting. I admire that you spend a lot of time and energy. The sound of watered piano is felt as if Japanese instrument, koto.
Can’t forget about money.
@@BrodyStagguys sin if you don't sin that means Jesus died in vain be gay do drugs hail satan
@@BrodyStag Jesus didn't buy the piano.
@@BrodyStagstop spamming i already believe in him this isn’t a church dude
@@BrodyStaggojo >
Video idea: Since piano strings are made of copper, you should try to anodize each string and form a gradient from highest to lowest (would probably look better on a grand piano)!
That would look neat. Good idea
'it's like a school piano' most true words ever spoken
"To lift out the frame, you need a friend....so I bought a crane. "
The most brilliant sentence i have heard in a long time!
yeah exactly, WE need a friend if we can't afford a crane :D
The leak bit was funnier
I feel pain when the hammer swells... Laying in the piano with a drink in the water... Heavenly
@JM Production you're alone
Yes mak
🤯
you again
Hi Ray
The under-water kinda sound like a guitar mix with a bass and a harp. I think is incredibly soothing.
He should make it so a river/creek flows through the piano by directing the water into the back of the piano and letting it fall out the front of it.
As someone who’s been a pianist for 8 years and would kill for a baby grand of ANY kind, not only does this leave lacerations on my soul but DAMN do you got money coming out the ass bro!
Same, all I’ve ever wanted is a baby grand. And this is what’s being done to it? Fuck. Keyboards can make half of these shitty noises electronically.
@@gispaAPRN This is UA-cam
he's got a million subs and 5 million views on this video alone and you think the 400$ piano was a show of wealth? Really doesnt seem like much of a splurge if youre a pianist... and I guarantee he made that back a dozen times over if not more
I'm really sure he has the knowledge to fix it and bring it to a state like before again.
And I'm right. In a comment he actually said that he was able to do so.
@@gispaAPRN Maybe buy one then? He bought it for 380 USD, that's really not a lot of money.
Is it just me who finds the underwater piano at around 30-70 litres (especially with the underwater mics) really soothing/calming?
I actually really like 40l
@@theitfurry4039 Same. Very unique sound.
I like 50L a lot! It almost sounds like a mandolin
Guys why on earth did my comment get this much attention
Please do this again, properly tuned, and then turn it into a VST. I actually really think the sound of the piano after the water is in it is really freaking cool.
YES! Me too
I REALLY wish this as well. Remember his E-piano? This is what it sounds like sampled: ua-cam.com/video/sfLh9JpPWVg/v-deo.html
That's what I was thinking listening
Ayo i think the same too lmao
This was 1/2 hilarious and 1/2 painful... nevermind the puns make it 1/3 hilarious and 2/3 painful
lol
Considering that waterboarding is a war crime, I think you successfully committed your first war crime against musical instruments.
It’s the only war crime I approve of
In breaking news the US just put in an order for a hundred grand pianos and 13,000 litres (whatever the hell a litre is) of water.
*edit* I know approximately how much a litre is, I'm just joking about Americans hating metric.
@@Salsmachev a litre is around a quarter gallon
@@cujotwentysix7519 I was mostly just joking about Americans hating metric
@@Salsmachev science class
This guy is adorable. I love the accent and that “Nooo, it’s a leek” joke genuinely made me laugh. So cute! Not to sound thirsty with all that water but the shirtless piano “swim” was the cherry on top to this great video.
Down bad loll
Exactly what I thought!!
how to switch from "leekspin" to "leakswim" with class xD
Bonk
Down astronomically
I’m actually LOVING the unique sound. Does it sound like a piano? No. But it definitely sounds very cool.
It would be awesome to hear some pop songs played on all these pianos. You should put together an album.
I would love a plugin of this tbh
@@LuciFernato a VST is getting made, then you can just use that to play MIDI files and boom
Sounds just like an out of tune piano
@@funnylittlecreature I think that is just sounds distorted and in some cases like a completely different instrument
you can achieve the same sound with EQ tho.... which doesnt cost thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of prep..
this man is a real engineer.
I love how he explains the absolute chaos he has created in such a calm tone lol
My heart is screaming during the whole video.
Agree with you completely- Ouch
野生小尾巴
Me too!!! How coud he do that to such a beautiful instrument?
@@77MyEsha precisely
诶？小尾巴诶！酷诶！这可以养吗？（这梗老了）
That was quite an adventure. It's amazing how the notes in the lower register when the piano was pretty much full of water sounded like a Japanese Koto. You put sooo much work into this project. Thank you for bringing it to life.
I knew i wouldn't be alone on that!
"like a Japanese Koto"
Ah, that's what it was! I'd thought "this reminds me of a Japanese instrument, but I can't remember which one".
As much as it hurts me to see this, I actually think it’s not the worst way a piano could go. Doing something different that no piano has done before, providing a unique sound to be seen by people all over the world. Even if its time is short, it’s given us something really wonderful.
This dude is who you would call a musical scientist
A true sound engineer!
He certainly embodies the true scientific spirit of "fuck around and find out"!
Underwater mics have such a nice lowfi sound. So unique, I love it honestly
Lflflsld did lskfrkske💜
No reply’s? Im gonna fix that
@@TedTheDogGT i mean you don’t really need to reply to this statement, there’s no point unless you like disagree but like
Same
no way! only 3 replies? let me fix that
1 month later: this rusting piano sounds UNREAL.
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
😂
18:20 the real river flow in you😂😂
So, this is basically Kousei Arima's worst nightmare and you made it a reality. Amazing.
THIS IS IT
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS COMMENT
"Oooooh... its a leak" 😂🤣😂🤣 that was actually so unexpected. I laughed out loud.
Same. He had me goin too
LEEK 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
What's even worse, is the leek was leaking.
AAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!!!!!
“Oh, a leek” 😂😂😂. Same laughed out loud.
I am curious if the fact that the strings could only be partially submerged affected things. I'd think having one part in air and one part in water probably impacts the vibrations differently from having a consistently liquid phase to vibrate in.
Maybe think of harmonics
Since a piano is pretty much a slapped harp. Here’s a video I found were the first notes she plays I think is the actual underwater audio ua-cam.com/video/Axr5J_PLdFU/v-deo.html
Basically just a very muted harp
@@Mattiaskrantz Ah, so it's not too much different. Maybe a little better for the tuning and tone, but mostly the same.
"In case you're gonna try this at home" 😂 4:15
I’m a piano technician…
this is the most terrifying and entertaining video I’ve ever seen!
I'm not a piano technician... this was also terrifying...
Something I did not expect to learn in this video: there’s a certain amount of water that, if added to a piano, makes it sound better.
But only when heard underwater lmao
Somebody was playing the piano on the Titanic as the ship was sinking.
@@foureyedchick Have to repeat this exercise with salt water to verify.
yeah, that amount is 0 :P
trust in Jesus y’all he’s the only way. Trust in him and that he died for your sins on the cross!!!
As weird as it sounds, the piano looked beautiful with water flowing out it
And he was playing riverflow and the piano looked like a river
one of the best examples of free will, nicely done 🎹⛲️
Now I want to see you build an entirely unique instrument. I feel like you are rapidly gaining enough knowledge and experience, and you already have absurd dedication, to pull it off. I've always felt that there's an immense potential for instruments that operate on fluids, that has never really been quite explored. Like some instrument that functions with water somehow.
This probably isn't what you're thinking but a glass armonica is played with wet fingers.
Air is a fluid too
@@blackmber there's also the hydrolophone at the ontario science center
I think If you want a working piano underwater that would essentially be a new instrument because you would want it too use friction. But making a piano from scratch a lone with little maker experience would probably take hmmm 12 months? So maybe not piano like instrument😬
@@Mattiaskrantz an instrument you can play like a piano and strum like a guitar.
As a producer, the underwater mic sound when the strings are submerged is fire. Will definitely be replicating this sound in a daw 😅😅
Timestamp?
yeah I really liked it as well. sure it sounds a bit odd and it obviously doesn't have as much reverberation, but it has its own very interesting style. I definitely was thinking that it can be a great way to create an interesting musical project with some ethereal sounds
13:05
Oh yeah that is totally usable and lovely sounding
15:23 110 liters is the best one
The water piano is sooooo cool!!! Our piano tuner told us about a piano he saw 20 years ago at a piano convention; the whole piano, all 88 keys were tuned to one octave. From C4 at the bottom to C5 at the top. All other keys were tuned to micro tones. That would be a cool sounding piano, one octave in 88 keys. Something to consider for your future projects. Thank you for all of your videos. We appreciate your hard work and determination through trial and error.
Oh I like this idea! I've often wondered how a piano song would sound played in a key that doesn't exist, or with notes that don't exist, as per the constraints of piano keys. I realize it can be done digitally, and that some instruments don't have that constraint of specific notes set to specific keys, but an entire piano tuned the way you mention would be amazing. O.o
What a fantastic idea and follow-thru...your commitment to the project blew me away and I was immdeiately hooked!! I knew the weight of the water would eventually cause the hammers to strike differently, but to hear the difference with the same song was exactly what you needed to do...perfect in my book...
As a viewer I'm very entertained
But as a pianist the tears are flowing
through piano. yes ;_;
i was actually crying lmaoo
river flows out of you
Yeah you are a pianist and you have high respect to a piece of musical instrument. And yet, this guy Mattias doesn't deserve to have an instrument either. So many people are desperately looking to buy and learn to play a piano and yet this privileged guy only destroys it for content. Not entertaining for me. :(
I see what you did there
Part of me is horrified, but part of me admires the sheer dedication that you put into this.
“I just need to know, if we overfill the piano, will it start looking like a fountain?” - that’s what makes a great engineer.
Awesome work Mattias!
That's how it was supposed to be played River flows in you 👍
It’s because when I researched ”water in piano” i only got grand pianos converted into fountains. I’m still suprised how well the water drained that was surreal
Bought way too nice of a piano for this project XD
Imagine how sacriligeous Eddy and Brett would think this is (TwoSet Violin)
THATS LITERALLY WHY I STARTED WATCHING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE 😭😭
Honestly, the water piano gives off some interesting lo-fi vibes, would love to have a sample pack of it
he's making VST plugin with this
In my opinion, it sounded best at 40 liters.
Also, I thought about how cool it’d be if there were a resort or something with what looks almost like a fountain with a piano in it with the water flowing through it like in the video. it seems like itd be so relaxing to play. Hopefully they’d find a way to waterproof the keys though.
You'd have to waterproof the hammers and the hammer mechanism. All of that is wood so it's going to swell and prevent the keys from actuating which is what happened at the end.
40 underwater mic was amazing. That second song too he quickly played before 50 liters. It could be a great instrument if someone digitalizes and samples it.
agree sounded like koto
even two years later this brings me, PAINNNNNNN.
This man could singlehandedly keep the piano industry alive and well.
😏😏
Yeah 😅
“Being a UA-camr is hard, but when you can end the day like this, laying in your piano, with a drink, in the water, it’s all worth it.” - Mattias Krantz
Sounds like something the goons always did in the goon shows, that and dropping pianos from great heights on top of each other, enemies or friends.
And getting Billions of views
We've seen Air-filled pianos, Fire-filled pianos, and Water-filled pianos. Now all we need is an Earth-filled piano
Also electric pianos that have electricity firing everywhere too
@@lillianmcclure898
Already is one
All pianos are earth filled… where does wood come from? Earth. Where does steel come from? Earth. Pretty much all of the internal components of a piano are from dirt directly or a derivative thereof.
The Four Elements Piano Nations lived in peace until the Piano Fire Nation started the war...
Plasma maybe?