I think it's largely down to how the melodies are arranged. For example, the tremolo in Swan Lake was the big offender there; if the accompaniment were simpler - perhaps single notes outlining alternately the bassline/5th - I suspect it would have been more successful. The melody is, after all, commonly heard in music boxes which aren't dissimilar.
Interesting how the bells’ inharmonics tend to turn complex harmonies into a mess, but give richness and interest to simple harmonies. Btw I bet the Harry Potter theme would sound great!
I mean, anything written for celesta or glockenspiel would work pretty well on a toy piano, as they're very similar, as long as you could make the ranges work. Same with carillon or tubular bells. Really, anything metallic and bell-like in timbre will probably translate to toy piano well.
Yes, Harry Potter theme would work great. Not surprising as it's also played with a "bell like sound" in the original. Especially the "Nutcracker" from Tchaikovsky reminded me of Harry Potter.
Not to discredit how amazing all the picks were but I was hoping to hear Rach… then I realized literally one chord of his would cover the entire piano. Cute video, Nahre. I love how different tunes flowed with the piano.
It's so interesting how some pieces really kind of worked and seemed to take on a new aspect 😀 I want the Carmen Overture Ice Cream truck to swing by my neighborhood
I liked the Nutcracker best. Surprising how some of these pieces sound OK and others do not. I think it also has to do with the dynamic range - the toy piano really plays at only one volume and you can't really play soft and loud 🎹 I have that same little Yamaha keyboard you have (Reface CP) which also has a toy piano sound.
Yes, this one was great and it reminded me a lot of the Harry Potter theme (not surprising cause of the sound). I disagree on Clair de Lune having only a D, I'd given at least a B, it's beautiful.
The Bach Fugue was most effective to me, it made the best of the magical percussion of the toy. All of the slow pieces were the worst - the lack of sustain on the little toy piano really hurts those slow pieces like Clair de Lune.
Using Nahre's tiered grading system: - Nahre's facial expressions while playing each piece = S - Nahre's sitting positions (especially the 'asian squat') while playing each piece = A - Toy piano having a line-out jack = A - The probability that Nahre's mom wants to hear Mendelsson's Wedding March theme played in a church with Nahre walking down the aisle = S The songs that Nahre put in the S tier category sound like perfect music box song choices. 👍
Hey, Nahre. Just want to tell you I heard a composition of yours on our Canadian national broadcasting service (CBC radio). For me that is a big deal so congratulations.
@@MNeathway Sorry, I was station hopping in my car and just heard the last bit of her composition and the radio host after saying who it was and the composition's title. I believe the show is a Toronto, lunch time one.
My eyes immediately fixed on that output jack! This could be an interesting platform to explore some effects processing in pedals, software, or even through your Arturia synth if you're so inclined. Lovely video as always, thanks for spending your time educating and entertaining us all!
What I find interesting about this is how the limited dynamics/articulation really changes which lines sound prominent and which don't. Suddenly I heard fragments in the music that I have never really paid attention to, even though I heard some of these pieces a thousand times. That being said, I really liked the Pachelbel. It sounded a bit like a music box making it quite happy instead of dreadful and boring.
I'd give the Paganini and the Beethoven both an "S" - Great percussive/rhythmic clarity--especially with your attack. I think the toy piano adds a very interesting texture to the music. IMHO
Nacre you are delight to the ear ! This should be shown in every school room. It would be a wonderful way to disarm the intimidating world of music education. And a special thank you for the Nutcracker excerpt... a rare joy from everybody's favorite instrument !
It really comes across how much fun you had making this video! Either from your commentary or your facial expressions or your body language while playing. Every video you put out musically inspires me in some way. This time I’ve got to listen to Chopin “Raindrops” and take away some melodic / rhythmic elements from that in my own ideas. Thanks for the great videos always
I think it would be very interesting to see you try making some original composition for the toy piano! I'm curious how you would approach the instrument and all its limitations in trying to make something specifically for it.
OMG that's the exact toy piano I bought for my kids from a garage sale back in the 90s! I've still got it sitting just a few feet from my desk, everybody loves it and you're doing it great justice! Although now I feel the need to keep up and add a pickup.
8:45 Clair de lune was S for me, the timbre of the toy piano gave it an additional nostalgic and yearning feeling, kind of like remembering your childhood in times of hardship. But this is all subjective anyways :)
I feel sorry for the hamsters, but I'm still laughing at their graduation 😂... Chip'n'Chop would be delighted. I mostly agree with your list. Hamster graduation and marriage sounded great, and Mario was in his element with this toy sound. The moment you mentioned the ice-cream truck, I couldn't imagine anything else.
Nahre, just so you know, your little smile while playing give me life, and i'm currently struggling with mine right now. I didn't expect that when come to this video, but i'm glad i clicked it. Thank you...and now i'm gonna go support your channel... Once again, thank you...
This reminds me of the many times I tried to play music not arranged for flute on my flute. It feels really weird when the music goes below the flute's range.
Thank you for having exactly the sounds I was looking for when I randomly googled "toy piano music." I needed a comparison to demonstrate that things had just gone completely silly, and this fit perfectly!
Interesting experiment. Speaks volumes of your musical talent to fit these melodies into two octaves and still make it work. The smile on your face: like a kid in a candy store - totally contagious. What a fun video.
When my cousin was a baby 30 years ago she had a music box where you would pull a string and then it played the melody, I remember I opened it up one day to see how it works and I was amazed at how elegant the mechanism was. I wish I remember the melody, I think it was Bach’s Minuet.
Nice job !! Thanks for posting. I like that you fit so many samples into only 11.5 minutes. Mostly music, little talk.... Tone is SO variable amongst toy pianos. Yours had lots of overtones ~~~ a strip of felt or foam might have changed the results mightily ~~~
This was amazing! Your facial expressions were great, 😂 and a surprising amount of the pieces still work! Would love to see more of this if you wanted to make this a recurring idea 🙂
Reminds me of Schroeder from the Peanuts comic strip. I like how you played it while sitting on the floor rather than putting the piano up on a table. I'd love to see more of this. Some ideas: Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) Gymnopedie No. 1 (Debussy) Pavane (Faure) Theme from The Third Man (Karas) Theme from the movie Fargo (Burwell) Gavotte en rondeau from Violin Partita No. 3 (Bach)
Awesome video! The Bach fugue was my favourite. Good counterpoint will sound great, no matter the instrument. I also think that using a piece written for celesta is a little bit cheating :)
I found Grieg's "In The Hall of the Mountain King" Tchaikovsky's "Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy" were most effective for me, and William's "Jaws Theme" to be least effective. I think that the Jaws theme needs to be in a low range to have the effect of the original. Glad to see the full version of this after seeing the wonderful Instagram short! I can't wait to see what other shorts become full length UA-cam videos!
Now this is a UA-camr i never thought would do a tier list like this lol
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Claire de Lune sounded like one of those wind-up music boxes for toddlers, towards the end of the run, when you don't know which note will be the last one. Kind of hard to squeeze into two octaves, but I think ragtimes would also work. Also Scarlatti.
@@NahreSol Looking at the piano and thinking back to this episode and what the insides of the tiny piano might look like ua-cam.com/video/OpCpBWdl-ic/v-deo.html I imagined you saying to the guy in the video: Hey Damon I have a new piano I'd like you to overhaul; and then his expression when he sees it
I could have watched this all day. Sometimes I have trouble finding stuff on UA-cam when I'm chewing on coffee beans after the sun comes up and THIS..was perfect.
OH! I started out hearing this in a different register, and didn't zero in on the lower fundamental until half way through the first Mozart piece! Brains are so weird and cool!
Super Mario was defo my fave followed by grieg 'in the hall of the mountain king'. The kids went crazy for Baby Shark (no surprises there). Also, I thought ride of the valkyrie was pretty nice too
Totally nuts... but delightful! The Bach C minor fugue ,for instance, reminded me of a Victorian music box. It would have been interesting to hear a Toy Piano VST used which covered the required octaves for all the pieces.
Ah curious about how you feel about "Toreador" from Carmen! It got a bunch of recognition in the gaming world a couple years ago because it got used in Five Nights at Freddies but played on a toy piano/toy box. Worked real well in the horror setting of the game.
Thank you for this video! I'm currently composing something using a toy piano VST instrument so it's really helpful to hear various pieces to get an idea of what works on this instrument and what doesn't!
It’s really interesting that is chords and harmony that sounds weird to me but the single note lines sounds excellent, something about the decay of the notes make many of the chords sound off somehow.
It might be because the harmonics of bells are radically different to most other instruments (e.g. a prominent minor third) so chords that normally sound pleasing can sound very off
This is such a great ode to classical music’s role in our common culture and human experience from movies to video games to the pomp and circumstance of weddings and graduations!
Hi Nahre, I've always wondered, do you listen to "modern" classical music meaning the composers are still alive? If so, could you enumerate some of them? Thanks for all you do!
@@alexaben6299 well maybe you have to listen more. Classics are what they are because they're filtered by the time, only great ones are preserved. We just don't have a standard repertoire when it comes to contemporary serious music because we are the filter ourselves who are responsible for the musical tradition. And there is indeed superb contemporary music from my own experience, even being selective and spoiled by the great tradition of classical music. Most of them really suck, as was the case in any period of human history. But you can fibd the real ones. You just have to spend alot of time and, in some cases, money because some of them can only be heard at special concerts.
@@alexaben6299 I mean, since you're on her channel, have you listened to Nahre's original compositions? As far as I know she considers herself a classical composer. They're really enjoyable IMO.
Super fun! Music with medium-active melody and simple harmony work best. Long notes and chromatic harmony are lost. I bet Bach's Minuet in G would work! Sugar Plum Fairy and In The Hall of the Mountain King were among my favs.
My thought is that anything that will work on harpsichord will work, and anything that requires sustain will fail. Also the tuning is so poor that anything with dense chords will fail spectacularly.
The correct acentuation of the left hand in piazzolla libertango's is a 3-3-2 pattern. I think that is a very important think to score this music. However, this video is a great idea, congratulations
This is a great video, I was hoping to see Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 but it makes sense that there's only so much that can be included in a video. Loved it!
I play Hungarian Rhapsody #2, the intro to Pictures at an Exhibition, and a few other things I can't remember at the moment. I also have an original composition that a local composer wrote for my Jaymar.
Always a pleasure to discover your original and very interesting videos on piano and musician culture. This one is definitely unlikely ! Thanks for this light and funny moment ! 😊
WOW 😳 we were used to play like this in childhood, take known melodies and play in a kids keyboard 🎹 THANKS NAHRe this videos all these old and good memories back 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Grieg, Nutcracker & Mario - it is like they were written on this instrument. Loved your impression on Swan Lake. it’s both hilarious and so descriptive )
This is an interesting case study on the differing use/importance of note-spacing, legato, chord-voicings and their relative "geometry" within harmony-progression as well as timbre in the aesthetics of different pieces. Also - it's a really cute instrument, plus "... and now the hamsters are getting married" kinda made my morning 😊
The wedding march was a big surprise, but there were several that sounded like a wind-up toy coming to its sad end. I don’t know the right term, but not being able to sustain or hold notes seems to be a huge hindrance. Pretty fun, and the people at Jaymar must be stunned to hear one of those things played like that.
I’d imagine the Christmas-y melodies faired well because the toy piano is similar to Bells which are used heavily in Christmas music. Even full on bell covers!
I thought this is going to be a quick light video, but then Nahre made it into a seriously interesting video that makes you think about these pieces in a new and original way. Very nice.
Spot the mistake!! 👀👀👀 you will know it when you see it!! 😂 sorry guys
Is it the missed beat before the triplets for the Star Wars theme?
That's not Raindrop! That's #4!
@@EdwardTonai Aw I can't believe I missed that 👀
You did it so fast D: beat me to it
@@EdwardTonai ✅ 😅😅😅😅
The most adorable thing is Nahre sitting like a child to play
Haha...thank you!
I dunno, picturing graduating hamsters is taking up a lot of space in my brain now
@@dlf_uk And getting married!
@@dlf_uk just wait till they get married. That'll blow your mind.
The way she was able to squat down like that was interesting. Made my legs ache watching her.
I can feel my smile muscles kinda sore after watching this. Loved it. Made me very happy.
Thanks Cuckoo!! You're the best!!
@@NahreSol Thanks for sharing, Nahre. I hope you can respond to my message about how you compose when you can. Thanks very much.
Same Cuckoo!!
Same. The fun you seems to get from this toy is kinda contagious, especially when the comming catastrophe is predictable. I liked the nutckraker btw.
Rachmaninoff could probably play the entire keyboard comfortably with one hand
1/2 of a hand haha
I CAN
One finger at a time.
I think it's largely down to how the melodies are arranged. For example, the tremolo in Swan Lake was the big offender there; if the accompaniment were simpler - perhaps single notes outlining alternately the bassline/5th - I suspect it would have been more successful. The melody is, after all, commonly heard in music boxes which aren't dissimilar.
@Soulful Notes dude he is a professional pianist with hundreds of recordings. Be a bit more than a bot.
I apologise on behalf of this bot
i'm still having trouble getting over the fact that the toy piano had a line out.
Me too!!
@@NahreSol Is it retrofitted? Is it a microphone, piezo (like in acoustic guitars or kind of a magnetic pickup (like in electric guitars or rhodes)?
I thought the same.
Yesssssss. I was like "wut"
@@Schattenhall I don't know for sure, but I doubt it left the factory like that. I wonder if it is a common thing to add ?
Interesting how the bells’ inharmonics tend to turn complex harmonies into a mess, but give richness and interest to simple harmonies. Btw I bet the Harry Potter theme would sound great!
Very true!!
There's also a lot of detuned notes.
I mean, anything written for celesta or glockenspiel would work pretty well on a toy piano, as they're very similar, as long as you could make the ranges work. Same with carillon or tubular bells. Really, anything metallic and bell-like in timbre will probably translate to toy piano well.
Yes, Harry Potter theme would work great. Not surprising as it's also played with a "bell like sound" in the original. Especially the "Nutcracker" from Tchaikovsky reminded me of Harry Potter.
I want to listen to Carol of the Bells (AKA Carol of the Old Ones) on a toy piano now... [Searches UA-cam]
I am from Germany. Your pronunciation of "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" was GREAT! Was not expecting that!! Had to hear it several times. Well done!!
Butchered Pachelbel though, as all Americans do.
@@Apfelstrudl I'm sure you would also butcher another language that you don't know well.
@@Apfelstrudl who cares about Pachelbel anyway
This is actually a really cool way to demonstrate the importance of knowing the capabilities and limitations of different instruments as a composer!
Not to discredit how amazing all the picks were but I was hoping to hear Rach… then I realized literally one chord of his would cover the entire piano. Cute video, Nahre. I love how different tunes flowed with the piano.
Yes.. haha I thought about it... maybe next time :))
I'm surprised that little thing's action is as responsive as it is to play some of those lines, good stuff!
Multiple takes were required!!
Great facial expressions while playing each piece. Made me smile!
Thank you! :))
It's so interesting how some pieces really kind of worked and seemed to take on a new aspect 😀 I want the Carmen Overture Ice Cream truck to swing by my neighborhood
Haha, hilarious! Thank you
Dude, my ice cream truck plays Silent Night all year!
I love that even though its a toy piano, expression for each piece is not sacrificed.
Thank you!
I liked the Nutcracker best. Surprising how some of these pieces sound OK and others do not. I think it also has to do with the dynamic range - the toy piano really plays at only one volume and you can't really play soft and loud 🎹 I have that same little Yamaha keyboard you have (Reface CP) which also has a toy piano sound.
Very very true!!!
Yes, this one was great and it reminded me a lot of the Harry Potter theme (not surprising cause of the sound). I disagree on Clair de Lune having only a D, I'd given at least a B, it's beautiful.
7:00 I believe "raindrop prelude" refers to Op. 28 No. 15 in Db major, not Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor.
Correct!!! Chopin please forgive me... haha
@@NahreSol yes and op 28 no 4 is often referred to as 'suffocation'
Yeah I noticed that too
@@NahreSol You are forgiven
Who cares about the name? A sonata by any other name would sound the same.
The Bach Fugue was most effective to me, it made the best of the magical percussion of the toy. All of the slow pieces were the worst - the lack of sustain on the little toy piano really hurts those slow pieces like Clair de Lune.
Using Nahre's tiered grading system:
- Nahre's facial expressions while playing each piece = S
- Nahre's sitting positions (especially the 'asian squat') while playing each piece = A
- Toy piano having a line-out jack = A
- The probability that Nahre's mom wants to hear Mendelsson's Wedding March theme played in a church with Nahre walking down the aisle = S
The songs that Nahre put in the S tier category sound like perfect music box song choices.
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Priceless. Absolutely priceless haha!
Well constructed response. Thumbs up 👍
Specially the face during Pomp & Circumstance. Wonderful.
Hey, Nahre. Just want to tell you I heard a composition of yours on our Canadian national broadcasting service (CBC radio). For me that is a big deal so congratulations.
Ooh what program? Tempo?
@@MNeathway Sorry, I was station hopping in my car and just heard the last bit of her composition and the radio host after saying who it was and the composition's title. I believe the show is a Toronto, lunch time one.
@@neiladlington950 All good, thank you!
Beethoven & Star Wars in the same video. Well played.
It's sol state!
They're both pop music, no? 😃
And super mario!
In Switzerland, we have cows and sheeps and goats with bells…. They sounds very similar as this tiny piano..
My eyes immediately fixed on that output jack! This could be an interesting platform to explore some effects processing in pedals, software, or even through your Arturia synth if you're so inclined.
Lovely video as always, thanks for spending your time educating and entertaining us all!
Yes, I know! Great idea! The 1/4 inch jack is the real reason I bought it, on top of the fact that it's adorable! :) And thank you!
That was my first response (and the comment that I just left). I didn't know toy pianos had output jacks. So cool.
@@danceswithdirt7197 I'm curious about that, somebody must have added the audio pickup later, is it a common thing to do ?
The timbre of the Toy Piano makes such a whimsical magical feeling. I think your tier listings are spot on!
What I find interesting about this is how the limited dynamics/articulation really changes which lines sound prominent and which don't. Suddenly I heard fragments in the music that I have never really paid attention to, even though I heard some of these pieces a thousand times.
That being said, I really liked the Pachelbel. It sounded a bit like a music box making it quite happy instead of dreadful and boring.
I am DYING. Nahre so earnestly playing heavy music on this thing... it's too much!
Haha :)
I'd give the Paganini and the Beethoven both an "S" - Great percussive/rhythmic clarity--especially with your attack. I think the toy piano adds a very interesting texture to the music. IMHO
Cool to see differing opinions! I may have been a bit stingy with the Beethoven score in particular 😅
Nacre you are delight to the ear ! This should be shown in every school room.
It would be a wonderful way to disarm the intimidating world of music education. And a special thank you for the Nutcracker excerpt... a rare joy from
everybody's favorite instrument !
It really comes across how much fun you had making this video! Either from your commentary or your facial expressions or your body language while playing. Every video you put out musically inspires me in some way. This time I’ve got to listen to Chopin “Raindrops” and take away some melodic / rhythmic elements from that in my own ideas. Thanks for the great videos always
I think it would be very interesting to see you try making some original composition for the toy piano! I'm curious how you would approach the instrument and all its limitations in trying to make something specifically for it.
I always wondered what it would sound like to hear Shcroeder playing 😂🤣 This was so fun 💖
OMG that's the exact toy piano I bought for my kids from a garage sale back in the 90s! I've still got it sitting just a few feet from my desk, everybody loves it and you're doing it great justice! Although now I feel the need to keep up and add a pickup.
8:45 Clair de lune was S for me, the timbre of the toy piano gave it an additional nostalgic and yearning feeling, kind of like remembering your childhood in times of hardship.
But this is all subjective anyways :)
Fair!!
Reminds of some Pokémon depressing music
At first I thought it sounded horrible, but after reading your comment it’s grown on me. It’s crazy how subjective music can be.
I feel sorry for the hamsters, but I'm still laughing at their graduation 😂...
Chip'n'Chop would be delighted.
I mostly agree with your list. Hamster graduation and marriage sounded great, and Mario was in his element with this toy sound.
The moment you mentioned the ice-cream truck, I couldn't imagine anything else.
I love your content. I’m beyond grateful you make videos, they continue to save me from my own troubles.
Thankyou nahre! 💜💜💜
Thank you so much!! :))))
Nahre, just so you know, your little smile while playing give me life, and i'm currently struggling with mine right now. I didn't expect that when come to this video, but i'm glad i clicked it. Thank you...and now i'm gonna go support your channel... Once again, thank you...
If only the builders of that toy piano could hear what their creation could do, they would be so proud! Good job, Nahre! 💧👍
Such a cool idea for a video Nahre! Melody transcends!! Had a real fun time watching
This reminds me of the many times I tried to play music not arranged for flute on my flute. It feels really weird when the music goes below the flute's range.
Thank you for having exactly the sounds I was looking for when I randomly googled "toy piano music." I needed a comparison to demonstrate that things had just gone completely silly, and this fit perfectly!
Interesting experiment. Speaks volumes of your musical talent to fit these melodies into two octaves and still make it work. The smile on your face: like a kid in a candy store - totally contagious. What a fun video.
Thank you!!
Not exactly sure why but I literally laughed out loud and scared my car when you played Star Wars XD
Finding your comments across music youtube is minigame
You scared your car ?
I hope your car is doing okay now;-;
verified person!
poor car. Not sure you should take it on the road when it gets scared so easily.
I love how serious and convinced you were on Chopin piece lol
Haha... ! Yes... too bad I mixed up the nickname haha
What an incredibly fun video! Thanks Nahre 👏
Great video idea.
Thank you!!
When my cousin was a baby 30 years ago she had a music box where you would pull a string and then it played the melody, I remember I opened it up one day to see how it works and I was amazed at how elegant the mechanism was. I wish I remember the melody, I think it was Bach’s Minuet.
Very fun Nahre!
Nice job !! Thanks for posting.
I like that you fit so many samples into only 11.5 minutes. Mostly music, little talk....
Tone is SO variable amongst toy pianos. Yours had lots of overtones ~~~ a strip of felt or foam might have changed the results mightily ~~~
This was amazing! Your facial expressions were great, 😂 and a surprising amount of the pieces still work! Would love to see more of this if you wanted to make this a recurring idea 🙂
Not sure how useful this exercise was, but it was a total blast to watch. I almost giggled when you played Koji Kondo!
Reminds me of Schroeder from the Peanuts comic strip. I like how you played it while sitting on the floor rather than putting the piano up on a table.
I'd love to see more of this. Some ideas:
Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Debussy)
Pavane (Faure)
Theme from The Third Man (Karas)
Theme from the movie Fargo (Burwell)
Gavotte en rondeau from Violin Partita No. 3 (Bach)
Gymnopedie No. 1 would work really well on a toy piano I think.
Awesome video! The Bach fugue was my favourite. Good counterpoint will sound great, no matter the instrument. I also think that using a piece written for celesta is a little bit cheating :)
That you managed to make those pieces that good ... only shows how good you are at your art! Kudos!
I found Grieg's "In The Hall of the Mountain King" Tchaikovsky's "Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy" were most effective for me, and William's "Jaws Theme" to be least effective. I think that the Jaws theme needs to be in a low range to have the effect of the original. Glad to see the full version of this after seeing the wonderful Instagram short! I can't wait to see what other shorts become full length UA-cam videos!
Thank you!! And I agree with you :)
Now this is a UA-camr i never thought would do a tier list like this lol
Claire de Lune sounded like one of those wind-up music boxes for toddlers, towards the end of the run, when you don't know which note will be the last one.
Kind of hard to squeeze into two octaves, but I think ragtimes would also work. Also Scarlatti.
This is amazing! I always use MIDI toy pianos and honestly had no clue they made ones that legit haha
I love the toy piano's bright, woody tone with just a hint of glockenspiel. However, I'll bet the keyboard action isn't your favorite.
The action is SO wildly off! haha
@@NahreSol Looking at the piano and thinking back to this episode and what the insides of the tiny piano might look like ua-cam.com/video/OpCpBWdl-ic/v-deo.html I imagined you saying to the guy in the video: Hey Damon I have a new piano I'd like you to overhaul; and then his expression when he sees it
I could have watched this all day. Sometimes I have trouble finding stuff on UA-cam when I'm chewing on coffee beans after the sun comes up and THIS..was perfect.
i love this. and if you wanted to get into horror film/games by playing creepy music box melodies, you're all set!
OH! I started out hearing this in a different register, and didn't zero in on the lower fundamental until half way through the first Mozart piece!
Brains are so weird and cool!
Super Mario was defo my fave followed by grieg 'in the hall of the mountain king'.
The kids went crazy for Baby Shark (no surprises there).
Also, I thought ride of the valkyrie was pretty nice too
Haha... ! Yes...
This is good content! Looking forward to part 2.
I liked this, it would be cool to take this format to other different sounding keyboard instruments
Great idea!
I really like your smile when you are playing the yann tiersen's piece!
I can't believe you didn't play Brahms' lullaby. I bet it would have worked out great. Such a cool video though!
Next time? :)) Thank you!
@@NahreSol Hey, thank you! You and your playing actually inspired me to pick up keys as an instrument. Love your work
This is one of the best things I've ever seen on UA-cam, Thank you. Perfect.
Thank you!
Totally nuts... but delightful! The Bach C minor fugue ,for instance, reminded me of a Victorian music box.
It would have been interesting to hear a Toy Piano VST used which covered the required octaves for all the pieces.
Love the facal expressions! You're really feeling that thing as you play. Fun stuff.
Clair De Lune was amazingly beautiful and haunting. It sounds like someone's life is... crumbling lol Love it!
Another great video Nahre!! Love your content, always so delightfully entertaining.
That was a lot of fun to watch! Grieg was my personal favorite
I Wonder how something by Satie would sound like
Thank you!! I actually had Satie in there... but left it out -- will share on my instagram one of these days :)
@@NahreSol Now, I 100% have to follow your instagram channel : )
I suspect Satie's music has too much open space, that it would have the same problem as Clair de Lune.
I think one of the best things about this is your expressions Nahre when playing the pieces.
Ah curious about how you feel about "Toreador" from Carmen! It got a bunch of recognition in the gaming world a couple years ago because it got used in Five Nights at Freddies but played on a toy piano/toy box. Worked real well in the horror setting of the game.
Didn’t know this - interesting!!
your repertoire is deep. I was waiting for the Rach 2 lol ;). Loved this video
Honestly, I mean you had Yann Tiersen in there anyways, but they just all sound like Yann Tiersen covers of famous melodies to me. And I love it.
Haha....!
Thank you for this video! I'm currently composing something using a toy piano VST instrument so it's really helpful to hear various pieces to get an idea of what works on this instrument and what doesn't!
It’s really interesting that is chords and harmony that sounds weird to me but the single note lines sounds excellent, something about the decay of the notes make many of the chords sound off somehow.
Very true observations!!
It might be because the harmonics of bells are radically different to most other instruments (e.g. a prominent minor third) so chords that normally sound pleasing can sound very off
Worth reading if you're interested: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_tone
This is such a great ode to classical music’s role in our common culture and human experience from movies to video games to the pomp and circumstance of weddings and graduations!
Hi Nahre,
I've always wondered, do you listen to "modern" classical music meaning the composers are still alive?
If so, could you enumerate some of them?
Thanks for all you do!
I do! Perhaps a topic for a future video....!
meh modern classical is the downfall of the genre... a single repeated arpeggio with a basic melody is not very emotional
there is also people like ludovico who repeat the same thing over and over and the music is overdramatize i just cringe everytime i listen to it.
@@alexaben6299 well maybe you have to listen more. Classics are what they are because they're filtered by the time, only great ones are preserved. We just don't have a standard repertoire when it comes to contemporary serious music because we are the filter ourselves who are responsible for the musical tradition. And there is indeed superb contemporary music from my own experience, even being selective and spoiled by the great tradition of classical music. Most of them really suck, as was the case in any period of human history. But you can fibd the real ones. You just have to spend alot of time and, in some cases, money because some of them can only be heard at special concerts.
@@alexaben6299 I mean, since you're on her channel, have you listened to Nahre's original compositions? As far as I know she considers herself a classical composer. They're really enjoyable IMO.
Super fun! Music with medium-active melody and simple harmony work best. Long notes and chromatic harmony are lost. I bet Bach's Minuet in G would work! Sugar Plum Fairy and In The Hall of the Mountain King were among my favs.
My thought is that anything that will work on harpsichord will work, and anything that requires sustain will fail. Also the tuning is so poor that anything with dense chords will fail spectacularly.
Love the wide range of song choices!
What a great exercise! Some of them worked surprisingly well. Thanks for sharing!
I love this little piano. Please make more videos with it.
The correct acentuation of the left hand in piazzolla libertango's is a 3-3-2 pattern. I think that is a very important think to score this music. However, this video is a great idea, congratulations
This is a great video, I was hoping to see Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 but it makes sense that there's only so much that can be included in a video. Loved it!
I love how you describe with hamster LOL LOVE IT
Wow!!! I’m impressed you made them sound as good as you did on the little toy piano!
I play Hungarian Rhapsody #2, the intro to Pictures at an Exhibition, and a few other things I can't remember at the moment. I also have an original composition that a local composer wrote for my Jaymar.
Always a pleasure to discover your original and very interesting videos on piano and musician culture. This one is definitely unlikely ! Thanks for this light and funny moment ! 😊
WOW 😳 we were used to play like this in childhood, take known melodies and play in a kids keyboard 🎹 THANKS NAHRe this videos all these old and good memories back 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Nahre you're totally getting all the musicality out of that tiny thing!
Grieg, Nutcracker & Mario - it is like they were written on this instrument.
Loved your impression on Swan Lake. it’s both hilarious and so descriptive )
Omg do video game melodies next! :) this was awesome btw ❤️
This is an interesting case study on the differing use/importance of note-spacing, legato, chord-voicings and their relative "geometry" within harmony-progression as well as timbre in the aesthetics of different pieces.
Also - it's a really cute instrument, plus "... and now the hamsters are getting married" kinda made my morning 😊
I’ve done this before. Nice to see you do it!
The wedding march was a big surprise, but there were several that sounded like a wind-up toy coming to its sad end. I don’t know the right term, but not being able to sustain or hold notes seems to be a huge hindrance. Pretty fun, and the people at Jaymar must be stunned to hear one of those things played like that.
I’d imagine the Christmas-y melodies faired well because the toy piano is similar to Bells which are used heavily in Christmas music. Even full on bell covers!
I thought this is going to be a quick light video, but then Nahre made it into a seriously interesting video that makes you think about these pieces in a new and original way. Very nice.
I absolutely love how you chose music from so many eras and not just the standard classical pieces. The Mario theme and Williams were fantastic. =)