I've seen at least 100 videos from this guy, and I still have no context for his setup. He just has a bunch of machines in disconnected rooms, and could live in a mansion for all I know.
I love how you are so crafty, but like, half-assed crafty. The idea here is completely sound, and you did like 85% of the work to realize the idea, but then didn't measure the tuning knob locations or make enough room for all of the knobs/strings or use the correct knobs or strings that would work with the knobs. The end result is a weird sounding, kinda neat in a broken janky sort of way, little instrument. Which is pretty on brand, but still, now I kinda want to hear what this could sound like if done right.
Yeah there a way for u to word this comment that is uplifting instead of backhanded. I feel like this video was 14 minutes of hard work and far from half assed.
I like the way you edited this one starting out with quick cuts showing the process and making of the idea and then testing out your experiment. You should def make another one likes this it fits really well with your style.
Brilliant idea. You need to use metal violin strings for the higher notes and viola strings for the low notes. They're much thinner than piano wire, and will be easier to tune
it's because of the low tension. Strings are way more inharmonic this way, eventually sounding like bells. In addition, the toypiano hammers don't mute the high partials as felt hammers do, enhancing the inharmonicity (-> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inharmonicity)
It sounds like a haunted Grandfather's clock. I like it. But yes, different strings will be worth the experiment! After collecting all the haunted samples. Ha! On another note - I'm forever fascinated by the multiverse of tools and corner that your workspace seems to be!
I really enjoyed watching the process with no speaking on top, I like that u r always up for trying new things. and great result with those 2 chords. Very creative simple outcome.
What I love about this video Maggie, is the style the first half was filmed. I've been watching restoration videos again the last month or two (which I was really into a year ago [my mechanics btw; the gold standard of restoration vids - Swiss 😉]) and I got those style of vibes in the first part. No talking. No intro. Just close-in camera shots of you working. This was a really cool video. You're always INCREDIBLY creative and off-the-cuff, but this was really cool & fun. I little switch-up for that first half until we hear "hi'im the Magpie" 🤘 Well done! 👏👏👏👏👏
dont think the nylon strings would work , thin guitar strings however ..... you might need to make a top nut so the strings will stay in front of the hammers and might not buzz so bad could alsso take the rear wall off the piano and make it about 50 cm longer so you got some length in the strings , if you use a thick piece of hardwood it might sound even better and can handle the tension
Vertically staggering the tuning pegs, like you see on an actual piano, might give you enough room to do the black keys. It might also be interesting to extend the back board up higher and get more length out of the strings.
I love the creativity and ingenuity you put into this entire musical presentation. I also love the voice accompaniments, it suits this piece really well.
Should be possible to add the black keys by placing pegs either underneath or bellow the pegs you already have, and as others have mentioned, would be awsome to hear this thing with other string types eventually. Keep showing the world what real creativity is, Simon. I always enjoy your videos, and I love your whimsical approach to creating. It's a constant reminder to myself to "just do it" rather then spend my life contemplating if a thing is a good idea or not. :D
You could maybe fit a small wheels or bushings at the top where the tuning pegs are now, then place the actual pegs lower down on the back of the instrument. Then you could off set them ( high mid low, high mid low)so you can group them tighter. Ah, the problem you'd run into with that is hitting the string on either end of the bushing. If you were set on keeping the tuning keys from the uke, I'd maybe run the ends to the outside and have an additional assemply for the keys to be attached. Then you could do a couple rows and have the keys alternate which row. Alternatively, you could use the tuning pegs and pins like on a lap harp (zither), and tune each end of the string.
Hey, Simon, the reason you don't have enough room is because you're not using tuning pins! If you want to be able to support stronger strings and be able to incorporate all of your strings you'll want to use tuning pins from pianos. You can buy them online. For installation you have to drill a hole slightly smaller than the pins, so when you drive the pin into the wooden pinblock the friction prevents them from rotating unless turned with a tuning lever. Another block at the bottom with hitch pins would help as well! Also, if you want to improve the sound you need two bridges. One bridge is near the hitch pins, and the other is near the tuning pins. These bridges help with both alignment and sound. I'd recommend just googling "piano pin block" and checking the images. It'll give you a good idea of what a piano's pin block looks like.
I feel like it would maybe benefit from having a bridge, also feel like you could easily mount more tuning pegs under and between the top ones, and actually you could even drill extra holes in the tuning pegs so you could have clusters of strings like in a piano (sort of) and the bridge would keep them all at the right height (I am assuming)
Next up try to take an old piano and a vibraphone and make a fully functional keyboard controlled vibraphone (or in a more realistic version, take the piano strings out of the tiny piano and replace them with a toy xylophone).
the whole video is a really great sample pack lots of dope metal macine sounds just download the video with a video to mp3 converter and chop the sounds you like in you daw then put them in a folder and you have greatet your own dope sample pack
Omg, where did you find those Piano strings? The bottom of the ocean. I think you would benefit from smaller gauge strings will work better, you won’t need to get so much tension on it to get a playable note.
To cover the black keys, might need to take the plastic handle part off the tuning pegs. Then use a rotary tool to grind in a slot on the post where the handle was to turn the pegs with a flat-tip screwdriver. Then diagonally stagger the tuning peg placement to get them all to fit. Seems like that might work if given another go.
I will build one of these too. But will put in an oak plank at the top and use common zither pins and zither wire (or common music wire). It should sound like the top octave of a real piano.
Perhaps make a zig-zag pattern where a second row of tuning pegs is placed below the first one and offset in-between, so that you effectively reduce the distance by half without the second row getting in the way of the first. Then, consider grouping it so that up-down-up-down-up is white-black-white-black-white for the C thru E keys, and that down-up-down-up-down-up-down is white-black-white-black-white-black-white for the F thru B keys, etc. Hard to picture by reading it, but if you try this method, you will get the gist of it.
you should try using a combination of guitar and bass strings so each note is not sharing a string with another string and so it will tune better. you can get the the black keys in there if you add another row of tuners below and offset from the top ones, just use tuners that don't have perpendicular pegs or cut out a hole for the knobs so you have space to tune them.
Linus! It's me, Charles! Hey, remember Lucy, Marcie, Patty, Snoopy, Tweety, that teacher that sounded like a trombone, the red headed girl, Pig Pen, that whole gang? Wow, it's been so long! I like what you're doing with music these days! No, I love it! Keep it up! C. BROWN
Maybe just add small springs to the tines? That can be put straight on it. So limited space in there for having both strings and tines. I have a few other toy pianos so I can try stuff 😊
The kind of angelic church experimental music we all didn't know we even liked, but that we all love Like an athem to a religion of empathy, kindness and just being, maybe even in love; truly beautiful
Yeah bo!! I reckon guitar strings. The ball end would allow them to be captive in that nice little bar that's been drilled and then tuned independently. There's a comment below about offsetting some more pegs for more strings? that could work, a second row of them below, as long as they're higher than the hammers it'd still work. They'd have a different timbre though, but that could be cool!
You could fit more pegs if you put some tuners above or below each other. It would sound better with longer strings so if you added a board to extend the back of the piano you would have plenty of of room for tuners stacked over each other and the strings could be longer and you would get more sustain.
Maybe it's possible to add some offset tuning pegs above, mounted on another piece of wood? Maybe with an air gap below for the tuning pegs below to still be able to ritate.
i simply love this project. I think if you have a full internal metal frame and staggered your pegs so you could have more strings per key and higher tension it would sound even better. that said i think this is a brilliant little project well worth elaborating on
the way the strings are setup, the two connected strings will try to reach the same pitch, because one side is pulling more tension on the string than the other side. I think it would be neat to see this with some violin/viola strings (The end of the string would fit your mechanism a little better) or with ukulele strings, because it might give a better tone with a shorter length. Not sure.
very cool sound. a word of caution: that thin lil piece of wood was not made for all that tension. it WILL warp and split and crack and EXPLODE if you leave it that way.
I've seen at least 100 videos from this guy, and I still have no context for his setup. He just has a bunch of machines in disconnected rooms, and could live in a mansion for all I know.
yee
He does
Or maybe he’s like me in that I have access to different shops, and different tools, in different locations.
@@jonnda oof
1,000th like
"stay tuned" yeah we will, but will that piano? XD
Nice 😆
Lol
"Will It Piano??"
Lol
Hshaaaaha
I think it sounds really nice with piano strings. Not like a piano. But nice. Super gentle, but still full.
I agree!
"super gentle but still full" is how some people would describe me as well
Kinda sounds like tubular bells
Gives me ragtime vibes
It sounds like a preset on a synth, but it's real
That thing sounds like an old grandfather clock's chime.
Yeah
Hah, I commented the same thing.
i would imagine they would make the sound in a very similar way .
they didn't exactly have electronic speakers back then :)
@@logangraham2956 they used a bell
I love how you are so crafty, but like, half-assed crafty.
The idea here is completely sound, and you did like 85% of the work to realize the idea, but then didn't measure the tuning knob locations or make enough room for all of the knobs/strings or use the correct knobs or strings that would work with the knobs. The end result is a weird sounding, kinda neat in a broken janky sort of way, little instrument. Which is pretty on brand, but still, now I kinda want to hear what this could sound like if done right.
This backhanded compliment lol
@@SeaStarTea you’re good, you suck, but you’re mostly good
Story of my life haha
I built my entire house this way
is this a complement or nah??
Yeah there a way for u to word this comment that is uplifting instead of backhanded. I feel like this video was 14 minutes of hard work and far from half assed.
I like the way you edited this one starting out with quick cuts showing the process and making of the idea and then testing out your experiment. You should def make another one likes this it fits really well with your style.
Brilliant idea. You need to use metal violin strings for the higher notes and viola strings for the low notes. They're much thinner than piano wire, and will be easier to tune
Kind of sounds like tubular bells to me idk why
It sounds a bit like bells. At least the lower ones.
Sound like steel drums
it's because of the low tension. Strings are way more inharmonic this way, eventually sounding like bells. In addition, the toypiano hammers don't mute the high partials as felt hammers do, enhancing the inharmonicity (-> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inharmonicity)
Yeah it actually does. Which makes me want to make some tubular bells. Hmm...
@@guitfidle I wonder what possessed you to want that...
It's gonna explode. Musically.. for sure, but explode none the less.
Hmm, ukulele strings might do the trick
Maybe banjo strings?
Or balloon strings? 🤔 😁
Or maybe just strings. 😜
Maybe *no strings* just edit
Maybe G string
It sounds like a haunted Grandfather's clock. I like it. But yes, different strings will be worth the experiment! After collecting all the haunted samples. Ha!
On another note - I'm forever fascinated by the multiverse of tools and corner that your workspace seems to be!
That is such an old bandsaw. Never seen one like it, very cool.
I think it's technically a reciprocating hacksaw.
@@thewolfin I think it's technically a saw with motor and it go brrrrr
@@thewolfin there was also a bandsaw , he used it for the wooden strip.....
It's called a Donkey saw and as others have said, not a bandsaw
@@kantpredict no he's talking about the bandsaw... Not the donkey saw
Pianists: It's still not a piano. . .
The Title: I said it's a *FREAKING* piano.
Pianists: but. . .
The Title: *D I D I S T U T T E R .*
Hey, I have this exact piano. And I also added a piezo pickup, jack, and knob to it. Small world.
The end results
Was like a brand new Jack Stauber song but like if he was not in drugs
My favorite part is how you're an absolute mad lad, but you still respect hearing and eye protection in the shop. 👍👌
9:09 the two types of chords, "dunk" and "dink"
That definitely doesn't sound like a piano, but it definitely sounds real nice in a weird sort of way.
So you have a drill but instead of a circular saw you have that behemoth
Naturally! XD
I was like why doesn't he just get a handheld bandsaw, but i respect the drip of that big boy.
imagine some dude comes over and you just say „wait hold up lemme tune my piano real quick,“ and you start twisting pegs
I really enjoyed watching the process with no speaking on top, I like that u r always up for trying new things. and great result with those 2 chords. Very creative simple outcome.
All those tuners totally cracked me up ... but what a cool solution.
I'd definitely like to hear what guitar strings would do.
It kind of sounds like a steel drum. And that singing bit at the end is some unreleased strangely optimistic sounding Gorillaz track.
That's what i was thinking, gave me big 2D vibes
What I love about this video Maggie, is the style the first half was filmed. I've been watching restoration videos again the last month or two (which I was really into a year ago [my mechanics btw; the gold standard of restoration vids - Swiss 😉]) and I got those style of vibes in the first part. No talking. No intro. Just close-in camera shots of you working. This was a really cool video.
You're always INCREDIBLY creative and off-the-cuff, but this was really cool & fun. I little switch-up for that first half until we hear "hi'im the Magpie" 🤘
Well done! 👏👏👏👏👏
1:56 what a beast of a --bandsaw-- reciprocating hacksaw.
you mean back and fourth toothy knife
Aka the Donkey Saw
A metal machine with a thin piece of spikey metal mover back and fourth machine
@@koreaface well done
dont think the nylon strings would work , thin guitar strings however .....
you might need to make a top nut so the strings will stay in front of the hammers and might not buzz so bad
could alsso take the rear wall off the piano and make it about 50 cm longer so you got some length in the strings , if you use a thick piece of hardwood it might sound even better and can handle the tension
Reminds me of handbells. Or muted cathedral bells.
Have you ever played handbells, Simon?
You need several people.
This was a very satisfying video.
Not actually true. You only need several arms. I stole a couple to do it alone
@@christiancasaverdepertica1802 You don't need a lot of arms, just a lot of hands. Carl.
not true, you can use robots!
Most musicians have a few mikes - maybe you can use those
Vertically staggering the tuning pegs, like you see on an actual piano, might give you enough room to do the black keys. It might also be interesting to extend the back board up higher and get more length out of the strings.
this is the quietest video you've ever made i think
Tuning pegs on bottom for white keys and on top for black keys. Find a way to attach strings to the pipe without doubling them over.
I love the creativity and ingenuity you put into this entire musical presentation. I also love the voice accompaniments, it suits this piece really well.
With that bass, it reminds me of 90's DOS games.
Should be possible to add the black keys by placing pegs either underneath or bellow the pegs you already have, and as others have mentioned, would be awsome to hear this thing with other string types eventually.
Keep showing the world what real creativity is, Simon. I always enjoy your videos, and I love your whimsical approach to creating. It's a constant reminder to myself to "just do it" rather then spend my life contemplating if a thing is a good idea or not. :D
So glad you didn't make this with accelerated speed and add club music to it. So real and awesome job too!!
You could maybe fit a small wheels or bushings at the top where the tuning pegs are now, then place the actual pegs lower down on the back of the instrument. Then you could off set them ( high mid low, high mid low)so you can group them tighter.
Ah, the problem you'd run into with that is hitting the string on either end of the bushing. If you were set on keeping the tuning keys from the uke, I'd maybe run the ends to the outside and have an additional assemply for the keys to be attached. Then you could do a couple rows and have the keys alternate which row.
Alternatively, you could use the tuning pegs and pins like on a lap harp (zither), and tune each end of the string.
The moment he started singing, I burst into tears! He has such a beautiful singing voice!😊
a relaxing video from magpie is something I was not expecting
2 bars, tuning heads top and bottom, guitar strings. I love this ❤️
"I upgraded the portal gun, and now it's a real gun"
When mom doesn't want to buy you piano, but you still want one:
I love these Ol'toy pianos brings me joy to see people playing like we were all back in grade school
Oh worm! The magpie is doing this so i dont have to find out what its like myself!
Many issues, for sure.
Hey, Simon, the reason you don't have enough room is because you're not using tuning pins!
If you want to be able to support stronger strings and be able to incorporate all of your strings you'll want to use tuning pins from pianos. You can buy them online. For installation you have to drill a hole slightly smaller than the pins, so when you drive the pin into the wooden pinblock the friction prevents them from rotating unless turned with a tuning lever. Another block at the bottom with hitch pins would help as well!
Also, if you want to improve the sound you need two bridges. One bridge is near the hitch pins, and the other is near the tuning pins. These bridges help with both alignment and sound.
I'd recommend just googling "piano pin block" and checking the images. It'll give you a good idea of what a piano's pin block looks like.
I feel like it would maybe benefit from having a bridge, also feel like you could easily mount more tuning pegs under and between the top ones, and actually you could even drill extra holes in the tuning pegs so you could have clusters of strings like in a piano (sort of) and the bridge would keep them all at the right height (I am assuming)
The Music was so well-made that the 3d face in the background melted.
First off: love your ink
Secondly: been seeing a lot of UA-camrs mess with kiddie pianos.
Thirdly: I'm going to have to watch more of your content.
This would be perfect for some horror movie sounds and soundtracks
Indeed, this has potential and the title of the track should be called 'Scandinavian Original'...
Next up try to take an old piano and a vibraphone and make a fully functional keyboard controlled vibraphone (or in a more realistic version, take the piano strings out of the tiny piano and replace them with a toy xylophone).
Magpie, please work on a sample pack of this. 😃
7:13 for result
It sounds like some weird chime and bell set, like it sounds like something you'd hear at 12 o'clock in a small rural village
Got a real Jack Stauber feel from the vocals
Staggered tuning pegs so u can put them closer together like a zigzag pattern 😉
He is this Dude everybody finds strange BUT THEN YOU SEE WHAT HE HAS AT HOME
Sounds like some twisted Rug Rats music. Great job!
Straight up grandfather clock, sounds calming
This is one of your tracks that I actually love. Great job man.
Longest intro ever, quite relaxing. I like the sound of it in a way, I feel like this has potential and can be experimented with
When he started using that band saw, I just started laughing, I’ve never seen one that old, it’s very cool
Does Simon live in a warehouse? The place looks really cool.
Just add some Primitive Technology-turned-Magpie captions and this video would be perfect.
I really like to see you in your workshop. New edit feels good man, cool saw aswell
the whole video is a really great sample pack lots of dope metal macine sounds
just download the video with a video to mp3 converter and chop the sounds you like in you daw then put them in a folder and you have greatet your own dope sample pack
Omg, where did you find those Piano strings? The bottom of the ocean. I think you would benefit from smaller gauge strings will work better, you won’t need to get so much tension on it to get a playable note.
Really loved this format! Awesome magpie content
i love the music at the end. it sounds very much like scandinavian indie music lol. reminds me of like fm belfast or múm or something
I've never seen a reciprocating saw like that before. Seems a lot more complicated than a band saw, but a lot more fun to watch.
To cover the black keys, might need to take the plastic handle part off the tuning pegs. Then use a rotary tool to grind in a slot on the post where the handle was to turn the pegs with a flat-tip screwdriver. Then diagonally stagger the tuning peg placement to get them all to fit. Seems like that might work if given another go.
Add more reverb and this is an excellent “How to make Sigúr Ros song tutorial” 👌🏼 ✌🏼 🧙♂️
Its interesting to watch a toy piano get destroyed and reassembled in this way
I would love to see it with nylon strings! I love the song ! :D
Great vid!! I love how when ur drilling the close captions say [music] lol
I will build one of these too. But will put in an oak plank at the top and use common zither pins and zither wire (or common music wire). It should sound like the top octave of a real piano.
Perhaps make a zig-zag pattern where a second row of tuning pegs is placed below the first one and offset in-between, so that you effectively reduce the distance by half without the second row getting in the way of the first. Then, consider grouping it so that up-down-up-down-up is white-black-white-black-white for the C thru E keys, and that down-up-down-up-down-up-down is white-black-white-black-white-black-white for the F thru B keys, etc. Hard to picture by reading it, but if you try this method, you will get the gist of it.
you should try using a combination of guitar and bass strings so each note is not sharing a string with another string and so it will tune better. you can get the the black keys in there if you add another row of tuners below and offset from the top ones, just use tuners that don't have perpendicular pegs or cut out a hole for the knobs so you have space to tune them.
An ever better idea- a grand piano that sounds like a toy piano
this proves you can make something good out of something awful, its nice.
Linus! It's me, Charles! Hey, remember Lucy, Marcie, Patty, Snoopy, Tweety, that teacher that sounded like a trombone, the red headed girl, Pig Pen, that whole gang? Wow, it's been so long! I like what you're doing with music these days! No, I love it! Keep it up!
C. BROWN
Would have been cool to leave the tines on and add a set of resonating strings
That’s a really good idea. I hope he sees this
Maybe just add small springs to the tines? That can be put straight on it. So limited space in there for having both strings and tines. I have a few other toy pianos so I can try stuff 😊
@@SimonTheMagpie you can just build a tiny harp on the back
@@bacicinvatteneaca That's kind of what he did.
Initially thought this was the making of Maid Dragon OST, never knew they used a toy piano for it.
Absolutely amazing. I have a vintage toy piano with steel strings and real piano like tuners, but yours it's cooler. Thank you for sharing this
I like how you go straight to disassembling it after playing
It's cool as hell that you know how to make stuff like this
nice stuff a good break from regular format
I gotta say, those are some cool-looking pants around the 1:55 mark. Good job with the stringing, too!
The kind of angelic church experimental music we all didn't know we even liked, but that we all love
Like an athem to a religion of empathy, kindness and just being, maybe even in love; truly beautiful
I am some grateful that there is no talk in the video, sometimes one just wants to watch
Yeah bo!! I reckon guitar strings. The ball end would allow them to be captive in that nice little bar that's been drilled and then tuned independently. There's a comment below about offsetting some more pegs for more strings? that could work, a second row of them below, as long as they're higher than the hammers it'd still work. They'd have a different timbre though, but that could be cool!
You could fit more pegs if you put some tuners above or below each other. It would sound better with longer strings so if you added a board to extend the back of the piano you would have plenty of of room for tuners stacked over each other and the strings could be longer and you would get more sustain.
Maybe it's possible to add some offset tuning pegs above, mounted on another piece of wood? Maybe with an air gap below for the tuning pegs below to still be able to ritate.
i simply love this project. I think if you have a full internal metal frame and staggered your pegs so you could have more strings per key and higher tension it would sound even better. that said i think this is a brilliant little project well worth elaborating on
the way the strings are setup, the two connected strings will try to reach the same pitch, because one side is pulling more tension on the string than the other side. I think it would be neat to see this with some violin/viola strings (The end of the string would fit your mechanism a little better) or with ukulele strings, because it might give a better tone with a shorter length. Not sure.
Fantastic!
9:30 he turned into Dr. Doofenshmirtz there for a few seconds
When it cut to the 1 tuning key i lost it. I dunno what it was but seeing that by itself just made me laugh like a psychopath lol
very cool sound. a word of caution: that thin lil piece of wood was not made for all that tension. it WILL warp and split and crack and EXPLODE if you leave it that way.
Good music. Your voice reminds me of the singer from Blur in this video.
You could do a second "layer" of string pegs in front/behind/maybe below for the black keys!
8:24 the soundtrack of that part of an horror game that gives you the feels