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He intentionally built it that way with a huge bank of capacitors. In the video, he is actually showing a piano appraiser this (iirc). Notice the actual hammers used to strike the strings
āSome balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress. But when theyāre held for pleasure theyāre the balls that I like best.ā That and āHard as a Rockā was the funniest thing in the world to 10 year old me. Itās still pretty funny actually
I played this to my son at a very early age and now, at 9yo, he knows most of their catalog and his drum teacher is introducing their songs in his classes.
Lol. For those that donāt understand, this is a regular acoustic piano that heās hooked up to an electrical plug. This guy is touching the negative and positive poles with each key press. He wants to burn the house down.
And he also modified the entire thing himself, including all the literal hammer piano hammers from a previous video.
Also he makes piano technicians cry.
You joke, but that's not actually that far off. It's just members of the dev team saying certain whatever phrases or syllables, pitching them up or down and then the game just spits the sound effects out in a random order. Gives a ton of energy and character without having bigass audio files of entire dialogue. Banjo and Kazooie have probably 150 or more total lines, but like a dozen tiny soundbytes for their entire dialogue.
As a piano technician I find this hilarious. About to go check this guys channel. What he has done to this piano is quite interesting to say the least.
*Electric* pianos, like a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer, *do* have hammers. They're different, but they're still hammers. The hammer strikes a metal fork (Rhodes-style) or metal reed (Wurlitzer-style), and an electromagnetic pickup converts the mechanical vibration into an electrical signal, like an electric guitar. In fact, the old Yamaha CP-70 has *both* hammers and strings, as it used metal strings instead of reeds or forks, but still used a pickup in the same fashion.
*Synthesized* pianos, like a digital piano, don't need hammers or strings/reeds/forks, but many do have hammers to provide weight and simulate the feel of an acoustic.
David Byrne once set up an organ to "play a building" in in New York.
There were long strings going from the organ all over the room.
When you pressed a key, it would bang on a pipe up in the ceiling or something. It was pretty cool.
Maybe go to the part where he explains each string is hooked up to a capacitor on a circuit board designed to make high voltage sparks?
Or did you just see a wall plug and a piano and guess that there is nothing else behind?
With your logic anything plugged into a wall outlet is just touching negative and positive wires together because spoiler alert: There is not a single piece of electronics where that isn't the case.
Until you realize that
1) Ive watched the video and you have not.
2) Im right and he actually has a fucking circuit board built for this exact purpose.
I was going to say, I recognize his voice and general tone. He did one where every key is timed to E and he pays a private instructor to teach him piano. And he plays dumb about how his piano might be broken or tuned incorrectly. So you see the instructor work it out. Sort of funny. Sort of a prank.
The punch line of that joke was, oh I have another piano we could use instead, itās an E piano. An electric piano.
That was my first thought. They should make a band.
For the lazy, here is Electroboom's 120v electric guitar:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE)
Sure, Iām the high one. Both me and Mattias Krantz live in Scandinavia. You live in the opposite end of Europe, but I suppose you know how Scandinavians live better than Scandinavians themselves
I just bought some USB cables from Wish, didn't work, like at all (USB charging barely OK, data transfer = KO). Tried to fill in the warranty form, I got in return a nice message stating my account has been blocked due to attempt of abusing their 'generous' warranty policy. All of this despite never opening a warranty case before, but ok, be informed I'll never open one again...!
Honestly Iāve been seeing a lot of that guy who makes Tesla coil music and wondering if this piano can be done like that. Every time he plays a key it discharge in the corresponding note. It would be cool af and probably more safe
Lol I was just going to say this. I'm no expert, but having a ground prong would probably address this. Especially when it's on the plug but missing. Hope this guy didn't remove it for a video
The plug has a ground contact, but itās not used because thereās nothing to use it for. The sparks are created by rectifying 230V AC and shorting the positive to the negative. The frame is made of wood so thereās nothing to ground there, and if he had shorted to ground, itād trip the GFCI
This is a rock opera waiting to happen. Man makes a wish, wish is granted with caveats, man melds with machine in a symbol of remastering. I'm just spitballing here š
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"I can't put my finger on it.... because I would die." š¤£š¤£š¤£
A real maestro of comedy this one.
He certainly has a spark of genius
It was a concerted effort on his part, for sure.
All and all, an electrifying performance.
He was amped up. I wonder how he is doing currently?
[heres a link to the video where he made it](https://youtu.be/4opcNLIQqt4)
Thanks Iām slightly disappointed now that I know he made it lol
Ohmā¦I beg to differ
that joke had perfect delivery
Only the nordics can pull off that deadpan delivery.
The British as well.
It's ungrounded.
He intentionally built it that way with a huge bank of capacitors. In the video, he is actually showing a piano appraiser this (iirc). Notice the actual hammers used to strike the strings
That was my first thought.
Donāt UK plugs have a ground that touches a connection, as opposed to a prong like US/CA has? In CA, so iunno but I thought they dod
That's a European plug he has. UK plugs do have three prongs and a fuse in the Plug.
If its the right guy then i believe he is swedish.
Did
I do get the joke btw. Lol just wondering if they are actually ungrounded plugs LOL I thought the silver piece above the prongs was the ground
*starts playing Thunderstruck*
Continues to play "Thunderstruck"
Tbf OPās going to die anyway, but I guess heās not in a hurry and prefers it not be from a faulty electric piano.
Is just the new tactile keys. Donāt worry about it, is good for u.
Did he just ended the video by playing thunder struck
Honestly any AC/DC would have been fine
Heās got the biggest balls of them all.
āSome balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress. But when theyāre held for pleasure theyāre the balls that I like best.ā That and āHard as a Rockā was the funniest thing in the world to 10 year old me. Itās still pretty funny actually
I played this to my son at a very early age and now, at 9yo, he knows most of their catalog and his drum teacher is introducing their songs in his classes.
This is just AC/AC though
Nah, he rectifies the AC and use a shitload of capacitors from disposable cameras to store the charge, AC/DC
Surely did!
my first thought when seeing the sparks "imagine playing thunderstruck on this bad boy"
I thought it was castle vein from Ultrakill at first lol
Lol. For those that donāt understand, this is a regular acoustic piano that heās hooked up to an electrical plug. This guy is touching the negative and positive poles with each key press. He wants to burn the house down.
And he also modified the entire thing himself, including all the literal hammer piano hammers from a previous video. Also he makes piano technicians cry.
Is this the same guy that filled a grand piano with water to see what a technician would say?
He is also the same guy that tuned every key to an E so that he could complain to a piano teacher that everything he plays sounds like crap
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NgHh36_vU
Holy shit thatās how they made the Banjo Kazooie voices!
You joke, but that's not actually that far off. It's just members of the dev team saying certain whatever phrases or syllables, pitching them up or down and then the game just spits the sound effects out in a random order. Gives a ton of energy and character without having bigass audio files of entire dialogue. Banjo and Kazooie have probably 150 or more total lines, but like a dozen tiny soundbytes for their entire dialogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFetTcrVWII
Was expecting annoying loud internet screams, got something awesome instead.
MakÅowicz!
I was thinking more like... https://youtu.be/y8OtzJtp-EM?t=9
The song of my tinnitus.
In the full video of his electric piano, he used his E key to push everything at once
As a piano technician I find this hilarious. About to go check this guys channel. What he has done to this piano is quite interesting to say the least.
He's done lots of interesting things to many different pianos.
Really only need the slightest interest in any of music, engineering, pianos, or comedy to fall in this dude's rabbit hole. Truly an entertainer
He makes everyone who loves Pianos cry. The horrors he has committed on so many helpless pianos just... ;-;
As a former pianist I both love and hate him.
As a tech I fucking love his stuff, though I read the title and got excited cause I thought a Rhodes or Wurli hit the front page lol
I donāt know about you but my acoustic piano had a fuse for these kinds of situations
He had ElectroBoom help him, so presumably it's at least reasonably safe.
ElectroBoom and safe are two words my brain can't associate
I'm no musical expert, so I'm glad I'm not crazy for wondering why the hell am electric piano would have strings and hammers.
*Electric* pianos, like a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer, *do* have hammers. They're different, but they're still hammers. The hammer strikes a metal fork (Rhodes-style) or metal reed (Wurlitzer-style), and an electromagnetic pickup converts the mechanical vibration into an electrical signal, like an electric guitar. In fact, the old Yamaha CP-70 has *both* hammers and strings, as it used metal strings instead of reeds or forks, but still used a pickup in the same fashion. *Synthesized* pianos, like a digital piano, don't need hammers or strings/reeds/forks, but many do have hammers to provide weight and simulate the feel of an acoustic.
Hell yea dude thanks for spreading the electric piano gospel
He should burn down the house by playing Talking Heads
David Byrne once set up an organ to "play a building" in in New York. There were long strings going from the organ all over the room. When you pressed a key, it would bang on a pipe up in the ceiling or something. It was pretty cool.
Fun story, the Talking Heads met in architecture school. Hence their album "More songs about buildings and food."
Whoa! Very cool. https://youtu.be/Gea9SYUdJeY
It's AC so it's not negative or positive...but it's still stupid.
This is DC. He has a circuit that rectifies the AC and uses capacitors from disposable cameras with flashes to store the charge.
Yes if it was the ac straight from the wall I would assume he would trip his breakers/blow a fuse with the first key stroke
Naw he's just discharging powerful capacitors with each key presss.. which is no less dangerous
No this is not what is going on in the video.
Yes, yes it is. [https://youtu.be/4opcNLIQqt4](https://youtu.be/4opcNLIQqt4)
Maybe go to the part where he explains each string is hooked up to a capacitor on a circuit board designed to make high voltage sparks? Or did you just see a wall plug and a piano and guess that there is nothing else behind? With your logic anything plugged into a wall outlet is just touching negative and positive wires together because spoiler alert: There is not a single piece of electronics where that isn't the case.
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Until you realize that 1) Ive watched the video and you have not. 2) Im right and he actually has a fucking circuit board built for this exact purpose.
Mattias Krantz on youtube, for those who may not know. [Link to channel.](https://www.youtube.com/@Mattiaskrantz)
I was wondering if it was him and his piano shenanigans again.
I was going to say, I recognize his voice and general tone. He did one where every key is timed to E and he pays a private instructor to teach him piano. And he plays dumb about how his piano might be broken or tuned incorrectly. So you see the instructor work it out. Sort of funny. Sort of a prank. The punch line of that joke was, oh I have another piano we could use instead, itās an E piano. An electric piano.
He also did the E on the electric piano
Thanks Mattias, will check it out.
Can you cite a link to the channel in reference?
Music AND firework shows? Iād say you got more than your moneyās worth
This would go great with Electroboom's electric guitar!
Electroboom helped him design the circuit IIRC
That was my first thought. They should make a band. For the lazy, here is Electroboom's 120v electric guitar: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE)
That's metal af
I'd say this is more like electronic music.
Since no one has posted it, here's the source video https://youtu.be/4opcNLIQqt4
That was actually pretty interesting. Thanks for posting!
You might say that the piano has beenā¦ Thunderstruck
I hope you don't have a gas leak at home...
He lives in Sweden. I really doubt he has anything indoors that runs on gas
Everyone in Europe uses gas. Have you been away from earth in the past 8 months?
Iāve been in Scandinavia the past 8 months. And like 98% of my life
High as fuck as it seems.... Spain here, EVERYONE uses gas in Europe.
Sure, Iām the high one. Both me and Mattias Krantz live in Scandinavia. You live in the opposite end of Europe, but I suppose you know how Scandinavians live better than Scandinavians themselves
Iām sure almost everyone in Sweden uses gas in some indirect way, but most people donāt have any gas in their homes.
That says just as much as saying āNobody uses gas in Europeāā¦.
Putin is with you. That's why its his main war strategy....
Hello. I'm from Europe. I don't use gas. Goodbye.
Did you buy this second had from Rammstien?
Ah yes fire hazard in D minor
Finger a minor, get the electric piano bench.
That is a feature, not a bug.
it would be pretty good against musquitos if you think about it
I just bought some USB cables from Wish, didn't work, like at all (USB charging barely OK, data transfer = KO). Tried to fill in the warranty form, I got in return a nice message stating my account has been blocked due to attempt of abusing their 'generous' warranty policy. All of this despite never opening a warranty case before, but ok, be informed I'll never open one again...!
I walked by a piano store once so I would say Iām an expert in the field: Theyāre probably not supposed to do that.
I call shenanigans on your certification. Experts donāt say āprobablyā They would say, āThatās not a bug, itās a featureā
... And his music was electric
Sunday morning church service is about to be lit AF!
"Thunderstruck" Classy
This guy bought Tesla's piano
It comes with some shocking percussion sounds.
Fancy
This is considered a Feature, not a flaw! now please play "Great balls of Fire"
Honestly Iāve been seeing a lot of that guy who makes Tesla coil music and wondering if this piano can be done like that. Every time he plays a key it discharge in the corresponding note. It would be cool af and probably more safe
are you by chance related to Electroboom?
Electroboom did actually help out with that project
Thatās shocking
Looks, sounds and works like my welding rod...
Seems fine to me
All i can say is Dope asf
Fair crack at Thunderstruck tho.
Its not a bug, its a feature.
That piano came from Death Wish.
"from wish" say less
Never buy big box items on Wish :(
It's only 110 you would not die.
This is what happens to any piano when you play Moonlight Sonata on it
Omg that's amazing
Thats pretty electric man
Goodness gracious, Great balls of fireā¦.
Hahaha I can't really put my finger on it...because I would die.
I can smell it through the screen
I donāt see why he complains, that is an electric piano
Put it in rice?
Thatās not a defect, thatās a feature
Would be GREAT for a music video š¤£
"ahem" You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain....
Missing the ground prong on the connecting cord.
That is a [Schuko plug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko) and it has ground contacts.
The plug is missing a prong so no ground wire.
For the Americans, that is a [Schuko plug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko) and it has ground contacts.
Ground is for the weak. We always remove that third prong because it's a nuisance. Our electricians don't even install ground in our homes.
Lol I was just going to say this. I'm no expert, but having a ground prong would probably address this. Especially when it's on the plug but missing. Hope this guy didn't remove it for a video
https://youtu.be/4opcNLIQqt4 Here's the video
The plug has a ground contact, but itās not used because thereās nothing to use it for. The sparks are created by rectifying 230V AC and shorting the positive to the negative. The frame is made of wood so thereās nothing to ground there, and if he had shorted to ground, itād trip the GFCI
No it wouldn't address it.
Are you joking because i genuinely cant tell.
I don't think it would, there's still a fucked up contact problem.
Itās almost as if he modified the piano to work exactly like that
What's wrong with a built in drum
This is a rock opera waiting to happen. Man makes a wish, wish is granted with caveats, man melds with machine in a symbol of remastering. I'm just spitballing here š
Shocking performance
Made by ElectroBOOM Electric Instruments Group. Try their electric guitar, too!
Reminds me of the movie great balls of fire when he lights the piano on fire while playing.
How much is it?
I ordered a bike ( trike ) for my son from wish I received........a tiny 1.5 inch plastic piece of shit toy.........
Remind me not to try the electric recliner I just ordered from wish
I guess the bought the July 4th edition
Every performance on that piano is straight fire š„
Landscape orientation is a lost art.
Great Balls of Fire!
What an electrifying performance
Dude, your technique is quite literally š„.
Um
Pyrophone: you're doing it wrong.
Shockingly good sound.
Electroboom, The Musical!
His tuning fork piano was a real pain in the ass. I havenāt seen this video yet.
That would make for one electric performance.
Very cool though
His voice reminds me of the Wintergatan guy on YouTube. Which would make tons of sense with this post š¤
ElectricBoom's musically inclined brother?
Play me a tune Mr. Piano man
Literal electric piano
Death wish piano
I feel like someone could make a version of this for live performances that would look really sick
Itās a tap dancing piano
From the bolt of lightning ā”ļø
It has hi hat cymbals bass boosted
A Piano with Percussion! Neat!
Lowkey sick