I PUT FISHING LINE ON MY PIANO and You Won’t Believe What it Sounds Like
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As an audio engineer, I enjoyed this. As a pianist, I’m crying
knowing that these pianos are handcrafted and that this specific model could be as old as the early 1900's, yeah, I feel you.
As a pianist, this hurt very much to watch
Agreed 100%!! Not to mention that I would not want to spend the money for a stint like that.
@@thelostzelda Good thing that new strings can be installed. I like crazy experiments that show why things are built the way they are and the item can be returned to how it was before.
@@docgiggles130 not crying about him replacing the strings. More about him playing River Flows in You 2 times in this video only.
You should try piano strings on a bass
OMG unacceptable
Davie would be disgraced
Pretty sure Simon the magpie already did
Wouldn't work, piano strings require too much tension for that to work
i like it
This guys patience is beyond our understanding
It is
@@phoenixshukshina3619 not jk
there are mental institutes full of people that are "beyond our understanding"
He's a swede. Waiting is a sport here.
@@DavidMarsden so one , who is waiting the fastest, wins?
The "listen with headphones" part (10:14) actually sounds incredible. Idk how different it sounds from original but the timbre of the medium/low notes sounds almost "guitar-y/cello-y" (if that makes any sense) while at the same time having other components to it that makes this sound otherworldly (to me at least). Props to you for choosing a piece the went well with it (and if you didn't then it was still incredible). It makes me want to learn the piano just to replicate the experience, seriously.
Listening on my calibrated K240s and damn, yeah that sounds great.
I don't have headphones
Call the same piano technician and tell him there is something wrong with your new piano 😂
Ha! Haha!
Hahaha
I’ve sent him a text message just to warn him not to watch my latest video. He had not responded yet😅 Any ideas on what I should tell him? Since he will know something is up I’m thinking of telling him I’ve done something to the piano, but not what it is.
But once he sees it. What should I ask him, what he thinks? Maybe if he can try playing something? I dunno you are the smart ones😄
@@Mattiaskrantz go fishing with the piano of course 🤷♂️
If he does respond, dudes basically your collab buddy
But 80 km seems to be a bit too far
This dude deserves more credit for the amount of time and money and editing and everything he puts into these videos
Love you🙏🙏🙏
And spending a new piano
I often wonder about purists. Artists whose effort supersedes the rest. The one who goes above and beyond. Ultimately, I always do want the result to match the effort. Unfortunately the concept may have been borne out of wonderful inspiration but knowing that you are downgrading your materials, you cannot expect a superior result. And sure enough, the result was awful. Awful music. So does the art lie in the conception? The execution? Or the result. Sorry, despite the labor, the concept to end result was a failure waiting to happen. Minus 2 out of 10. Plus 2 for effort.
@@MaureenKo1 what's this bruh
Tes
Without headphones: Wtf that just sounds like a regular piano
With headphones: Sounds like an instrument stolen off the top of Mount Olympus. Beautiful. Heavenly.
Great, now I need to steal my brother's equipment from their hell-born man cave just to hear the voice of God himself.
I think someone copied your comment and replied under mine. Weird.
@@gagarensesess no
@@TheAutisticFrog Do you know about CZcams bots? They're everywhere! Copying comments and replying to random people.
It sounds exactly like a harp. It's a keyed harp.
I really love the medium-bass strings sound, how it resonates, how soft it sounds. It's really beautiful
Put rubber bands on it. It sounds like an awful idea, but it actually is.
Sounds fun😉
Good luck tuning it lol
@@Mattiaskrantz It won't be at least partwise.
YES
@@Mattiaskrantz pls no the fishing line sounds good and it hurts me inside
As someone that has played a nylon string guitar, I can tell you that keeping it tuned with fresh stings is a constant issue. That material will just keep stretching for the first 3 weeks. It's safer to tune it once a day, to give the strings time to stretch without breaking. Also, that first week, the strings will stay tuned for less than 50 minutes.
Also true of steel strings, but less dramatic. (I play both.)
My guitar have steel string on E A D and nylon on G B e
And i can say that the G B e string go out of tune much much faster
Damn never knew that
Always played with steel strings only
I cried when you started cutting all the wires on that piano. They sounded really quite good for something bought randomly online. It had a really great sound.
I hope you have restrung it with regular piano wires now. It deserves to be used and loved.
As a pianist.
I think something in me just died watching you cut the strings of that piano
"A small price to pay for salvation"
you should really 💀
Same..
I know, what a waste of good spring steel.
I actually think the sound of the stings themselves is very nice.
Never heard a piano sound this mellow before.
especially the bass notes
When removing strings from a piano (especially a grand) you should stagger their removal (alternating from low to high and every other string) to keep the weight distribution even the entire time (as opposed to starting on one end and going down the line). Otherwise, you can literally snap the soundboard. Likewise, restringing a piano (with actual piano wire) should be done alternating sides, etc. Not doing so can be devastating as well as dangerous. Great video though! :-)
Spoken like a piano tuner.
Same applies to tightening bolts in a line. Start from the middle then alternate between the two sides.
Same with really any string instrument.
Restringing doesn’t particularly matter if you’re not loading them right away.
yeah... until you realized that there's a ton of these comments....
It's been 6 months since you did this video, and I just happened upon your channel. I'm impressed with you, with your innovation, your ingenuity, and sheer perseverance (my mom used to call it "stick-to-it-tiveness." Say it fast to get the humor. The sound on the second day sounded like an old honky-tonk piano. Not pleasant, but recognizable in a historical sense. You get a 10/10.
It sounds like a slightly off harp. I like it
this guy: i have an idea
his piano: oh god please no
this guy: I have an idea
His piano: *cries
Some random guy from CZcams comments: “hey try this -insert absurd request-“
His piano: “Kill me now”
hahah yep
Those poor pianos. Lol
Fishing line on a musical instrument gives a whole new perspective on playing SCALES.
I bet he gets good bass too.
Nice
Nice pun! I got hooked.
He did it just for the halibut.
Pun detected
Every time a string breaks during tuning, my heart breaks for you
Oh, man, it hurts to watch him cut all those strings...that piano is gorgeous 😭
Agreed!!!
There's a lot of free piano out there now, you can get one and trash it.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the hard work that he did to create this video
Love you🙏🙏🙏
*insert moment
yeahh… i subscribed because as a broke 15 yr old thats all i can give
@@Mattiaskrantz try cable wire 😂
By the end of quarantine this dude's gonna have 70 pianos, all equipped with different types of strings
Not just pianos; it's several string instruments, a few fishing rods, and a snare drum with all the wrong strings.
88 pianos, one for each key
@Fabian Tarantino
We need to put this guy on ending it and it will!
He is one determined fellow!
Putting people on unnecessary house arrest for nothing is awesome! Woo hoo!
He's in Sweden. There is no quarantine. Well, there are exceptions. However the average person is not quarantined in Sweden.
Send a video of this to the fishing line companies. They might send you some free line or help you find a stronger line that is is small enough to work for you. I thank it's beautiful when it is in tune. Good Job!!
From what I gather, fishing line is the VHS of piano strings: you're amazed that it works *at first,* but you're bogged down by its unrealiability.
My name is Ian and I want you to put sewing thread on a piano
Hello. My name is Jarmila. I am Ian’s mom. He is a 8 year old boy who loves your Chanel! He wrote you from my account. I just wanted to thank you for your videos, we all at home love seeing them! I can’t wait to see you work on a sewing thread piano. I think it might to be possible to install sewing threads in a piano, but if it is even, you would be the one making it possible! Thank you!
Guys when he puts piano strings on his piano its gonna be insane
Hahaha
If you watched the video, you can see that he had the piano strings on it...
@@My_AviationChannel it seems to me that the joke went over your head as fast as Mattias cut the real strings off
@@My_AviationChannel there’s always one person like you, isn’t there
@@UKDarkPredator I didn't miss the joke, i'm just saying,
Replace the piano hammers with literal hammers.
I like that idea, though actual hammers might be too bulky and heavy to work. Maybe the rubber mallets doctors use to test reflexes?
@@matthewbeland8443 That idea is even better than the original
@@matthewbeland8443 maybe if its a smaller one? not a full sized one.
an engraving/jewlers hammer is pretty small but im not sure its an affordable project or even doable haha
THONK
this sounds so heavenly, like a cross between a piano and a harp.
It’s fairly quiet but I actually really like that you can hear the sounds of the piano’s inner workings, it doesn’t stay in tune very well which is clear, but for the brief time it worked properly it was beautiful, and it’s impermanence is part of what makes it beautiful
Wtf only 2k views in 1 hour imma share it to hell dude
Pp hard
@@Mattiaskrantz :')
what...i click on new video????
😂
My channel is jealous. LOL
God damn friends you are subscribing like crazy!! Thank you! I’m answering comments untill my fingers bleed🎉🎉😹 Let me know if you subscribed!🙏
You have dedication to make these videos
I will wait for his presence🙏
please tell me what the song is called at the end of the video. thank you!!!!!
I love you
I love the Davie 504 painting.
Theres a big comment where they want piano strings on a Bass, think thats y he has it lmao
That actually sounds really good! I like the sound when the piano is tuned! Have you considered trying to just glue some metal on to the hammers? I feel like the sound of the hammer hitting the strings is kind of disturbing. So maby if the hammer has a harder density it will sound better? Like a glockenspiel with metal sticks?
Next episode: replacing piano strings with dental floss
That has to be the grand finale when he has like 200 different pianos with different type of strings =)
George Uta
WHERE IS HE GONNA FIT 200 PIANOS ?
@@cezarcatalin1406 Good question
Moving to Montana soon , gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Mental floss
Dude, im glad i do not live nearby and theres no chance you call me to your house to tune it :D
I will just give you a little tip: im not sure if you did that or no, im too lazy to check. You can actually just tune it one semitone lower. It will be more stable. Also, do not worry about octave 7. Even with normal strings its pain to tune properly and some old pianos just cant produce tune in that area anyway. Same goes for the other end in the bass. One more thing. When you cliped all the strings off, you basicly released about 22 tons of pull/pressure. Few days after that the cast iron plate was still adjusting to the massive change. It was working against you tuning the piano. Not to mention some of the fishing lines you used just wasnt strong enought. And you need someone to show you how to properly wind up string on the tuning pin. And get some proper equipment if you ever plan to repeat this atrocity.
Haha...please read this Mattiaz
Wow you really know your shit!
@@genewitch He clearly said it was a different piano.
the low sub rate is actually a sign that the youtube algorithm loves you....
What’s that supposed to mean?
@@crosspix6486 lots of people see his videos and are interested with it but because most people only watch and don't sub, his stats has very low percentage of people who are actually subbed
I love how honest he is all the freaking time. it's wholesome.
This man will legit be doing a concert with spaghetti strings instead of piano strings out of spite
Maybe he should change things around...use piano wire for spaghetti. One impossible task deserves another. Bon appetit
@@BWolf00 😆
@@BWolf00 I like a bit of al dente, but that might be a bit tough to swallow.
i thought it would be funner using pipe organ tubes with the piano hammer system and air to get different vibration values out of the pipes. (( all sound is vibration ripples threw an atomic medium regardless if the material is air, brass, or wood.))
@@lordalchemist3430 why not just use PVC pipe, like the Blue Man Group did?
I can’t help but respect spending ludicrous amounts of time on arguably useless tasks for the sake of art. Well done my friend, well done. Subscribed!
Thank you friend🙏🙏🙏📈
What was the song you were playing?
As a fisherman and a musician I’m thoroughly impressed great job man
Subscribed for the amount of effort you put into something as a result of a comment left by a viewer. There was more effort in this 1 video than most peoples whole youtube careers. And your reaction to it being playable was more than worth the time spent!
This man's gonna have like 5 pianos with different strings on each soon
In 5 years he has a 1000 pianos with every imaginable string
True
I DON'T EVEN PLAY PIANO AND I AUDIBLY CRIED WHEN YOU CUT ALL THE WIRES
Those are called strings.
Right?!
;w; same
@@fatitankeris6327 Piano strings are made from piano wire, so same-ish.
damn right i hate to see the piano strings go like cutting off your new borns teeth, fingers and toes off i mean who does that?
I have a friend that has a small piano and he put NICKEL WOUND GUITAR STRINGS on it and it sounds absolutely amazing. It doesn't sound like your other video with all of the buzzing and weird noises. It sounds really really smooth and flat
Dude, the amount of patience that would take is much more than I have. I love the tone of pianos that use strings. I've only played piano a little though. It's guitar where my real experience is. Played around with bass and drums as well.
Great content.
Q: What does a fish and a piano have in common?
A: scales!
Dad, I told you to stop commenting on my favorite channels.
Good one, Andrew!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Q: What's the difference between a piano and a fish?
A: You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
@@hannahjones6563 Because it's a noun! :D
Eh, ya can say all instruments are like that.
Because it goes out of tune so quickly: is there some way one could record it as samples to play with that sound on an e-piano?
MAKE HIM SEE THIS
That's very good thinking.
Yos
The knocking from the keys is louder than the sound of the strings. As a piano tuner I'd say find another way. BTW, I had a sampler before I had a (quality) synthesizer and blew into a bottle, sampled it and played it on the keyboard. That was cool.
@@JdoubleU1222 That's a great idea. My electric razor used to be 440. I think that's the first A over middle C, if I remember. Crazy world.
This is some of the most high effort content I've ever seen. Subbed.
I loved the soft sound actually, I wish there is a solution to the quick getting out of tune issue. For the rest, sounds so nice
Should have used braided line. It stretches less and doesn’t deteriorate like fluorocarbon.
I was thinking the same thing. It will also be stronger
Or wire leader string..
It would have fixed most of the problems he encountered.
Now yah tell him ....piss funny🤣😂😁😀😎
I was thinking the same thing but I think Dacron might be a better option. While I seriously think all monofilament will end up doing the same thing it might have been better to use fluorocarbon or at least a top-quality mono or perhaps and definitely not Berkley.
When he revealed the soundboard I said to my wife "The soundboard looks great!" Then he revealed the top of it and we both went "Ahhhhh!" 😆
i actually really love the sounds it makes at first! it’s like harp a bit but rougher and natural (also spookier)
Me too it sounds so cool!!🙏
You can still procrastinate will feeling really good about yourself. Best line for commercial I ever heard!
Congratulations! Great experiment! I really admire your determination and ingenuity. I always loved the sound of Bach's music played on Lautenwerk (a keyboard instrument with lute sound).
I'm so glad that you ended up with that piano! It's gorgeous and deserved to be in the spotlight, even if it's currently got fishing line for strings. I've really enjoyed your instrumental experimentation. As far as pianos go, I think you're proving why piano strings are wire wrapped and made of steel. Anything else has a hard time coming with the pressure. I'm looking forward to your next experiment. I'm glad to have found someone as curious, adventurous, brave, and musically inclined as you are here on CZcams.
Thank you for this comment🙏🙏🙏❤️ Yes hahah it’s getting more and more apparent why piano strings are what they are. But damn It’s just so interesting to put things on a piano😂
This sounds like a modeling synthesizer trying to be a piano. Turns out that modeling synthesizers were just imitating an instrument that hadn’t yet been invented.
True
Or what if it sounded so bad that he had to record something with a modelling synthesizer to overdub it??
Not only does the piano look absolutely beautiful, but it also sounds amazing. Mad props to you Mattias for pulling this off.
I think it’s great what you do and how you follow your watchers suggestions and listen to feedback. I have subscribed and thumbed up your video because all the hours you spent deserves it. Thank you.
Alternate title: “How to violate your piano in 50 hours”
Yeah let alone play fuckin Yiruma flows inside you after that.
@@majortom4543 that song is so annoying it is only cool if a small child is playing it
CZcams: alright! I’ll put this in the recommend section in the next 10 year.
Thank you CZcams, very cool🙏
FlightSimMovie what song is this
Yeah, I wish this was the case for me, instead of the video where smo. removes his ingrown toenail that has been popping up for me EVERYTIME for the past 2 weeks.
9:55 acyltually sounds beautiful
Frankly you deserve a subscription with notifications just because of all the work you've done.
1 year from now: I replaced the strings of a Steinway grand piano with slinkies.
Hahaha
Oh no
Try barbed wire!
As an ukulele player, I was crying for you knowing how new strings stretch. I adore the sound when it was in tune though, and I stan you for being such a mad lad and putting so much work and money into this project. Subscribed.
Mattias, your are not only inventive, a good mechanic, but an accomplished pianist. As an old mechanic myself, and one who grew up in a house with a piano that my sainted Polish grand mother played, I appreciate all the innovative things you do with these old pianos.
The final piece was glorious. You played through the sparkling ocean as a tribute for all the fish and marine life.
PUT PP HAIR ON UKULELE!!!!!!
Just kidding put violin strings on trumpet
Hahaha
Lmao
Haha instrument go brr
what is pp
@@marksmod Extinct kind of kangaroo
At the end of his CZcams career he is going to have like 50 pianos all with different strings😂
Yes I will create a piano museum😉
@@Mattiaskrantz will be looking forward to it, though not looking forward to the end of your youtube career!
World's biggest piano
This is the first of your videos I've seen and you have absolutely earned my subscription. Fantastic content.
An amazing creation! It sounds like a cross between a piano & a harp. I've subscribed!
As a beginner piano technician who started working on his degree that ill get in 3 years this is terrifying to watch. Like... we would put on new strings with the piano on its back. But like.. a really big props to you man for even trying this and completing it! It sounds weird and looks terrifying. But I love the effort you put in. You've earned my subscription sir ;) lovely work! Love to see some piano strings on a harp
Aaah nice choice of career!! It’s honestly kind of fun! Good luck to you🙏 and thank you😄😄
Some historian is going to one day find these pianos and be so confused.
"As you can see, Sweden was very poor, so poor that some people had to resort to tinkering to repair their instruments and still have access to the culture their ancestors passed on to them. For example, see this piano repaired with primitive fishing equipment ! It's really impressive how resourceful people can get in times of need !" - A confused future historian
@@auronheimdall1072 I think parts of the internet would have survived so maybe.....
I just recently discovered this channel, i really like these videos! I've been clicking on every one i see pop up in recommended
Sounds like a harp in resonant timbre and dulcimer in attack timbre. A pleasing sound when it's originally tuned correctly. Would love to have this sampled.
I love how he just deadass bought a new piano
How about putting actual piano strings on the piano
Hahah
Actually
Not bad
Where’s the title in that?
It wouldn't work...
Daughter : Dad ..my piano key doesn't sound ..maybe the string break ..
Dad : Owh dont worry ..grab some in my tackle box ..
I really like how there is a soft thud on each note.
Halfway though the second restring: “This is my job now.”
Hahaha
"it could work"
5 seconds later: "it didn't work"
I think it sounds unique. Kind of hard keeping it tuned but when you get it there i like it. Thank you for your work on the video and piano.
Thank you for spending all this time on this.
Next idea : piano strings on the ukelele
Hahaha poor ukulele
rip ukelele
@@JordyMarincic haha promotions
This guy need more attention..
He decided and spend many hours trying to entertain us...hats off
Thank you❤️🙏
These sound effects man 😂 I could name so many things that made me laugh dude way to go
Thanks for investing so much time and energy into your experiment, I hope that your indulgence to those who suggested the exercise appreciate your efforts and are now subscribers if they weren't already. Kudos for your commitment and being curious enough to modify or tweak instruments just to see what the sound quality is like.
My partner once sold OOAK handcrafted instruments made by a friend of his who, years later, went on to do musical props for LOTR. we still have some of his early instruments including a harp. When we later took up silversmithing, my partner got curious about how silver strings would sound on the harp, and so experimented with making various silver alloys and drawing wires down from them ourselves. If the alloy is too soft it will be more stretchy and not keep in tune as well, too hard and it will be more brittle and prone to faster metal fatigue failure.
Fun fact: after metalsmithing for a while we could identify if an alloy had been recently annealed and quenched or work hardened by pitch alone.
Similarly I recall watching a tennis player, who was also a musician, restringing his racquet and being able to recognise by pitch when he had achieved the tension desired as he plucked the strings. Strings for tennis, squash and other racquet types are designed to withstand high impact under tension so brands with the best rebound efficiency, if thickness allows, may be a better candidates than fishing line for piano strings. They may stay in tune longer once they overcome the initial stretch from the first few tunings which another commenter suggested you do over a longer period of time.
It sounds very very much like an actual piano
Wow very cool ray mak
More like a clavichord
damn this dude is everywhere
I think it is an actual piano
Why?
Just why?
I absolutely love those bass notes. They're soft, but so beautiful.
Just like a bass pizzicato
I commend you for the absolute insane amount of effort that you put into making a video you earned my subscription completely
Wow! Crazy work. Love it. One step at a time can lead almost anywhere!
I think it is more impressive how many people he replied to in the comments that's the real applause
nobody: let's go fishing
Mattias: ok , just wait, i'm taking my piano
I'm rewatching these videos and I want all of them as digital instruments on a keyboard so badly x)
Love your creativity, curiosity, skills , and tenacity Its amazing these pianos play at all. 👍🏻
Impressive, but can you put piano strings on a fishing rod?..
Number 10 piano wire
If you wanna
😂😂😂
Lmfao 🤪
Ok FREIND
what this series has taught me is that it is a small wonder that pianos actually stay in tune
Yeah hahaha
Recently found your work... IN LOVE
This was a blast. I enjoyed watching you work.
There is something about the sound of that piano that sounds mystical. Congrats, you have invented a new instrument.
"Invented" or "new instrument"... You don't seem to know what one or both of those mean.
@@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff One day someone put guitar pickups on a harpsichord. Yes, the inventor holds the patent for a "new instrument". If the piano used laser light instead of strings would it be considered the same instrument? Is a ukulele and a guitar the same instrument?
@@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff I bet you think a banjo and a guitar are the same instrument.
This sounds like a sinister honky-tonk piano you’d hear in an American Western horror movie … especially on day two as the nylon stretches out.
If you hear this, kindly pay for your meals & drinks, then get in your car / on your horse, and drive away while you still can.
That sound does not make me warm and fuzzy and susceptible to suggestion. Play something that soothes me (as opposed to wondering if I’d become the 1,000th body in your basement) and I’ll consider it subscribing.
that's what I was thinking...
this piano is ancient and cool and beautiful inside, it was hard to see him cutting those strings
Man in 1922, I custom crafted the most beautiful piano using the finest materials and craftsmanship to produce the most beautiful and lovely tone.
Man in 2021 I purchased old piano off craigslist and i put childrens ukelele strings in it.
Ping! Pong! Dang! Ding!.