OMGGGG I have a gift for you! I recorded that E in 30 different ways from softest to absolute smash, send it to Impact soundworks and a few months later (now) it’s released as a FREE virtual instrument using the FREE kontakt player. You can dowload it right now and play around with my meme piano loaded with sound design options. Here’s the walkthrough! bit.ly/walkthroughEEEEEEEEEEE And if you want to be one of the first people to download it use this link straight away: bit.ly/88EEEEEEEEE I’m waiting for a halo theme cover and The Beatles ending of ”A day in the life” but this time no cheating in post just a piano with eighty eight EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I can imagine a large room with 7+ pianos each tuned to a specific note with one person at each piano for an epic piano orchestra!!! that would be epico!!
@@Mattiaskrantz but for real. This is the logical conclusion. A single piece with the notes divided up between the pianos. I bet you could find someone on CZcams who would compose a piece for several pianos tuned to one note.
"im an engineer" i believe it, only an engineer would tune an entire piano into an E note for shits and giggles. no seriously who else would do that? engineers are always the ones to bless us with things like this
@@seraphimdunn quite like it, also like Canon in D for violin, is still a beautiful piece, but since is so easy to learn and master, literally anyone can learn it
Honestly, hearing a piece played in the different octives of the same note actually give a whole new sound to it thats actually not bad, tbh. Who knew that even tuned to E, could have a whole new experience from a song.
I sampled the video itself months ago, but just learned the VST was available upon returning to this video to share my music using the sample! Happy to use the official version from now on lol ;)
Just subbed to you earlier Mattias and I did a review on the new 88E that you contributed with Impact Soundworks and I LOVE IT! Had to give you guys a special S/O The design, the sound, not to mention the sacrifice of a WHOLE PIANO for a FREE Plugin, shessh lol Thank you for being so creative! It gave me hip hop, trap, and orchestra vibes and instantly started making something on the fly in the video! So this has great potential. Thanks again! #humbled
to be fair, i listened to C, D and E enough (probably when i was young, although i never practised instruments much) that i could identify them without guidance
Fun fact: it is pretty much impossible to get perfect pitch after the age of about 7. Little kids can get it by being exposed to a lot of music, but older people can really only mimic it with relative pitch and a specific note.
Every time you call the piano tech to tell him what you're up to this time, you can just feel his life expectancy dropping. 10 years from now you're going to call him up to tell him about your latest creation, which is a massive, 150 meter long piano where each key is its own piano, and immediately after the call he's going to write his will and a handful of goodbye letters
If you watch Rob Scallon, he does the very same to a studio engineer. Now 3 years in a row he's gone there with Andrew Huang to record an album in a day without any preparation done (the 1st time reaction of the engineer he hears this is priceless). And he's brought his home made drumkit to the studio to record it (built it with a friend of his, both pretty much clueless as to how to build drums).
Really interesting. A choir can sing the exact same note, but tiny variations cause a really rich resonance, well beyond just the voices. This sounds similar. I would love to see the harmonics of this instrument on an oscilloscope. I will bet one could really see the 4th's and 5th's, and maybe a lot more.
As someone who tunes pianos, this is both horrifying and awesome. I don’t think people realize just how hard piano tuning is. There is a good reason why there is an entire profession around piano maintenance.
As someone who doesn't even play the piano, I have a question: Why does the piano strings detune themselves so much here? Is it because of the changes of tension change the dimensions of the "tuning board"? (greatly amplificated int this case, because they are so out of spec). I play guitar a little, so I know strings are fragile, sensitive to humidity change, temperature, age, quality etc.
@@karlpron You pretty much have the right of it. A piano is under literal tons of pressure, so as you change that pressure it destabilizes the tension holding other strings, in a way that is I would guess unnoticeable on guitar.
@@alexwatson7068 Even a mandolin, with only eight strings, has to be tuned in two or even three passes because the tension changes during tuning can cause its double-course strings to become out of tune within each pair and sound awful. I cannot _imagine_ how bad this must get on a piano.
the big E here reminds me of the big E ending of A Day in the Life. The Beatles actually used like five pianos all at once to play that final E chord at the end of the song. I've never even thought about the possibilities that could open up if some pianos started using alternate tunings like guitars and other string instruments can do. There's probably a lot of really cool sounds and ideas just waiting to be discovered by someone messing around on pianos with some alternate tunings. Pretty cool stuff!
The ultimate culmination of this concept is buying 11 more pianos, tuning them to every note, and hiring 12 pro piano players to practice coordinating a song together. The ultimate rendition of River Flows In You
I think 12 pianos would not be enough 14 would be better so you could have 2 octaves of C major or minor or what ever you want given that you really play one big hit for each piano of course.
@@Koropokel 12 would give you every pitch of the chromatic scale. You're talking about tuning the pianos to one certain scale, but that would be too limiting.
You should look up okgo's making of needing/getting. They turned a whole series of pianos to single notes. It wasn't as technically correct as your effort, but it was pretty cool.
what's interesting to me is that, even though they are all tuned to E, we can hear the differing resonances of the different length and composition of strings. So even though there are 88 E's here, they are all slightly different in timbre (and octave)
Yeah, it's cos the tones aren't pure & there's a wide variety of different overtones..and that's what we call timbre'. You can really hear the overtones (minor triad is particularly prominent) when he plays the keyboard later.
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama Not entirely sure what point you're trying to get across with that but if you knew what the PS2 startup sound was then you'd understand.
Yeah I had the same reaction -- there's so much talk of getting an "orchestral" sound from a piano... This really did sound a lot like a full string section.
@@Mattiaskrantz Unless they're the ones coming over to your house, ever thought of doing all your piano experimentation in Impact's workplace? They'd have more time to multisample, and you wouldn't have pianos in your living room...
Video idea: Tune a Piano Backwards; instead of the notes ascending they're descending. I saw that from a video where someone tried to listen to what certain songs would sound like "backwards."
problem with that is that you cant exactly just *tune* a piano backwards, you would have to somehow make the thicker/longer strings go onto the right, and the thinner/shorter strings go to the left instead, and also adjust the action so that it all hits the strings properly
People build organs that take up like an entire half of a church. How long until somebody builds a piano that size, where each key hits an entire piano's worth of strings all at once? It would probably sound amazing
Just consider that if you take a string number 24 (it's 2,4 mm of diameter), which is the thickest piano string available, and it's usually charged with a brass coil to achieve the lower notes: to sound perfectly harmonic at the A0 pitch without being charged with the brass coil it would need to be 9,47 cm long in the vibrating area. Then consider that there's a mute section both where it ties to the structure and where it's wounded on the tuning pin, so a piano with this feature would be 10,5+ meters long. This is an attempt that resulted in building the longest piano existing: czcams.com/video/_7slFjXIpig/video.html
Try tuning all the white keys to C-E-G and the black keys to F-A-C. A piano anyone can play. Another idea, slightly harder idea: Make a left handed piano! Lowest pitch on the right, and the big pitch on the left. Mirrored. You will need flip the frame horizontally. Then the mechanics for the hammers is just an engineering problem. Then invite a left handed pianist. 😊
I love the modulation towards the end of the piece. Really beautiful how that E resolves to E by way of the common tone of E. But the way you put an E in the bass....that then falls to an E....that was the icing on the cake. Such sophistication....so many feels.
Man, on the surface, this idea doesn't seem as immediately interesting as some of your other videos (like using the wrong strings). But then.. why can't I seem to click away? I have to know.. for science. You, sir, have made myself and so many other people not only curious about pianos but also invested in learning more about them. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
5:08 the biggest E(!) ever played on a piano after a week of what must have felt like a year of work. Thanks for bringing that experience of ultra E sustain onto my smartphone speakers!🎼🤯
Used to have Mr E, as a teacher in office computing, and he was great in music notation and sequencing programs. But Mr E is just a shortcut of his name, rather then his favorite frequency.
Mattias, this piano sounds brilliant. Hiring 12 pianists to each sync up to a single song would be absolutely amazing! Give them each a board so they can do the crazy mega octave.
Talk with Christian Henson from Spitfire Audio, I am sure he would be interested in creating a sound library out of this. Not kidding, this is huge. The sound of all the notes together is out of this world
We email sometimes😍 Hmmm I just recorded 6 dynamics and 5 round robbins for a VST with Impact soundworks. The plan is to make it free but I guess that depends on how many hours of editing they need to make it sound good
When I heard the Big E, I thought "wow, this is epic. Wait, is this the opening note of the Halo 3 announcement video?" So I compared the two, and yup, sure enough Finish the Fight starts off with a bunch of Es. But that opener is anemic in comparison. Martin O'Donnell should be taking notes, lol
If you lived in New York - I would suggest you to install this piano next to a subway (metro) station which is served only by E train. If station is served by an F train - there should be F piano. But if you play all Es and Fs together - the sound will be scary and dissonant. That's why E and F train do not travel similtaneously
The problem (one of them) is that the harp of a piano contains a LOT of tension. By changing the tension on each string to move the note several steps, the change on the sum of all of the strings is enough to warp the shape of the harp, moving all of the previously tuned notes at once. Fine tuning each note one at a time to the exact pitch should only be done after all the strings are raised or lowered to approximately correct values. Otherwise you waste a lot of time getting each string perfect only to notice it is off again ten strings later.
It makes such a nice rich sound. Reminds me of 12 string guitar, where each note actually had two strings tuned to the same note. But it's never possible to get them exactly the same.
OMGGGG I have a gift for you! I recorded that E in 30 different ways from softest to absolute smash, send it to Impact soundworks and a few months later (now) it’s released as a FREE virtual instrument using the FREE kontakt player. You can dowload it right now and play around with my meme piano loaded with sound design options.
Here’s the walkthrough! bit.ly/walkthroughEEEEEEEEEEE
And if you want to be one of the first people to download it use this link straight away: bit.ly/88EEEEEEEEE
I’m waiting for a halo theme cover and The Beatles ending of ”A day in the life” but this time no cheating in post just a piano with eighty eight EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
eat a violin
making piano play the pan pipes somehow
Somehow make the hammers on a real piano hit drums instead of strings. So like a drumset in a piano. No idea how youd do this.
@@daanmollema6366 The only thing that can beat that is eating a piano
long guitar
I can imagine a large room with 7+ pianos each tuned to a specific note with one person at each piano for an epic piano orchestra!!! that would be epico!!
aka basically an organ
Imagine the suprise of the pro pianists when they realised all their practice was for nothing🤣
@@Mattiaskrantz but for real. This is the logical conclusion. A single piece with the notes divided up between the pianos. I bet you could find someone on CZcams who would compose a piece for several pianos tuned to one note.
Would you need multiple rooms to cover different octaves?
That would be insanely hard for the players, but it would be great
I have to tune my pianos like this.
Or a harpsichord :D
Also cool to see you here!
Salve vinheteiro kkkkk
Toca a 7 sinfonia do Sr. Mc brinquedo
At least that 5 key piano
5:28 you can see after he plays those notes that pure awe in his expression, he's experiencing *FULL E* for the first time in his life
*E PULSE*
Either that, or he's realizing what a waste the whole exercise is
That full-piano key-smash at the end would be the PERFECT way to close out a Rush E.
This takes rush E to a whole new level
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@@enveloreal what is that
@@aaron36 E
@@svdnxey E
Yea
I feel the E
I too fEEl thE E
Yes
holy god it’s only 4 comments
It’s you again….
pls stopi see u everywhere
1:32 "I have a feeling strings are going to break today."
*Playstation startup sound*
After reading the title, I was listening for the one key that was tuned to “R.”
"im an engineer"
i believe it, only an engineer would tune an entire piano into an E note for shits and giggles.
no seriously who else would do that? engineers are always the ones to bless us with things like this
Or more like an EnginEEr
@@ms.playboyinternational393 EE
@@venyeoo hEhE
Agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-
That means I solve problems.
As a former employee of a piano store, I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve heard people play that song
Lol is the equivalent of "Stairway to Heaven" in a guitar store?
@@seraphimdunn quite like it, also like Canon in D for violin, is still a beautiful piece, but since is so easy to learn and master, literally anyone can learn it
hey keyboard class bunker here _someone please tell me what song that is_
@@angelinageorgy725 river flows in you
@@Kylesaystuff _thenkyu_
Honestly, hearing a piece played in the different octives of the same note actually give a whole new sound to it thats actually not bad, tbh. Who knew that even tuned to E, could have a whole new experience from a song.
That big E note actually has a strong major 3rd overtone, sounds incredible. Awesome video
4:37 ABSOLUTELY STUNNING arrangement! The way the F flat and the D double sharp harmonized with with the root not E was breath taking.
Hahaha
“It’s not every day you buy a new piano.”
Unless you’re Mattias
I was going to comment this, guess I'm 17 minutes too late
True I wish I had that money
@@alexthomas7754 he's not super rich. He just does it cause it's his job
@@alexthomas7754 There are lots of people who spend a lot. Like with many video games, consoles, and game and tech accessories. Or other hobbies.
Just got the Impact Soundworks VST version based off of this. And it's gorgeous!
I sampled the video itself months ago, but just learned the VST was available upon returning to this video to share my music using the sample! Happy to use the official version from now on lol ;)
Rush E?
Just subbed to you earlier Mattias and I did a review on the new 88E that you contributed with Impact Soundworks and I LOVE IT! Had to give you guys a special S/O The design, the sound, not to mention the sacrifice of a WHOLE PIANO for a FREE Plugin, shessh lol Thank you for being so creative! It gave me hip hop, trap, and orchestra vibes and instantly started making something on the fly in the video! So this has great potential. Thanks again! #humbled
You'd probably develope perfect pitch only for the "E" just through PTSD
He will forever be able to say "that's an E" or "that's not quit E"
ptsE
That’s relative pitch
Not based on that first “E”
(which is really an F)
to be fair, i listened to C, D and E enough (probably when i was young, although i never practised instruments much) that i could identify them without guidance
I'm sure he got the perfect pitch skill after doing all of this. Imagine hearing E all day long.
but can only tell if it's E or not haha, worth it
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyeah, he is probably eeeeeeeenergetic about the outcome... xD
@@IngwiePhoenix heeeeeeee outcomeeeeeee
Theeeeeee
Fun fact: it is pretty much impossible to get perfect pitch after the age of about 7. Little kids can get it by being exposed to a lot of music, but older people can really only mimic it with relative pitch and a specific note.
Now you have to play "Rush E" on that piano
Then the world will be completed.
Actually Rush E doesn't use that much E, what he needs to play on there is Mountains from Interstellar.
5:29 The dramatic part of a trailer
1:23 You made that THX Logo noise
0:42 Hearing the piano technician was a nice surprise. It's like a surprise cameo that somehow made me smile
"A surprise to be sure. But a welcome one"
Yeah same it was a long time ago now! He might come over once his move has cooled down he said😍
@@Mattiaskrantz I hope so! It’s a delight when he’s around. He seems to love whatever you try with a piano, too.
@@eriklagergren7124 we will watch his career with great interest 👀
He sounded quite Dutch.
Every time you call the piano tech to tell him what you're up to this time, you can just feel his life expectancy dropping. 10 years from now you're going to call him up to tell him about your latest creation, which is a massive, 150 meter long piano where each key is its own piano, and immediately after the call he's going to write his will and a handful of goodbye letters
Hahaha this time he was actually suprisingly positive to the idea. Like he genuinley wanted me to try it (I think) 🤣
If you watch Rob Scallon, he does the very same to a studio engineer. Now 3 years in a row he's gone there with Andrew Huang to record an album in a day without any preparation done (the 1st time reaction of the engineer he hears this is priceless).
And he's brought his home made drumkit to the studio to record it (built it with a friend of his, both pretty much clueless as to how to build drums).
I'm gonna need to hear the entire "SUPER E" sustain from start to end! If in fact it does, actually, end. Don't cut it short, man!
The song you did with the EEEEEE guitar was really pretty!!
Really interesting. A choir can sing the exact same note, but tiny variations cause a really rich resonance, well beyond just the voices. This sounds similar. I would love to see the harmonics of this instrument on an oscilloscope. I will bet one could really see the 4th's and 5th's, and maybe a lot more.
E here czcams.com/video/Dt1cFT0Ihe0/video.html
I hear what sounds like a major third (G#) at the very end of the big E
You would see the harmonics just playing one note on any piano - or any other stringed instrument
@@politecat3217 lmao how do you find such a perfect video for an answer?
@@RealNameNeverUsed because they are polite cat
As someone who tunes pianos, this is both horrifying and awesome.
I don’t think people realize just how hard piano tuning is. There is a good reason why there is an entire profession around piano maintenance.
As someone who doesn't even play the piano, I have a question: Why does the piano strings detune themselves so much here? Is it because of the changes of tension change the dimensions of the "tuning board"? (greatly amplificated int this case, because they are so out of spec). I play guitar a little, so I know strings are fragile, sensitive to humidity change, temperature, age, quality etc.
@@karlpron You pretty much have the right of it. A piano is under literal tons of pressure, so as you change that pressure it destabilizes the tension holding other strings, in a way that is I would guess unnoticeable on guitar.
@@alexwatson7068 Thanks for the answer :)
@@alexwatson7068 Guitars also detune constantly, but there are few enough strings that the guitarist can retune them every time they pick it up.
@@alexwatson7068 Even a mandolin, with only eight strings, has to be tuned in two or even three passes because the tension changes during tuning can cause its double-course strings to become out of tune within each pair and sound awful.
I cannot _imagine_ how bad this must get on a piano.
This piano gave me perfect pitch 10/10 would recommend.
2:20 i didnt know this Mat Dude like cory Smith .
Cory Smith makes Such good music
"What's that?"
"That's my E piano."
"Oh, an electric piano."
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEyno."
Lol
1:23 that's not a mess, that's the legendary PS2 startup
At 1:40 it sounds even better
1:40 is for real
I was searching for this comment
@@LeopoldafRosenborg same
@@Mach-02 1:40 sounds like the mac chime
It sounds crazy when all the keys on the piano are tuned to the same note.
the big E here reminds me of the big E ending of A Day in the Life. The Beatles actually used like five pianos all at once to play that final E chord at the end of the song. I've never even thought about the possibilities that could open up if some pianos started using alternate tunings like guitars and other string instruments can do. There's probably a lot of really cool sounds and ideas just waiting to be discovered by someone messing around on pianos with some alternate tunings. Pretty cool stuff!
I enjoy how the piano tech was phoned for this project 😂 he is the original engineering consultant 👏👏👏
He should at some point do a collaboration with piano tech where they work on a project together.
Missed him😔😭
"I would not say it's recommended"
Yeah lol!
Well of course(he's an engineer)
The ultimate culmination of this concept is buying 11 more pianos, tuning them to every note, and hiring 12 pro piano players to practice coordinating a song together. The ultimate rendition of River Flows In You
you could play a sonata with drum music sheets
@@mailboxpipebomb stomp?
I think 12 pianos would not be enough
14 would be better so you could have 2 octaves of C major or minor or what ever you want
given that you really play one big hit for each piano of course.
@@Koropokel 12 would give you every pitch of the chromatic scale. You're talking about tuning the pianos to one certain scale, but that would be too limiting.
the irony of getting an EE ad on the video is amazing
You should look up okgo's making of needing/getting. They turned a whole series of pianos to single notes. It wasn't as technically correct as your effort, but it was pretty cool.
what's interesting to me is that, even though they are all tuned to E, we can hear the differing resonances of the different length and composition of strings. So even though there are 88 E's here, they are all slightly different in timbre (and octave)
Yeah, it's cos the tones aren't pure & there's a wide variety of different overtones..and that's what we call timbre'. You can really hear the overtones (minor triad is particularly prominent) when he plays the keyboard later.
And it actually sounds great
Mattias : "When I do this" *presses every key* "It just sounds like a mess"
Me : "No... it sounds like PS2"
When you're hoping it works or fails
Lol bro I was gonna say
omg the ps2 is so quirky, totes not like the other councils
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama Not entirely sure what point you're trying to get across with that but if you knew what the PS2 startup sound was then you'd understand.
@@nateovision omg only ril ones know,
all of them at the same time on E, sounds just great
5:29 the fact it actually vibrated that kinda looks like an empty room-like sound
Hey, that super E instrument was pretty inspiring from a sound designer perspective. It was like an orchestra hit but on a piano!
Thank you!!
Yeah I had the same reaction -- there's so much talk of getting an "orchestral" sound from a piano... This really did sound a lot like a full string section.
The plan is to make a free vst with Impact so you guys can play with it
@@Mattiaskrantz Unless they're the ones coming over to your house, ever thought of doing all your piano experimentation in Impact's workplace?
They'd have more time to multisample, and you wouldn't have pianos in your living room...
Video idea: Tune a Piano Backwards; instead of the notes ascending they're descending. I saw that from a video where someone tried to listen to what certain songs would sound like "backwards."
problem with that is that you cant exactly just *tune* a piano backwards, you would have to somehow make the thicker/longer strings go onto the right, and the thinner/shorter strings go to the left instead, and also adjust the action so that it all hits the strings properly
A guy I used to work with had a left handed piano
@@awesomestuff9715 You could still tune each octave backwards though, which would be an interesting sound in its own right.
that would be a left handed piano, that already exists
Just program a synth piano and assign the various notes to the corresponding keys on the controller. Kind of "try before you buy".
5:29 a day in the life The Beatles
5:29 A perfect way to Finish The Fight.
Also, why has nobody talked about Halo 3 and it's music?
People build organs that take up like an entire half of a church. How long until somebody builds a piano that size, where each key hits an entire piano's worth of strings all at once? It would probably sound amazing
Just consider that if you take a string number 24 (it's 2,4 mm of diameter), which is the thickest piano string available, and it's usually charged with a brass coil to achieve the lower notes: to sound perfectly harmonic at the A0 pitch without being charged with the brass coil it would need to be 9,47 cm long in the vibrating area. Then consider that there's a mute section both where it ties to the structure and where it's wounded on the tuning pin, so a piano with this feature would be 10,5+ meters long.
This is an attempt that resulted in building the longest piano existing: czcams.com/video/_7slFjXIpig/video.html
In case anyone's wondering, the song he always plays to test the pianos is "River Flows in You" by YIRUMA
if you mean the song at about 1:00 that is evenecence nothing else...
@@urugulu1656 no,, they dont
@@urugulu1656 what
6:35 is the song "River Flows in You"
One of my fav songs ^^
@@urugulu1656 the song at 1:10 is also river flows in you just... so out of tune lol
Damn, that sampling sounds so good!
That was the coolest E I've ever heard. Could listen to it for days.
This is perfect. No giant set of pianos needed. Just E.
Worst idea: make a piano where BOTH the hammers and strings are replaced by tuning forks.
And it Tritones
XD
or dinner forks
That's not the worst idea. I mean, making a piano where both the hammers and strings are replaced by sheep would be way worse.
This guy is terrifying. He's too powerful. He's gonna collect all the infinity pianos
So,... 6? Ur comment made my day XD!
Lol
@@Li-yt7zh Coincidentally, there are 6 pianos in the piano vault at Steinway & Sons' New York factory.
He’d have to play them wearing infinity gauntlets.
All the infinitEEEEEEEEE stones
lolled@ "you know what? I realized I'm going to have to tune it back." 🤣😂🤣
That sounds incredible
Try tuning all the white keys to C-E-G and the black keys to F-A-C. A piano anyone can play.
Another idea, slightly harder idea:
Make a left handed piano! Lowest pitch on the right, and the big pitch on the left. Mirrored.
You will need flip the frame horizontally. Then the mechanics for the hammers is just an engineering problem.
Then invite a left handed pianist. 😊
That mirrored piano would technically be impossible because of the lengths of the strings, but it would be possible to build a custom piano for that.
@@JoBot__ yeah, they do it all the time, however it is easier just ot learn to play a regular piano coming from a left handed.
I'm left handed I know the basics of the piano this is perfect
It is absolutely genius
I love how when you play all the E's at once you can hear the overtones almost like it's filling in an E major chord. beautiful
1:08 what if god was one of us?
That sounds amazing. Now ppp to fff and everything chromatically .. kontakt instrument!
his relative pitch in relation to E must be insane by now
😭😭😭😭true
same for the mad lads that can play Rush E
I think it’s probably beyond relative by now, the guy must have E perfect pitch
Perfect pitch... but only for E
@@Himlichkun Exactly 😂
5:29 I have defied gods, and demons.
You could really hear all of the overtones in that one, holy Jesus.
I thought the exact same thing!
* Halo 3 intensifies *
But can you defy Doomguy/Doomslayer? 😂
i was not expecting you here...
Your content is amazing!!
This is so pleasing
I love the modulation towards the end of the piece.
Really beautiful how that E resolves to E by way of the common tone of E. But the way you put an E in the bass....that then falls to an E....that was the icing on the cake.
Such sophistication....so many feels.
brilliant
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this is a whole new meaning to “Rush E”
i guess it's time to play Rush E on the E Piano
@@siekensou77 E-seption
UNDERRATED
DOMO!!!!! aaaa I love domo
@@siekensou77 exactly what i thought
*Beautiful*
You know you're buying something top notch when you have to go somewhere that look like a horror set to fetch it
If he didn’t already, he probably has quasi-absolute pitch for E.
I was just thinking if he does this on 11 other pianos, will that just give him perfect pitch lol?
the thought bubble piano at the beginning was actually an F lol, he doesn't have perfect pitch
@@samguild8634 You're right. XD
Ah yes, One-Tone Equal Temperament, my favorite tuning schema.
yes indeed... 1 Tone to Rule them All
Even better it's also one-tone just intonation, 2 for the price of 1!
We finally know the secret of the Beatles' final chord on "A Day In The Life."
that's the piano they used in a day in the life
I just read that title full of EEEEEEEs and I felt extremely compelled to click on the video. IT TOTALLY PAID OFF. AMAzing✨
Thank you!🤣
Don’t you mean amazEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEng?
@@DarceyRecords AHAHAHAH indEEEEEEEd
5:28 I've never heard anything quite as epic coming out of an instrument.
yes it's sooooo grand
[E]pic
Halo 3
😂 Thanks for just doing this! Now we know and don't have to wonder what if anymore!
That’s a really E-mazing thing to try. I can’t E-magine doing it.
Man, on the surface, this idea doesn't seem as immediately interesting as some of your other videos (like using the wrong strings). But then.. why can't I seem to click away? I have to know.. for science. You, sir, have made myself and so many other people not only curious about pianos but also invested in learning more about them. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
❤️❤️
@@Mattiaskrantz Mattias is that you?
@@bluemoon3779 no, that is Santa Claus
The power of E
@@bluemoon3779 He has become one with E he has ascended
5:08 the biggest E(!) ever played on a piano after a week of what must have felt like a year of work. Thanks for bringing that experience of ultra E sustain onto my smartphone speakers!🎼🤯
No 5:08 is the time of the clock
Used to have Mr E, as a teacher in office computing, and he was great in music notation and sequencing programs. But Mr E is just a shortcut of his name, rather then his favorite frequency.
A Day in the Life ends on an E chord and The Beatles used multiple pianos to record it. Your piano sounds like the song but even more epic :o
Tuning all the strings on a guitar to the same note actually has a name, ostrich tuning. Lou Reed came up with it in the mid 60s.
For he so loved his piano that he gave it his only begotten note, that whoever plays it should not hear discord but hear everlasting E.
Matthias 3:16
Lmfaooo
HAHAHAHAHHA
@@ellatadros John*
Emen moment
Good old JSB would have been pulling these stunts in 2022 I reckon
Best rush e ever played by a human👍nice job
It's actually interesting how many unique patterns can be produced using just one note in octaves.
Pretty sure such a piece exist. Check out Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.
Neil Young has played entire solos on just one note.
Wow that wasn't how I expected it to sound at all lol! It reminded me of the intro to Celine Dion's "It's all coming back to me" haha
it's all coming back to E
Sounds pretty close to an early synth' actually, after mixing. Just add more strings
I mean I was pretty close to a rick wakeman throwback
Reminded me a lot of the ending chord in “a day in the life” I believe it was E as well
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- How do you call a very loud E note?
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- Mighty!
Rush E : Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Mattias, this piano sounds brilliant. Hiring 12 pianists to each sync up to a single song would be absolutely amazing! Give them each a board so they can do the crazy mega octave.
Yeah, one piano a note
Maybe modify the board so you can still do individual notes.
@@EternityForest or just have them set it to the side and use their hands 😂
Imagine reading the work description🤣
@@Mattiaskrantz “only the adventurous may apply”
The Beatles did a giant E note at the end of "A Day in the Life" with five or six people on 4 pianos and overdubbed three more times.
I think it was an E chord rather than the E note.
meh, that song was only okay
I immediately thought of that final chord from 'A day in the life' at 5:30. Was about to mention it when i saw this comment.
That chord makes my 5yo terrified 😂
@@AASteveo ur wrong
That piano is for playing Mountains from Interstellar.
You pursue such strange projects..I’m glad you do.
Talk with Christian Henson from Spitfire Audio, I am sure he would be interested in creating a sound library out of this. Not kidding, this is huge. The sound of all the notes together is out of this world
We email sometimes😍 Hmmm I just recorded 6 dynamics and 5 round robbins for a VST with Impact soundworks. The plan is to make it free but I guess that depends on how many hours of editing they need to make it sound good
Yes, this is totally for Pianobook!!
When I heard the Big E, I thought "wow, this is epic. Wait, is this the opening note of the Halo 3 announcement video?"
So I compared the two, and yup, sure enough Finish the Fight starts off with a bunch of Es. But that opener is anemic in comparison. Martin O'Donnell should be taking notes, lol
The Halo 3 announcement video:
czcams.com/video/mOCXxtDMqXE/video.html
I'm glad i'm not the only one who thought this. I had to double check as well.
Well there would only be one note for him to take 🙃
Lol the first thing I thought when he played that was “well now I know what the first note in that Halo 3 track is”😂😂
Halo
If you lived in New York - I would suggest you to install this piano next to a subway (metro) station which is served only by E train. If station is served by an F train - there should be F piano. But if you play all Es and Fs together - the sound will be scary and dissonant. That's why E and F train do not travel similtaneously
Now this, this is the real Rush E.
The problem (one of them) is that the harp of a piano contains a LOT of tension. By changing the tension on each string to move the note several steps, the change on the sum of all of the strings is enough to warp the shape of the harp, moving all of the previously tuned notes at once.
Fine tuning each note one at a time to the exact pitch should only be done after all the strings are raised or lowered to approximately correct values.
Otherwise you waste a lot of time getting each string perfect only to notice it is off again ten strings later.
1:27 no Mattias, it sound like the PS2 startup, and that's... certainly kinda of a mess.. THE BEST KINDS OF MESS
Ooh yeah actually🤣🤣
Holy sh*t, it does
Its literally the only thing I could hear, you beat me before I could make a 'Drop PS2 Tune' joke
Sounds even more like the ps2 startup at 1:40
@@skullsaw2276 HOLY CRAP XDD IT DOESS
THE RIVER FLOWS IN YOU IS AWESOME!!
Hey Mattias, recently stumbled upon your videos and I'm a huge fan! Would you mind sharing the name of the app you're using to tune the piano strings?
This guy just has no limits, even though he hates the work that needs to be put into it, respect
Yeah that sounded tedious. It would have had my anxiety through the roof.
It makes such a nice rich sound. Reminds me of 12 string guitar, where each note actually had two strings tuned to the same note. But it's never possible to get them exactly the same.
Dont remind me.
Cool idea, and it worked!