Japanese Toy Piano from 1957 has electric bells inside!
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
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Ugh! The Telegram scammers are out in full force. If someone replies to your comment pretending to be me and saying you won something-ignore them. I don't have a Telegram account and I don't run comment-based giveaways. Stay safe! :)
I think most with a brain are privy that those accounts are not you. I always report them when I come across them. Thanks for sharing your toy with us. I always enjoy your backstories to your gadget finds.
Oh, wow. That has to be so annoying.
This means your channel is much famous !
A popular tech CZcamsr (ThioJoe) created a tool called YTSpammerPurge, which is very effective at getting rid of spammers in comment sections. Just letting you know if you want to use it.
@@ActualAshCam It's not that advanced, and most bots will bypass it
I like how he always says it like, "so, something exciting just arrived in the mail," like they really just arrive in his mail randomly. If only that happens to the rest of us too.
gave me blue clues vibe. i couldnt help but get a childish wave of exitement when he said it lol
i mean could happen if you buy something from a foreign country and it took months to arrive, you really never know when they're gonna be there
@@bobbuilder895we just got a letter
@@spingleboygle look at mr rich guy here recieving letters.
Like some wholesome music SCP that just leaves random musical instruments in your mail
Seriously--- every time you say "something exciting arrived in the mail" I'm like "oh man where does he find this stuff!?!" and I get excited for you...
Where does he find this stuff? I thought it just showed up in the mailbox one day!
you're amazing for giving us these obscure intrument sampler instruments for free. you make nerds like me really happy.
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This is such a cool, weird little niche. No one else is doing anything like this that I know of. I love it.
Yeah!
I really wish there would be a version with 37 keys (having a classical piano distribution) with a silent dual motor design that would also incorporate some clever "microphone" sensors on the "bells" to be able to amplify the sound in a cheap electrical analog way. (I am drooling at the thought of what this new sound could bring to the modern music)
...why not just use the virtual instrument he made?
This could work if the spindle was non-magnetic and the bells were ferromagnetic, one could use pickups
@@nuberiffic oh you can always use the digital version, but sometimes being able to touch the physical thing just makes a difference
@@nuberiffic oh you can always use the digital version, but sometimes being able to touch the physical thing just makes a difference
@@NeoNovastar Yeah.
Seams like a lot of work for such a niche sound.
You might also lose some of the charm by engineering it to a high degree
You do the most amazing work I have ever seen. I can't imagine the engineers behind the design ever thought this would come of their work. Great job!
I love seeing these old lost instruments come to life and be given the ability to be enjoyed by everyone forever. This video goes to show just how important Davids work with Decent Sampler truly is!
This is really cool. Obscure instruments like this kind of fascinate me. Also it's weird thinking about how eventually people are going to be making videos like this about the toys we played with as kids.
Part of what makes this instrument so magical is that when you play the scale it is not tuned in the Ionian mode (AKA a major scale) as one would expect, but in the Lydian mode, in which the raised fourth scale degree (think C major scale but with an f sharp) creates a feeling of upward motion, of lightness and suspension.
I call it the “starry night” mode, become it is often used in film music when something flies up into a star-filled sky. Very often a high-pitched metal instrument like a glockenspiel is also used to evoke the twinkling of the stars.
Thank you! My music teacher just expected me to be able to get it just by hearing it!
What a little treasure from post war Japan!
I understand your intent on sampling the best sounding single bell in the array and then using it for your entire sample library; but I would suggest that you go back and sample at least a couple others. My reason for this is that, in my opinion, much of the charm of an instrument like this is going to be in its idiosyncrasy, and this will be even more apparent when the tones are not all identical, and actually reflect some of the fragility and 'unevenness' of the original. Note I'm not suggesting you use them all, but at least use several of the best ringing samples for your library. Just a thought...
the back story behind this is just really interesting to know about
I love these historical, restoration, music making, sample library creation videos - amazing! keep em coming :)
I love your voice, and the way your instrumentals always mix so perfectly with the tone of the video, honestly these are so well produced that it gives me chills sometimes watching them. Thanks for making content!
Your channel is one of the few that's an immediate click once I get the notification. The vibe of your channel really embodies one of my life's mantra:
"Everything is interesting, all the time."
Thank you for your wonderful and easily consumed videos and for providing such unique sample libraries.
I love when you do these unique musical instruments videos.
The fact that you always turn the unstrument into a plugin is too amazing. You are simply great! Thank you
Another beautiful video - thank you, David! It's wonderful to think how this charming little instrument is now able to ring out across the world - instead of rusting away in a landfill. It all could never have been foreseen.
You are inspiration for a new 21 year old music learner.... This type of videos are so satisfying
I like that toy for what it is, lots of technical metal folding and forming... a combination of multiple materials that all come together as a toy that probably indirectly inspired someone, somewhere to make music.
This is some top notch community content. I mean this is too good for CZcams. Bravo
That sounds a lot better than I was expecting. A nice feature to add would be a speed control for the motor, sort of like a Leslie Speaker, that would increase and decrease the rate of the knockers against the bells. Just something to add a little bit of an accent to the sound.
Did you know that the mechanism that strikes the bells (the plectrums? the mallets?) looks like it’s based on the mechanism inside of bike bells?
(The old style ones that go like “brrr-brrring!”, not the new ones that go like “PING!”)
man I had a bell like that, I loved it
This is magical. Thanks for these type of videos. I love how you research the backstory and the way you present it and then even give us a free toy to play with.
I just recently discovered your channel and have to say thank you. Not many people sample these types of things and then just put it out there for free. Much love, major respect.
What a wholesome video, loved it. Thank you for sharing, David!
You make some of the most amazing content I've seen in a long time.
This is such a cool, weird little instrument with an interesting history! It's more of a toy than anything else but when you started playing with the sample you got from it, it rally does sound nice! I like the constant percussive ringing of the bells a lot!
This is great, I kinda want one. Also this totally seems like the sort of instrument that Simon the magpie would do something with
this is so amazing and the fact that its free...... omg dont get me started cuz man as a young producer with no money......... i dont think you know how much this is a blessing.
I love how the black keys are just painted on the white ones :D
Another awesome video! I love watching your content and I really need to get back into making music again...
The music at the end sounded lovely with this toy piano added to it and would love to hear this in full. Thank you for a great video.
Cool toy! I've seen and heard instruments like this played in street music when I was a kid, for sure. As always, thanks for the very nice freebie :) How did you correct rhythmic striking for each note? That's cool!
Why you hurting them? :(( /J
@@Esbe1280 Awww, I'm so sorry! I made a typo. I fixed it. I'd never hurt a nice toy instrument :)
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The sound reminds me of both calliopes and old phones. The bell you sampled from especially reminds me of phone ringers.
well it essentially is one
Having the spindle does bring it close into the vibraphone territory. Vibraphones have rotating paddles inside the pipes that can either be powered electrically or mechanically by a pedal, which create a very similar vibrating sound to this little piano. Just a little insight that there might be more to the naming than just the popularity of the instrument. I have a vibraphone that also needs its string replaced and it gets stuck on occasion. Mine is electric and the foot pedal releases felt pads allowing the vibration of air in the pipes to ring out.
Aw, that is so sweet! What a clever little toy, and when you got it working and sampled it and made some music, I got all misty. It might have hit me at the intersection of nostalgia and how much I like Japanese things.
Your work is phenomenal. All the research, knowledge, effort and the way you put it all together in this 8 min format without rushing it is really impressive. And to be able to get the sounds you make is a gift, thank you very much!
This just kept getting better. The toy itself, what it looks like opened up, the crazy Deagan one, the conversion to Decent. Awesome!
This reminds me of a musical toy I had as a kid in the 70's called Big Mouth Singers. It sounded just the same. Thanks for bringing back a fond memory.
I can stop watching these. I like how a story is told and you always end on a happy fulfilling 'note'. It goes full circle :) instant subscribe
‘TN’ - I recognised this immediately from my robot collecting years. I saw lots of Nomura’s toys, but never this one. Beautiful. Thank you!
When you’re starting to watch the video and almost say aloud “hi, nice to see you again too”.
Such great work. I'd love to see a sample with the original motor, add some reverb onto it and it would make a great horror movie instrument with the background noise.
I honestly thinking there’s some relation to real vibraphones, they also have a motor that creates the “vibrato” effect. That might be where they’re taking the name from.
the motor in my "Big Mouth Singers" toy piano is louder lol ... exactly the same instrument thought ... just made of plastic ... and it has awesome heads with mouths that open when you press a key ... Nice video !
I recently started my discovery into analog synthesizers and stumbled upon your channel. The creativity, curiosity and production of these episodes hooked me in. Subscribed. ✌️
Amazing. I saw something similar to this thing back in 2017 at a friend's house. It had plastic ducks heads on it and each one was a bell, when the beak opened it made the sound.
I tried to sample it but also found it too noisy because of it's motor and didn't have time to try and mod it which was a shame. So this is awesome, gives me that sound I always wanted. Thanks
Ooooh, we had a version with frogs when I was a child
WOAHH THE WHOLE VIDEO I WAS WONDERING IF HE WAS GOING TO PLAY ALL THE NOTES SO I COULD SAMPLE IT OR SOMETHING BUT HE MADE A FREE SAMPLER THING????? THATS SO NICE TYSM
Really love Dusty Planets David. Great progression ambient electronic vibe! First time listener, just bought the track. Keep up the amazing work!
Oh the plug-in really felt like a gift for my curiosity. I was in search of cool old sounds to use. Thank you soo much!!!💕💕
Thank you for your dedication to reuse old stuff
Whoever made this would be so happy about this video I'm sure.
I love this instrument, it sounds kinda space like. I think I know what I’m going to use it for.
very clever… and takes you/me back to when the toy would also have delighted a child many years ago. I was born in 1959, and my first musical toy was a xylophone, and a small tin, musical merry-go-round… that became the start of my musical career!!
Well done!!
This is awesome. Thanks for making this!!!
What a fun and original channel. Im glad I found you!
Wow! That is sooooo 😎 You're a bit of a geniius, Dave 👍
Your work is great dude! Think about what the people who made that toy would've thought if they knew it was sampled and used in contemporary music - decades and maybe centuries later.
This little piano is so cute it is perfect for small dolls❤
I used to have a thing very similar to this. It was a Sesame Street keyboard from the 80s, it's keys were directly coupled to xylophone bars that would lift up into a rotary striker a lot like this. I always thought the workings were really cool.
I found your channel today, and I've watched a couple of your videos. I'm in love with your content now. Well, I'll keep watching more.
You seem to have some incredible journeys starting at a thrift or junk store. Thank god for rainy lazy days.
Your videos are amazingly well put together and just such a delight to watch!
What a delightful toy and story! The colour and design reminds me of a lot of my old toys. Sweet
This is so cool! I wasn't expecting you to make a sample for this kids toy. You're truly an engineer
you didi it again! love your video production and writing! Thanks so much for decent sampler!
Man I am so glad I found this channel
Another amazing video! I don't know how these aren't getting millions of views yet
Accidentally discovered your youtube channel. Very interesting digging into musical history, please keep up the good work!
This is the best channel on youtube, by far!
What a charming little toy instrument!
This channel is my new antidepressants
that sound is special
Thanks for sampling it
I actually didn't despise the engine noise it had a vibe
Yes. Another awesome vid. Thanks for sampling this thing man.
Amazing !! recording such sounds and digitalise them for future!
To give this out for free for the love of resurrecting noise makers that would have been lost to time is Champion stuff. Well done Sir.
The tiny piano is so cute❤
Your videos are amazing man
Some restoration and some tuning and I'm sure that little piano sounds good
the fact that it uses bells screams "Christmas Music"!
just got soft soft and I feel like a kid on christmas morning
idk why this video touched me so much, how beautiful to see how music evolves in time, thx !!
So … the tone you speak with ..and the vibe of that backing track is just so captivating .. had to sub
your such a legend i’m gonna put this in so many lofi jams
2:53 My brain filled out the rest with "I..... don't want alot for christmas"
one of the best channels ! much love from Brazil !
I would like you to know that it makes me happy to see your videos pop up in my feed. Cheers
your videos bring me a great deal of comfort every time i watch them :)
I had one of these as a kid in the 80s. Perhaps the earliest musical instrument I’ve ever owned
wow… This is so cool!
Thanks for sharing this with me!
from Japan🇯🇵
Always a delight to watch your stuff ✨🎷🐛
Another beautiful , informative & fascinating video. Quickly becoming my favourite channel on the ‘tube
thats amazing, thanks for the plugin!
sounds so magical im happy you made it work!
i found the sound difference with the motor mod at the end there quite satisfying
I love your videos, they way you include a short history if an instrument is very engaging.
i would watch the SHIT out of a video that is just going in depth on old ass toys and how they worked
that melody will always stick in my nightmares, thanks !
Love the channel!
Seems like such a simple but elegant way to make sounds, just one motor and a couple bells
Going to look around to see if someone’s hacked together an easy to build version of this with an arduino or sth.
I really like the tune that you made. It’s a very happy Japanese sound. :)
The vibraphone incorporates a motorized spinning mechanism that creates the modulated/warbling sound characteristic of the instrument by turning butterfly valves within the resonators placed beneath each key. I think this toy draws its appellation from the similarity of it’s clever motorized spinning striker mechanism.