Modartt user forum - Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

Re: Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

2021-12-22T19:32:41Z

There was a quite more useless video works of hin I avoided to share the link, showing he spending a lot of money and hundred hours of work, to get a silly result.
But some of his videos it's a bit interesting since shows how much work a piano demand. Impressive how he found pianos by a good price in Sweeden. I wonder was is best country on Europe to get get used pianos in working condition.

The real hammer piano can be simulated, or almost, by adjusting pianoteq's hammer hardness to maximum.

Re: Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

2021-12-22T18:32:16Z

I am quite with that young woman, playing the hammer piano, without reaction. It kind of shows, that pianos are made the way they are, because they just have to be made that way to sound and be played like a piano. It also shows, that bass strings are made for basses - being tuned every day, which is not possible for a piano.

Nevertheless interesting experiments with the result - don't do it - there is just garbage as result.

I even do not really like the "one string" pianos, because they lack some kind of life.

Re: Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

2021-12-22T15:55:27Z

dv wrote:

IMHO, this is just somebody who has too much time on his hands and instead of using it to do something productive and useful, he uses it to make something weird to attract unsuspecting people to his YT channel and monetize that. My recommendation is to resist the curiosity and avoid those videos, otherwise it just feeds the (financial) pressure on YT to become a place for random useless videos.

Pretty much what I thought. I enjoy some quirky videos, but I really don't see the point of these.

Re: Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

2021-12-22T15:43:21Z

IMHO, this is just somebody who has too much time on his hands and instead of using it to do something productive and useful, he uses it to make something weird to attract unsuspecting people to his YT channel and monetize that. My recommendation is to resist the curiosity and avoid those videos, otherwise it just feeds the (financial) pressure on YT to become a place for random useless videos.

Very weird & interesting piano enginering experiments

2021-12-22T02:14:05Z

I'm sharing some weird home engineering piano experiments videos I found today.

1-Tuning all keys in E:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tctd15uAohg

2-Replacing piano strings with fishing line:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KHIJk4Yx8

3-Adding real hammer to the piano:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7dXFWhMNU
Professional pianist visit to play it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-7I7vF5SjmM

4-Changing piano strings with bass srings:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUKBIxeAS4