I am currently going through video ideas for a next video. If you have something that doesn't exist yet that you reeeally want to see related to guitar, pianos or maybe even some other instrument. Please let me know in a comment here.
A lyre made of human bone with hair strings. An air instrument that shoots fireballs when blown. A hurdy gurdy where the wheel is powered by a harley davidson bike. An ordinary violin with a modified chainsaw as a bow. Or all of those toguether lol: A violin with hair strings that uses a moded chainsaw as a bow, wich is powered by a harley davidson bike that spits fire 🤘
guitar with a theremin attached. idk how that would work, but theremins are cool and need to be used in more stuff. maybe a theremin guitar that plays notes corresponding to certain frets like an octave pedal?
Getting abducted and anally probed is my worst nightmare. Do you think it's something in our poo that the aliens want? Like, maybe they're trying to make guitar strings out of our poo just to see if they can?
Well on one hand hes got an interesting sidequest he was trying to complete and on the other hand if you get enough crisp 1 dollar bills together you can aquire a small army of children and accomplish almost anything basically 😂😂
This brought tears to my eyes. Going around the world and seeing the power music has to bring light... It is a gift from God. He created this power. Thank you for bringing this to all of us
It was completely worth it. Just hearing the talent of those two young men was worth it all for us. If you didn’t go looking for spiders in Madagascar, we wouldn’t of heard those beautiful voices.
Congratulations! 🎊 (You went there with the pretense of finding a spider for its webs, but as it turned out, YOU were the spider and you caught her in your web! 😄)
I love spiders! and seeing you free the bucket of them just because you didn't feel comfortable milking them while they were all trapped together made me very happy!! Also that HUUGE last spider was amazing! I love her!!! sorry you got bit tho
Dangerous spiders, child labor, unforseen consequences and a dream... Salute to you, Madlad Krantz. UPD: THANK YOU ALL for so much likes! (18k at the time). And also I know that these spiders are NOT dangerous, his name is Mattias and this is a joke about white colonialism.
I am absolutely amazed at this. Literally at every point of this video I'm like, "There's no way he's being serious. This is obviously a joke." Immediately followed by, "Oh my gosh he's serious." What a huge undertaking. Incredible.
I like seeing reminders that you can go super far from home, meet totally different people, yet some things never change. We see this with cooking programs like Bourdain's, showing how good food or hospitality is a universal thing. This was like that with music. You can go anywhere with a tuned instrument, not speak a word, and make deep connections with people en masse.
I love how curious the locals are and how into it they get. Probably one of those things they'll be talking about for years about that one strange tourist who came and wanted to milk spiders.
Seeing a man from a Madagascar village performing an amazing rendition of a classic American music, on a guitar which one of it string was made from a native spider web, made by a Swedish guy is truly something else
Fun fact that I never had time to say in the video. I did get qoutes from spiderlabs that could do the milking for me during the period of 6 months. They do the exact same process, except not using a bicycle of course. The qoute for a full set of guitar strings (128km of spiderweb if I calculated correctly) was 200 000 USD. Even if this is probably very expensive since it’s niche and targeting science labs, it goes to show just how unique and labor intensive the process is
It's even more impressive if you consider that some mad folks have made a gown/cape from golden orb weaver silk from Madagascar. It's hard to imagine how much labor that must've taken.
Given the attentiveness of the locals, if one were to administrate the process there domestically it looks pretty possible. If they have so much labor readily available, it could be profitable for them if you could train, administer, and distribute.
At the beginning of the video, my first thought was "why tf not try ukulele?" - 4 short strings, less tension... Good proof of concept. But I'm glad you did come so close to E, I'll count it that you made it! I think the string was too thick to be an E string on a regular guitar. Probably would have lasted a lot longer as a B or even G string. If you made it slightly thinner you would have accomplished the E. Really curious about the math you did on how much web you need for it, but then again, you didn't calculate that Ukulele would have been a more attainable goal, so can't trust your number on the string requirements either, can I? :D But hey... MASSIVE PROPS for the project. I have a pet tarantula and I'm not letting you anywhere near it, but still... Well done!
Spider dragline silk has a tensile strength of roughly 1.3 GPa. The tensile strength listed for steel might be slightly higher - e.g. 1.65 GPa, but spider silk is a much less dense material, so that a given weight of spider silk is five times as strong as the same weight of steel. Quantitatively, spider silk is five times stronger than steel of the same diameter. It has been suggested that a Boeing 747 could be stopped in flight by a single pencil-width strand and spider silk is almost as strong as Kevlar, the toughest man-made polymer.- Google
I can imagine the village gossip was crazy that week: 1- Some crazy tourist is looking for spiders. 2- Now Spider-Man is looking for a guitar. 3- Oh, spider web guitar string.
As someone who lives near mada, it's more like wondering if this quirked up white boy is just here for sex. Confusion spreading as they find out this crazy mf was here to milk spiders.
Mattias doesn't know this, but he's started an entire industry of spiderweb guitar string making in Madagascar. In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders
"In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders" I think you're missing a "not"? Or do you mean that the best musicians are going to be protesting for spider rights and refusing to use their silk?
@@nathangamble125in 10 years the “not” will be needed but in 20 years advancements in synthetic materials and increased awareness about animal cruelty will make the previously very popular silk strings quite controversial.
I have those spiders here in Alabama. They make massive beautiful webs. We call them Banana Spiders. They're not native, but they are also not invasive.
This is a very niche request, but that last song that guy sang is called Misahotaka ny Akama by Rajery. I grew up listening to that song, and I wanted to know if you had a longer video. It like seriously struck me so deeply to hear someone actually singing it in like 2023. I’ve only ever heard it on CD from years ago. So cool.
Is that song from Madagascar originally? If so, how and where did you hear it? I doubt you live there or even close to it, and obscure songs like that usually don't spread around the world.
@Serjo777 the artist is a known musician In a band who tours all over Africa and Europe. Many many people have heard the song before. It's literally on Spotify, some of his songs have millions of listens
The craziest thing is that you are going to be a legend in that town for decades to come. People will tell their family members about the spider man that would hand out money for whoever brought him spiders.
- Grandma, grandma, tell us the story about the spiderman! - Ah yes... that one great stranger. He came out of nowhere. Europe some say, some others say south Africa. We never knew for sure. He asked the people of our lovely village to catch spiders for him. All kinds, big ones, small spiders, any type would do. And he would pay us greatly too! So quickly all the village got buckets full of spiders to the kind stranger. - The elder woman took a moment to breath - You wouldn't guess what he had done with the spiders. - What did he do grandma? - He made a guitar string of spider webs! A full guitar string! - There's no way, a spider string is way too weak to be a guitar string! - One kid said and the others followed. It is true, a spider web breaks with the slightest effort of one's hand, imagine as a guitar string! Simply impossible. - Yes, but he did it anyway. - The old woman telling the story rested her hands on her lap - He used many spiders and many many webs, the legend say He kindly asked the spider king for the string in exchange of bugs and water! - And the spider king gave him the web? - Well but of course. The spider king wasn't a fool like yourself. - Ewwww no! I don't want bugs, what would I need them for? - Spiders eat bugs you dummy! - Another kid came in the conversation. - Yes indeed. Some people say that after everything was over, the great Spiderman went away without saying much more. - And what did he do with the spiders? - Oh... you wouldn't like to know. - The old woman stood tall in the front of the children. - Before he went away, some people think that he just - She got close to the kids, talking softly - HE ATE ALL OF THEM! - The old woman screamed and the children went away scared but laughing. And that was the legend of the great Spiderman. thanks for reading, I got carried away but it was fun to write it
The shot of the local guy singing as he played the spiderweb string guitar made the 8 days worth it. It’s really a priceless moment if you think about it. Beautiful
at that moment I hit the like button! Finally some Beautiful music and song we heard - and the video get finalized with this songs in the end and happy moments for the villages!
Hello from Madagascar. There are quite a few of these spiders in our neighborhood, they are quite docile and are not particularly dangerous or brutal even if their bite can be very painful. Local people call them "Foniala" (litterally heart of forest) and yeah, their have pretty strong webs
I was absolutely in shock and incredibly impressed the entire time. My favorite part though was 100% the locals playing the guitar. That moment was just incredible hearing that.
19:10 Love is a sticky thing And it makes a spidery string Bound by wild desire I fell in to a string from spider I fell into a scary string from spider Went down, down, down And the webs went higher And it burns, burns, burns The string of spider The string of spider
I'm so glad that Mattias became an engineer. He could have been a tax accountant, a community organizer, or a non-attorney spokesperson. I especially liked how he faced down the local politicians who tried to make him stop.
@@jhandle900 nah. looking at that small village, I think he was relatively safe. If they were locals who don't know their rights or people who aren't backed up, that would be a different story.
They were just run of the mill scammers, likely working with the hotel person who was "translating" - pathetic attempt, their smirking thinking they're gonna get a payout..
@@emilychloee very much depends on the buying power also. does it buy a kilo of potatoes in the US or Madagaskar? Also depends on how much they would usually make. if you only make a dollar a week, collecting some spiders for a dollar each sounds pretty fucking great.
For me totally worth it! seeing people's smile and how hospitable everyone in the village even tho the process of making string out of spider is not easy but the journey is sooooo exhilarating. I love this.
19:30: a random dude from a Madagascar village playing a Johnny Cash song on a spider silk string milked by a Swedish pianist and all the kids from said village.
Mattias, this was NOT a waste of time. That spider web string has a unique sound to it. There should be a way to strengthen the spider web somehow either through chemical reaction or the way you weave the individual webs together. This video kept me smiling and engaged.
Its entirely possible since the tensile strength for the web is compared to steel of the same size as said silk web i believe its just a matter of how many spiders can you get to weave it together to make it more durable for playing on
@@unrealsavage9463 Yeah, just needs a lot more spiders. It would also be more helpful if they were using lab bred spiders that they could guarantee the health and diet of the spider and resulting in a more consistent quality of silk. However golden orb weaver silk is incredibly expensive and time consuming. A few years ago people made a cape out of the silk, it took 8 years and is valued at around $400,000. It would be much more efficient to use silk moth caterpillars, which are what are usually used to make silk. Would love to see a guitar strung entirely like this.
thought emporium has a project to make custom silk using the silk genes found in a variety of spiders which can be tuned for different uses. its an old video now but there are even opportunities to use genes that no natural spider uses to give the silk even more interesting properties. basically GMO silk. its pretty interesting and would take much of the animal harvesting right out of the process. getting rid of the "sticky" genes can make durable natural silk replacement and IDK if it was in the video but depending on the genes you can make it bulletproof or stretchy or stronger than rope etc.@@avaleloc1513
I think you're underestimating your own willpower and creativity if you were to be given the money and resources. Being a RUclipsr is a highly sought out job for a reason, because it's something many of them deeply enjoy and get to create art in doing. He is making money off of this. That's great for him, and I'm glad he can to make these videos. I really liked the video too. The overwhelming majority of people who will watch this video probably can't quit their jobs, and likely *will never be able to go on an international trip for similar passion projects for 6 months* , because they are too poor, because that's how economics and numbers work, because that's how statistics work. Because odds are, most people, will not 'beat the odds', because that literally is contradictory. He is making money and the project is securing his future. Most people's hobbies will never amount to anything financially gaining (which is not necessarily bad)
That is radical!!! This guitar sounds like an antique special instrument with spider web strings. I am in utmost shock and awe of your engineering brilliance and knowledge of nature!
It was 100%! Worth it! Only 8 days and 6kms? Done in a tropical hotel room? I mean come on, this was super impressive! I can't wait for someone to ramp this up and do a full guitar!
@@blacky8987 i didn't say he stabbed something, the commenter claimed that animal abuse is impossible if you have a reason to do what you did which is untrue as shown by the thought experiment of stabbing your dog to get it to stop licking you.
@@blacky8987 Not really, Spiders eat their own silk when they are done with it because its made out of specific and special compounds. Imagine if somebody stuck a straw in you and sucked out all vitamin C or some shit and stole your car and all your money. They need them shits to survive
So funny enough there’s a new species of spider that had been discovered in Madagascar called the Darwin bark spider who now holds the title of strongest webs Though they are related to the golden orb weavers
@@Mattiaskrantz ah i figured, well it’s still quite amazing that you were able to get enough for a guitar string. So I think you guys succeeded with the resources available
this is one of the wildest videos i've ever seen on RUclips, i had no clue milking spiders was even possible, much less making a guitar string out of their silk?? and you flew to Madagascar to do it?? man. Amazing video; absolutely love seeing all the local village people excited as well and how much they and the staff helped you out, so cool!
apprentice luthier here, gotta say this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, I've seen and worked with all types of strings but I've got to say the tone of the spider silk is great, I'd love to see this produced on a larger scale (though the ethics of that are questionable at best) and used on a guitar more suited to them (imo smaller, lighter bodied guitar, maybe an acoustic-electric to better amplify the unique sound). the idea alone though is something straight out of a fantasy book and I love it.
Silk farming boils silkworms alive while spider silk farming has spiders lie on their back while they're milked. Spider milking is MUCH more ethical than the mass silk farming we have already. The biggest issue is time and energy. While silkworms happily eat and coccoon together, spiders attack and eat each other, so they have to be trested and milked individually.
When you twist the threads, don't just group them all together and twist, you need to make multiple groupings of fibre then add a reverse rotation to each group as you twist. Search for rope making techniques. By putting a reverse rotation in the groups they grip each other as you twist and do not unwind. Doing this will also make the overall string much much stronger.
I did do this! The method was the same as the studies of the guy who made violin spidersilk strings in Japan! But never went into much detail in the actual vid!
It was very much worth it just to hear those local musicians singing and playing a great rendition of ring of fire 🔥 and the song the other guy started singing ❤❤
I was just thinking that the song is hugely appropriate for a spiderweb string. :D I can make this joke, I have a pet tarantula, I'd never hurt any spiders.
@@lolxmemes8402 damn so familiar but I couldn't remember what it is. So I've spent like half an our trying to figure it out =) Here you go: Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
He kept saying "this was a waste of time" but seeing the Madagascan culture was so cool. The small community and all the kids helping and at the end with the guy sining and the people clapping was soo cool. It really showed what music was all about no matter what language music can bring people together. Cool video.
@@Mattiaskrantz Okay, I watched it fully and my blood pressure is slowly recovering. It was a really good video, about 60% enjoyable! But for real, insane idea and glad you proved them naysayers wrong!
Man you have a really great tenacity to milk the special spider and spin it to transform into the guiter string and bring out beautiful tune out of that spider string. Good luck man. All the best.
the locals playing the guitar is just so wholesome. actually the whole people are wholesome!! really liked the video. made me smile the entire time watching you
This is a video about catching handling immobilising and 'silking' spiders and its the use of the word "milking" that horrifies you? Youre so funny😂😂😂 i like you, lets be friends🤣🌻
I absolutely loved that you guys went back to the village and tried to show and explain that you guys made a guitar string out of all the spider string. It is so nice that we got to hear the people play on your tiny guitar. English isn’t my first language either so sorry if my English is bad but I really enjoyed this video and the storytelling and the music of the people!
Bringing up the lawyer was a BOSS move, if you're interested in LIVING in madagascar, central or south america, this is the key to happiness. Lawyers move those worlds!
I don't know why but I think 19:03 felt so wholesome for some reason, especially when he started singing. It just made me smile because it just felt like such a nice and perfect end to a project as well as the video. It's nice to see people are so curios and interested in such odd things and I just really enjoy it bringing people together the way it does.
If you take a look at the stress strain curve of steel and spider silk, you'll see where the problem is. Spider silk is all about elastic deformation and then it just snaps without a warning. Steel has a very clear plastic deformation region which warns you when you've gone too far.
Yea, you can see the difference is steel vs nylon strings that way. I can feel the rising tension in steel strings, nylon they just continuously stretch out until they snap
@@Zack-bl2gg Since, spider silk can handle high strain but only very little stress, you're clearly limited to lower pitch instruments such as a base guitar. If you want to tune the string to a higher pitch, you should probably use a completely different material that can handle the high stress required for it.
The locals know how to sing! :) Also, remember that joining more webs into one string makes it thicker, which lowers it's tone. If you used the string on G or B, it would work fine! The tension AND the thickness changes the tone. Of course the length too, but it's the same in a guitar
It's just so wholesome to see the locals towards the end play the instrument. Such a beautiful and soulful sound even though the equipment and the setting were nowhere near as "professional". It just goes to show that all you need to communicate through music is just an instrument. I don't know if that's the case but I feel that the web string inherently made the locals connect more with their roots and who they are, subconsciously bringing out an authentic sound no western studio could ever achieve. This was a great video and I'm glad this is shared with the world.
If Matt lived in a D&D setting, what weird things would he try to make guitar strings out of? Other than car-sized spiders. Would he make a piano out of a mimic?
I could see him being the kind of person to be the origins of mimics, like it starts with building pianos, and they eventually gain sentience the more iterations he makes
OMG that guy in the green shirt singing Ring of Fire... ~goosebumps~ I mean he sounded spine-chillingly good... the guy in the red shirt was amazing too.
That was a Nehpilidae familiy spider. They are known as "golden web weavers" and they craft the strongest webs in the world (probably). In South America we have plenty of them and several subspecies. Great video Mattias. I hope you can make shorts of the gitar players.
I think you should try again, but you should try braiding the web instead of twisting. Alternatively, I read an article a while ago which said that researchers found that silkworm silk that has been re-spun is much stronger than spider silk, so you could try silkworm silk instead. Or maybe try whatever process they used on the silkworm silk with the spider silk. Or genetically engineer a larger spider that produces more silk over time than natural spiders, and use that.
you would probably be less happy to know some original lyres were made with human skulls, other body parts, and gut strings. cat gut strings are one of the long running acceptable string production methods based on the earlier models.
8:11 what’s crazy is that 4,000 Malagasy Ariary is only $0.89 - so they were getting less than a dollar per spider and still so many people were out looking for them.
Bro i live in mexico and 1 dollar buys a big taco with double tortilla, beans, mashed potatoes, and grilled steak plus unlimited salsas and toppings. I can imagine the money goes even further in a small village in Africa. And the tacos are big like 2 are enough to fill you up three to stuff you. They are also delicious.
I am currently going through video ideas for a next video. If you have something that doesn't exist yet that you reeeally want to see related to guitar, pianos or maybe even some other instrument. Please let me know in a comment here.
piano where when you press down the key it blows air into a recorder pre-set at that note would be funny
A beatbox with guitar strings on it to give it a boomier sound
A lyre made of human bone with hair strings.
An air instrument that shoots fireballs when blown.
A hurdy gurdy where the wheel is powered by a harley davidson bike.
An ordinary violin with a modified chainsaw as a bow.
Or all of those toguether lol: A violin with hair strings that uses a moded chainsaw as a bow, wich is powered by a harley davidson bike that spits fire 🤘
guitar with a theremin attached. idk how that would work, but theremins are cool and need to be used in more stuff. maybe a theremin guitar that plays notes corresponding to certain frets like an octave pedal?
guitar using wool you spun as strings
A crowd of people rushing to give you a spider is like my worst nightmare
Getting abducted and anally probed is my worst nightmare. Do you think it's something in our poo that the aliens want?
Like, maybe they're trying to make guitar strings out of our poo just to see if they can?
@@John-X omg you’re right…
Purification in progress
@@John-XSpider web doesn't comes from their anus, but I see your point
@@John-X 😢
You asked for spiders, and they delivered. You asked for guitars, and they delivered. Perks of a small town. Word travels fast.
Of course they delivered anything for foreign money which has 10x its value in that country :)
That woman in the beginning invited all the money starving villagers, because he said bbc.
@@Secret_Squirrel_Scottishgamer Not enough budXD Try 20-30x
Well on one hand hes got an interesting sidequest he was trying to complete and on the other hand if you get enough crisp 1 dollar bills together you can aquire a small army of children and accomplish almost anything basically 😂😂
@@simonbionary11010 yeah 4000 Malagasy Ariary is $0.88/£0.73/9.79kr, which is apparently still not enough to buy a can of coke in Madagascar
Airport worker: "Purpose of you visit?"
Mattias: "I am here to milk your spiders."
So i brought the homemade spidermilker 1.0 on the flight and I was really worried I would have to explain what I would use it for
"I'm here to chew bubblegum and milk spiders. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
@@FelipeMesquitasilk milkem
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@Mattiaskrantz
I’m looking for the 1.01 upgraded version.
Imagine walking by and seeing a guy with a spider pinned onto the table while its web is pulled out and twirled around a bike wheel
Lol that’s crazy
When the locals came up and played the guitar was such a vibe. Music brings so much joy
I couldn't help but smile and enjoy it
When I heard Ring of Fire was nice, but the boy singing a local song, oh man!
People may speak a totally different language but music is universal.
This brought tears to my eyes. Going around the world and seeing the power music has to bring light... It is a gift from God. He created this power. Thank you for bringing this to all of us
Yeah that was a beautiful moment. We may see how they live and think they are poor but god damn they are probably happier than us!
It was completely worth it. Just hearing the talent of those two young men was worth it all for us. If you didn’t go looking for spiders in Madagascar, we wouldn’t of heard those beautiful voices.
If you liked that part you should check out Playing For Change. Beautiful stuff
Agreed. Truly a magical and touching moment.
Does anyone have any idea the guy played at 19:05
@@friendgamer3475 Acoustic guitar rendition of Jonny Cash - Ring of Fire
wouldn't ****have 🙏🙏
"I now had one spider and one wife, but I needed hundreds more"
Oh my god, he's elevated from building pianos to building harems
Yea that was so funny! Also, just moments before he said that I was thinking "Is this woman flirting with him? It looks like flirting to me!"
Not the weirdest isekai I've seen...
She was pretty cute! I'd move to Madagascar for her.
@@LordDragox412 so I'm a spirder, so what?
Congratulations! 🎊
(You went there with the pretense of finding a spider for its webs, but as it turned out, YOU were the spider and you caught her in your web! 😄)
I love spiders! and seeing you free the bucket of them just because you didn't feel comfortable milking them while they were all trapped together made me very happy!! Also that HUUGE last spider was amazing! I love her!!! sorry you got bit tho
Dangerous spiders, child labor, unforseen consequences and a dream... Salute to you, Madlad Krantz.
UPD: THANK YOU ALL for so much likes! (18k at the time). And also I know that these spiders are NOT dangerous, his name is Mattias and this is a joke about white colonialism.
And "wife".
Don't forget trying to exploit foreigners!
@@octaviusmorlockhundreds of them
And cannibals
Don't forget corruption
I am absolutely amazed at this. Literally at every point of this video I'm like, "There's no way he's being serious. This is obviously a joke." Immediately followed by, "Oh my gosh he's serious." What a huge undertaking. Incredible.
You must be new here. EVERY video Mattias puts out is a (sometimes painful) slow transition from "He can't be serious" to "Oh god he's serious" 😲
More than an experimental video, this video was partly also a showcase of the beautiful people in the small towns in Madagascar and i love that
I like seeing reminders that you can go super far from home, meet totally different people, yet some things never change. We see this with cooking programs like Bourdain's, showing how good food or hospitality is a universal thing. This was like that with music. You can go anywhere with a tuned instrument, not speak a word, and make deep connections with people en masse.
The fact they were all so helpful too
Yeah I really loved seeing them! :] I appreciate these people's friendliness
And a handful of allegedly bad ones.
19:32 the man cooking it💀
Did that dude bust out Jhonny Cash on a spider silk ukulele? Iove this man.
I had a bit of tear on my eyes
I love how curious the locals are and how into it they get. Probably one of those things they'll be talking about for years about that one strange tourist who came and wanted to milk spiders.
They are curious but are also in for the money, can't blame them though!
Maybe they will start making strings themselves now.... 😮😅
On their place, wouldn't you be curious either, thou?
That's like when farmers speak of aliens abducting their cattle.
Id tell the story for years too if he had come to my town lol
Seeing a man from a Madagascar village performing an amazing rendition of a classic American music, on a guitar which one of it string was made from a native spider web, made by a Swedish guy is truly something else
What songs were they singing
@@jazmonzones Ring of Fire!
Globalization in a nutshell!
I love humans lol
no this was literally once in a life time kinda thing
Fun fact that I never had time to say in the video. I did get qoutes from spiderlabs that could do the milking for me during the period of 6 months. They do the exact same process, except not using a bicycle of course. The qoute for a full set of guitar strings (128km of spiderweb if I calculated correctly) was 200 000 USD. Even if this is probably very expensive since it’s niche and targeting science labs, it goes to show just how unique and labor intensive the process is
It's even more impressive if you consider that some mad folks have made a gown/cape from golden orb weaver silk from Madagascar. It's hard to imagine how much labor that must've taken.
I can just see some weird Olympic sport being created where they require spiderweb guitar strings from Madagascar for every competition
Given the attentiveness of the locals, if one were to administrate the process there domestically it looks pretty possible. If they have so much labor readily available, it could be profitable for them if you could train, administer, and distribute.
At the beginning of the video, my first thought was "why tf not try ukulele?" - 4 short strings, less tension... Good proof of concept.
But I'm glad you did come so close to E, I'll count it that you made it!
I think the string was too thick to be an E string on a regular guitar. Probably would have lasted a lot longer as a B or even G string.
If you made it slightly thinner you would have accomplished the E.
Really curious about the math you did on how much web you need for it, but then again, you didn't calculate that Ukulele would have been a more attainable goal, so can't trust your number on the string requirements either, can I? :D
But hey... MASSIVE PROPS for the project. I have a pet tarantula and I'm not letting you anywhere near it, but still... Well done!
That means the string you made was almost $10k!
Spider dragline silk has a tensile strength of roughly 1.3 GPa. The tensile strength listed for steel might be slightly higher - e.g. 1.65 GPa, but spider silk is a much less dense material, so that a given weight of spider silk is five times as strong as the same weight of steel.
Quantitatively, spider silk is five times stronger than steel of the same diameter. It has been suggested that a Boeing 747 could be stopped in flight by a single pencil-width strand and spider silk is almost as strong as Kevlar, the toughest man-made polymer.- Google
And it was precisely for this property that strings were made with spider silk in China and the Silk Road through most of history.
@@taylordiclemente5163 I'm pretty sure that silk came from silkworms and not spiders.
@@andrewpenn1145 yes, you're right.
Hearing the locals play was truly beautiful
Madagascar man playing Johnny cash was wild!! Super cool
Best part of the video
HI, Do you know what the name of the song is?@@Fooma777
@@Fooma777 Yeah, one of the cutest versions i've ever heard. Also super unexpected.
@@Fooma777what’s the song called?
I can imagine the village gossip was crazy that week:
1- Some crazy tourist is looking for spiders.
2- Now Spider-Man is looking for a guitar.
3- Oh, spider web guitar string.
4 - dafq
Face egbc egbd egac DFAC-
5- man im ded👽💀
As someone who lives near mada, it's more like wondering if this quirked up white boy is just here for sex. Confusion spreading as they find out this crazy mf was here to milk spiders.
I hope they have a buisness plan now... :)
Mattias doesn't know this, but he's started an entire industry of spiderweb guitar string making in Madagascar. In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders
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"In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders"
I think you're missing a "not"?
Or do you mean that the best musicians are going to be protesting for spider rights and refusing to use their silk?
@@nathangamble125both are possible
@@nathangamble125in 10 years the “not” will be needed but in 20 years advancements in synthetic materials and increased awareness about animal cruelty will make the previously very popular silk strings quite controversial.
@@Numbabu And also the weird "Sweden randomly stumbles into neocolonization" bit.
Saw it in a different reply chain.
2:26 one spider and one wife was crazy😂😂
Bro she really is gorgeous
@@frenchie5823and she was definitely flirting too
what is her @?
Obviously how she was exposing the back of her neck@@ZeallustImmortal
This dude accidentally caused a massive kidnapping of unsuspecting spiders.
"They took me, they did some weird experiments and got some of my web stuff, then they let me go. It was wild!" - That's how UFO stories start.
@@kataseiko😂
I have those spiders here in Alabama. They make massive beautiful webs. We call them Banana Spiders. They're not native, but they are also not invasive.
Good DnD prompt?
@@kataseiko 🤣🤣🤣
Mattias casually exploiting the locals for spiders is certainly not something I expected to see XD
I mean they could buy a bottle of coke for that amount lol so I’d say fair trade
@@IsItKebabOrTurd put up posters for spiders with insane reward and then didn't deliver because of the response. typical ignorant westerner.
lol. Not sure you can call it exploitation when they're literally clamoring and plotting to get at what he's got.
@@IsItKebabOrTurdA bottle of coke or a shitton more in another country
lmao. I looked it up and 4000 Malagasy Ariary equals $0.89 usd lol
This is a very niche request, but that last song that guy sang is called Misahotaka ny Akama by Rajery. I grew up listening to that song, and I wanted to know if you had a longer video. It like seriously struck me so deeply to hear someone actually singing it in like 2023. I’ve only ever heard it on CD from years ago. So cool.
Thank you, I scrolled down the comments so far to find this
Oh that's what the song was? I was wondering because it sounded so nice. I wanted to hear it again
Is that song from Madagascar originally? If so, how and where did you hear it? I doubt you live there or even close to it, and obscure songs like that usually don't spread around the world.
@Serjo777 the artist is a known musician In a band who tours all over Africa and Europe. Many many people have heard the song before. It's literally on Spotify, some of his songs have millions of listens
@@McGeek23 That explains it then ^^
something about mattias's video-editing style makes it seem like its his first day on earth but he's already world-class.
The craziest thing is that you are going to be a legend in that town for decades to come. People will tell their family members about the spider man that would hand out money for whoever brought him spiders.
their johnny appleseed
The local spider silk industry about to explode.
@@BrandanLee No, seriously. If someone in that village realizes what just happened, there's about to be a new industry in that village.
The other craziest thing is everyone there can play guitar
- Grandma, grandma, tell us the story about the spiderman!
- Ah yes... that one great stranger. He came out of nowhere. Europe some say, some others say south Africa. We never knew for sure. He asked the people of our lovely village to catch spiders for him. All kinds, big ones, small spiders, any type would do. And he would pay us greatly too! So quickly all the village got buckets full of spiders to the kind stranger. - The elder woman took a moment to breath - You wouldn't guess what he had done with the spiders.
- What did he do grandma?
- He made a guitar string of spider webs! A full guitar string!
- There's no way, a spider string is way too weak to be a guitar string! - One kid said and the others followed. It is true, a spider web breaks with the slightest effort of one's hand, imagine as a guitar string! Simply impossible.
- Yes, but he did it anyway. - The old woman telling the story rested her hands on her lap - He used many spiders and many many webs, the legend say He kindly asked the spider king for the string in exchange of bugs and water!
- And the spider king gave him the web?
- Well but of course. The spider king wasn't a fool like yourself.
- Ewwww no! I don't want bugs, what would I need them for?
- Spiders eat bugs you dummy! - Another kid came in the conversation.
- Yes indeed. Some people say that after everything was over, the great Spiderman went away without saying much more.
- And what did he do with the spiders?
- Oh... you wouldn't like to know. - The old woman stood tall in the front of the children. - Before he went away, some people think that he just - She got close to the kids, talking softly - HE ATE ALL OF THEM! - The old woman screamed and the children went away scared but laughing.
And that was the legend of the great Spiderman.
thanks for reading, I got carried away but it was fun to write it
The shot of the local guy singing as he played the spiderweb string guitar made the 8 days worth it. It’s really a priceless moment if you think about it. Beautiful
was searching for this comment! Absolutely true.
Yeap! Totally agree
Yeah it was really nice singing, playing in the madagascar style!
at that moment I hit the like button! Finally some Beautiful music and song we heard - and the video get finalized with this songs in the end and happy moments for the villages!
Anyone know the name of the song he was singing?
Hello from Madagascar.
There are quite a few of these spiders in our neighborhood, they are quite docile and are not particularly dangerous or brutal even if their bite can be very painful. Local people call them "Foniala" (litterally heart of forest) and yeah, their have pretty strong webs
I love to know they are named "Heart of Forest", thank you
Golden Orb Weaver Spider.
I thought they were called Fucks
We have our version of those here in Brazil. Got many in my backyard. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
what is the second song in the video it sounds lovely
This is a crazy amazing experiment
Those 2 random guys who played and sang did so beautifully.
Another crazy project. Very entertaining as usual. 👍
I know it was so beautiful wow
Hey do you know what was the song the guy in green shirt played
@@ashwinrawat9622 i also want to know
@@ashwinrawat9622ring of fire by Johnny Cash
@@DionisFerizi do you know the song of the last guy?
Putting bounties on spiders, milking them in a midieval torture device, this truly is art
Yeah at first I was like ehhhh, then it evolved into a real quest
1000th liker lol
Midieval...
I love it
#WowThatsGruesomeLol
🤣
I was absolutely in shock and incredibly impressed the entire time. My favorite part though was 100% the locals playing the guitar. That moment was just incredible hearing that.
the guy at 19:13 is so soothing
There will be stories of this man told in that village for generations.
19:10
Love is a sticky thing
And it makes a spidery string
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a string from spider
I fell into a scary string from spider
Went down, down, down
And the webs went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The string of spider
The string of spider
Brilliant!
Beautiful
Freaking insane. I can't believe you're continuing to break the mold on this platform, time after time. Well done, dude.
Thank you!🙏 otherwise there’s no point of putting it up!
@@Mattiaskrantzsup
I'm so glad that Mattias became an engineer. He could have been a tax accountant, a community organizer, or a non-attorney spokesperson. I especially liked how he faced down the local politicians who tried to make him stop.
"Local politicians" lol Mattias is lucky he didn't get robbed. I was scared for our boy.
@@jhandle900 nah. looking at that small village, I think he was relatively safe. If they were locals who don't know their rights or people who aren't backed up, that would be a different story.
@@jhandle900that’s messed up to think 😅
@@Zamkuma they were clearly trying to take advantage of him
They were just run of the mill scammers, likely working with the hotel person who was "translating" - pathetic attempt, their smirking thinking they're gonna get a payout..
19:00 this guy is amazing
Dude playing Johnny Cash on the guitarlele with the spider string literally brought a smile to my face. Thank you!
he killed it!!!!!!!!!!
They should've put that part on a clip about their experience and travel to Madagascar.. that would've been so great at the end of the video!
He sounded incredible
Yeah that was awesome
What’s the song called?
Imagine a person with arachnophobia waking up in the morning and going in the park to get some fresh air just to see 100+ spiders on top of each other
I'd get a panic attack. They were really damn big too.
@@Electivedrop i will just die on the spot
I meeeaann.. they would eat each other. Thats too many spiders on a small area
@@mepik15 I don't even want to imagine that
@doombros9770 when it's all over you have to fight the spider who won
i cant imagine the spider population around that hotel after him being there
They are cannibals - its more like a battle royal
The guy playing at the end saved the trip 😂
I mean they arent so bad if they are there it keeps other insects away 😭
Or even worse, more of them arrive because they like it.
actually half fo those would be dead lol
First spider, check. First wife, check.
1000 more of each. Here he comes! 😂
So much talent in that village! 😮
At 18:54 the guy is playing Ring of fire by Johnny Cash , is perfect the style of playing and singing along gives a wholesome feeling
Man, it's lovely
I loved that!!!!
gave me chills- totally unexpected!!💚
But what is played at 20:00 ??
@@fullmoonracoon9584 Misahotaka ny akama by rajery
Mattias is living every man's dream. Traveling and milking spiders 😂.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185 what
I can confirm, this is not my dream
@@margathapai4010me when I tell lies...
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185k
and finding wives
My guy took 1 spider for 1 dollar, and the entire village showed up. damn
1 dollar is a lot of money for them
Not really, 4000 MGA (the amount paid per spider, or 89 US cents) gets you a kilo of potatoes. Not bad, but also not "a lot of money"
@@emilychloee very much depends on the buying power also. does it buy a kilo of potatoes in the US or Madagaskar? Also depends on how much they would usually make. if you only make a dollar a week, collecting some spiders for a dollar each sounds pretty fucking great.
@@weakamna It buys a kilo of potatoes in Madagascar. In the USA, a kilo of potatoes costs $2.97 on average, three times more than in madagascar.
@@emilychloee a kilo of potatoes for 1 dollar is insane
For me totally worth it! seeing people's smile and how hospitable everyone in the village even tho the process of making string out of spider is not easy but the journey is sooooo exhilarating. I love this.
19:30: a random dude from a Madagascar village playing a Johnny Cash song on a spider silk string milked by a Swedish pianist and all the kids from said village.
😂😂
hey what's the song
@@Conven468Ring of Fire
i could listen to him play that for hours, just felt so calming
Some kind of miracle by the sound of it. 😲😋
Mattias, this was NOT a waste of time. That spider web string has a unique sound to it. There should be a way to strengthen the spider web somehow either through chemical reaction or the way you weave the individual webs together. This video kept me smiling and engaged.
I’d say he just needed more spiders per string. Or a different method for harvesting.
Its entirely possible since the tensile strength for the web is compared to steel of the same size as said silk web i believe its just a matter of how many spiders can you get to weave it together to make it more durable for playing on
@@unrealsavage9463 Yeah, just needs a lot more spiders. It would also be more helpful if they were using lab bred spiders that they could guarantee the health and diet of the spider and resulting in a more consistent quality of silk. However golden orb weaver silk is incredibly expensive and time consuming. A few years ago people made a cape out of the silk, it took 8 years and is valued at around $400,000. It would be much more efficient to use silk moth caterpillars, which are what are usually used to make silk. Would love to see a guitar strung entirely like this.
thought emporium has a project to make custom silk using the silk genes found in a variety of spiders which can be tuned for different uses. its an old video now but there are even opportunities to use genes that no natural spider uses to give the silk even more interesting properties. basically GMO silk. its pretty interesting and would take much of the animal harvesting right out of the process. getting rid of the "sticky" genes can make durable natural silk replacement and IDK if it was in the video but depending on the genes you can make it bulletproof or stretchy or stronger than rope etc.@@avaleloc1513
Agreed - clicked out of pure curiosity and couldn’t stop watching
You are a true madman. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone more committed to a project.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185 Don't sugma
did you see that 360 degrees guitar at the end of the video? crazy
And there is a village in Madagascar where people will tell their grandkids about the white Swedish Spiderman
16:05 I love that sound for the 2 seconds there
did you find the name of song
i love that they went to show the locals and then found some GREAT players! honestly they sounded fucking fantastic
Great musicians are everywhere making great music with anything. We just need to keep an ear out and an open mind.
Dude. His determination to travel halfway across the globe to milk spiders makes up for the whole video
so just because someone traveled to another place in a video means its good?
I think you're underestimating your own willpower and creativity if you were to be given the money and resources. Being a RUclipsr is a highly sought out job for a reason, because it's something many of them deeply enjoy and get to create art in doing. He is making money off of this. That's great for him, and I'm glad he can to make these videos. I really liked the video too.
The overwhelming majority of people who will watch this video probably can't quit their jobs, and likely *will never be able to go on an international trip for similar passion projects for 6 months* , because they are too poor, because that's how economics and numbers work, because that's how statistics work. Because odds are, most people, will not 'beat the odds', because that literally is contradictory. He is making money and the project is securing his future. Most people's hobbies will never amount to anything financially gaining (which is not necessarily bad)
@@Stomo444 bruh. chill
@@TrueTruthHonestyup most likely
@@Stomo444no one is gonna read all that 💀
No suprise why they call it Fuk.
The first settler who saw the spider for the first was like Ohh Fuk.
Brilliant comment 🤣
Bro's corrupting the youth😂
That is radical!!! This guitar sounds like an antique special instrument with spider web strings. I am in utmost shock and awe of your engineering brilliance and knowledge of nature!
The part where the village people sang while playing the spider string guitar is pure gold
Indeed. I teared up a little. Salute to the spiders who made it possible
Then they all sang YMCA
Exactly what he needed at the moment 😊❤
What a madlad... You're truly a man of immense comitment. Probably the most dedicated RUclipsr I've ever seen!
It was 100%! Worth it! Only 8 days and 6kms? Done in a tropical hotel room? I mean come on, this was super impressive! I can't wait for someone to ramp this up and do a full guitar!
Mattias is such a goat that those spiders felt obligated to goat aswell
They got to make the body out of spider string aswell 😭
19:03 Bro cooked🔥🥶
That spiders friends ain’t never gon believe wat happened to em😭
Puts a whole new spin on alien abduction stories when you hear them. Maybe not that crazy after all lol.
Oh they'll believe them. Mostly because they were all there, too. He abducted an entire spider city.
There are probably so many spiders talking about what happened to them that they actually will do it
Imagine being able to say you have a guitar with strings made of spider silk
Bro violated everything 💀💀
Dangerous spider
Child labour
Animal abuse
Forced labour (spiders)
Kidnapping
@@BubsThePossumIf you stab a dog to get it to stop licking you is that animal abuse
@@TylerMarkRichardson kid. no one here stab anything lol millking spider is like milking cows chill out my god
@@blacky8987 i didn't say he stabbed something, the commenter claimed that animal abuse is impossible if you have a reason to do what you did which is untrue as shown by the thought experiment of stabbing your dog to get it to stop licking you.
@@TylerMarkRichardsonI partially agree with you but those two situations are way too different to compare them
@@blacky8987 Not really, Spiders eat their own silk when they are done with it because its made out of specific and special compounds. Imagine if somebody stuck a straw in you and sucked out all vitamin C or some shit and stole your car and all your money. They need them shits to survive
Mattias: "It's for a project."
Staff Lady: "What kind of project?"
Mattias: *laughs*
15:35 wow I can’t believe you did that thanks for showing me how to make guitar strings 😍
So funny enough there’s a new species of spider that had been discovered in Madagascar called the Darwin bark spider who now holds the title of strongest webs
Though they are related to the golden orb weavers
We found a few of those! But they were only like every 1/30 of the spiders so quite rare and hard to find enough..
@@Mattiaskrantz ah i figured, well it’s still quite amazing that you were able to get enough for a guitar string. So I think you guys succeeded with the resources available
What if it's the same spider, but in a symbiote suit, GASP!
@@joeblankenship377 great now I’m imagining two spiders pointing at each other like the Spider-Man meme
this is one of the wildest videos i've ever seen on RUclips, i had no clue milking spiders was even possible, much less making a guitar string out of their silk?? and you flew to Madagascar to do it?? man. Amazing video; absolutely love seeing all the local village people excited as well and how much they and the staff helped you out, so cool!
There are labs genetically altering goats who make spider silk. The silk comes from their milk. So it would've been more efficient
apprentice luthier here, gotta say this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, I've seen and worked with all types of strings but I've got to say the tone of the spider silk is great, I'd love to see this produced on a larger scale (though the ethics of that are questionable at best) and used on a guitar more suited to them (imo smaller, lighter bodied guitar, maybe an acoustic-electric to better amplify the unique sound). the idea alone though is something straight out of a fantasy book and I love it.
Tbh how ethical is the corporate farm industry in the first place lol
Silk farming boils silkworms alive while spider silk farming has spiders lie on their back while they're milked. Spider milking is MUCH more ethical than the mass silk farming we have already.
The biggest issue is time and energy. While silkworms happily eat and coccoon together, spiders attack and eat each other, so they have to be trested and milked individually.
Are you not bothered at about 6:30 when he's "tuning" the string, which is slack, while the pitch is obviously not from the same string?
Doesn’t spiderweb S T RETCH ? 😂
Put the spiderweb on and play Spanish Fly 🤘🏻
@@edwardmorris3453 I think the string only looks like it's slack because of the camera's frame rate.
We need a rendition of "itsy bitty spider" with the spider web string!
"You don't need to be needled down and milked to have great sounding.."
I am amazed they allowed you to use that transition. Absolutely incredible.
When you twist the threads, don't just group them all together and twist, you need to make multiple groupings of fibre then add a reverse rotation to each group as you twist. Search for rope making techniques. By putting a reverse rotation in the groups they grip each other as you twist and do not unwind. Doing this will also make the overall string much much stronger.
I did do this! The method was the same as the studies of the guy who made violin spidersilk strings in Japan! But never went into much detail in the actual vid!
Guess that -10 spiders still hurt to this day 😂😂@@Mattiaskrantz
Getting an orb weaver to bite you is actually kind of impressive LOL they're so friendly
they wouldn't be if they were bigger. fuck arachnids.
Hell, I’d bite someone who’d been milking my *ss glands for the past hour as well, no matter how friendly I am.
Orb weavers are my favorite types of spiders
you're fucking horrifying@@blitzworldace
@@blitzworldace Same here. There's so many of them and they all have cool quirks that make them different.
2:23 lucky!
It was very much worth it just to hear those local musicians singing and playing a great rendition of ring of fire 🔥 and the song the other guy started singing ❤❤
I was just thinking that the song is hugely appropriate for a spiderweb string. :D
I can make this joke, I have a pet tarantula, I'd never hurt any spiders.
I want to know the song that the first local played the local with the sunglasses and blue shirt
@@lolxmemes8402 damn so familiar but I couldn't remember what it is. So I've spent like half an our trying to figure it out =)
Here you go: Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
He kept saying "this was a waste of time" but seeing the Madagascan culture was so cool. The small community and all the kids helping and at the end with the guy sining and the people clapping was soo cool. It really showed what music was all about no matter what language music can bring people together. Cool video.
More than cool it was sad. All those villagers like in extreme poverty...
They didn't look sad to me. I would even hesitate a guess that they are far more fulfilled than a lot of concrete jungle dwellers here in the west.
I concur @kartoffelwaffel
No, music doesn't bring people together
Smart people have the hardest life
Being an arachnophobe but also a fan of Mattias is a bit conflicting today, ngl
60% in the video it should be spider free pretty much!
same lol i definitely had to look away at some parts
being arachnophobic in 2023?? wow smh...
@@Mattiaskrantz spider full* (arachnophobe too)
@@Mattiaskrantz Okay, I watched it fully and my blood pressure is slowly recovering. It was a really good video, about 60% enjoyable!
But for real, insane idea and glad you proved them naysayers wrong!
Man you have a really great tenacity to milk the special spider and spin it to transform into the guiter string and bring out beautiful tune out of that spider string.
Good luck man.
All the best.
The part where you played Spider-Man tho-
Mwah! 🤌
Can’t believe so many people knew it from just the first notes!
I love your vids 😊
one of the best part @@Mattiaskrantz
16:19
@@Mattiaskrantz
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the locals playing the guitar is just so wholesome. actually the whole people are wholesome!!
really liked the video. made me smile the entire time watching you
please…why is it called milking when it’s spiders?? the word “silking” is RIGHT THERE 😭😭
This is a video about catching handling immobilising and 'silking' spiders and its the use of the word "milking" that horrifies you? Youre so funny😂😂😂 i like you, lets be friends🤣🌻
Is it the birth of a friendship!?
@@nekogod0i sure hope so🤣
Beuatifull ❤
Underrated comment🦵🏻👶🏻🦵🏻
Your hard work really pays off when the last person plays it sweetly
19:02 that guy playing Johnny cash on the string you made from spider web was the coolest experience great video
Oh heck yeah, he was a champion
That was beautiful
What is the name of song I want to learn
@@GeorgeCarrier-z7y ring of fire brother
@@TheSwordfish-g3r thank brother
I absolutely loved that you guys went back to the village and tried to show and explain that you guys made a guitar string out of all the spider string. It is so nice that we got to hear the people play on your tiny guitar. English isn’t my first language either so sorry if my English is bad but I really enjoyed this video and the storytelling and the music of the people!
Your English Is BETTER than most Americans!! Are you sure it's not your first language??👍
Yoo the amount of effort you've gone through for this video is crazy! I bet the village will be talking about the "Spiderman" for years to come.
19:16 nice song
Bringing up the lawyer was a BOSS move, if you're interested in LIVING in madagascar, central or south america, this is the key to happiness. Lawyers move those worlds!
It's the right move in any corrupt country tbh
Locals WILL try to swindle you, they don't see you as human but as stupid prey
I don't know why but I think 19:03 felt so wholesome for some reason, especially when he started singing. It just made me smile because it just felt like such a nice and perfect end to a project as well as the video. It's nice to see people are so curios and interested in such odd things and I just really enjoy it bringing people together the way it does.
Dragonforce is universal.
As a westerner, it was really cool to hear a Johnny Cash song being sang by a guy from halfway across the world on another hemisphere.
I think 20:00 was even better
@@iGotCapsounds indigenous
do you know the song name that green shirt guy singing?
If you take a look at the stress strain curve of steel and spider silk, you'll see where the problem is. Spider silk is all about elastic deformation and then it just snaps without a warning. Steel has a very clear plastic deformation region which warns you when you've gone too far.
Yea, you can see the difference is steel vs nylon strings that way. I can feel the rising tension in steel strings, nylon they just continuously stretch out until they snap
@@Zack-bl2gg Since, spider silk can handle high strain but only very little stress, you're clearly limited to lower pitch instruments such as a base guitar. If you want to tune the string to a higher pitch, you should probably use a completely different material that can handle the high stress required for it.
The "Spider that lives in *FCKING* madagascar" caught me so off guard 💀😂
The locals know how to sing! :)
Also, remember that joining more webs into one string makes it thicker, which lowers it's tone. If you used the string on G or B, it would work fine!
The tension AND the thickness changes the tone. Of course the length too, but it's the same in a guitar
It's just so wholesome to see the locals towards the end play the instrument. Such a beautiful and soulful sound even though the equipment and the setting were nowhere near as "professional". It just goes to show that all you need to communicate through music is just an instrument. I don't know if that's the case but I feel that the web string inherently made the locals connect more with their roots and who they are, subconsciously bringing out an authentic sound no western studio could ever achieve. This was a great video and I'm glad this is shared with the world.
I like how he released all the spiders in just one location.
ffa
he released all of the CANNIBAL spiders in just one location.
Bunch of feisty women, there is gonna be carnage.
@@MaxTheFireCat Its for another project, battle royale
just offloading them so he can put the token line about not wanting to hurt them etc etc.
The fact that you were able to even make a guitar string is pretty amazing! So cool!
If Matt lived in a D&D setting, what weird things would he try to make guitar strings out of? Other than car-sized spiders.
Would he make a piano out of a mimic?
I could see him being the kind of person to be the origins of mimics, like it starts with building pianos, and they eventually gain sentience the more iterations he makes
@@nathanmiller9381 Maybe he should try to make that piano from Super Mario 64's ghost level.
He'd track down a mimic shaped like a piano, tame it, and play Rush E on it
OMG that guy in the green shirt singing Ring of Fire... ~goosebumps~
I mean he sounded spine-chillingly good...
the guy in the red shirt was amazing too.
Loved how fast they got the hell out of there when they found out you already did your legal research.
Just wanted to say that this is probably something that the locals could export. Getting silk of that strength is one million percent useful
Excuse me, wtf? Good sir, this is insane. I'm here for it.
> make guitar string out of spider web
> it snaps because not strong enough
> "spiders sucks"
That was a Nehpilidae familiy spider. They are known as "golden web weavers" and they craft the strongest webs in the world (probably). In South America we have plenty of them and several subspecies. Great video Mattias. I hope you can make shorts of the gitar players.
I think you should try again, but you should try braiding the web instead of twisting. Alternatively, I read an article a while ago which said that researchers found that silkworm silk that has been re-spun is much stronger than spider silk, so you could try silkworm silk instead. Or maybe try whatever process they used on the silkworm silk with the spider silk. Or genetically engineer a larger spider that produces more silk over time than natural spiders, and use that.
They make parachutes out of silk worm silk so I think it’s pretty strong. Although i read about ballistic t shirts made from spider silk?!
I tried stringing a harp with braided fishing line once, and I think the braid dampens the vibration too much
i really love the vibe of folk ppl singing a folk song while playing a guitar made of true natural stuff. It's pure magic from humanity.
steel strings are natural stuff just so you know
you would probably be less happy to know some original lyres were made with human skulls, other body parts, and gut strings. cat gut strings are one of the long running acceptable string production methods based on the earlier models.
that is scary @@bread-ih9lm
@@bread-ih9lmok
It's fuk
8:11 what’s crazy is that 4,000 Malagasy Ariary is only $0.89 - so they were getting less than a dollar per spider and still so many people were out looking for them.
The value. In my country you can literally have one good meal with those.
88c for a spider in a little village is a lot
That’s 1.4% of the average monthly salary in Madagascar. ($64 USD)
Bro i live in mexico and 1 dollar buys a big taco with double tortilla, beans, mashed potatoes, and grilled steak plus unlimited salsas and toppings. I can imagine the money goes even further in a small village in Africa. And the tacos are big like 2 are enough to fill you up three to stuff you. They are also delicious.
Its a lot 💀
"A spider that lives in FUCKING Madagascar" This got me 😂💀
This ain't yt shorts
@@DoTheFloppokay and?
"Well howdy do"
-Spider from DreamWorks' Madagascar
What got me was "we are from the B B C". So the woman probably though he was from Pornhub 🤣