I make an electric piano wire instrument
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2021
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I'm Nicolas Bras, musician and homemade instruments builder, on this channel you will find tutorials, compositions, building projects, improvisations, live concerts
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Music :
Nicolas Bras - Guyane, Homemade (album)
Nicolas Bras - Tounda (unedited)
Nicolas Bras - Mouth Harp (unedited)
Nicolas Bras - Piano Wire Sanza (unedited)
Sandrine Morais : Video edition
Charlie Rabuel : subtitles 
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I think this guy is never bored.
You're perfectly right!
@@NicolasBras I believe it.
Or is he so easily bored, he thinks so deeply, and creates these incredible projects!
Or he is always bored
This dude is awesome. I'd love to go to his house and be like, "Hey Nick what are you making today?
As a musician, composer, and DIY music enthusiast, I find it insane how insanely talented and creative you are. It's almost hard to believe.
I think I have basically watched all your videos
literally making gibberish sounds
@@daveyjoseph6058 with instruments they have made themself and its rythm
@@feli_1 this is what happens when writers write with writer's block.
The spinning pan flute instrument is really neat!
Really interesting idea!
Thanks!
SO cool. The only instruments I ever made by hand was a few bamboo flutes. Never properly tuned but fun to play and fun to make.
Metal is so rich in unexpected overtones! I was just in a hardware store the other day with some angle aluminum and the variety of tones you could get by holding it in different places was incredible...
Sounds like a gong.....love it!
The tuning part=fascinating.
Thanks!
You have so much talent and creativity. You inspired me to start creating my own instruments and to learn others thanks a lot a don't stop what you do please.
Thanks a lot! I'm really happy to see other builders, please use all those ideas and improve them!
I'm amazed at how good that sounds. It sounds like FM synthesis almost, one string sounds like multiple different frequencies clashing in the most elegant way. Fantastic work, mate.
That's what it is! I knew it sounded similar to something I would always mess with on a synth when I was a kid. I really love how soft and rich the sound is.
Thanks a lot!
It sounds like a ton modulator
Ring lol
Tbf it literally is multiple frequencies. Overtones and whatnot.
That bicycle wheel one is amazing!
WOW!! HE'S CRAZY ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS. ONLY A CRAZY PERSON CAN MAKE ALL THESE KINDS OF INSTRUMENTS AND EVEN BY HIMSELF. A VERY VERY UNIQUE TALENT TRUELY❤❤❤
👍👍👍
Thanks!
When frenchmen are like you, they are the best people in the world to hang out with… I’ve met several like you in my time on earth so far! 😁👍 every creative has an iPad with procreate on it 😎 love your channel I’ve shared it with everyone I know who will also love it
Thanks a lot for your support!
The final song sounds like something out of earthbound. Awesome!
Such a great, haunting sound. I love the way the tuning warbles as the strings vibrate!
Mee too!
I like how excited he is when he finds somthing, that make a new cool sound and how he makes an instrument with this ... that is really cool
Thanks! I'm happy to share this!
A bicycle pan flute love it. You come up with some crazy ideas.
Just amazing bro! I never thought of this idea. good job
Nothing makes me happier than people who can make music out of anything!
Very creative! Very musical! Great job!
Very nice work and music! Intersting to watch this!
You've given me a lot to think about. Merci.
This is great, but I love that pan flute carrousel too! Thanks for sharing your work!
I LOVE these sounds! So inspiring... thank you!
Thanks!
Not only is the invention ingenius, the music you make with it is also funky. Awesome!
Thanks a lot!
EVERYTHING here is absolutely, totally cool. Thank you.
Way to go....we're having fun now. Keeping doing your thing,....always a delight.
This reminded me of a video I saw from a guy called "Edward Black Rose" where he made a keyboard that struck pieces of wire to make them vibrate, but he used a laser and a light sensor to pick up the vibrations. Kinda similar idea, maybe you could try his design when you're back from tour.
I am impressed how much bell sounds you get with that metal pices. What is awesome!
Wow I just found your channel and this is amazing! I'm so inspired to sample sounds from random things around the house!
Watching this just reminded me of a trick we did as kids. We would loop a long piece of thread through a wire hanger and tie the ends together. Then we hung the thread over the top of our head and leaned forward so the hanger hung down. Then we pushed the thread into each ear with our fingers and would swing the hanger into walls and objects and listen to the sounds/vibrations it would make. Just like then this is cool stuff!
I love doing this too, this is the acoustic version of my intro!
Younger hippie days someone taught us at a party to use an oven rack and 2 strings, built in reverb.
My god, so much work is being put into this videos! Amazing, Nico!
Thanks a lot! I try!
Hahahaha man this is so damn cool, I love how much dedication you show here! Wicked sounds too!!! 💙
That music piece was insane 🔥nice work man 👍
dude i know you're gonna become so much famous, and you deserve every little bit of it, i genuinely think you're a genius
Thanks! We will see, but I'm working on it!
So inspiring! Thank you man and good luck!
Loving this man!!! Haven’t finish the video yet and already want to compose some music!!!❤ Thank U so much 🙌
Anything can be an instrument if you want it to. I like to find random things and play something on them its good fun. I can't make stuff though so you are on a mad level
The first note you played on this instrument immediately reminded me of the Elfenlied intro.
Yess! New Nicolas instrument!
What a nice idea! Great work!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Happy to see that you are still breaking new ground! I like bass sounds a lot and like how the instrument sounds. I also liked the smaller coiled ones too. There is a lot of potential here.
Thanks!
Interesting sound possibilities. Actually usable and very configurable. I liked it in the less refined versions with tons of overtones. The less one thinks of bass guitar, the better here. Excellent work!
Love your channel, fellow musician.
Good sounds love it
I love this bit! The finished instrument sounds a bit like 8-bit video game music but in higher resolution if that makes sense. If I wasn’t inspired by your other projects already, I definitely feel like I need to mess around with magnetic and piezoelectric pickups now and sample some ASMR type stuff! Kudos! Thank you for the great content! This is quickly becoming one of my favourite channels!
Awesome as always!
Thanks!
Juste génial !! Quel kiff !!!
Oh Man I love your videos!!!
Thanks man!
Cool idea
So Floydian the beginning !
All you do is great, go on !
Vous êtes passionnant, un mixte entre un génie et Jason Momoa :D
Bien à vous.
Grand merci!
Good! Keep going Nicolas!
Thanks, I will!
love it bro !
Love your work. Please do more
Thank you! Will do!
Amazing!
Impeccable.
Very cool project, very interesting sounds!
Thanks!
OMG! I wind my own guitar pickups, and this idea never once occurred to me. Thanks for the video and the inspiration!
Thanks, and have fun!
Great. As always.
Thank you! Cheers!
probably the best instrument u built so far
Thanks!
Amazing! I loved it.
Thanks!
Great work.
Thanks!
Wow that really reminds me of the 90's band Laika, their first album Silver Apples of the Moon. So good man! Really love it.
Thank you!
Nicolas, this video was very well edited, I can definetely see a nice bump in the quality of your content
Thanks! I try to learn from every video!
Very nice design❤
Nice ! Continu 🤙
Try using one of those tiny electret mics as a contact pickup on the base. They work wonders, or get into MEMS mics even more up to date. Then amplify it and have the amp drive a low resistance coil with a iron core and place it close to the wire. In one phase it will be deep and the other hookup it will rival a water-phone or anything to score a space movie. This is how the e-bow works, it's rather simple.
Tu t'eclates, mec!!! C'est de folie ton truc, impressionnant! Bravo!
One thing I’d like to touch on is that guitar & bass pickups, while they serve a similar purpose to microphones, actually work by sensing how far the metal string is. A pickup contains a magnet, close enough to the string to slightly magnetize it. When the string is vibrating, the magnetic field changes, and this causes a coil of wire in the pickup to generate a small amount of electricity. In contrast, microphones use any sound vibration to physically vibrate an electrical coil inside near a magnet, which causes the same generator effect. This is why pickups can’t pick up your voice, or something like a nylon string. They can, however, pick up the sound out of a smartphone due to the speaker having a vibrating metal coil inside, which has a similar effect to the pickup as a guitar string. So, while similar in many ways to a microphone, they are not the same thing.
That was really cool! 😯😎👍
Thanks!
perfect for drum and bass techno etc.
I recommend one or two Floyd Rose saddle for tuning this easier. Maybe with extra screws to push the wires up.
I'd love to make a "horror movie sounds" instruments with this kind of technique, it would be so cool to make live sounds with it from your haunted house on Halloween.
the music reminded me of felix colgrave's animations, the wheel of flutes in particular.
Genius! 😍
You are a madman! I love the electric kalimbass, and I need to know more about the rotary pan pipes and "trombone flute".
I will have the occasion to work again on those systems! And the bass pump flute is already in my ebook
Now I know how to make an insane speed woodwind arpeggio, nice
Tu cartonnes , Ce qui m'impressione c'est la qualité apporté a l'éstétique visuelle en plus de la sonore. grand respect.
Grand merci! C'est souvent l'objet qui dicte la forme, moi je m'adapte!
@@NicolasBras yes and it show in a certain way , as the violin with nail even if it's not made to be super fancy (des bois precieux des gravure etc) it seem as it's fall all naturly in place. here it's the (because of the packaging) form of the string who give this feeling.
10 years ago I made some didjeridoos in plastic, the first one did have this almost organic even though it was vacuum cleaner and leaf blower tube (i suppose) it all seemed to fall in place, the made with pvc tube didn't had this vibe.
But it could also be the confidence and smile you present the instrument with that could be a part or the origin of this impression. ( association implicite?)
Either way thanks for sharing all those idea!
Keep going on! You'll hit a trend one day
Working on it!
This is insanely good
Thanks!
I have an old wind up clock that uses a coil spring as a chime and sounds similar too it. Hits it with a small brass hammer
As guitar player myself, when I saw you used a Seymour Duncan pickup for this experiment it suddenly came into mind the scene from Back To The Future when Marty tells Doc "Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?"
Cool experiment though!
wall-mounted grandfather clocks use a coiled wire for the chime, hence the colorful sounding gong sound. Cuckoo clocks use the same thing followed by two whistles. Your instrument sounds bell-like.
great idea, as always very innovative, sounds a bit like a controlled theremin with vibrato
Thanks!
Awesome!
Thanks!
ahhhhh man i love that you cut the workshop sounds to be on beat
I always have fun mixing the workshop's sounds with the background music!
Very interesting Nicolas!
Thanks a lot!
i'm not surprised this works, this is pretty much an electronic piano, except with a very small sound board. i'd like to hear this being used to play something like, the theme from i dream of genie.
so awesome, I 'll never be able to tune my harp the same way again
it's nice to watch and listen 👍
Thanks!
Very entertaining!
The song you mar with all those intruments legit is what plays in my head when i take acid. Music liek that. I love it
"Electric Antennae" - I love it!
Very cool, n creative. subbed!
Welcome!
the track at the end is VV DOPE
Thanks a lot!
This is amazing. If you ever going to extend one to an octave (OR BEYOND) might consider diverent gauges. Pianowire have plenty. Cheers.
Would make an excellent wind chime!
Love your work, just wish you would post more often!
I'm working on a Short serie that will come more often, and those coming weeks I'll experiment a full time on RUclips, a lot more is coming!
Can't wait!
An absolute genius idea... The final composition sounds like a track from Earthbound or some survival/horror game from before the 2000s
I like your MWL (More with less) approach!!! I remember the modular nerds of the Schneider Psycho Circus freaking hot on how much $$$ their rig cost... but never producing anything half as creative as what you do. THUMBS UP! An artist is not defined by the cost of his pencil. But by his skill to be expressive.
Best video on youtube.