Moonlight Sonata on broken out-of-tune piano
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Jennie discovers my broken, and wonderfully out-of-tune, piano in New Rochelle and plays the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Hear it on SoundCloud: / jennie-plays-moonlight...
Go to Jennie's SoundCloud channel for her original music: / jennieox
See more of Jennie's music videos and paintings at: askjennie.org/
Are we not gonna question the fact that she was just standing playing this in the dark
No
Goth
No
I think this is just something a lot of, at least pianist do. I don't find this strange, I do it quite often. I find playing in the dark to be soothing, and almost isolating to play in the dark.
@@ascuft4572 i need to play piano in the dark one day, it looks and sounds like a cool experience
*starts shredding moonlight sonata 3rd movement out of no where*
I was really hoping that’s what happened at the end of the video
this is the best comment i have ever seen
The third movement is the best part, why is it always left out?
It's always left out because it is almost impossible to play
@@muchlxve9999 it's possible to play, you just need a very good experiences with piano and practice it
This song seems even sadder when it's out of tune
Piece not song
@@wandren912 ok whatever this was 3 years ago
@@_lun4r_ dont get salty now
@@wandren912 ok but who asked this comment is 3 years old
@@wandren912 ok
With a song like this, an untuned piano sounds haunted. Ragtime on the other hand, would create an old timey saloon fight type of mood.
Piece not song
Piece not song
Piece not song
Piece not song
Piece not song, please
Theres a very haunting tone to it. Sounds really nice surprisingly.
lol why do you have 500 likes and no replies
Indeed
1:13
@@jsxnds2432 why do you have 1 like and no replies
@@SnickersEatsCookies he got towel
You can't buy brand new pianos that sound like this. It takes years and everything else to get a piano to sound like this. It's awesome I love it
+Dylan Horatschki so completely true.
+Nathan Davis those ivories are in perfect condition too
lol, yeah, i'd prefer a new steinway over this any day. But i'd still love to have a piano like this. Having Something in my home that holds so many memories and history is pretty cool in my opinion.
Dylan Horatschki I'd like to have an old and in tune piano. Actually I don't even have a real piano lol I have an electric
I can actually untune my electric piano with all the options
Is it weird that I LOVE out of tune pianos? Beautiful sound! I love it!
fireburst102 Same! It's got that haunting, ghostly feel to it!
+fireburst102 Im scared of out of tuned pianos like the really out of tuned ones but the ones that arent that out of tuned im fine with
Hans zimmer himself used an out of tune piano for the Sherlock Holmes soundtrack
Very unique sound
No, it is not weird, the equal temperament is weird. There a lot of other tunings, like Kirnberger, Werkmeister and others, all better than equal temperament, which is just boring.
Sameeee
i love out of tune pianos so much more than tuned ones
beccybites ur weird
You could say it tunes you on...
Same!
Edit: removed a thing that bothered me and dont necessarily agree with dbsbwhe
Same, take a listen to Redux OST. They use in metro 2033 also mistuned sountracks to give that atmosphere
@@togeka6295 wtf it doesn't work like that... It just means different tuning and not out of tune. And the more out of tune it gets it sounds worse. There is a certain tuning that's just not modern tuning but doesn't sound bad
I love to play those old out of tune piano's. They have a very special sound that tuned pianos don't make. In my school they have a piano in bad condition and I play it every time I can.
Wait... there are schools with pianos?
@@MiScusi69 the school I went to in the UK had a mini grand piano in one of the halls and and upright in the other. And the school i went to in New Zealand had two uprights in the music classroom and one in the music side room which was used for piano lessons and practice. The teacher that took music class was very enthusiastic and was almost comical in her piano playing haha she had a very bobbly head 😅
@@katcoe1079 what a wholesome comment :)
@@katcoe1079 Aww that’s a cute remark xD
In my school they scream if students we try to get near the piano...
Your grandmother has passed away.
When you were a child, you used to play the piano she had in the living room. In her will, she left it to you. Unable to bear the sadness it brings, you leave it in your basement. But one night, just as you are about to drift off to sleep... You can hear the piano being played.
"GOSH DARN IT CAT IM TRYNA SLEEP"
same story for me but we don't have a basement so we gave the piano to a friend
*runs outta house* 🏃🏻♀️💨
I’m crying lol
@@catherinejohnson1394 BAHAHAHAH YES
Really shows that what people call "out of tune" usually comprises of several elements; The performer takes it seriously despite what comes out of the piano, and we don't get all those inaccuracies people tend to do when they realize that "it's just gonna sound silly anyways". The result here is music that you can really listen to, and it's at worst like an overdone chorus effect :)
There's no such thing as being out of tune if you treat it seriously; confidence makes dissonance sound incredible.
"There are no wrong notes, you just lack confidence" - Jacob Collier.
And with equal temperament, the whole thing is completely out of tune anyway.
I will say, the out of tune piano perfectly matches the mood the piece. As if it was created for this
I have a feeling it was written like this by someone close to the composer and the composer replayed it on a properly tuned piano
My friends in college have a piano that sounds like this so I decided to tune it for them so they could listen in peace when the guys come up and play it. Turns out it’s so out of tune that once it’s in tune the strings literally pull the tuning hammer back into its sad, cacophonous position if you let go.
That would make a great haunted piano...
Lmao
Yeah, but it can be fixed, though 🤔
Sounds like the holes in the pin block/wrest plank are so enlarged the tuning pins have little grip.
Some of the notes have multiple strings & they might be at slightly different pitches relative to each other.
You can set up a piano deliberately like that. Recording artists like Russ Conway & Winifred Atwell did for certain as well as coating the hammers with shellac.
And i must say, this sounds more beautiful out of tune
it really doesn't
Ahmed Nadeem hahahahahah nope.
It does sound more beautiful out of tune though. It's less antiseptic, more earthy
sounds unique, and out of this world.
I agree
Somehow it sounds more alive out of tune. Like it’s the piano itself that’s trying to talk to you.
Yeah the resonance some out of tune notes create when interacting with eachother leaves uneasy vibrations in the air, such discordant but oddly beautiful sounds.
I'm desperately looking for a music like this. Why isn't there such a genre yet? I know Boards of Canada sometimes uses slightly out of tune sounds in their songs. But I couldn't really find anything more of the sort.
im also searching so hard for this!! i rlly want to listen to out of tune music lmao
well i mean there is tons of microtonal music out there but its technically not out of tune just using another tuning system. im also not sure where to find music thats like this!
LucasKing on youtube does a bunch of things like this, and he's pretty good at it
iceface microtonal
stuff in just intonation
Pythagorean tuning
31-edo...
"out of tune" can be your in tune if you want it to be
You can also look up xenharmonic music.
We need to get someone to turn this abandoned piano into a Kontakt library
Pripyat pianos does a good job
Do you also accept yagoo as your lord and savior?
@@Omlet221 abso ふcking lutely.
realistically speaking, i wouldn’t go as far to perceive him as that, but i still have insane respect for yagoo
@@burdt3061 yes too
Just apply Izotope Vinyl on it!
Piano's Crying... But a Human Comes to Comfort it... Becoming Surprisinlgy Cooler After each time
ok
69th like les go
@@DinoNuggies4665 ok
@@DinoNuggies4665 respect
@@TheRealBatabii people just type weird
the song seems to have more emotion sounding like this. kind of like it was meant to sound that way. also reminds me of resident evil / biohazard
The game is way too scary in vr
Sounds so creepy and sad when done on an out of tune piano
I remember my grandmother had this large upright blue piano in her house and we'd always play it and come up with creepy stories how we heard it playing when nobody was there. It was out of tune like this one and gosh... I wish we hadn't gotten rid of it.
Your pfp is so creepy.
@@ellie5017 It was actually that same grandmother's doll. My profile pic is Jill and she's a robot and I love her :)
Good lord this is beautiful.
Roan7995 hahahahahaha nope
Maybe you're slightly deaf because this is seriously sublime. The higher notes sound a bit broken but the lower passages are rich with ghosts and sun
@@timcuber37 can you let people enjoy things
It sounds neat, really. No, its not in tune and it's a bit strange if you know how it should sound, but the way it's out of tune makes a cool effect. I like it as well.
this person is incredibly talented-- their pace and tempo is so good
@@danielpark5575 no shit-- the piano is out of tune. sorry i enjoyed a RUclips video lmao.
Yeah but they play some parts way too loud
@@Emp158 yall gonna let me enjoy a video and compliment the creator or what?
@@breezieb3297 yeah, sorry, they did good 😌
ur exaggerating tbh
This is just creepy goodness. I just bought 100 year old out-of-tune piano and you've inspired me to bang out some Ludwig....
Whatdaphuck how much did that cost?
@@spoopyscaryskelebones3846 i think he’s dead
@@ruichen961 I didn't realize how old this video was until I saw the age of his comment
Ancient comment
@@obelisk-empyreanenforcer1457 w h o a
Sounds surprisingly good! Like something from a horror movie!
this is how all the pianos in the practice rooms of my college sound. love it.
I love hearing the haunting melody of out of tune pianos. I remember in my old school there was an old piano that sounded very similar to the one in the video. I would play it with every chance I got :)
Ooh la la by Run the jewels was what made me wanna find more intentionally detuned pianos
Some people think it's an overrated piece but I completely disagree! It may be played by a lot of people, but it's still so beautiful! I learned how to play this and I don't regret anything!
I wanna play this on that piano in a massive cathedral for the aesthetic
Do you mean on the organ? 😂
The creepy doll adds to the vibe
The sound of out-of-tunes pianos reminds of my childhood. I used to visit my grandparents in their countryside villa, which was built in the 19th century and had an original piano from that time. It even had candleholders on the sides, and it was so out-of-tune that some keys were dead. I used to play random notes and they hauntingly resonated in the silent corridors.
You played this piece beautifully, by the way. It sounds so nostalgic, like a recording from a different century.
It was November. Grey and rainy as usual. The newly widowed woman sat in one of the many empty rooms of the mansion, the one with the piano. The room was dark and cold, and the only source of light was a solitude window, which had the view of fields that went on and on. She lifted the piano cover and looked at all the keys, as the dust of years and years of good and mostly bad times swarmed around her. Her husband would play this tune every day without fail for 12 years. He had tried to teach her a few times before, but she only pretended to listen. She placed her hands over the keys and tried to replicate the tune her husband used to play. It was different. Colder. Less human and more insane. As she played the keys robotically, staring at herself in the large mirror on the wall in front of her, a single tear treads down her dull smirking face. She did it. And she is free. Free from Lucifer.
(Not my story credit to the Lydia Q2 though!)
How are you giving "credit to the owner" if you didn't write the name done? The frig you doin
Thanks bud
Any bro, give real credit.
@@lambx.slaughter9118 sure man
@@trash.worldwide7548 Thanks bro :)
Honestly this sounds beautiful too, it gives it a dark undertone. Love it
This about to get recommended to the whole world
Out of tune pianos are my favorite??? Something about them makes me think about when I used to have lessons on one in the basement of a church and I loved it ever since✨
The combination of an out of tune upright and a song like this make a beautifully sinister piece!
You know, I have yet to find a girl my age that plays the piano. Also, out of tune pianos are like a piece of history and they sound amazing on songs like this.
What’s ur age 🧍♀️
lol really? we’re im from basically everyone either plays or played the piano at some point no matter gender. i come from a city with a pretty big music scene given it’s size so yeah
This is exactly how Beethoven heard it. Fortepianos weren’t tuned to what we have now, they sounded a quarter-step lower than the key we associate modern piano tuning with. So this is actually the “original” sound of the piece!
Well kind of but they'd still be in tune just a half-step lower
lol no
Fortepianos were often tuned lower and to unequal temperaments, but they were never purposefully out of tune.
The straight strung strings and build also meant that the sustain was shorter, thus why it is always played faster than it should be these days. It should be at crotchet = 52. Beethoven specifically asked for the “old way” (referencing the old method of sustain; a stop like on an organ, as such it should be played slower with sustain never being lifted. As a result there are incredible harmonies that are unlocked and it truly sounds like moon light). Oh, and don’t listen to double-beat metronome theory. Despite being in wide-spread practice it has no historical basis.
See a historically authentic performance here: ruclips.net/video/Mdb6ViEMTDM/видео.html tell me what you think
I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not because Beethoven was deaf
youtube algorithm :
2014- no
2015- no
2016- no
2017- no
2018- not yet
2019- naah
2020- almost but no
2021- ok lets throw it on his recommended without context. its great time 8 years later .
That was the last piece I played on my old piano before it got sold
Everytime I hear it, I think of the good times with that piano. I had grown with it and it has been carried far away forever.
I must say, I've never heard classical music played with such passion and conviction before
You played it great ! We don't need a tuned piano to hear the emotion you put in
The piano's BEINGout of tune ads to the emotion of this already dramatic and emotional sonata. I have a late 18th century upright similar to this one. BRAVA!
She is a good pianist! I can play piano too, and sing as well. My piano is in tune and it sounds really beautiful in tune, but surprisingly, this out-of-tune piano also sounds great and kind of haunting.
this is weirdly comforting
😖
If I heard this playing ominously in a forest, I can't decide whether I would go towards the sound, or run for my life
Just LOVE how this got recommended 7 years later.
this sounds more like what it wouldve sounded like in beethovens time! it was composed for fortepiano that sounds more like this.
This is one of those rare sounds you can’t get except with time and goodness it sounds lovely
thats funny i was focusing on that picture too and then you zoomed in on it
Rather than creepy I find it to be devastating and despairing almost as if what you feel when someone close passes away
i love how this piano sounds
I love the sound of an untuned piano and now hereing the moonlight sonata it’s even better.
That was amazing. Breath-taking.
I instantly recognized this from a puzzle horror game I remember playing as a kid, but is probably forever forgotten, and I don’t remember the name.
I’d love to hear the background story of this encounter. My mind fills the vacuum with, one dark and rainy night me and my friends escaped the elements by breaking into an old church going through renovations, a revival. My friend wondered into a dark room and started playing for us. Once she finished the haunting music we started to quietly saunter on when a voice cut through like breaking glass calling out, “who’s down there!” With-in seconds once again rain enveloped us and the laughter echoed down the dark alleyway.
Unfortunately, the backstory is not quite so romantic. I was visiting my mother who still had my old upright piano in a wet, moldy basement, beyond all hope of repair. As I went downstairs, I heard my daughter Jennie playing Moonlight Sonata, so I turned on my Flip Camcorder and started recording. As I entered the dark room, I flipped on the light, and the rest is history, as they say. A couple of notes: there are lots of weird things on top of the piano, including my brother's old junior-high-school basketball trophies and some other strange items. And much of the haunting sound comes from whatever audio algorithms were integrated into the old Flip Camcorder: I literally just uploaded it directly from the Flip to RUclips without any mediation. Great performance, though. And you should check out Jennie's original music on Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/jennieox) or find her RUclips channel (ruclips.net/channel/UCS4q0G-78KEM6ujF6TMjVIA).
Piece is perfect for an out of tune piano. So haunting and mysterious
How come out of tune pianos sound just as good, if not even better than normal when melancholy songs are played on them?
The creepy dolls on top really added to this
I feel like every time they say moonlight sonata I think of mv 3. Moonlight sonata and not first mv
I don't know why youtube recommended this to me in 2021 but I am very glad to be here.
I have an upright piano. It is from my aunt who sadly passed away. It is still in very good tone and I hope that it stays that way.
I have a digital.....................get this, this thing is $3000! Yup. It is so special to me
Btw that’s sad......R.I.P.
@@タマニャちゃん_OSC thanks for your reply. Yeah my aunt passed away in 2004. I now have a baby grand piano.
My parents got an upright piano for free from my neighbors who were moving out about 7 years ago. Checked the plate and apparently it was manufactured in 1970. Began learning to play about 5 years ago on it.
I listened to this such a long time ago. Now I listen to it often. It's so beautiful. Ironically. It reaches so many emotions and expressions that it's so relieving to listen to. Peace.
I would love to hear a good quality recording of this piano.
Yeah
0:25 piano was so spooky cameraman started levitating to get the shot
now i wanna know the story of this old video. were you two dating? are you still dating today? those were the last years of true metalheads hanging around in the streets, i remember them...
ok so apparently i figured something looking at this guy's old videos. this girl should be his daughter! i hope yo two are alright and doing good, keep up with the good music!
It has a charm on it that i cant explain
Piano in my classroom is even more out of tune lmao
I like how she was even playing it in the dark, before the cameraman came in and turned the light on.
this piece.
on an out-of-tune piano.
played in the dark.
in what looked like a basement/cellar/storage room filled with dusty musty junk.
like the collective wail of whatever was forgotten in there.
very fitting. thumbs up.
This is actually creepy.
I grew up with that same model. It survived a flood and electrical fire. I mostly play by ear. It got sold to my grandmother's neighbor and had gotten tuned up. It never was the same.
why turning on lights -.-
You know it's good music when it still sounds epic.
Как же оно охуенно звучит блять
old pianos sound like a type of nostalgia everyone knows, but its so strong, that nobody can properly explain it with words. Its like eating a comfort food made by your parents that they made for you when you were young, or playing a video game that you haven't played for a while with friends who have been offline for a long time
Gah! You're ruining the song! Not with the piano, but with those dynamics. Too loud! Too loud!
+DonutUnderpants pianos with hammers that worn out dont do soft quiet sounds
Nathan Davis Haha, true.
DonutUnderpants I do agree though, that if it were on a regular piano it should be softer
Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Sonata is a Piece, not a song. Songs are comprised of words.
Reminds me of the bad horror movies on Saturday TV in the 70s. Hauntingly pleasant.
this is amazing, these pianos just have a special sound to it and its just EVERYTHING
outstanding music that can't be played on any other piano in the Universe.
I think this makes music better
my ex's mom once played this on her old piano. I've been wanting to hear it again for three years
I love the sound of this piano... absolutely beautiful
эта музыка потрясает до глубины души... в ней столько невероятной печали...
а особенно на расстроенном пианино..
I just love the sounds of these type of pianos. They sound so classical
I played this video and then played moonlight sonata on my in tune piano and it’s a trip when you hear both at once
I like the found-footage style of this with the dark room at the beginning whether it was intentional or not. Really adds to the horror movie vibe
Stop reading into it people, the original story is already so compelling.
An old out of tune piano was found somewhere in a school, forgotten about and dusty. one day, the right person happened to come around and on this seemingly worthless piano made beautiful music.
WOW. Just WOW. MS makes my eyes prickle with tears every time I hear it. That was beautiful. Knackered piano, bung notes and duff keys, but, hauntingly beautiful. Thank you.
A lot of people say untuned or out of tuned pianos are creepy sounding, but to me its almost comforting and peaceful.
Yeah the piano sounds 100x better when it’s old but Jennie is really good at playing.
I think it has its own beauty sound
i love this and how it’s 7 years old
it sounds much more emotional that way
Love it, love the connection to the music. Jennie, you are AMAZING, I would love to see more Jennie playing.
Sounds really good actually
This gives me an old and creepy kind of vibe.
It's like: Moonlight Sonata but its played through some speakers placed in an old abandoned mansion in the heart of 1920s London, which is weird because the kind of speakers in the 1920s weren't of good enough quality to make the song sound this good. So you say to yourself (because you also have knowledge of future sound systems) "who's playing that music in this creepy place?" Which then causes some weird creepy butler guy to appear and lead you to the parlour of the mansion, where an old guy by the name of Charles Henry Calvin III is sitting on a large, comfortable looking chair by the light of a fireplace smoking a pipe. You see a phonograph sitting on a table near him. You realize that the song was coming from that phonograph, so you then ask yourself why you were able to hear it being played so clearly across the long distance that it took for you to reach the parlour. Only then do you realize that you had been looking at the corpse of the man who was once Charles Henry Calvin III. A loud banging sound startles you and you look behind you to find the butler was also a corpse and collapses behind you. You now know that you have to leave the mansion before the spirits of the mansion attack you and force your soul to join them in their eternal torment.
That kind of vibe.
This guy gets it
whoa that’s long
my piano was out of tune and I had to throw it away after getting a new one(two months ago) and I wish I could have kept it.
But we didn’t have the space in our home to keep two pianos.
:(
I kinda miss it.
But love the new piano as well.
something about this envirorment, the music and the piano reminds me of the house i grew up in. its been a long road, still lots to go.
the whole mood is changed woww
i love the cinematography at display here