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This was a really amazing result. It's a bit late now, I guess, but if you ever do work with high voltages like this again, I would highly recommend powering everything through a foot-pedal dead-man switch (instead of just a power strip). Not only would that have made it much easier to quickly turn everything off every time things started misbehaving, but it makes it far more likely that if you actually do get electrocuted in some way, your foot will come off the switch, which will automatically break the circuit and you might actually live through it instead of becoming paralyzed in place by the current and slowly cooking like a hot dog...
Alternatively no playing with high voltage ever again I nearly had a panic attack watching this video 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏 no amount of RUclips fame is worth dying over.
As an electronics engineer and someone who lost a dear friend to electrocution, please take care of safety first when working with such tech. The passion you have for such projects is amazing though and I hope you keep coming up with cool new projects.
every fiber of my being as a builder is screaming for there to be an insulating sheet between the operator and all the electronics, it desperately needs a casing so its vastly safer
@@ThommeGun I'm no HV expert but those white and purple arcs looked like the power was coming to ~2-2.5kV so probably a MOT powering the circuit. That spark gap so close constantly causing all that arcing made my soul hurt, at least get some PTE sheeting on there, the stuff takes about 300kV/1mm so even just that alone might have helped.
When this piano was first assembled in a factory years ago it could never have known how advanced, powerful and deadly it would eventually become. No piano is its equal.
I don't think he can die from those arcs, the transformers in old TVs have too low amps to kill you. It's unpleasant to get shocked but not a real problem. When I was a kid I used to unplug the high voltage terminal from the screen's hole and hold it in my hand and my hair would all raise up from the high voltage. I occasionally got shocked when the current arced to other components but it wasn't bad, it just stings and may leave a burn mark.
@@tsingkwai1865 alright alright! chill out man! didnt mean anything by it, just cracking a joke, and just cause you didnt find it funny doesnt really mean you have the ability to project your personal issues onto other people!
Ok, I did not expect that. The fact that you went through all this trouble to get the piano to work like this is just… shocking and amazing at the same time. 😮
I love that this isn't a synthesizer, it's not keys that pretend to be a piano and your speakers make noise, it's an actual piano that makes a computer basically brute force electricity into making a noise
Essentially it is a synthesizer though. The computer is making a different tone (electrical pulse frequency) based on which key it detects moving. The piano element of it is purely aesthetic. As he showed early in the video, the sounds could all be made by a single hammer. Aside from making the sound through arcs instead of speakers, it would perfectly fit into the definition of a synth.
@@Mattiaskrantz I really think you should make a follow up where you deeply refine your design. EMF shielding on everything. Heat resistant insulation and fastening between the hammers, make it all pretty and safe, and find a professional pianist crazy enough to try the damn thing ;)
I would suggest reducing the hammers diameter around the nose to a point rather than having them big and wide like that. Then you could use Kapton tape to wrap each one before mounting them back on, leaving just the tip exposed. Finally, you can mount sheets of mica (like those you find in toasters) between each hammer like you did with the acrylic. Not only will the mica sheets perform better, but they don't burn.
And the mica should be taller so your hands can trust your eyes at the sight of seeing the heights of the arcs, the height and intensities of the arcs should equate to forte-piano, but holding key-presses down shouldn't lead to arcs criss-crossing or leap-frogging... then invert the code (if you have not already as you have more than noted that resultant quality) that the QRS optical sensor strip mitigates or cuts off so that the tones sound voluminous to dissipating so your muscle movements and reactions synchronize with your senses and physical transpositions along with adopting the hammer designs of the recommedations above from the Nonchallant Shallot, consider fixing the hammer heads (lower surely) at a sharper angle so the arcs can be thrown to their wiles and the whims of playing upon the key-presses, results would be like getting a bigger display screen, that the actions of the hammers are moot or niche for the actions within the arcs themselves but moving parts are mesmorizing as well, eye-candies clean it up and it's a remarkably enjoyable thing you've got, maybe not so much wire length throughout the system? or at least insulate [the majority of] them appropriately... would resommend insulting each key-press set for maximum playabilities in terms of hours and long-held key-presses ... before the CoVid, some cities and urban areas had pianos around randomly in public spaces that passers-by could stop and tickle the ivories a bit, a while... love the idea of a Play at Your Own Risk sign
Technically speaking you are a PIONEER. You deserve success and this project deserves development. I want it to succeed. It's so wild but at the same time so unique. Takes a lot of guts to do something like this.
@@Senriam Of course it's known but there is some artistry behind it. Our current technology is known but somehow the exaggeration and the hyperbole makes it unique. Yes it is very dangerous and requires expert hands. However a perfected instrument with this type of dramatism is quite artistic too. Yes there are risks that should be considered.
Joining the chorus. Electrician here. This is scary to watch lol. Legit incredibly dangerous and reckless. That voltage is HUGE. You need some serious purpose built dialectrics. Im SHOCKED youre not dead. Frikin amazing to watch though. Please don't die. FYI burning wire insulation is very toxic. Nice introduction to the channel lol
@@nikola119 It does make sense. Voltage is simply electrical pressure, you need high voltage to be able to transfer electricity through the air (not a good conductor). Ignition coils/spark plugs in cars are in the region of 14 thousand Volts, it will give you a small shock but it wont harm you. It doesn't take a lot of Amps to cause damage to someone but for electricity to kill you need a high enough voltage to push the electricity through the natural resistance of the human body, and a high enough current.
@@gitanonumero1983Styropyro on youtube has a good video that explains why the "its amps that kill" saying is not the whole story. I would highly recommend it if you have not seen it.
I’ve been watching your channel since “swapped piano keys for Hammers” and I’m seriously concerned with the degree of escalation. 😂 Filling the piano with sparking capacitors was terrifying. This video was jaw-droppingly anxiety producing. Don’t die! At this point, I fully expect the next video to be something like “I tuned my piano by firing plasma at differently sized spinning sawblades”
Just needs to start wearing a faraday cage and he's good to go. But yes, to go from "I made a piano with metal hammers" to "I made a piano spark" to "let's play music with an arc" is a.. very concerning level of escalation. Next thing you know he's going to have piano keys wired to bombs
Started with replacing strings with guitar strings and now you’re just full on programming, designing, and engineering a plasma piano. You have got to be the most insanely dedicated RUclipsr I’ve seen, to stick to one single super specific niche and keep pushing further and further forward in that niche in such a short time. Bravo!! And please be safe 😅😅😅😅
I am so glad you are alive and okay. You touched a fully wired instrument with bare hands at one point, stuck your head neck-deep into danger, and inhaled acrylic fumes and ozone. Please keep an eye on your health 🙏🏼 thank you for this!
Voltage don't kill but current does. That's why extremely high voltage with small current is not as dangerous that many thinks. It can cause burns and damage the nerves but most likely don't kill. Still there's a reason to be careful because you can't know what kind of currents systems are capable of putting out. Large capacitors are dangerous because they can supply very high short term powers and raise the current even in high voltage systems.
@@teropiispala2576 This is a common complete myth. Voltage or current do not "cause" anything. For ohmic systems, they are a relationship I=V/R. High voltage systems are absolutely dangerous, as are high current systems. If you think high voltages aren't dangerous, open up a CRT monitor and read the dozen WARNING: RISK OF DEATH stickers on it. Because it's using the same component, a flyback transformer. As for low voltage systems, take a look at all the warnings on your arc welder even though it's only 20 volts. Anyone online who tells you MAINS connected electricity isn't dangerous is a liar of negligent proportions. You do not mess around with mains without planning and knowledge. Those that do, google all the people who died or lost entire arms taking apart their microwave to build a "homemade welder" a couple years ago.
@@Novous I'm sorry, Chris, but Tero is right about the current fact. Current is the only thing that determines how dangerous is an exposition to electricity. You can touch two electrodes with a Voltage of 10000kV, and if the current is not more of 0.1A, you are not in any kind of danger. However, Tero is wrong saying that there was no danger. There definitely was!
Also considering this is working at 22.5 khz it adds another variable? From what I learned, this piano is more of a fire hazard/risk of burns hazard. While the risk of electrocution isn’t nearly as high as the capacitor piano. It probably exist if you are creative, but considering it took me 45 minutes to cook a steak to 50 degrees this piano looks more scary than it is. But with that said, I wouldn’t want to go out and test any theories😅
@@teropiispala2576 that’s not quite true , let’s see you touch 1,000,000 Volts with just 0.2 amps and tell me how it went 😂 The truth is both but in a proportion
Pro tip: don’t test with the palm down, because if you get shocked your finger might contract and push *harder*. If you feel palm up (as weird as it is) you are way less likely to get stuck.
If you ad a little spike in the metal sheet and on the hammer head, you should hbe having an improvement on arc quality and stability. Remember electrons will try to find the shortest route to the other surface so by doing that you can control where the arc will start and land.
@@shadowfight11 Not all nails are the same. And they're built for cost and/or strength, not electrical conductivity. In fact, the cheapest nails are aluminum alloys - totally nonconductive.
@DoctorMandible all metals are electrical conductors. Everything is good as long as it's more conductive than air. You don't need copper nor silver (could actually be better tho) and I don't recommend aluminum 'cause it could melt or worst, vaporize and become toxic. PS: I think you confused magnetism with electrical conductivity xd
@@TactfulWaggle I think the high frequencies and low-ish currents may save him in most cases. Frequency plays a huge role, so depending on how his audio modulation works, the played tone may be the deciding factor. I’ve accidentally touched a similar ~70kV arc and it just about killed me. On the other hand, I’ve touched a much higher frequency higher voltage arc, >500kV at >100kHz, and didn’t feel a thing. It is very up in the air so I definitely wouldn’t touch it 😂
11:34 This feels like something straight out of a horror game. You have to play the notes in the right order, otherwise the piano goes berzerk and zaps you to death
I would say Electroboom's infamous "Jacob's Ladder" incident takes the #1 spot. The high voltage wires fell towards him when sitting in front of it. He instinctively reached out and caught them... He only survived because the wiring pulled free and disconnected it.
I am. SO GLAD that you survived this project!! 🙀 There are no words to capture my feelings at watching what you have overcome to bring us this beautiful monstrosity. Something about the progression from your earlier projects to this, the multiple incidents of things nearly causing your house to burn down, the ad transition, the thousands of dollars that you pour into these projects, your unrelenting passion. The modern day mad scientist, the plucky young adventurer, the meek engineer (in contrast to big influencer personas that usually make it big on RUclips). Thank you for bringing us along on your journey.
@@rubenfaelens2127 This video was actually uploaded by the insurance agent who investigated his burnt down house, he will use the ad revenue to pay the insurance fee
You should put the on/off switch on a piano foot peddle that requires constant pressure down remain powered on - also a acrylic or glass shield between you and the hammers probably a good idea lol
These projects are awesome! Might be worth getting a “dead man” foot switch. The switch only turns on when your foot is on it. As soon as your foot is off, it disconnects the circuit. Poor name but might be worth looking at.
What makes your channel impressive is not the engineering, or the project ideas them selves, though those are definitely not slacking, but you dedication to actually making it function. Most people would have given up long before making it as far as you did. Would be awesome to see a digital instrument like the real hammer piano so others could develop music using your terrifying creation.
Thank you! Yeah I have trouble giving up on things which Is a curse and a blessing! I’ll talk to the VST guys. I’m not entirely sure how to record it to make sense
This is your second project that I've seen and I'm sure it's not about music but about finding problems and overcoming them. It was a fascinating process. It's a pity that so few young people are curious enough about the world to want to get their hands dirty.
I have watched creators blow stuff up and put themselves in all sorts of danger, but this video is the first I can recall to really have me on edge the entire time.
As somone who is studixing electrical engineering and starting a project for my graduating year, im so impressed you got so far with so little experience. Like it never really seemed like you had were lost in the project, you had to learn a few things but it went pretty straight forward (it not working a few times is also part of it ). So respect. I wish i would have come up with this idea for my final year project hahaha
I find it incredible that you actually made this work as well as it does. Your persistence and determination is beyond reproach my friend. Fantastic stuff. Life threateningly dangerous ..but fantastic!
Dude! No words are adequate. The electric piano was crazy enough, but a real plasma piano? Please don't kill yourself. Regardless, I cannot stop watching.
This is amazing. I work with very high voltages, up to 80kV so I was worried for you. Not sure how you could work up the nerve to play a song, but this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
@@jazzophis Well perhaps, but doing so makes about as much sense as saying you're playing the piano at 9000 m above sea level since you have 90 keys at 100m.
So basically, you built an 8-bit piano? 🤔 That's *SO* awesome!!!! 😎 The Zelda and Tetris themes sounded earily accurate! I love it!! ❤🔥😘🤌 My hat's off to you, sir!! 🎩🤏 😌
I’m into my second semester at college becoming an electrician and hopefully an engineer someday. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my studies, it’s this: electricity is SO much more dangerous than I ever imagined it could be. I was terrified for you during the whole video 😂 and since I am a musician as well, this was just incredible for me to watch. Amazing job! (Also, consider putting an emergency stop button on the power supply so you don’t have to get off your bench and flip a switch every time something goes wrong. Keep up the amazing work, and stay safe with these kinds of projects!!)
For anyone curious about the monitor circuit particles, ChatGPT tells me it’s EMI (Electromagnetic interference) and one cause is high frequency oscillations.
It’s not entirely wrong, they did use electric synth waves, it’s a similar process just a lot more…. Sophisticated? They are big companies with millions though so
@@MiguelBaptista1981 yeah, synth waves are similar to electric waves, the frequency rate creates the sound. Essentially an electric arc is a synth wave
Thank you, Mattias, for single-handedly repairing the hole in the ozone layer... Seriously though, this is so amazing and it sounds unbelievably good! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Dude. You're a musician, an engineer, a good editor, have a good sense of humor, understand the importance of mental health, and you don't give up when you fail. Respect!
I played with one of those transformers once. I was so excited untill it made a sound, and then immediately dismanteled the whole thing out of fear. I can't belive you built a whole piano. Amazing work :)
Rewatching this-the bit about how the sound goes up at the end rather than the beginning sounds similar in effect to the gated reverb hollow drum beat sounds of the 80s! 17:55
Incredible. I remember you asking in the Styropyro Discord about doing this. The end result looks and sounds awesome. I notice that it occasionally burns the end of the plastic separating each hammer and then it flashes over, and the only way I can really think of preventing that is by using thin ceramic plates instead of plastic as you don't get the conductive carbon tracks forming.
@@Mattiaskrantz I wasn't, but I couldn't give much help anyway as I've never really done anything with PWM control. Most of my flyback experiments just involve trying to get the biggest and hottest arcs I can get!
I'm a technician and used to fix TV's with those HV Transformers, output is about 26kv My son is refurbishing a piano at the moment Seeing the two things combined I'm staggered and amazed, so impressive Just looks like you need the isolating acrylic between the keys to be a bit higher Lots of thumbs up
You can indeed cook with that piano safely, except instead of meat use dough. Panko is a japanese bread type baked entirely by running an electrical current through it. They quite literally stick a huge batch of dough into a giant metal box, fill it to capacity and let it fry until baked. I think you can replicate this effect by adding a second metal sheet to your backplate and ensuring that the grounding circuit is half dough so that it cooks. Dough is also significantly less likely to be contaminated with pathogen load so if you don't cook it fully you're a lot more likely to be fine. Make some brioche dough and play some Bach, then have a snack afterwards. Electrical caramelization of sugar (corn syrup is best) is also surprisingly delicious. Try it out sometime!
Studied food science for a long part of my life, I confirm cooking meat this way is dangerous, think that roasting fat until it becomes dark yellow/brown turns it carcinogen, imagine the havoc that happened into that steak. It's still a long term problem so as long as he doesn't prepare plasma steaks again he should be fine.
Enough dangerous project for a while now. The idea was just to interesting not to try!
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please, do something else my brother... i saw you do so many bad things in this vid. someones watching you from above saying, "no, not yet."
You should make a guitar with water in the soundhole
❤We love you, Mattias. I can believe you made an electric arc piano (which are NOT good to look at, by the way!). I can't believe you ate that meat...
Make a flute that shoots flames, and give me credit by saying my name in your video, clearly.
@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok
Synthesizers: Exist and are safe and usable
Mattias: Yeah, but if they weren't safe and usable and took down entire power grids?
I want to hear my music directly from the stream! Of electricity
@@Mattiaskrantz lol, your amazing.
@@Mattiaskrantz ... Van de Graaff generators exist.... 😉
he just made analogue synth xD
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I mean. Its a very special sound. An emp ptoff recording setup could make this very cool.
This was a really amazing result.
It's a bit late now, I guess, but if you ever do work with high voltages like this again, I would highly recommend powering everything through a foot-pedal dead-man switch (instead of just a power strip). Not only would that have made it much easier to quickly turn everything off every time things started misbehaving, but it makes it far more likely that if you actually do get electrocuted in some way, your foot will come off the switch, which will automatically break the circuit and you might actually live through it instead of becoming paralyzed in place by the current and slowly cooking like a hot dog...
Yeah, let's boost this one youtube: this is a really important comment lmao
yeah I would rather him not die
Alternatively no playing with high voltage ever again I nearly had a panic attack watching this video 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏 no amount of RUclips fame is worth dying over.
Or someone else finding you not knowing what happened and also getting shocked
@@stuchly1 but the results WERE worth dying over.
As an electronics engineer and someone who lost a dear friend to electrocution, please take care of safety first when working with such tech. The passion you have for such projects is amazing though and I hope you keep coming up with cool new projects.
Surprised he didn't LIKE it
As like Like a video
every fiber of my being as a builder is screaming for there to be an insulating sheet between the operator and all the electronics, it desperately needs a casing so its vastly safer
@@ThommeGun I'm no HV expert but those white and purple arcs looked like the power was coming to ~2-2.5kV so probably a MOT powering the circuit. That spark gap so close constantly causing all that arcing made my soul hurt, at least get some PTE sheeting on there, the stuff takes about 300kV/1mm so even just that alone might have helped.
@@Defirence it is a bunch of CRT flyback transformers, but yeah, still dangerous
10:35 „There‘s a parenthesis missing in the code“ (after debugging the code for hours over hours) - something every programmer can relate to
Being a coder, I can relate a lot.
When this piano was first assembled in a factory years ago it could never have known how advanced, powerful and deadly it would eventually become. No piano is its equal.
how many strings does the most badass piano have? NONE.
Hahahh first hammers, then sparks and now high voltage. This is also a super cheap quality piano makes it even better!
@@Mattiaskrantz best piano yet. Can't wait to hear more played with it.
I feel like it's the Davros of pianos in a way.
@@Mattiaskrantz you should cover many songs with it, before it kills you
This piano-series escalated pretty quickly from fishinglines to shooting plasma and i am loving it
Hahahh to say the least! Thank you🙏
He is slowly turning into Styropyro but with pianos instead of lasers.
@@rodryguezzz you may have just given him an idea for a future experiment
Mattias rediscovers why electronic music was called electronic music to begin with. Love it, just please don’t die
Well, it wasn't actually that, but related to electricity anyway
I don't think he can die from those arcs, the transformers in old TVs have too low amps to kill you. It's unpleasant to get shocked but not a real problem. When I was a kid I used to unplug the high voltage terminal from the screen's hole and hold it in my hand and my hair would all raise up from the high voltage. I occasionally got shocked when the current arced to other components but it wasn't bad, it just stings and may leave a burn mark.
@@HDJess But he's using 10 transformers that weren't from TVs.
@@HDJess As an electrician i can say don't do that, the amount of current required to kill some one is tiny.
@@boxenwolfegaming674 You know what they say, it's all about location, location, location.
I'm an electrian and the fact that you went from not knowing what a gfci is to making this is mind blowing
what's a gfci
Yea what's a GFCI.... just lazy and doesn't want to google 😂
@@tsingkwai1865 alright alright! chill out man! didnt mean anything by it, just cracking a joke, and just cause you didnt find it funny doesnt really mean you have the ability to project your personal issues onto other people!
You, as an electrician would also be terrified of what this man has done to the piano.
@@matavastros scared and jealous
Building an acoustic plasma piano that generates a current that makes it sound like a synth is the most 360 degree journey ever.
Lol, the "Acoustic Synth" would be a good name for this thing
But it’s an electric piano?
An Electrosynthpiano.
720
@@SuppositionalBox I think "plasma organ" would also work since it kinda sounds like an organ.
How does it feel that you have accidentally become the worlds leading experimental piano design engineer?
This comment made me laugh.
I don’t feel a thing. My nerve endings has completed way to many circuits lately!
Oh! It was no accident! LOL!
It's only because no one else is Chad enough to try these experiments.
Shocking
Ok, I did not expect that. The fact that you went through all this trouble to get the piano to work like this is just… shocking and amazing at the same time. 😮
shocking you say?
@@TinyBolts1 Yeah, what’s wrong with that?
@@ChrisNeufeldMusic (electroshock joke)
I think it was much more shocking for him than for us
@@ChrisNeufeldMusic *shock* -ing
Puts a whole new meaning to 'death note'
underrated comment
Better(for beginer...) to practice of playing on...
Roland SH-101 , some thing, some sOng! :-))) like " logical bomb - two brains(original mix) "
he is currently one of the leading engineers in unintentionally deadly instruments
You could say he's gone mad with power ;)
Yeah, calling this man an engineer is an insult to all engineers.
heh, "currently"
@@renx81 As someone who is in software I disagree this is amazing
- 'they' should use this instead of an electric chair !!!
respect to the cameras for managing to actually capture in that environment.
After the monitor started flickering, I was really surprised that none of the cameras were affected. They must have some pretty damn good RF shielding
My Sony cameras has been waiting for this moment it seems!
Ironically, I thought he added special FX to the footage. But after watching the video, I realized the high EMF was the culprit, lol
I love that this isn't a synthesizer, it's not keys that pretend to be a piano and your speakers make noise, it's an actual piano that makes a computer basically brute force electricity into making a noise
Essentially it is a synthesizer though. The computer is making a different tone (electrical pulse frequency) based on which key it detects moving. The piano element of it is purely aesthetic. As he showed early in the video, the sounds could all be made by a single hammer. Aside from making the sound through arcs instead of speakers, it would perfectly fit into the definition of a synth.
I'd say this is not a piano.
It's not a pianoforte because it can only play forte, not piano.
It should be called a Forte. Or an Arcsichord.
@@IamGrimalkin I like Arcsichord
@@IamGrimalkinArcsichord!!! Hell yes, that's an awesome name for this! XD
Electroclavier, perhaps?
I had a random thought today:
"Dang, we really don't have predators anymore, natural selection is gone"
and then I saw this video
I always think "he can't possibly outdo himself" and then you outdo yourself. Bravo, sir.
Thanks Goaty! I tried really hard and somehow it worked in the end!
@@Mattiaskrantz I really think you should make a follow up where you deeply refine your design. EMF shielding on everything. Heat resistant insulation and fastening between the hammers, make it all pretty and safe, and find a professional pianist crazy enough to try the damn thing ;)
I would suggest reducing the hammers diameter around the nose to a point rather than having them big and wide like that. Then you could use Kapton tape to wrap each one before mounting them back on, leaving just the tip exposed.
Finally, you can mount sheets of mica (like those you find in toasters) between each hammer like you did with the acrylic. Not only will the mica sheets perform better, but they don't burn.
And the mica should be taller so your hands can trust your eyes at the sight of seeing the heights of the arcs, the height and intensities of the arcs should equate to forte-piano, but holding key-presses down shouldn't lead to arcs criss-crossing or leap-frogging... then invert the code (if you have not already as you have more than noted that resultant quality) that the QRS optical sensor strip mitigates or cuts off so that the tones sound voluminous to dissipating so your muscle movements and reactions synchronize with your senses and physical transpositions
along with adopting the hammer designs of the recommedations above from the Nonchallant Shallot, consider fixing the hammer heads (lower surely) at a sharper angle so the arcs can be thrown to their wiles and the whims of playing upon the key-presses, results would be like getting a bigger display screen, that the actions of the hammers are moot or niche for the actions within the arcs themselves
but moving parts are mesmorizing
as well, eye-candies
clean it up and it's a remarkably enjoyable thing you've got, maybe not so much wire length throughout the system? or at least insulate [the majority of] them appropriately... would resommend insulting each key-press set for maximum playabilities in terms of hours and long-held key-presses ...
before the CoVid, some cities and urban areas had pianos around randomly in public spaces that passers-by could stop and tickle the ivories a bit, a while...
love the idea of a
Play at Your Own Risk
sign
I don't think he should try it again 😂
This is an electric piano in the most literal sense and I love it
Thank you hahahh🤝
the transient volume you were talking about, kinda gives me pipe organ vibes. like how it takes a moment to get all the air in a big pipe moving
Technically speaking you are a PIONEER. You deserve success and this project deserves development. I want it to succeed. It's so wild but at the same time so unique. Takes a lot of guts to do something like this.
uh, no. this is unbelievably dangerous
@@DocterWaffles cope
This isnt even a new technology. It’s just an analog version of digital synthesis. The science behind this has been known.
@@Senriam Of course it's known but there is some artistry behind it. Our current technology is known but somehow the exaggeration and the hyperbole makes it unique. Yes it is very dangerous and requires expert hands. However a perfected instrument with this type of dramatism is quite artistic too. Yes there are risks that should be considered.
@@DocterWaffles
This is more profound than anything you will ever do in your entire life. 😂
The transition from nearly burning your house down to mental health struggles was too sudden it got a chuckle out of me. Stay safe man.
This bit killed me 😂
🤣
steak in G-dur is a worthwhile opus)
I threw me too. Loved it though
This comment had 333 likes, so I decided to ruin it
as an electrical engineer. This is absolutely terrifying
Oh I bet it is griffin. I bet it is
Not electrical, but enough of an engineer to agree.. pretty cool how he kept going tbh
What if he wore an extra pair of rubber dish gloves?
@@4isteven58 🤔 yeah.. that oughta do it
As a practicing therapist, I also find terrifying.
Now do the high voltage piano underwater
Congrats Mattias ! You've just invented the acoustic synthesizer !!!
By far the best comment lol
I just thought that too, dude is crazy 👀
Lol
Underrated comment.
Hahaha
How you did not die making and testing his project is beyond me! Well done surviving and uploading this neat video!
Because he has Mehdi’s super powers.
Mehdi doesn’t do very unsafe things. This project is actually dangerous.
He didn't crack open 10 microwaves to make it
Styropyro would
Joining the chorus. Electrician here. This is scary to watch lol. Legit incredibly dangerous and reckless. That voltage is HUGE. You need some serious purpose built dialectrics. Im SHOCKED youre not dead. Frikin amazing to watch though. Please don't die. FYI burning wire insulation is very toxic. Nice introduction to the channel lol
Isn't the amps what kill though? I mean, i didn't see the amps he used (at least not yet), but usually the amps aren't high
@@davyzeradaspalmerait’s enough amps to cook a steak in seconds
@@davyzeradaspalmera120 Volt DC and 60 Volt AC is considered dangerous and harmful. The saying “amps kill” doesnt make too much sense.
@@nikola119 It does make sense. Voltage is simply electrical pressure, you need high voltage to be able to transfer electricity through the air (not a good conductor). Ignition coils/spark plugs in cars are in the region of 14 thousand Volts, it will give you a small shock but it wont harm you. It doesn't take a lot of Amps to cause damage to someone but for electricity to kill you need a high enough voltage to push the electricity through the natural resistance of the human body, and a high enough current.
@@gitanonumero1983Styropyro on youtube has a good video that explains why the "its amps that kill" saying is not the whole story. I would highly recommend it if you have not seen it.
More than 70 years later, he reinvented 8-bit music 😄
Analog chiptune)
You're SO close to win a Darwin Award dude.
But in the end, this is incredible
Underated comment
oh no bro
this is bad
loughed tho
shit
Is there a statistic, how many youtubers killed themselves actually? Someone should do a "worst of..." rating.
We need a new Nobel Darwin award.
I’ve been watching your channel since “swapped piano keys for Hammers” and I’m seriously concerned with the degree of escalation. 😂
Filling the piano with sparking capacitors was terrifying. This video was jaw-droppingly anxiety producing. Don’t die!
At this point, I fully expect the next video to be something like “I tuned my piano by firing plasma at differently sized spinning sawblades”
Just needs to start wearing a faraday cage and he's good to go.
But yes, to go from "I made a piano with metal hammers" to "I made a piano spark" to "let's play music with an arc" is a.. very concerning level of escalation. Next thing you know he's going to have piano keys wired to bombs
Stephen, stop giving him ideas lol
“While being filled up with water”
Colab with Styropyro to make a Laser Piano Nexyt?
He's most definitely a Madman especially not shielding between himself and the hammers
Started with replacing strings with guitar strings and now you’re just full on programming, designing, and engineering a plasma piano. You have got to be the most insanely dedicated RUclipsr I’ve seen, to stick to one single super specific niche and keep pushing further and further forward in that niche in such a short time. Bravo!! And please be safe 😅😅😅😅
16:03 Finally😭
This piano deserves to be an instrument of ITS OWN. I love the sound of it so Much its so nostalgic to me
If it malfunctions, it becomes a paino 😂
@@FractalNinja more like a teaser to the person who's playing the piano 😂
The old good games🥲👌
As an engineer I can say that you are crazy xD cannot imagine the amount of research and time dedicated to this project. Kudos!
Waaaay to long hahah. Thank you!!
I am so glad you are alive and okay. You touched a fully wired instrument with bare hands at one point, stuck your head neck-deep into danger, and inhaled acrylic fumes and ozone. Please keep an eye on your health 🙏🏼 thank you for this!
Voltage don't kill but current does. That's why extremely high voltage with small current is not as dangerous that many thinks. It can cause burns and damage the nerves but most likely don't kill. Still there's a reason to be careful because you can't know what kind of currents systems are capable of putting out. Large capacitors are dangerous because they can supply very high short term powers and raise the current even in high voltage systems.
@@teropiispala2576 This is a common complete myth. Voltage or current do not "cause" anything. For ohmic systems, they are a relationship I=V/R. High voltage systems are absolutely dangerous, as are high current systems. If you think high voltages aren't dangerous, open up a CRT monitor and read the dozen WARNING: RISK OF DEATH stickers on it. Because it's using the same component, a flyback transformer. As for low voltage systems, take a look at all the warnings on your arc welder even though it's only 20 volts.
Anyone online who tells you MAINS connected electricity isn't dangerous is a liar of negligent proportions. You do not mess around with mains without planning and knowledge. Those that do, google all the people who died or lost entire arms taking apart their microwave to build a "homemade welder" a couple years ago.
@@Novous I'm sorry, Chris, but Tero is right about the current fact. Current is the only thing that determines how dangerous is an exposition to electricity. You can touch two electrodes with a Voltage of 10000kV, and if the current is not more of 0.1A, you are not in any kind of danger.
However, Tero is wrong saying that there was no danger. There definitely was!
Also considering this is working at 22.5 khz it adds another variable? From what I learned, this piano is more of a fire hazard/risk of burns hazard. While the risk of electrocution isn’t nearly as high as the capacitor piano. It probably exist if you are creative, but considering it took me 45 minutes to cook a steak to 50 degrees this piano looks more scary than it is. But with that said, I wouldn’t want to go out and test any theories😅
@@teropiispala2576 that’s not quite true , let’s see you touch 1,000,000 Volts with just 0.2 amps and tell me how it went 😂
The truth is both but in a proportion
17:22 got my full heart
was that a Zelda theme ?
Pro tip: don’t test with the palm down, because if you get shocked your finger might contract and push *harder*. If you feel palm up (as weird as it is) you are way less likely to get stuck.
One of the most anxiety inducing videos I've watched in a while - fantastic work! That chord after you got the early release working was incredible
That’s a great review!😆
Yeah that chord sounded so clean
If you ad a little spike in the metal sheet and on the hammer head, you should hbe having an improvement on arc quality and stability. Remember electrons will try to find the shortest route to the other surface so by doing that you can control where the arc will start and land.
Would used spark plugs would work for that?
@@aidankilleen5889 Failing that, nails maybe.
Hah... turning hammer heads into nails.
@@Destroyer_V0 yeah, nails would be better, cheaper and easyer
@@shadowfight11 Not all nails are the same. And they're built for cost and/or strength, not electrical conductivity. In fact, the cheapest nails are aluminum alloys - totally nonconductive.
@DoctorMandible all metals are electrical conductors. Everything is good as long as it's more conductive than air. You don't need copper nor silver (could actually be better tho) and I don't recommend aluminum 'cause it could melt or worst, vaporize and become toxic.
PS: I think you confused magnetism with electrical conductivity xd
It’s interesting to see the pressure each plasma arcs exert onto the tip of each hammer, being enough to even push it back
Damn.. Im an electrical engineer and not even I would dare to do this. Mad respect hope you have some good life insurance.
Probably cause you understand the dangers of this alittle bit... Too much..
@@TactfulWaggle I think the high frequencies and low-ish currents may save him in most cases. Frequency plays a huge role, so depending on how his audio modulation works, the played tone may be the deciding factor. I’ve accidentally touched a similar ~70kV arc and it just about killed me. On the other hand, I’ve touched a much higher frequency higher voltage arc, >500kV at >100kHz, and didn’t feel a thing. It is very up in the air so I definitely wouldn’t touch it 😂
Thank you!!
I don’t think I have if the insurance company sees my vids
@@Electronic4081 oh my god, i can't believe i just got ratio'd in a new way XD
@daddy6885 Well this is dangerous, and just a hobby.
11:34
This feels like something straight out of a horror game. You have to play the notes in the right order, otherwise the piano goes berzerk and zaps you to death
A Twin Peaks moment 8)
lol. new SAW trap. "Wanna play a game?". "Play the correct notes or you will get a nasty shock!"
This is the most dangerous thing I've ever seen that didn't end with someone dying.
I would say Electroboom's infamous "Jacob's Ladder" incident takes the #1 spot. The high voltage wires fell towards him when sitting in front of it. He instinctively reached out and caught them... He only survived because the wiring pulled free and disconnected it.
You never See me at work 😂
As far we know.
Bro's obit is gonna be wild.
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507I sometimes remember that incident
Scary stuff
“A singer doesn’t sound ahhh, a singer sound more like ahhhhh.” Awesome. This dude is a mad scientist.
I am. SO GLAD that you survived this project!! 🙀
There are no words to capture my feelings at watching what you have overcome to bring us this beautiful monstrosity. Something about the progression from your earlier projects to this, the multiple incidents of things nearly causing your house to burn down, the ad transition, the thousands of dollars that you pour into these projects, your unrelenting passion. The modern day mad scientist, the plucky young adventurer, the meek engineer (in contrast to big influencer personas that usually make it big on RUclips). Thank you for bringing us along on your journey.
I kept reassuring myself: "He survives, he survives, he survives."
@@rubenfaelens2127 This video was actually uploaded by the insurance agent who investigated his burnt down house, he will use the ad revenue to pay the insurance fee
Thank you!🥹🙏 i never thought I would make this piano when I was working at IKEA a few years ago. I have no idea how it even ended up working!
Never have I ever been so invested in an anxiety ridden engineer experiment. It sounds so good though!
Thank you!! Do you want it?
@@Mattiaskrantz I would likely kaboom with it. Don't let me near it!
@@Mattiaskrantz I'll take it.
@@Mattiaskrantz ill' take two. Lol
@@Mattiaskrantz i take it and I don't even play piano
You can buy a spool of automotive suppression cable (spark plug wire) to solve arcing from one wire to another.
You should put the on/off switch on a piano foot peddle that requires constant pressure down remain powered on - also a acrylic or glass shield between you and the hammers probably a good idea lol
Yeah, a some sort of shielding should definitely be added, and a dead man’s switch would be a very good idea for something like this
These projects are awesome! Might be worth getting a “dead man” foot switch. The switch only turns on when your foot is on it. As soon as your foot is off, it disconnects the circuit.
Poor name but might be worth looking at.
I actually got one like that… but I was so invested in trying to make the piano play that I forgot to use it. Procrastination is dangerous I guess!
@@Mattiaskrantz How are you still alive? ;-]
@@llearch I have high resistance an electrician measured me
@@Mattiaskrantz that could be taken with an entirely different context
@@Mattiaskrantz procrastination is the leading cause of accidents
What makes your channel impressive is not the engineering, or the project ideas them selves, though those are definitely not slacking, but you dedication to actually making it function. Most people would have given up long before making it as far as you did. Would be awesome to see a digital instrument like the real hammer piano so others could develop music using your terrifying creation.
Thank you! Yeah I have trouble giving up on things which Is a curse and a blessing! I’ll talk to the VST guys. I’m not entirely sure how to record it to make sense
Since the loudness is affected by the lenght of the arc and can be controlled by the player hmmm
@@Mattiaskrantz Glad to hear it! Thanks for the response. Good luck and stay safe! :D
This is your second project that I've seen and I'm sure it's not about music but about finding problems and overcoming them. It was a fascinating process. It's a pity that so few young people are curious enough about the world to want to get their hands dirty.
You know it's an awesome creative project when ElectroBoom is the consultant.
Imagine how much you'll save on strings. And it'll never go out of tune.
imagine how the electricity cost going to be higher than the string maintenance cost
@@basocheir Oh yeah...
@@basocheir shhhhh, ignore that part
@@basocheir also the strings dont kill you and burn your house down. which is a pro i guess
Everyone gangsta till it
*Lags*
I have watched creators blow stuff up and put themselves in all sorts of danger, but this video is the first I can recall to really have me on edge the entire time.
EletroBoom literally almost accidentally killed himself when he grabbed a falling jacob's ladder
“I bought these tasers from Wish” is possibly the most dangerous sentence I’ve heard
You have somehow created a piano that perfectly emulates 8bit soundtracks.
Do you know what song he plays at 13:20?
Was wondering
More like 2 bit
@@jaredhared isn't there a probability he improvised? A skilled musician can generate such simple melodies without thinking.
not sure but sounds like imperial march@@jaredhared
As somone who is studixing electrical engineering and starting a project for my graduating year, im so impressed you got so far with so little experience. Like it never really seemed like you had were lost in the project, you had to learn a few things but it went pretty straight forward (it not working a few times is also part of it ). So respect. I wish i would have come up with this idea for my final year project hahaha
I find it incredible that you actually made this work as well as it does. Your persistence and determination is beyond reproach my friend. Fantastic stuff. Life threateningly dangerous ..but fantastic!
Thank you!! But I got a lot of help from smarter people around me😃
@@Mattiaskrantz Bro. Now you gotta make a video playing songs like Sweet Dreams and other songs of that genre on this wacky thang 😅
17:21 I picture Ganon sitting at his piano in the final boss room playing this as Link enters for the final fight
One day people will look back and recognize Mattias as the bleeding edge musical innovator he truly is.
At this point I think it's closer to the burning edge...
🙏🙏
Hopefully not literally
hopefully not in a PSA as a black and white photo :(
Dude! No words are adequate. The electric piano was crazy enough, but a real plasma piano? Please don't kill yourself.
Regardless, I cannot stop watching.
Thank you! Actually, I don’t think this piano is more dangerous than the other piano. It just looks more dangerous!
I think the fact that there are no capaciters makes this *less* dangorus than the last one
@@Mattiaskrantz c f
Ff🎉f
@@Mattiaskrantz next project, go the other way. Ice piano? Bose-einstein condensate piano?
I really wasn’t expecting that. What a shocker.
This is amazing. I work with very high voltages, up to 80kV so I was worried for you. Not sure how you could work up the nerve to play a song, but this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
Complacency 😬🤷🏼♂️
Rubber carper helps a lot.
No way this is 1 million volts though, I'm 90% sure that is clickbait.
1 million volts would just short-circuit.
@IamGrimalkin maybe if he is adding the voltage for each piano key, but yeah even then probably not 1 million
@@jazzophis Well perhaps, but doing so makes about as much sense as saying you're playing the piano at 9000 m above sea level since you have 90 keys at 100m.
To think that this all started with putting guitar strings on a piano. It's been a long and wild journey Mattias.
It actually started with me making guitar covers when I was like 14 years old my youtube journey is quite uhm unusual😅
Please be safe. It's absolutely insane that you actually built this. I was not expecting you to go that far.
Me neither! Next video, I’ll do something non dangerous!
@@Mattiaskrantz please give any future dangerous creations one of these big red emergency shutdown buttons in an easily accessible spot
@@astiaj yeah... A foot switch that only makes a connection when the foot is on it is probably a good idea.. 🤷
@@astiaj E-stops are useless for electrocution. You would want a dead man switch.
@@Mattiaskrantz Next step is hooking up a Röntgen tube to each note and maake it "play" a geiger counter , number of counts per minute = note :D
17:15 This is the best Zelda theme cover I've ever heard
18:25 And this... This is a master peace.
So basically, you built an 8-bit piano? 🤔
That's *SO* awesome!!!! 😎
The Zelda and Tetris themes sounded earily accurate! I love it!! ❤🔥😘🤌
My hat's off to you, sir!!
🎩🤏
😌
@@EnigmazGuide I mean,
This is why Megalovania sounds so natural.
I played carols with 8-bit piano from russia.
I’m into my second semester at college becoming an electrician and hopefully an engineer someday. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my studies, it’s this: electricity is SO much more dangerous than I ever imagined it could be. I was terrified for you during the whole video 😂 and since I am a musician as well, this was just incredible for me to watch. Amazing job!
(Also, consider putting an emergency stop button on the power supply so you don’t have to get off your bench and flip a switch every time something goes wrong. Keep up the amazing work, and stay safe with these kinds of projects!!)
Honestly this was terrifying and hilarious, I loved it!
+1 to BIG red emergency stop button. :)
Not an electrical engineer but I was extremely nervous the whole time as well. A lot of people don’t understand the danger of electricity
What this guy doing is more electronics engineering thoi
@@iwantmynametobeaslongaspos7194 doesn't basically everyone know how dangerous electricity is
I actually really love the sound of this.
It's like a slightly more organic and rounded out 8-bit or chip tune type of sound.
Me too! I actually tried making the hammers fixed and the sound was so dead. So I guess the hammer movement really made a difference
@@Mattiaskrantz Ohhh, now that it also very interesting. Definitely makes sense with the loudness increasing when the arc was longer.
@@Mattiaskrantz Is the waveform limited to a square by the components? or can you program it also to try different ratios of on and off times?
I really love the sound of this piano too. I hope Mathias records more video of himself playing it!
@repit5014 we discussed a lot in discord about this, it's already complicated in theory
For anyone curious about the monitor circuit particles, ChatGPT tells me it’s EMI (Electromagnetic interference) and one cause is high frequency oscillations.
Now I know how all retro game songs were made. Those people who made retro songs were so brave!
Hahaha
Ahead of their time 😞
It’s not entirely wrong, they did use electric synth waves, it’s a similar process just a lot more…. Sophisticated? They are big companies with millions though so
@@RetroDotTube
"similar process"
@@MiguelBaptista1981 yeah, synth waves are similar to electric waves, the frequency rate creates the sound. Essentially an electric arc is a synth wave
Thank you, Mattias, for single-handedly repairing the hole in the ozone layer... Seriously though, this is so amazing and it sounds unbelievably good! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Hahahh great I’m finally doing something good for the planet!
Haha, I was going to say! Hope he had a window open because this piano’s gonna be making a ton of ozone
Wen your piano smells of ozone you know there is something wrong....
Dude. You're a musician, an engineer, a good editor, have a good sense of humor, understand the importance of mental health, and you don't give up when you fail. Respect!
Perhaps not the highest sense of self-preservation, though 😅
Don’t forget electrician
and a cook too
Him: almost burns down house
Also him: starts ad sponsorship right after like he didn’t just almost die
Electroboom laughing at his own joke and having PTSD from all the times he shocked himself is the funniest thing ever
Guy needs better help
@@bvkroll well it's a good thing they are sponsoring this video then! :D
As An Engineer and Pianist myself I must say that this is the most creative project I have seen in a while 🥳🤝
Congrats for this art Masterpiece 💚
This piano is freaking deadly, in a most beautiful kind of way.
It sounds shockingly good
This is truly your magnum opus. Really incredible work, and came out functioning more than I ever expected it to.
I love the journey of a pianist slowly becoming an electrical engineer
He's not even much of a pianist either. xD
He isnt even a pianist.
I would say he's more of a guitarist than pianist
He will much more likely be dead before he becomes an engineer of any kind.
I have no words for how crazy this is. You actually pulled it off?! Utmost respect for not getting electrocuted 🧐
bro, I kept thinking to myself "how the hell is this guy still alive"
It's (probably) low amperage, think like a Van de Graaff generator.
*too badly
It sounds surprisingly good man. You've officially created an acoustic synthesizer and it's awesome
The videos keep getting crazier!
@Don't Read My Profile Picture stfu just enjoy the video mate
@@mach74f this is a bot, he's been doing this for many times
Congrats Mattias! You have created the world's first and only analog 8-bit piano!
I played with one of those transformers once. I was so excited untill it made a sound, and then immediately dismanteled the whole thing out of fear. I can't belive you built a whole piano. Amazing work :)
This made the Zelda theme sound pretty darn accurate
17:21 🥲
Rewatching this-the bit about how the sound goes up at the end rather than the beginning sounds similar in effect to the gated reverb hollow drum beat sounds of the 80s! 17:55
Incredible.
I remember you asking in the Styropyro Discord about doing this. The end result looks and sounds awesome.
I notice that it occasionally burns the end of the plastic separating each hammer and then it flashes over, and the only way I can really think of preventing that is by using thin ceramic plates instead of plastic as you don't get the conductive carbon tracks forming.
Yeah I got some great advice from there so I added a short thank you note in the end of the video I think! Where you one of them? 🤝
@@Mattiaskrantz I wasn't, but I couldn't give much help anyway as I've never really done anything with PWM control. Most of my flyback experiments just involve trying to get the biggest and hottest arcs I can get!
Ok, it's scandinavian, deadly, has hammers, lighting and it's fracking cool. Is it Thor's piano? and can we call it Chris?
Maybe I should retitle the video!
that piano better be named thor
@@Mattiaskrantz OMG yes!! It's Thor's piano!! It has Thor's hammers, and Thor's lightning!!!
Now that's a real Synth Piano
Not only are you an engineer, you're an electrical and software engineer now, what a journey
and mechanical! collect all the engineering! I'm looking forward to aerospace...
Tbh I'd say still pretty far from an electrical engineer. That was some abhorrent electronics practices.
@@miniknights He's still learning, be kind. No one said he had an EE degree.
without even mentioning that he's a musician as well
@@miniknights a joke 😥😰😨😯😯
I'm a technician and used to fix TV's with those HV Transformers, output is about 26kv
My son is refurbishing a piano at the moment
Seeing the two things combined I'm staggered and amazed, so impressive
Just looks like you need the isolating acrylic between the keys to be a bit higher
Lots of thumbs up
Impressive. As a musician, I love seeing something like this. The birth of a new style of instrument. Absolutely amazing
its not a new instrument, its a synthesizer. they have been around for years lol
He discovered 8 bit MIDI sounds
This guitar duo's harmonies are so tight and precise, it's a pleasure to listen to.
This is the most analog square wave synth I've ever heard. Love it!
This was actually insane, but at least it turned out well! and i love the 8-bit sound
Crazy idea, I love it. Great job
Im shocked i didnt come up with it
@@ophhate bro 💀
Thank you!!
2:44 - 2:49 sounds like rush e2
@@ophhate nah bruh why you gotta do a dad joke like that XD
13:20 my main thought was why not disassemble and then move the hammers about 1-2 cm further appart. Sure more work but better isolation.
I love how this went back and forth between being a cool piano and a potential electric chair
You can indeed cook with that piano safely, except instead of meat use dough. Panko is a japanese bread type baked entirely by running an electrical current through it. They quite literally stick a huge batch of dough into a giant metal box, fill it to capacity and let it fry until baked. I think you can replicate this effect by adding a second metal sheet to your backplate and ensuring that the grounding circuit is half dough so that it cooks.
Dough is also significantly less likely to be contaminated with pathogen load so if you don't cook it fully you're a lot more likely to be fine. Make some brioche dough and play some Bach, then have a snack afterwards. Electrical caramelization of sugar (corn syrup is best) is also surprisingly delicious. Try it out sometime!
Studied food science for a long part of my life, I confirm cooking meat this way is dangerous, think that roasting fat until it becomes dark yellow/brown turns it carcinogen, imagine the havoc that happened into that steak. It's still a long term problem so as long as he doesn't prepare plasma steaks again he should be fine.