A piano teacher's perspective: Honestly, this thing is great! The details are absolutely superb in the design and VERY accurate to a real grand piano. The piano bench is adjustable because everyone's torsos are different heights. The pedal lifts all the dampers (the things inside the piano) to let all of the strings vibrate at once! Which is what a real string of a piano does to make a sound once a key is played. I am glad the action is removable! The action is the keys that you were able to remove with the 2 technic pins. Just like a real piano, you remove just 2 very large screws from the bottom and you can slide out the piano key lid and the piano keys themselves with the hammers. The hammers are the thing you complained about building because it was so repetitive (: Imagine actually tuning a real piano!.. also very repetitive lol Overall, it has a very good build to it! I do agree with you that the playability is quite gimmicky and I would have loved it they didn't have the Play Up feature and lowered the cost. I know of a lot of kids though that love this gimmick feature, but if this is a 18+, then I think it is a down side. Great video! 👍
Wow! Thanks so much for taking the time to write all that out, I learned so much! I can't believe LEGO nailed the two pins acting as real screws of the grand piano, that is quite awesome. Thanks Anya!
The pedals are for sustaining the notes. So if you press a key and then take away your finger, the pedal will keep the sound going even if you're not pressing the key.
Marsman not quite, the left pedal is used to soften the sound by shifting the dampers to the right so it hits only two strings instead of three, creating a quieter tone, middle one only sustains the notes that were already being pressed, notes after that with the pedal down are unaffected.
@@blobba5442 yep, left pedal on a grand piano is the una chorda. Sometimes it's different on upright pianos, which are unable to do the note sustain, and have the cloth dampner
@@PlanetDragonod I was only talking about the one on the right because that's the one that is used most often and the only one that works on this LEGO piano.
Hey pianist here and big fan of yours! 5:10 we call it the “lid”-yeah, not so inventive. We also hold the lid up with that little technic arm you were talking about-it’s called a stick. Pianos often come with a long “full stick” and a much shorter “half stick” to dampen the sound a bit. The thing you opened to access the keys is called the “fall board”, and the little hinges stand for the music is called the “music rack”. The seat for the piano is called the “piano bench” At around 8:30 we literally call the white ones the “white keys” and the black ones the “black keys” 😂😂 fun fact, on older keyboard instruments, like the organ, they are colored differently, including with the colors inverted (I.e. the small ones are white and the big ones are black). I may edit this later with more vocab examples.
And, even though I'm a musician as well, I only recently learned that the full name of the piano is 'Pianoforte' (named for it's unique ability to play really really loud to really really soft almost instantly and vice versa)
ay good job as a pianist you're right! one thing he talked about was pulling out the keys, i believe you can pull the lid off not the entire keys but yes the piano keys lid comes off so as to maintain it
Hahah yeah same here, i think it's because the build itself is quite big, big the keys are too big compared to the rest of the piano to it kind of throws you off, thats just me though...
Same, it looks so much smaller than it actually is. This is probably because there's almost no visible Studs to immediately see how big it is. Once you realize that each key is 2 studs wide, you really get the size of the whole thing
One of the reasons they included the ability to remove the key assembly is the brilliant attention to detail. As you pontificated, it is indeed a function of real pianos. It is truly brilliant. I have tuned pianos and repaired them and removing the key assembly is essential for maintaining pianos.
When our piano tuner came in a few weeks ago to tune our baby grand I I walked in the room (with a mask on) and saw the keys removed, and then I remembered, “oh yeah! They can do that! The LEGO one is more realistic than I thought”
The engineering of the keys is exactly like a real piano. That pedal you pressed lifted the black and red pieces above the keys because it then allows the sound to sustain
Even though that would've been cool, I'm pretty sure the price would've been even more ridiculous. Plus most people who would put this together probably can't even play the piano, and if they could then they most likely own a piano/keyboard already (like me), hence why I think Lego probably thought it would be better to make it cheaper. Honestly, this guy is expecting way too much for too little and it almost came off as a kid buying a ben 10 watch thinking he could turn into different aliens, though honestly I highly blame LEGO for nearly false advertising its mechanics.
Weird thing is it is supposed to be playable. If it isnt, that is LEGO's fault because the designer from LEGO Ideas designed it to be playable, and it was when he finished the model.
@@mesachi0640 like the Steven guy said lego likely told him stopped him if this was a fully functional piano likely would've required insanely expensive stuff
@@aaronnilestoussaint5672 Basically they'd have to have some sort of sensor for each individual key. At that point you're building an electronic keyboard.
Finished this 3 days after it was released Of all the Lego sets made I really thinks think this without doubt their finest. Friends who have no interest in Lego have all said they are very impressed and would consider buying it to display in their homes It takes Lego to a different level in appreciation
@@calvinman6339 . The things I do I had to go downstairs find a tape measure and measure but since its the holiday season and good will is needed to keep us all sane I have measured it as requested LOL It stands 40cms high (can't tell you what that is in inches) and my views on it are still the same and we have just finished the Colosseum as well which is really big at 9000 pieces and although it is well designed and enjoyable to build the piano is still No 1
Very detailed review of the set, pluses and minuses. Personally I think it is a wonderfully designed LEGO set. No other Lego set to date has the same functionality. If the Power Functions were not included ti would be very difficult to add them after the piano is finished. The Power functions are added in the early stages of the build. To add the sensor and motor after completion would require significant disassembly.
I am a piano player, this lego set is extremely accurate. To the point if you used the right materials it would actually function, no joke. its dead on
This set is HUGE! Price per part is not bad, and it functions almoust like the real piano. Apart from display and showing off the features, this set doesnt offer much else however, part from lots of golden parts and a brick that has golden LEGO printed on it. So theres two sides to it, its reasonably priced IMO, taking into consideration how much effort and desing choises it took, I`d say in the long run its definetly worth it, although pricey for most of us. Im not personally getting it, because its so expensive, and it dosent offer much in value other than display. But its an amazing set overall!
Here's my personal take on this. It's a brilliant set with major caveats. This is the most expensive Lego set I've ever purchased and built and it does partially live up to that, which I'll get back to later on. This is a fantastically detailed and beautifully designed set and feels bigger than it suggests on paper; it was a very interesting build process to see through to the end. It is cool learning how the keys, as repetitive as they got, are arranged and set up, how the curvy shaping and sides were formed and seeing it all come together is very satisfying. I already know of the flaws this set has which I will not repeat here. However, my main issue with this set is the price itself and where it is positioned; I actually do understand why it costs as much as it does and it is justified due to the amount of pieces, granted a lot of which are tiny, but there are plenty of unusual ones like the curved pieces as well as a few large pieces, plus the Powered UP motor and hub. But despite all that and it feeling relatively large, its size pales in comparison to other impressive sets that are not only a lot bigger than this, but also less costly; the Disney Castle and a fellow Ideas set Pirates of Barracuda Bay to name a few, the latter of which is only just over half the price of the Grand Piano and is a lot larger despite having around a third less pieces. They don't have Powered UP functions of course but it gives an idea of what other impressive sets are available. And two very large Harry Potter sets, Hogwarts Castle and Diagon Alley cost very slightly more. Make no mistake, the Grand Piano is a fantastic set in its own right and does justify its price, but you have to really want this. And you must also bear in mind that there is a lot of other sets that are equally, if not more fantastic which are less costly as well as bigger, even if personal tastes on themes like Harry Potter and Star Wars will vary.
As far as the “leave out the powered up components and lower the price $70” argument goes there are numerous examples of LEGO doing exactly that and they find just as many people criticizing them for doing it that way. The end result is no matter what you do or how you do it you will find a large group of people who can’t wait to tell you that you are doing it wrong. People love to criticize and complain.
In real life the keys could be a bit off but not by that much. But it is strange tho for such a project. I think the reason for it on this lego set is because its electric driven.
@@yrtracingteam106 now that i've built it myself the only reason for the keys not aligning is the motor-driven axle. In its zero position it pushes up some keys a little bit. For display purposes this can easily be fixed by turning the axle just a little bit by hand.
As amazing as this set is, the fact you can't truly play on it is a dealbreaker for me. I feel like if Nintendo could make it work with FREAKING CARDBOARD, then Lego should have been able to do it too.
You have to understand how long and how much time is invested in these projects, I have a family friend that works for Lego, and literally makes Lego designs, Also Nintendo works with electronics, the only thing close to that in this build is just motors.
@@freja1787 What's so hard about having a board with 25 sensors? Actually, if one were only interested in playing one note at a time, seven would suffice, with each key playing a different combination of three (which would allow up to 35 notes). Other approaches using fewer might also be workable, though the three-of-seven encoding would allow real keypresses to be distinguished from erroneous ones.
I started playing the piano since 4 years old, started playing Lego around that age also. My whole childhood was piano and Lego. Not only my whole childhood, even now I'm collecting Lego and have a piano at each of my homes in different countries. There's absolutely no way for me to not get this set.
As a pianist and piano tech, I have to say, this is very, very impressive! The removal of the action (what you called the keys) from the case, and the functioning damper pedal (those black pieces above the strings that lift when you depress the pedal are called "dampers") are two details I definitely did not expect! And they operate exactly how a real grand works. I would have liked to have seen a close-up of the action out of the piano to get a good look at the key/wippen/hammer assembly and how that functions. Oh well. Thanks for the vid! WOW!!!
I love this set, second , keep it up David ,I like how you can’t play it but it can play it’s self ?? , I’d probably use if for parts tbh but I do like the set
The fact that this is a lego set is not disappointing at all. This is such a great piece! Isn't everything at lego overpriced doe? the imperial star destroyer was almost $800.
I was under the impression it had some way for you to connect your own music and the sound would come out of a speaker in the piano. The keys being randomly pressed doesn't bother me as much but the fact that there's only five songs and no speaker does
1- never buy lego off amazon. lego up charges old stock there insanely and scalpers upcharge it by 2 times (especially Ideas kits like the Saturn V, it came out at $80, just look at the amazon price today) 2- licensed sets cost more. its not much, but WB and Disney sets usually cost more. Luckily the new ideas sets are nice for collectors (and limited stock means they can be resold if your SO or you don't like them) 3- if you cant buy new/direct(online or at a lego store), local "brick" collector shops(not lego stores, but they only sell lego) have better margins for used ones, also big box stores sometimes keep stock at MSRP price, but dont count on it for collector/adult sets. 4- some retied hard-to-find sets can be found in certain large lego stores by amusement parks or major malls, including store exclusive sets. 5- never buy cloned sets. Instead of that, you can sometimes find people making new sets out of spare bricks (and online instructions), that at least uses official lego. I'm currently missing the women in NASA and curiosity rover(>$600 for a 250 piece set) in my NASA collaboration/ideas collection but I really have no incentive to get them right now. Still waiting for a good price on Darth Vader's tie advanced after nearly 10 years... used/resold prices are often worse than spending the 10c/brick cost and prohibitively expensive for what the set is, and you just have to deal with it.
@@pdrombs I have to press X to doubt. I shop around for good prices, and the 5 sets I've gotten from lego all have been at or above MSRP on amazon, if on there at all. Some sellers might be clearing stock or change prices when demand is low there but I haven't found any better deals on amazon when I search around. 1989 Bmobile: 249 vs 249 ISS: 69 vs 84 lunar lander: 100 vs 119 barracuda bay: 199 vs 250 Saturn 5 (retired but can be found for 95$ in box, was 60-80 from what I remember) vs 250 ideas sets get retired more frequently, so popular collectors sets have really distorted prices on amazon.
Sazoji thing is, Amazon has more deals more often with cheaper and quicker delivery. If I was going out into shopping centres I’d probably just go to the Lego store. Would use bricklink but postage is very pricey
@@fredoran the delivery is indeed faster, but the official prices never change (camelcamelcamel.com/product/B083JWZNW7?context=search). The 3rd party resellers still gouge you for money and you cant see the MSRP price on amazon's store page, there's little reason to use amazon over official lego unless you absolutely need your set within two days.
Honestly they should have just left the electronic part out if they weren’t going to do it right. If they marketed it to seem otherwise then shame on them.
Yeah, I thought that too and thought it would be an awesome gift for my musician son who still loves lego. Now that I see that it doesn’t actually play, I’m not sure. I fear he may turn up his nose.
Nice review. I agree it would be nice to be able to play individual keys tho. From the preview I felt at least the auto play would play the songs. The random keys moving up and down are a bit disappointing
Weird thing is it is supposed to be playable. The designer of the set made it with strings and hammers and stuff so it could be played, but lego did not follow through with that, I guess so you can build more of it and because fragility.
The assembly with the keys and hammers is called the action. The pedal is called a sustain pedal and it lifts the dampers so when you release the key the string will continue to vibrate.
Hi, at 11 minutes when you are describing the pedal function, I am quite sure that your first and second pedals is the wrong way round, the solid middle piece should be at the back.
My daughter plays the piano (digital for now) and she is getting very good at it. She also loves LEGO’s so it was a no brainer but it was sold out so quickly the first release. Months later I happened to see it at my local LEGO store and snatched it up. Gonna make this a daddy daughter team build. Looking forward to the finished build... oh, I’m still working on getting her a real forever grand piano one day 👍
At 11:20 those are dampers and the damper peddle. That let’s the strings vibrate longer therefore letting the sound resonate longer until put down. Don’t want to be the ruiner of everything and it’s perfectly fine you don’t know what there called but for that specific function I thought that might be important to add. Love your vids, thanks.
Wifi is only needed for the initial firmware update to the Powered Up hub as far as I am aware, and for downloading the app in the first place of course. The Powered Up functionality only needs a Bluetooth connection with your device which can be off line.
The box for this set is the same type of box usually reserved for the large LEGO Technic sports cars. The boxing is a lot more elegant in the car sets for sure, but I think it's worth mentioning that such a large mature set is packaged similarly to that of the big Technic car boxes. It really separate the big sets from the majority of the others.
I love the design, but could do without the motorized function. I guess you could build it without the motor, and use the motor on something more useful, in which case it's two sets in one.
hammers, dampeners, sustain pedal, action, stencil logo, etc. Lol. What you are able to take out of the piano is called the action. The black hammers / felt that raises inside when you play a key in the lower register is the mute lifting up.
5:09 That is the lid, which in a real piano protects the strings, hammer and dampers from damage or other. At the very bottom of the piano where you see the three pedals are sostenuto pedal, soft pedal and sustaining pedal. The sustaining pedal, which is the pedal to the right allows the dampers inside the piano to be raised allowing the hammer to strike the strings letting them ring freely; release the pedal and this drops the damper stopping the string from vibrating.
I think that even though it's not really playable, it still is a thing I would really like to own. I have a digital keyboard, started learning about a year ago, but I'm totally piano crazy. I think just having it would be cool.
yeah, so the bummer takeaway here is that this isn't a functioning player piano that shows how a song is actually played per the given sheet music for a piece. This is a cool set but I'm not sure I'd want to drop $350 on it. That's about 1/3 the cost of a good Yamaha keyboard.
6:56 why is measure 6 of “Playday” wack. It looks fine since it’s in 4/4, but the upper line of measure 6 is 5/4 while the bottom line in 4/4, as a musician (not a pianist but a bass trombonist) I don’t know if I can buy this anymore
It's just a printing error, also technically you could have 3 8th notes in a triplet instead of those 4, and have it still be in 4/4 time, although that sheet music is wrong because I'm pretty sure quadruplets don't exist.
My husband just bought me this piano for Christmas 2022. In Australia the RRP is more like $500, so definitely not cheap. I'm a musician who's been playing the piano for nearly 40 years, so I was interested in the ability to play it like a real piano, but am sorely disappointed to hear that it's not. At least it looks fantastic, and a lot cheaper to buy than the real thing (plus I don't have to build another room on my house to accommodate it). Maybe I'll sit it on top of my electric upright piano in the corner of the sitting room and have a piano-thon. By the way, my cat saw me unwrap it on Christmas night and immediately asked if he could have piano lessons, as it's the perfect size for him.
You mentioned they could have left out the electronics and the app functionality and reduced the price. I tend to agree, why not offer the base non-functional piano for a reduced price so it's affordable for those that just want the build, but offer an optional electronics "add-on" for those that want to spend a bit extra for the full playable functionality? I'm sure Lego could figure out a way to offer it like that. Seems like that way there's an option that appeals to almost everyone.
It looks absolutely fantastic and as a pianist and LEGO enthusiast this really speaks to me, but the lack of functionality just hurts my soul. It almost doesn’t make sense for it to have functionality at all. I wish it had no motors and just meant for display and was less money.
I considered this set. It is nice. In the end, I took the money, added 100 € to it, and got myself a digital piano (not a keyboard). I started to play the piano again. Probably I am having more fun than building this grand...
It went together great, but I'm totally mystified on how to set up Bluetooth! The wordless instructions (page 109) is no help at all! What is the name of the app that runs on Android? I can't find 'poweredup' or 'lego poweredup'.
As a piano player it's just really funny listening to this as you don't know anything about pianos. It's not meant to be offensive, it's just funny listening to you try to describe the functions. I'm just laughing naming everything you mess up, it's all just good fun.
It took me 5 hours to built this set. I thought the piano would be functional when I bought this. Good decor for a low bookshelves or end table. The building process is extremely repetitive to the point that I almost don’t enjoy it.
The sad thing is you can buy a fully functional piano for roughly the same price
I don't think so😅😂
Joni as in a digital piano
@@MandoStudios20 okay you're right, a digital one yes, sorry ;)
Joni yeah. A grand piano like the one in the set would cost thousands 😂
@@MandoStudios20 haha yes😂😂😂😂
A piano teacher's perspective:
Honestly, this thing is great!
The details are absolutely superb in the design and VERY accurate to a real grand piano.
The piano bench is adjustable because everyone's torsos are different heights.
The pedal lifts all the dampers (the things inside the piano) to let all of the strings vibrate at once! Which is what a real string of a piano does to make a sound once a key is played.
I am glad the action is removable! The action is the keys that you were able to remove with the 2 technic pins. Just like a real piano, you remove just 2 very large screws from the bottom and you can slide out the piano key lid and the piano keys themselves with the hammers.
The hammers are the thing you complained about building because it was so repetitive (:
Imagine actually tuning a real piano!.. also very repetitive lol
Overall, it has a very good build to it! I do agree with you that the playability is quite gimmicky and I would have loved it they didn't have the Play Up feature and lowered the cost. I know of a lot of kids though that love this gimmick feature, but if this is a 18+, then I think it is a down side.
Great video! 👍
Anya Hiler lol ?
Yes
I wish the pedals were gold/bronze though and not silver
@@braydenshopland304 I totally agree
Wow! Thanks so much for taking the time to write all that out, I learned so much! I can't believe LEGO nailed the two pins acting as real screws of the grand piano, that is quite awesome. Thanks Anya!
The pedals are for sustaining the notes. So if you press a key and then take away your finger, the pedal will keep the sound going even if you're not pressing the key.
Thats only the right pedal.
Left is a soft pedal
Middle is a pedal does the same thing as the sustain only bit different
After years, i know what are the pedales used for thanks to a RUclips comment
Marsman not quite, the left pedal is used to soften the sound by shifting the dampers to the right so it hits only two strings instead of three, creating a quieter tone, middle one only sustains the notes that were already being pressed, notes after that with the pedal down are unaffected.
@@blobba5442 yep, left pedal on a grand piano is the una chorda.
Sometimes it's different on upright pianos, which are unable to do the note sustain, and have the cloth dampner
@@PlanetDragonod I was only talking about the one on the right because that's the one that is used most often and the only one that works on this LEGO piano.
Hey pianist here and big fan of yours!
5:10 we call it the “lid”-yeah, not so inventive. We also hold the lid up with that little technic arm you were talking about-it’s called a stick. Pianos often come with a long “full stick” and a much shorter “half stick” to dampen the sound a bit.
The thing you opened to access the keys is called the “fall board”, and the little hinges stand for the music is called the “music rack”.
The seat for the piano is called the “piano bench”
At around 8:30 we literally call the white ones the “white keys” and the black ones the “black keys” 😂😂 fun fact, on older keyboard instruments, like the organ, they are colored differently, including with the colors inverted (I.e. the small ones are white and the big ones are black).
I may edit this later with more vocab examples.
And, even though I'm a musician as well, I only recently learned that the full name of the piano is 'Pianoforte' (named for it's unique ability to play really really loud to really really soft almost instantly and vice versa)
@@Snavels Even then, the entire full name is "gravicembalo col piano e forte" translating into the keyboard that plays soft and loud music.
Legomyegoorj ha
ay good job as a pianist you're right! one thing he talked about was pulling out the keys, i believe you can pull the lid off not the entire keys but yes the piano keys lid comes off so as to maintain it
Never knew youtube comments can help me with music class thank you sir!
"Perfectly aligned" 😂 18:45
it's a beautiful set. Those keys though..
I was HONESTLY looking for this comment, it really hurts my eyes to see these "perfectly aligned" keys 🤣
Anyone else really confused by the actual scale of the model, I can’t get my head around it
It's huge in real life. It just looks small with the way the camera is looking at it.
Fish-eye lense
Hahah yeah same here, i think it's because the build itself is quite big, big the keys are too big compared to the rest of the piano to it kind of throws you off, thats just me though...
Same, it looks so much smaller than it actually is. This is probably because there's almost no visible Studs to immediately see how big it is. Once you realize that each key is 2 studs wide, you really get the size of the whole thing
I presume you mean the keys look enormous for the piano, and they are. It's 25 keys fit where 88 would go.
One of the reasons they included the ability to remove the key assembly is the brilliant attention to detail. As you pontificated, it is indeed a function of real pianos. It is truly brilliant. I have tuned pianos and repaired them and removing the key assembly is essential for maintaining pianos.
When our piano tuner came in a few weeks ago to tune our baby grand I I walked in the room (with a mask on) and saw the keys removed, and then I remembered, “oh yeah! They can do that! The LEGO one is more realistic than I thought”
The engineering of the keys is exactly like a real piano. That pedal you pressed lifted the black and red pieces above the keys because it then allows the sound to sustain
So the guy who built this did a really good job making a mini version but he did kinda copy an actual grand piano
@@bikerscoutproductions1040 yea thats the point
@Dacal LP Yeah Duh. That’s why I mentioned it
@@bikerscoutproductions1040 yea but u said "*but* he kinda copy an actual piano" and i thought duh thats what he did but sry to annoy u
Dacal LP Nah, I’m fine. Glad to hear your response
It's a good piece of art for the shelves. Shelf development.
LIke all UCS Lego sets?
Why are you every where I go
The top of an upright piano counts as a shelf, right? 🤔
Every where i go *i find you*
You can say that to every lego set
you could hear the disappointment in his voice when he talks about how you cant play the piano
Even though that would've been cool, I'm pretty sure the price would've been even more ridiculous. Plus most people who would put this together probably can't even play the piano, and if they could then they most likely own a piano/keyboard already (like me), hence why I think Lego probably thought it would be better to make it cheaper. Honestly, this guy is expecting way too much for too little and it almost came off as a kid buying a ben 10 watch thinking he could turn into different aliens, though honestly I highly blame LEGO for nearly false advertising its mechanics.
Weird thing is it is supposed to be playable. If it isnt, that is LEGO's fault because the designer from LEGO Ideas designed it to be playable, and it was when he finished the model.
@@mesachi0640 like the Steven guy said lego likely told him stopped him if this was a fully functional piano likely would've required insanely expensive stuff
@@aaronnilestoussaint5672 Basically they'd have to have some sort of sensor for each individual key. At that point you're building an electronic keyboard.
They should just have made the electronic parts optional and make it cheaper
I thought so too
yea
Same for all the sets that have electronic parts. Bangs up the price for stuff I’m not interested in, so I don’t buy them.
Definitely, especially since its basically a very expensive mp3 player that can only play happy birthday and a couple of other simple songs.
Finished this 3 days after it was released Of all the Lego sets made I really thinks think this without doubt their finest. Friends who have no interest in Lego have all said they are very impressed and would consider buying it to display in their homes It takes Lego to a different level in appreciation
Hi John... What is the height with the lid open up and the stick stand?
@@calvinman6339 . The things I do I had to go downstairs find a tape measure and measure but since its the holiday season and good will is needed to keep us all sane I have measured it as requested LOL
It stands 40cms high (can't tell you what that is in inches) and my views on it are still the same and we have just finished the Colosseum as well which is really big at 9000 pieces and although it is well designed and enjoyable to build the piano is still No 1
Thank You, John... You are AWESOME... Happy New Years to you and your families... Be Safe.
Friend: do you play an instrument?
Me: oh yeah I play the *lego piano*
how
hahahahahahahaha
I am not a big music guy but that is a handsome Grand piano.
Very detailed review of the set, pluses and minuses. Personally I think it is a wonderfully designed LEGO set. No other Lego set to date has the same functionality. If the Power Functions were not included ti would be very difficult to add them after the piano is finished. The Power functions are added in the early stages of the build. To add the sensor and motor after completion would require significant disassembly.
Let me see a buildable figure sitting and playing.
Only if it's jyn erso
+Darth Dan BrickTsar did it with Darth Maul a few days ago.
What about a technic minifigure
How about the Pit Droid? :)
bionicle
I am a piano player, this lego set is extremely accurate. To the point if you used the right materials it would actually function, no joke. its dead on
This set is HUGE! Price per part is not bad, and it functions almoust like the real piano. Apart from display and showing off the features, this set doesnt offer much else however, part from lots of golden parts and a brick that has golden LEGO printed on it. So theres two sides to it, its reasonably priced IMO, taking into consideration how much effort and desing choises it took, I`d say in the long run its definetly worth it, although pricey for most of us.
Im not personally getting it, because its so expensive, and it dosent offer much in value other than display. But its an amazing set overall!
Here's my personal take on this. It's a brilliant set with major caveats.
This is the most expensive Lego set I've ever purchased and built and it does partially live up to that, which I'll get back to later on. This is a fantastically detailed and beautifully designed set and feels bigger than it suggests on paper; it was a very interesting build process to see through to the end. It is cool learning how the keys, as repetitive as they got, are arranged and set up, how the curvy shaping and sides were formed and seeing it all come together is very satisfying.
I already know of the flaws this set has which I will not repeat here. However, my main issue with this set is the price itself and where it is positioned; I actually do understand why it costs as much as it does and it is justified due to the amount of pieces, granted a lot of which are tiny, but there are plenty of unusual ones like the curved pieces as well as a few large pieces, plus the Powered UP motor and hub.
But despite all that and it feeling relatively large, its size pales in comparison to other impressive sets that are not only a lot bigger than this, but also less costly; the Disney Castle and a fellow Ideas set Pirates of Barracuda Bay to name a few, the latter of which is only just over half the price of the Grand Piano and is a lot larger despite having around a third less pieces.
They don't have Powered UP functions of course but it gives an idea of what other impressive sets are available. And two very large Harry Potter sets, Hogwarts Castle and Diagon Alley cost very slightly more.
Make no mistake, the Grand Piano is a fantastic set in its own right and does justify its price, but you have to really want this. And you must also bear in mind that there is a lot of other sets that are equally, if not more fantastic which are less costly as well as bigger, even if personal tastes on themes like Harry Potter and Star Wars will vary.
As far as the “leave out the powered up components and lower the price $70” argument goes there are numerous examples of LEGO doing exactly that and they find just as many people criticizing them for doing it that way. The end result is no matter what you do or how you do it you will find a large group of people who can’t wait to tell you that you are doing it wrong. People love to criticize and complain.
Yeah i think the complaint would really quickly turn into lego skimping out on features etc.
I don’t like that the keys are not aligned
wdym aligned
Wave Illustrator every other white key sticks out a bit
I think they are aligned fine in depth (out/in) but what I noticed is that they don't always rest at the same height, so they're never flat
In real life the keys could be a bit off but not by that much. But it is strange tho for such a project.
I think the reason for it on this lego set is because its electric driven.
@@yrtracingteam106 now that i've built it myself the only reason for the keys not aligning is the motor-driven axle. In its zero position it pushes up some keys a little bit. For display purposes this can easily be fixed by turning the axle just a little bit by hand.
Honestly I’m still in love with it. I’m in engineering and if nothing else I just want to support unique sets like this.
Oh my god they killed Kenny
Woah! Even though I watched the designer video closely and gazed upon the pictures, I am still amazed how big this set is. Grandeur, definitely!
As amazing as this set is, the fact you can't truly play on it is a dealbreaker for me. I feel like if Nintendo could make it work with FREAKING CARDBOARD, then Lego should have been able to do it too.
well to be fair nintendo had switch controllers with IR sensors that actually made the piano work whereas this only has the lego technic
You would need 24 sensors bro
You have to understand how long and how much time is invested in these projects, I have a family friend that works for Lego, and literally makes Lego designs, Also Nintendo works with electronics, the only thing close to that in this build is just motors.
@@freja1787 What's so hard about having a board with 25 sensors? Actually, if one were only interested in playing one note at a time, seven would suffice, with each key playing a different combination of three (which would allow up to 35 notes). Other approaches using fewer might also be workable, though the three-of-seven encoding would allow real keypresses to be distinguished from erroneous ones.
Dumbest comment
I started playing the piano since 4 years old, started playing Lego around that age also. My whole childhood was piano and Lego. Not only my whole childhood, even now I'm collecting Lego and have a piano at each of my homes in different countries. There's absolutely no way for me to not get this set.
Call the Orchesta, this set is awesome.
Yup,the Orchestra is full of non-playable instruments.
As a pianist and piano tech, I have to say, this is very, very impressive! The removal of the action (what you called the keys) from the case, and the functioning damper pedal (those black pieces above the strings that lift when you depress the pedal are called "dampers") are two details I definitely did not expect! And they operate exactly how a real grand works. I would have liked to have seen a close-up of the action out of the piano to get a good look at the key/wippen/hammer assembly and how that functions. Oh well. Thanks for the vid!
WOW!!!
I love this set, second , keep it up David ,I like how you can’t play it but it can play it’s self ?? , I’d probably use if for parts tbh but I do like the set
I think you mean “love” G Bricks
😂😂 yeah
That is one hell of a lego set, I was really impressed with the Play and Listen functions with all of the physical functions of the set
Wow. As a piano tech, this is insanely detailed. All of this is pretty accurate, even the two pins on the bottom of the keyboard to access the action
Ikr, you can even use it to demonstrate how the piano action works
This piece is Figuratively the Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables That Turns Into a Coffee Table Meme from Seindfeld! Love it!!!
The fact that this is a lego set is not disappointing at all. This is such a great piece! Isn't everything at lego overpriced doe? the imperial star destroyer was almost $800.
This thing is so realistic you have to dust it for fingerprints Just like a real piano
I'd like to see a size comparison with this and other big sets.
I was under the impression it had some way for you to connect your own music and the sound would come out of a speaker in the piano. The keys being randomly pressed doesn't bother me as much but the fact that there's only five songs and no speaker does
I was hoping the app could add more songs than the preset 5. I really wanted "Peaches" for the Mighty Bowser set.
Make a video on how to save money on LEGO please!!
1- never buy lego off amazon. lego up charges old stock there insanely and scalpers upcharge it by 2 times (especially Ideas kits like the Saturn V, it came out at $80, just look at the amazon price today)
2- licensed sets cost more. its not much, but WB and Disney sets usually cost more. Luckily the new ideas sets are nice for collectors (and limited stock means they can be resold if your SO or you don't like them)
3- if you cant buy new/direct(online or at a lego store), local "brick" collector shops(not lego stores, but they only sell lego) have better margins for used ones, also big box stores sometimes keep stock at MSRP price, but dont count on it for collector/adult sets.
4- some retied hard-to-find sets can be found in certain large lego stores by amusement parks or major malls, including store exclusive sets.
5- never buy cloned sets. Instead of that, you can sometimes find people making new sets out of spare bricks (and online instructions), that at least uses official lego.
I'm currently missing the women in NASA and curiosity rover(>$600 for a 250 piece set) in my NASA collaboration/ideas collection but I really have no incentive to get them right now. Still waiting for a good price on Darth Vader's tie advanced after nearly 10 years... used/resold prices are often worse than spending the 10c/brick cost and prohibitively expensive for what the set is, and you just have to deal with it.
@@Sazoji on amazon there are sets going for 20$ that are 60$ at lego's website
@@pdrombs I have to press X to doubt. I shop around for good prices, and the 5 sets I've gotten from lego all have been at or above MSRP on amazon, if on there at all. Some sellers might be clearing stock or change prices when demand is low there but I haven't found any better deals on amazon when I search around.
1989 Bmobile: 249 vs 249
ISS: 69 vs 84
lunar lander: 100 vs 119
barracuda bay: 199 vs 250
Saturn 5 (retired but can be found for 95$ in box, was 60-80 from what I remember) vs 250
ideas sets get retired more frequently, so popular collectors sets have really distorted prices on amazon.
Sazoji thing is, Amazon has more deals more often with cheaper and quicker delivery. If I was going out into shopping centres I’d probably just go to the Lego store. Would use bricklink but postage is very pricey
@@fredoran the delivery is indeed faster, but the official prices never change (camelcamelcamel.com/product/B083JWZNW7?context=search).
The 3rd party resellers still gouge you for money and you cant see the MSRP price on amazon's store page, there's little reason to use amazon over official lego unless you absolutely need your set within two days.
Honestly they should have just left the electronic part out if they weren’t going to do it right. If they marketed it to seem otherwise then shame on them.
Ohhh, when they said it was a functional piano, I thought it'd be an actual functional piano. Like using the power box to play each note or something.
Yeah, I thought that too and thought it would be an awesome gift for my musician son who still loves lego. Now that I see that it doesn’t actually play, I’m not sure. I fear he may turn up his nose.
Nice review. I agree it would be nice to be able to play individual keys tho. From the preview I felt at least the auto play would play the songs. The random keys moving up and down are a bit disappointing
I built this. Very nice. Not sure why the middle and far right keys do not move, but I see other builders have the same issue.
Weird thing is it is supposed to be playable. The designer of the set made it with strings and hammers and stuff so it could be played, but lego did not follow through with that, I guess so you can build more of it and because fragility.
8:16 is when he plays keys on piano
The assembly with the keys and hammers is called the action. The pedal is called a sustain pedal and it lifts the dampers so when you release the key the string will continue to vibrate.
Hi, at 11 minutes when you are describing the pedal function, I am quite sure that your first and second pedals is the wrong way round, the solid middle piece should be at the back.
cool, I was wonder that how many hours you spend to build this beautiful piano?
My daughter plays the piano (digital for now) and she is getting very good at it. She also loves LEGO’s so it was a no brainer but it was sold out so quickly the first release. Months later I happened to see it at my local LEGO store and snatched it up. Gonna make this a daddy daughter team build. Looking forward to the finished build... oh, I’m still working on getting her a real forever grand piano one day 👍
I absolutely LOOVE this thing!!!!! I'm only 14 tho and it's soooo pricey :((((
and its also out of stock xD
Highly recommend a case for this set because I can promise you that dust will be your nasty enemy
At 11:20 those are dampers and the damper peddle. That let’s the strings vibrate longer therefore letting the sound resonate longer until put down. Don’t want to be the ruiner of everything and it’s perfectly fine you don’t know what there called but for that specific function I thought that might be important to add. Love your vids, thanks.
Wifi is only needed for the initial firmware update to the Powered Up hub as far as I am aware, and for downloading the app in the first place of course. The Powered Up functionality only needs a Bluetooth connection with your device which can be off line.
I haven't seen a lego review in years, where have you been.
The box for this set is the same type of box usually reserved for the large LEGO Technic sports cars. The boxing is a lot more elegant in the car sets for sure, but I think it's worth mentioning that such a large mature set is packaged similarly to that of the big Technic car boxes. It really separate the big sets from the majority of the others.
Why was I expecting sound when he pressed down on the keys 😭😭
I love the design, but could do without the motorized function.
I guess you could build it without the motor, and use the motor on something more useful, in which case it's two sets in one.
Great video - I finally did this build on my channel!
hammers, dampeners, sustain pedal, action, stencil logo, etc. Lol. What you are able to take out of the piano is called the action. The black hammers / felt that raises inside when you play a key in the lower register is the mute lifting up.
I would Love to See a working Lego Synthesizer
5:09 That is the lid, which in a real piano protects the strings, hammer and dampers from damage or other. At the very bottom of the piano where you see the three pedals are sostenuto pedal, soft pedal and sustaining pedal. The sustaining pedal, which is the pedal to the right allows the dampers inside the piano to be raised allowing the hammer to strike the strings letting them ring freely; release the pedal and this drops the damper stopping the string from vibrating.
18:58 this guy gave me a best IPad magic keyboard review out of the whole of RUclips
Hey man. Thanks for your video! Would like to ask what tablet are you using? It looks cool!
If LEGO made a version of this set for $50 less without the powered up features, I would be thrilled to buy it
0:55 glad I’m not the only one that feels that way
I think that even though it's not really playable, it still is a thing I would really like to own. I have a digital keyboard, started learning about a year ago, but I'm totally piano crazy. I think just having it would be cool.
I Got this set for Christmas!!!
same!
Great! Can you put the sheet music inside the piano chair - does the chair open up? That's where we usually store the sheet music of our real piano.
yeah, so the bummer takeaway here is that this isn't a functioning player piano that shows how a song is actually played per the given sheet music for a piece. This is a cool set but I'm not sure I'd want to drop $350 on it. That's about 1/3 the cost of a good Yamaha keyboard.
6:56 why is measure 6 of “Playday” wack. It looks fine since it’s in 4/4, but the upper line of measure 6 is 5/4 while the bottom line in 4/4, as a musician (not a pianist but a bass trombonist) I don’t know if I can buy this anymore
Yo wtf. Didn't notice but how the fuck did the designers not notice that before it went to print
Ya that's wierd
It's just a printing error, also technically you could have 3 8th notes in a triplet instead of those 4, and have it still be in 4/4 time, although that sheet music is wrong because I'm pretty sure quadruplets don't exist.
It's a cool looking set, but not being able to play it like people were led to believe, was the deal breaker, so I went with a different set.
My husband just bought me this piano for Christmas 2022. In Australia the RRP is more like $500, so definitely not cheap. I'm a musician who's been playing the piano for nearly 40 years, so I was interested in the ability to play it like a real piano, but am sorely disappointed to hear that it's not. At least it looks fantastic, and a lot cheaper to buy than the real thing (plus I don't have to build another room on my house to accommodate it). Maybe I'll sit it on top of my electric upright piano in the corner of the sitting room and have a piano-thon. By the way, my cat saw me unwrap it on Christmas night and immediately asked if he could have piano lessons, as it's the perfect size for him.
You mentioned they could have left out the electronics and the app functionality and reduced the price. I tend to agree, why not offer the base non-functional piano for a reduced price so it's affordable for those that just want the build, but offer an optional electronics "add-on" for those that want to spend a bit extra for the full playable functionality? I'm sure Lego could figure out a way to offer it like that. Seems like that way there's an option that appeals to almost everyone.
Regardless of the limitations this is still amazing. And as stated this is a set you could put on display.
You need to do a time lapse. I want to watch it go together.
It looks absolutely fantastic and as a pianist and LEGO enthusiast this really speaks to me, but the lack of functionality just hurts my soul. It almost doesn’t make sense for it to have functionality at all. I wish it had no motors and just meant for display and was less money.
As a fan of the piano this lego set is one of my favorites
I considered this set. It is nice. In the end, I took the money, added 100 € to it, and got myself a digital piano (not a keyboard). I started to play the piano again. Probably I am having more fun than building this grand...
if you actually want to play music then you made the right choice.lego are models any extras are just a bonus
Can’t wait for this to come back in stock.
it definitely is. amazing set.
It went together great, but I'm totally mystified on how to set up Bluetooth! The wordless instructions (page 109) is no help at all!
What is the name of the app that runs on Android? I can't find 'poweredup' or 'lego poweredup'.
As a piano player it's just really funny listening to this as you don't know anything about pianos. It's not meant to be offensive, it's just funny listening to you try to describe the functions. I'm just laughing naming everything you mess up, it's all just good fun.
Does it have the options to build it as a crane or a digger ?
8:21 sounds like a typewriter
"This is an adult oriented set."
Me, "It's a grand piano."
(I get what he meant, just out of context was funny.)
You are correct. There are pins on a real piano that allow people to pull out the entire keybed.
I think it is an alright price. It is not over priced but it is expensive.
It took me 5 hours to built this set. I thought the piano would be functional when I bought this. Good decor for a low bookshelves or end table. The building process is extremely repetitive to the point that I almost don’t enjoy it.
One of the coolest legos I've ever seen!!
It’s definitely a great decorative piece, but for the same amount of money I’d rather buy a Lego Bugatti Chiron
You can put a buildable figure in the Seat so it looks like it’s playing the piano.
Worth every single penny
As a classical pianist I LOVE this set wish I could get it.
So LEGO exaggerated the functions?
I'm not surprised.
Can I get a count on how many times the word "actual" or "actually" is used?
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@@snakesaredragons My guy. You actually went and did this. Nice
it looks so small in the video, its an optical illusion but still
not a big fan of hands moving around in such close up videos. but great review
Me: wants piano
Mom: we have a piano at home
Piano at home:
I see no problem
Coulda gotten a real keyboard with the money to actually play the piano
@@l3varnu its a joke but your right
@@l3varnu my dad wanted it for my brother then i showed him the price
@@l3varnu and yeah we didnt get it we got my bro a tie fighter helmet instead
Does the sound come from the piano or the computer?
LEGO Ideas might just get me back into LEGO.
You should make a Star Wars moc with another RUclipsr
Funny you’d say that 🤫
Worth every penny
If I ever get rich enough, I’ll have a whole room devoted to just building Lego.