I put 88 TUNING FORKS on my PIANO

i feel like what i'm really finding out is did i just waste a good part of my life on this so let's try it i recently talked to a psychologist and she was like matias you need to get a girlfriend but to be fair i don't think she knew that i have five pianos and i just bought the house so i can fit more of them but the problem with owning a lot of pianos is the pianos are so hard to keep in tune and you need years of experience to tune in perfectly yourself and that's where piano technicians comes in if you follow my channel you know that i always hired my friend the piano tech to come over and tune my pianos professionally that's why the following news made me really sad right after i bought my house i got the email from the piano tech he told me that he's moving far far away from me he got a new job in the capital of sweden 500 kilometers away and first i got really sad because he's the only reason that you're subscribed to my channel then i realized that wait who's going to tune my pianos now so i asked you guys for advice and you gave me an idea let me give you the pitch a piano has 230 strings and these drinks are getting hit by a total of 88 hammers if i exchange every hammer with an actual tuning fork and modify the forks to match the notes on the piano i will have the first piano in the world that will never go out of tune i mean it will but let me show you okay so i assume that you completely didn't understand idea because everyone knows tuning forks exist but we don't know really why they exist so i spent one percent of a whole day learning about tuning forks just so i can quickly teach you how they work so you don't get lost here in the video so you just hit it at something and it plays a note but that's the thing the fork already plays a musical note by itself and since they can impossibly go out of tune i can easily use them as a reference whenever i need to retune my piano and not only that i can't even imagine what playing this piano will actually end up sounding like i still don't know why it exists now when you're much wiser let's go get another victim to experiment on i told my piano dealer i would be there in 10 minutes so let's go audio jungles [Music] wow [Music] foreign [Music] if you want to see the entire visit and a lot of piano testing i posted a 13-minute video for patreon supporters and you guys say i have too many pianos i haven't even shown you the second floor he asked me if i wanted to jump into the van because he had a surprise waiting for me inside nah i can't go in the car i ended up buying the swedish piano in pretty good condition for 575 usd let's quickly listen to what it sounds like this piano definitely needs to be tuned so i guess that's pretty convenient as always i completely freeze when it's actually time to start the project so i asked your engineers in a community post if you had any advice to push me in the right direction some of you told me that why not just remove the strings of the pianos and make the hammers hit the tuning forks i thought whoa that's kinda smart so i spent hours excitingly looking for tuning forks to put in my piano when this happened that's called a dulce tone [Music] i still can't believe that thing actually already exists i read about the dualshitome for a while so you don't have to you know why they made it like that 160 years ago because it would never go out of tune so i guess piano memes are pretty old but the good news are that the original idea is stupid enough so it has never in history been attempted before let's just order a few test forks start working and just solve the problems as we go three hours later i think i found a promising model out of aluminium i ordered eight for 28 usd first just to test this out before ruining myself so i just unboxed the tuning forks and i have a small problem they are not in tune none of them okay let me show you you see it's not even close so how do we tune a tuning fork a few minutes later someone on discord sent me this formula using it we can see that if the fork gets shorter the pitch gets higher so i think we all know what i need to do file it yeah that's pretty satisfying but was it worth two hours now when i got that out of the way it was time to somehow put them on the piano the first idea was to use a square of wood and use it as a connector kind of like this i ended up not going with this idea because i was pretty sure it wouldn't really fit eventually i realized that because of the design of these forks it might be possible to just drill a hole straight into the fork and just joint them on the piano so i went to build timma to buy a drill press for 230 ufc dollars so i could easily make 88 identical holes in an angle i made sure that i wrote the assembly instructions correctly the next day i did a few test holes because i was kind of scared of drilling into the forks considering i only had eight of them so far and there was no more left in stock but once i got braver i made hole after hole and ruined a bunch of tuning forks and not a single one of them was in the middle as i wanted on top of that i also realized that the whole canon missed up the tuning of the fork so that was two wasted hours of tuning i honestly already hear almost gave up from this project but instead i decided to send a video of me drilling to discord for advice [Applause] i listened to your advice and build this and then my dad remade it so it was actually 45 degrees i tried with the thing but i still couldn't make a centered hole i watched youtube tutorials for hours and follow the exact steps and i still couldn't put the hole in the middle all of this leads me to the confession that i'm not actually an engineer i'm kidding something must be wrong with my drilling machine after one day i realized that you kind of need a drill to make a hole so i started to do some research every swedish forum told me that i could get an industry standard legendary old drill called aribuga for a decent price if i got it used so i went to facebook marketplace and eventually found a guy selling it i used my exceptional bargaining skills and almost ended up increasing the price so now it's time to meet him in his basement i was so proud of my new drill i got for 760 dollars so i share the video a bit to discord [Applause] so to use this 300-pound drill apparently i need like a two-ton steel table to mount it and i don't have time to mess with that i thought it was plug and play the next day i told my parents and they said but why you only bought half drill when farmer has three by the way about that tax evasion [Applause] next [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i just glued on the first fork and i promise you i've not tried it yet just to keep the tension you know i'm already 100 hours into this video if this doesn't work it doesn't make enough sound i think i would cry let's try [Music] that's loud [Music] audio jungle [Music] [Music] so you might say matthias why do you tune the piano if the entire premise of the video is don't go too much into the details okay it would be kind of stupid to match the forks to a piano that is out of tune it took me 10 hours yeah and it's still kind of out of tune remember when i put hammers on the piano and then lied to pro pianist that we were making a virtual instrument so they would actually come over it turns out that i'm quite an honest guy [Music] hi this is andrew versa with impact sound works and today i'll be demonstrating our newest virtual instrument hammer clavier oh that sounds so good i'm really interested to see what the piano tech is going to say about this you can buy it for 69 if you want to try it right now and i get a percentage of the sales so you will support the channel at the same time there's a bunch of reviews online it's already and you get those really aggressive attacks down here with that steel hammer hitting those strings [Music] just really nice and delicate now let's hope the seller got some more tuning forks very conveniently the seller on amazon got three more packages back in stock so i bought all of them but this time the price was increased from 28 to 36 dollars per package which was kind of this it was time to get back to the drill but this time on my own i was a bit worried that i was the common denominator when it came to not being able to aim with a thing but four hours later i had only ruined four tuning forks and the rest was honestly pretty perfect now it was time to find a faster way to tune the forks i borrowed this sander that almost unaligned me only to end up buying a better one from biltima for 175 dollars wow i haven't learned anything have i i put on my radiation suit as you safety people recommended and prepared a bucket of water guys i'm not five years old i'm not going to burn my after grinding until midnight i woke up the next day only to realize that my entire batch of forks had lost the tuning i worked on so carefully i was kind of confused because i don't know what they did when i was sleeping so i started to grind on them again here i checked the pitch on the fork which was pretty perfect but then i burned myself on that fork so i quickly cool it down when i tested the pitch again it was completely changed it's the heat of the fork that changed the pitch so i can either just redo all the forks or i can just heat up the piano whenever it's time to play one day later i realized that i still only had four forks on the piano what really took the time was making the forks hit at the exact same spot as the original piano hammers especially since every fork had a unique tuning it also meant they had a unique length so i engineered this complicated device and now i can just draw a straight line and match the forks to the line but then i was like oh this is kind of awkward the hammers isn't in a straight line but that's when i actually came up with an idea that was good [Music] once i had finally put on the first 14 forks i realized that they were already getting quite big and would in no way fit if i don't come up with a tuning trick the piano text advised me to look up something called duplic scales i made some research and found a patent made 1872 by theodore steinway i don't know why this guy would know anything about pianos but it's the best idea we have the idea was to use overtones to make the piano sound more epic while at the same time keeping the fork smaller mom can we get the new piano no matthias we are piano at home the seller now had six more packages in stock but this time they were raised from 38 to 50 dollars but i kind of needed them so i empty their entire stock again watching this video so far you might think to yourself i wish i was the seller selling all those tuning forks myself that's why this video is sponsored by unbounce unbounce is the leading landing page builder that helps you convert more visitors to for example sign up to your guitar lessons download your ebook to get your 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point the project had been going fairly well considering how useless i am but even when using my tricks the tuning forks started to get so big that they were hitting the dampers on the piano so i will have to start bending them out of the way however if i mess them up it's over for this piano i also had to start messing with the angles of the forks so it was time to build a new angle thing the one i made first was falling apart so i made a new one that might actually be more unsymmetrical than my face so i asked my dad to help me make another one i'd been working 14 hour days until this point and this is where it really started to show i think i proceeded by drilling 45 degree angles in the wrong forks it's the wrong works which costed me 48 dollars in minutes and added back four hours of work since they had to be retuned then i realized something with my angle thing oh it's 30 degrees the other way at this point i had messed up over 22 forks so it was time to order more and the seller now had six more packages in stock which was now priced at 90 dollars per package i can't even guess what this can be is it only me or is it something that looks kind of weird with this piano oh i forgot this i'd like to say the project went well from now on so that's why i started this happy music but it honestly didn't what you have seen so far has already taken 340 hours of work i mean you can see on the farmer's dog how many times i've been here drilling the biggest forks had to be drilled with two angles at once but i'm getting good at that part i made a calculation on the angle so i had to tell you i just used math to solve a problem in real life i'm mind blown on myself [Music] the calculation was completely wrong this is basically just scrap now so i have to redo all of them time for the next attempt audio jungle [Music] it was time to do the final forks and finish this now i thought i would put them on the other way so i could reuse all the failed ones [Music] i started drilling fork after four and finally something just went good with this video once i got home i started to put the final forks on the piano i used my amazing piano simulator and realized that all the dampers had to be moved down which i kind of expected and bent out of the way i spent four hours spending and messing with them and when i tried them i realized that they don't actually work anymore i decided to check if i could move them up at least a little bit and i don't think i had to do this i actually didn't have to touch them at all my piano simulator was incorrectly made i wasn't sure i would be able to get them to work again unless i removed all the hammers and i knew that the hammers had been carefully placed and digested by a pro not only had i spent 400 hours on this piano at this point i also spent 2 hundred dollars so that entire night i was just trying to get the piano back to how it was before [Music] that took me like five hours to get back on track it would definitely not be the same as before the piano i kind of did my best but yeah it's not as consistent as it could have been if i didn't [Music] and this is the last two so it's not a mess [Music] so [Music] [Music] i feel like what i'm really finding out is did i just waste a good part of my life on this so let's try it ah oh it's kind of like the piano is screaming in pain and i don't judge it for doing that i don't know how loud you hear that but in real life that hurts it's like a flashbang sound effect [Music] it kind of sounds like some shines like i'm not sure what it's called can you hear that [Music] oh [ __ ] [Music] yeah this section is kind of sad [ __ ] you they don't work yeah the bass section isn't really i might have to redo that one but let's actually play something now it's the ultimate test [Music] [Applause] [Music] that hurts not sure if your phone can pick it up [Music] it is really screaming in pain he's just letting it out now i mean i think i think it's cool because it's kind of i'm surprised the fork sounds this much [Music] oh wait we gotta try this no i can't do it what [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Music] i almost forgot for i forgot the premise of the whole video could you actually use the tuning forks to tune the piano so they are tuned exactly like to the scent of what the piano string are supposed to be however i'm not sure if you really hear [Music] oh yeah it's it's the fork so i guess you could i can't actually tune by ear so this whole idea is kind of stupid now when i think about it but i also realized something else when i filed the forks they were so sensitive to just one file was like a major difference in the pitch and i realized that they get a bit worn down from hitting the strings and eventually all of the forks will get out of tune from playing and there's no way to tune them back so i actually made the only piano that when it goes out of tune it will never go back in tune again i'm an engineer yeah now we can hear right you know all of them i think that steinway guy would be proud i don't think any result would be ever worth the pain and suffering doing this video but if you've subscribed to my channel that would be kind of nice okay let me bribe you if you subscribe to my channel and join discord i will answer thousand of your comments on this video if you don't know what to comment i'm always interested in your video ideas and patreon supporters i really needed you this video so thank you for supporting me yep

Channel: Mattias Krantz

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Length: 28min 49sec (1729 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 27 2021