I put Hammers on a Piano then hired Pro Pianists without telling them

do you mind playing it without the stuff on but but if if we just come just open this one like this let's see i can kind of like to hear everything [Music] in my last video i spent a decent part of my lifetime putting 88 actual hammers on a piano i ended that video with asking you for what you wanted me to do with it next and after answering 4 000 of your comments i kinda regret asking you for ideas you want me to hire a pro classical pianist and in some way record the pianist genuine reaction when finding out that this is not a regular piano and not only that he wanted me to get the pianist to prepare beethoven's hammer clary snota just for the meme of playing that with actual hammers but it gets even more complicated at the same time i need to explain why they have come over here why we speak english in sweden and why is the camera recording them which leads us to the biggest problem today we're going to do a social experiment what's up youtube yeah this is not a prank channel okay so let's figure this out now together if you follow my channel you know that i attempted something similar with the piano technician but it failed because he already knew i was trying to trick him even before he got here but that's probably because the phone call sounded kinda suspicious yeah i'm actually i'm actually sitting by the piano right now so maybe i can play something right now that sounds kind of serious you're the guy with the guitar strings right so let's go the email route this time after many hours of thinking i came up with an email that could explain everything this is what i wrote i want to watch you play and i will videotape it for later i'm kidding this is what i wrote i told him that i was a german engineer who modifies pianos and since i'm just an amateur pianist myself i need someone else to record a demonstration of the piano for me then i can use that to pitch my piano to companies that makes digital versions of rare pianos and sell it but you and i know that the camera's not really there to film the piano i sent this email to pro classical pianist from all over sweden now all we need to do is wait after one day of waiting i got my first response hi i can't suggest about making a commercial product without knowing more details what equipment will you record on i microphone and which studio also what piano will i be playing on he probably expects me to say like you will be playing on the steinway and sons b211 you know what my piano is called some more hi you will be on a fox and more so i decided to wait for someone else the next day a wedding company called me up and they said that none of their 10 pianists agreed to learn hama clavier sunota for me so already here it felt like it was over but later that day this happened hi matthias what an interesting inquiry to get of course i can help you with this [Music] audio so i booked her instantly she lived 80 kilometers away and all in all this would end up costing me 400 but if she can play this i think that's a pretty good deal but i started to dig a bit deeper into a profile after i booked her and apparently she had a master's degree in fine arts and has worked for many big swedish oprahs and her list of merits just kept going and that terrified me because i'm the idiot who tries to prank her so the pianist will be tomorrow and i have to be honest with you i have so much anxiety and you might say what's the worst that can happen don't try to psychologist me i told a few lies which i don't feel good about she could be like this oh why are the keys so heavy matias i have a carpal tunnel syndrome and i would be like oy oops or she would just be like you don't sound very german to me what i did not expect this it's the sponsor of this video atlas vpn i know what you all think no i don't but your internet provider probably do and that's why you need a vpn a vpn lets you remain anonymous by encrypting your data and hiding your virtual location in simple terms it masks your 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second to help me pay for this video because it's going to get expensive so thank you for that so if this is something for you please get the three-year plan it's a 30-day money-back guarantee it works on any device and link is in the description thank you and that's when i saw that there were two of them first i couldn't figure out why so i assumed he was her husband but it's one thing pranking a pro pianist it's another thing pranking a pro pianist with her husband i know some swedish because i've been living here for a while but how long have you lived again i have five years okay five years nice so that's the piano and yeah yeah okay and i don't know do you like do a warm-up before you start playing or right maybe and how how do you want to make the recording i mean um i really just need a recording so they can hear what it sounds like exactly so this is like an audition but for the piano basically yeah sound is a piano sound still or kind of ah what have you done not yet let's uh we can take a look at it later something wrong maybe we can start directly okay listen to this because i will be one of the worst embarrassments in my life soon she laughingly said he's the page turner so i assume that that was some classical version of he's the triangle player it's my husband welcome oh yeah um music yeah it's uh i kind of like it and it's i think it will sound pretty cool with this piano work as a sound engineer or yeah i i i i set your home page yeah i kind of like take an old piano and like do changes to it to change the sound so that's really that's it and this is where i realized that wait having a page turner totally makes a lot of sense because her hands are playing piano so can i in respect and like fascination for that they're doing this so taking this so seriously i say this oh i thought you oh you really have a page turner that's pretty cool so you are your girl is just changing the pages basically i hate myself why did i say that huh interesting [Music] satisfied [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was amazing do you mind uh playing it without the stuff on like i'm talking about the list i'm just going to make sure that i just need the music yeah yeah but but if if we just come just open this one like this let's see i can kind of like to hear everything because i think if we first i assumed she didn't see what it was because the piano technician didn't see it first yeah so it's definitely a bit different piano yeah it sounds a bit like a uh quite uh like the big chimpa looks from the 1960s yeah actually this is like actual hammers from claus ulson okay so that's uh that's heavy because it's not yeah i think it's like maybe 10 times as heavy yeah like a regular and i can play it yeah yeah i was surprised i mean i spent like 10 minutes awkwardly struggling with the lid and then she played a little bit with the piano open you can hear the full version on discord [Music] the sound was much more open now yeah yeah i then explain that this is just a prank for a youtube video to get permission to post it and she was like i was a bit curious how hammers on a piano can seem so normal to her and she told me that it kind of made sense to put hammers on the piano and this wasn't the first time she played on a piano someone had done weird stuff too but they never did figure out i was a silly youtuber before they got here which means the story is kind of working my makeup thieves [Music] foreign [Music] so we have the recording which is great but i also want the reaction and i know you want to and that's why a lot of you clicked so this video doesn't feel completed yet but should i really hire another pianist i would totally do it if more than ten percent of you were subscribed okay i will do it anyway but please subscribe the problem was that i already sent out the email to every pro pianist within a 300 kilometer radius and after one week i still had no more responses so i got desperate and started to contact pianist from sweden's main capital i know it's a terrible idea making someone drive 500 kilometers for a prank and then they have to drive 500 kilometers back again in tears in case they hate the situation i put them in but that's kind of the worst case scenario and you're the one who told me not think like that after a few hours i got my first response from a russian school pianist to have studied piano in the royal academy of music she agreed to make the 10 hour drive so i thought it would be a waste to play her to only prepare one song so with the help of you guys on discord i constructed a list of five challenging pieces i sent it to her and got back an offer of [Music] 1440 dollars but after getting office from a few other pianists don't tell her let's just say that pro pianists are kind of expensive and of course you guys only picked co-prided anime music so bye bye ad revenue but i can only make this video once so let's double down on this reaction and see it as an investment but at least it's good weather today so that's it yeah i'm starting to think that i'm social genius so this is the piano and my idea is that first we play it a little bit we already know this so let's skip i have this and i have like a short with long sleeves but it's just so warm hey you can have what you have now that's great yeah oh wait i just got cooked on the camera yeah well i'll have to try it a little bit oh so it's going to sound like that yeah yeah okay [Music] okay yeah some case doesn't work yeah we have to deal with that part but i think it will be turn out okay great well then let's start with the one yeah i'm just gonna put that so i can cut it later right away you can start yeah okay [Applause] [Music] yeah that sounds great yeah like that like i think really flows in you is like the worst song to play on this piano because that's the key that doesn't work like most of them but we can do this as well we can remove this once we get the much more open sound in my brain all i heard was please react please react please react please wreck please react please react she didn't react i'll get you're not reacting and yeah next time i would ask piano tech to put on a wig so let me play river flows on you one more time yeah [Music] it's kind of hard to play right oh yeah yeah sorry i don't know do you want it to sound good like all the keys are sounding no everyone knows that the piano is unplayable okay i know when i play it it sounds terrible so yeah yeah that's really that's really show me that yeah all right well let's let's continue then okay so let's try the the percussive one [Music] okay yeah i'll just have to take it slow [Music] first okay [Music] [Applause] oh my god sorry oh it falls down yeah oh it's kind of a trap i tried to fix it but yeah actually this is like regular hammers from the hardware store like it's just that they are metal and that's why it sounds this way yeah and they are like really heavy well you know the hardest one was the tokyo yeah the anime stuff yeah yeah yeah it's amazing i mean it sounds authentic yeah yeah it's not like anything i've heard before for sure no no i hope it's not that would be a kind of [Music] point [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well like there was some wrong notes so [Music] [Applause] more it just took all my energy sorry i'll start from the beginning but i think i'll apply it away it's just that i have to hammer really [Music] that's the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i know some of you are annoyed by me for cutting in the middle of songs like this because i am but i will give you a separate video because this one ended up being one hour yeah i almost cause this one's going to be tricky yeah i took that one because it was tricky [Music] water so the grand piano has the utah streams now oh it does bass strings [Music] come [Music] you can't make it sound if it doesn't tell me it'll be like a hundred times already it doesn't help i think it's good you're too kind i like it yeah do it [Music] that was so bad yeah you know i'm russian so i'm used to like the mean teachers and slam the door this is the worst thing i've ever heard [Applause] come on that's like what i got [Applause] okay no no take the one you took i just i guess [Music] you sound excited yeah yeah well you don't have any jazz you know i'll just record this just for you to see it's kind of pretty yeah [Music] well that's because he wrote it on this thing kind of this thing yeah yeah so wait what thing did he wrote it on clavicorn yeah what it looked like a dollar store piano yeah well that's the only thing they had back in the day yeah no that's what i think i mean [Music] nice if you live in sweden and want to hire any of the pianists in this video i will leave a link to them in the description so we have the recording which is great but what would a prank channel do and that's when i got the response from one of the pianists i contacted in the beginning of this video that's really lucky this will be our last chance to get that reaction yeah good a little bit just a warm up or something yeah yeah but like so we hear what what it sounds like because it's kind of like an audition but for the piano itself okay so do you want to do a warm-up or maybe i can just start the camera let's see one second okay i'm just gonna to let this roll okay okay so let's see yeah have you done this wow it's hammers have you really really put hammers by yourself in this piano yes so creative oh my god you know that this is real hammers yeah so i picked them up so you just like you just rebuild this piano and put hammers wow you're very intelligent and the piano everything is just like fantastic it's brown it's white it have all the it have everything that need for a piano yeah [Music] she had to leave early because i couldn't afford more so unfortunately we couldn't get to hear more of her playing i don't know about you but i'm really happy that we finally got that reaction this video was so out of my comfort zone to do but i did it for you okay so are you subscribed okay let's make the deal i will answer all the comments on this video for 10 hours if you subscribe and join my discord if you don't know what to comment i'm always happy to hear your video ideas and here's the video of me hiring the piano technician without telling him about the hammers to play something and see if you can okay yes

Channel: Mattias Krantz

Views: 10,860,730

Keywords: tag, if you read this tag

Id: -7I7vF5SjmM

Length: 29min 2sec (1742 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/runew0lf]

God bless him, he really is awkward, the russian piano player was really awesome though. She took it all well and wanted to play even more and was genuinely interested in how it sounded. The last one who left early because you couldnt afford more wasnt really great even though she reacted.

[u/lLiterallyEatAss]

Ain't no one got 30 minutes for this