"I'm just going to keep this as a piano. And play it as a piano. With piano strings". I don't understand. 🤣

Sounds great, personally I like the sound of detuned pianos too. I know that's a bit weird, but in this increasingly digital, squeaky clean world, there's something genuine and natural about the sound of a detuned piano.

As a piano tech, a great first go at tuning! of course Piano meter helps a lot, its truly a great piano tuning app especially for beginners. Wonderful find of a Grotrian Steinweg too, absolutely wonderful world class pianos, I wouldnt be ashamed to call it Steinweg over Steinway either in your case

And this is exactly how your piano expertise grows. Learn by doing, and having a clear goal. So nice to see you learn the craft of piano tuning! ( Love all your other weird stuff too!! )

2:12 "I wish this extension worked for body parts" 🤔🤔

can't wait for you to learn other songs. good luck in your learning

Grotrian-Steinweg sells its pianos under the name “Grotrian” in certain countries now, due to litigation from Steinway. No, they are not the same brand. In the 1800s, Grotrian was an associate with Steinweg, who emigrated to the US from Germany to found Steinway and Sons. Grotrian inherited the Steinweg factory and brand, so the two companies have the same roots, but are not the same company. They do make very beautiful pianos of a high quality however, on par with the highest tier piano brands, with a very colourful sound. Congratulations on a great instrument!

That was way more interesting than the typical amateur videos that I watch !

Hearing the song you know on your own piano, but then tuned is such a strange feeling, especially irl. I compare it to walking into the sound room in a past internship. This big company has a room in which they test how loud their machines are. If you've never done anything like that, it's hard to imagine the releaf when walking in there. You feel how the air changes from like 10dB to below 0dB

The piano sounds so beautiful 😭

Very nice work on the tuning! I think you have a really special piano on your hands there.

Congrats, sounds good enough to me!

sounds good. I like tuning my own grand piano too. It is kinda relaxing to me and I have no pressure to finish it in time.

1:59 I‘m currently doing a technical internship because, well, I want to became an engineer and this is actually how mechanics work. It’s definitely not recommended and they don’t learn it like that in the apprenticeship but well…it’s often faster than finding the perfect tool 😅😂 But I still really hoped you wouldn’t do it haha

striking difference, good job!

Nice job on the tuning, sounds great now.

Nice. Have you ever tried tuning the two or three strings for each key to different notes? Say tune them in octaves or fifths, like strings on a 12 string guitar? Or maybe take a 1-octave range of keys on a piano and tune the 3 strings to major triads? and another 1-octave range and tune them to minor triads? Instant harmony with 1-finger per hand playing!

I would love it if you made a video showing your collection of all the pianos you have

Awesome! Sir

Gotta say having a piano dealer is way better than other dealers you could have lol

Great job tuning out. I have that shirt! 😀

good tuning, mattias. good luck with learning the piano.

Du stämmer riktigt bra mannen :) piano dealer OP

You had me going there with the crescent wrench!

hello youngman, that was one helluva good find ! I'll be glad to share some of my experiences. Little bits at a time works real good, at 66 years, I;ve played by ear all my life, and retired chief engineer in demolition and scrap metal recovery using cold cutting technics to avoid "Hot cutting permits" inside oil leases. Since I began on very old pianos in this friends antique mall, and by looking at what you have, don't even worry about breaking strings ! Stupid things break even when your firstn turn is counter clockwise and "pop" ! My Man, tighten them strings up above 440 after your gentle cleaning, just do it ! Unless you're ready to take up to a month, it'll save you so much time !! Start in the middle,, then go to both ends and alternate down until you met center! I got sick and tired of being afraid of breaking a string, and thse were much older and dirty dusty machines! Always tune pass 440, and you'll finds that piano can take it, then gently lower the pitch into tune ! It's that simple, "you 'll find" that's the best way, and it's easier! Your piano wasn't engineered to be "de-tuned". Crank'er up, then settle it in! If it still falls out of tune, use "locktight"! Doesn't hurt nothing, if you have to move the key ever again, it'll break through the lock tight no problem! Beats changing the keyhole sleeve and key!

Besides the lever, you need a temperament srip, a couple wedge mutes, and a Papp's Patent mute.

boy howdy I can't wait for you to hit your sub goal 🧡

I'm sure I tried the wrench method as a kid, before I bought a tuning hammer. In the 1960s, when I was about 14, I bought a hammer and used a library book, "How to Tune a Piano" and tuned our old upright. My parents didn't have much money and refused to get it tuned. As an adult, I went through two new upright pianos and tuned them both myself, but sometimes hired a tuner, if I wanted some notes voiced differently or whatever. I did a decent job without a tuner, long before cell phones, but when electronic tuners first became affordable and widely available, that made it easier. Still, tuning was tedious for me and very time consuming, like I'd do it over three days. Anyway, there is a technique I think most tuners use called "let-off" that helps seat the pin in the pin block, and that is with each note, lower the pitch just a little from the existing pitch, before bringing it up to the correct pitch. I believe the theory is the wood has formed around the pin at the existing flat pitch, so bringing it back in pitch, counter clock-wise, helps kind of shape the wood around the pin. I'm sure I could read up on that somewhere. The Internet is a game-changer for finding information about pianos. The other thing that technique made me feel better about was using let-off, not breaking a string. Often, with old pianos, they will have certain notes that go out of tune quickly, or too many notes that do that. But sometimes a new piano will do that. I know because I had one. My first brand new piano, a Baldwin, a real lemon, had a defect in that way. I should have returned it. It would go out of tune further in two weeks than my next piano would go in four years. The second piano was amazing at holding tune. But, ultimately, although not a pianist, even though I've played since I was five, I like a piano that is in perfect tune, and so later in life went with a Roland digital. But I like MIDI for composing also. I got spoiled in music school by first playing a lot of Steinway pianos, many which were not very good at all, including the occasional B or D, and then later in music school in Vienna, all Bösendorfer grands, a few which I liked. My playing doesn't warrant such a great piano though and I'm fine with the Roland, as being in tune is the #1 thing for me. The Grotrian seems like a terrific bargain. My brother bought a real hunk of junk upright 35 years ago for $1000.

haha I'm glad you put my comment in the video

I was about to hire a piano tuner for this used piano I just picked up but now you have me wanting to tune it myself lol

I'm on a similar path with accordions. Good luck!

A few years ago at work (office), we got a freebie piano. After the tuner was done, he could start right over from the beginning; the turny bits wouldn't hold / were very fond of their original position.

Hahaha, that was fun to watch!

As a piano tech I love your videos Edit: and you can use your phone! The app just really makes or breaks the results

I got a simply piano ad right in the middle of a person playing the river flows in you right while he was playing the river flows in you

I like the sound of this piano. Even though it's an upright piano, it sounds really good. Good call to keep it as it is;)

Tbh, sure it may sound laborious to self-tune your piano. But it is teaching you how to really take care of it like a baby especially if you take great pride in the instrument. I may intend to get the tuning wrench so I can tune mine.

When you compared the two strings its similar to tuning a guitar by using the natural harmonics in the way the sound waves match to go to clean sound

You could do the system in which each string will be connected to servo or motor with gearbox and make it self-tuning similar to Gipson guitar :D. In that case it could even have some preset profiles with best sounding detuned piano :D

Not tuned sounded interesting!! The result is not too bad, fine tuned is playable! Good job, took you a few hours but I think it's worth it for many hours of playing ;)

You have an Amazing piano. Grotrian Steinweg is a wonderful maker. Enjoy it and it will make you a better pianist.

Honestly, I’d like to see this Steinweg piano as a Kontakt Piano Library, it has such a nice and crisp sound and I would want to use it. But try to get every key to not be off and hire a professional to tune before it gets sampled.

I once saw a 1930s Bechstein Concert 8 at a showroom for sale for $4000. I refrained from buying it because 1. I didn’t have $4000 and also bc there were problems with the action (sticky keys, broken and faded key surfaces, etc), but the sound was just fabulous, and the actual true ivory keytops were definitely something special to play on. I’d say anyone that can get an old but extremely good piano like Mat’s Grotrian Steinweg or that Bechstein I mentioned and service it (either themselves or by someone else) absolutely should…

I lol'd. Thank you. The wrench/screwdriver and then the tuning with Xbox comments were good.

You should get a rinky tink installed next gives the piano a saloon sound :)

Woah, i didn’t know you have this secret piano. Also i never thought you’ll keep your piano be normal and still be piano. Because of this quote “I’m an engineer” lol

I can definitely tell it’s out of tune when it’s out of tune but you did a good job!

I loved your attempt to (was it?) howl's moving Castle!! And I'd like to have the courage to tune my own piano, it sounds great

You can tune a piano, but can you tuna fish?

I hope you did it right so even tho the pitch will go down the instrument will remain harmonious

I really hope you keep using a river runs through it for everything. Like play your million subscriber song that you promised but still use this as a baseline for your stuff

I hope that you playing a little bit of Merry go round of life is a hint to what youll play for a million subscribers!

The a e s t h e t i c tho

hello mattias, i have come to take you to jail for not ruining a piano, you should call your piano technician and he will be confused how it sounds normal

Grotrian Steinweg were started by Heinrich Steinweg who later became Henry Steinway. These pianos are high end and valuable instruments. Tuning bass first can wreck your bridge and board etc. How to tune your piano? Go to college and learn to tune by ear, or get a trained tuner to teach you. Better still pay someone who knows what they are doing. That pianos been restored.

i actually love the untuned piano, it sounds so vintage and has cool atmosphere

Mattias: I'm going to play a test song... Me: Oh he learned a new song! Mattias: *Plays River Flows In You* Me: nope

And next time Mattias is building his own piano 😁

Mattias, don't think Grotian plays fairly heavy ? It surely sounds nice (after tuning)

A normal piano. Well done

Whats the link for the tuner

Good video. You must’ve got a bargain on that Steinway, well at least to the regular price. I own a Casio keyboard myself. My guess is even perfect pitch musicians would have difficulty with the mechanic part of the process. I can tune a guitar but I definitely can’t tune a piano.

Do more armature videos. They don't even have to be for this website ;) I kinda wanted to say that spending more on the tuning tools was an investment, but considering the things you do to pianos, I'm not so sure it is...

You may try to tune your piano into cords not to separate notes... at part where piano have 3 strings on one note..

You've spent so much time building unique instruments... How about trying your hand at composing to build your own songs? You have an array of very unique pianos to play around with and with your work ethic I'm sure you could pull off a new skill like that. You're clearly incredibly enthusiastic for music, after all.

You should get a cembalo, then you get to tune it all the time

Its not bad

100 years? Full armor, lower shock absorbers ... ))))

Hey Mattias excellent piano tunning, just a question. What kind of cellphone tunning did you use on it?

I want someone to play Rush E on the EEEEE piano

Good morning buddy 😘 my number one good buddy the engineer I never had a engineer for a friend BTW Arnold 🐕 is watching with me and said hello 😅

I might actually prefer the untuned here, probably cause it reminds of my grandparents piano

How is your progress in having piano lessons, so you can actually play the instruments you created? ;)

hell yeah. I had to know this xd

You have so much piano can you give me one of your piano i really like to play piano because of your videos

what's that song called, the one you always play. I used to know the name but I forgor now

She sounds so good!! (Now, find some new songs to play! LOL!!)

but How would I know if I like tuning a piano unless I have a piano to tuneeeeeeee?

5:54 D2 is a bit off

I'm planning to tune my aunt's piano by myself because no one cares about that piano, it'd be expensive to find a professional tuner in the Philippines. Also I wanna learn how to play a piano so I'll tune her piano to practice playing. (Yes I do not know how to play a piano yet and im'ma attempt to tune one🤣) wish me luck boys🤣🤣

7.15... this is of course the ending of The Beatles " Day In The Life".

untuned piano vibes sounded really good to me imho

7:17 ... and that's how the ending piano chord in the Beatle's A Day In The Life should've been done... way easier! 😂

0:50 He didn't say anything about using regular piano hammers!!! Clas ohlson hammer steinway lesssgooooo!!!!!!!

The not tuned hurts my soul.

I have two questions : does IKEA really make Pianos ? And do they come disassembled ?🤣

I've been wondering what the song at 6:01 is, anyways, you tuned it very well!

5:17 oh hello stereo audio. lmao

2:12 Did I hear ok? "I wish this extension works for body parts?"

Buy a piano tuning wrench, a couple (or three) strips of dampening felt, and some rubber dampers (around $50 total); and watch a KZfaq video on how to tune a piano before you damage your Steinway and end up having to spend a couple of thousand dollars to repin your piano.

Even if it's quite in tune, it's not a Steinway but still a Steinweg

honestly prefer detuned pianos

For a home made piano tuner, I suggest just getting a socket and an L wrench. Works like a treat if you get the proper socket.

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8:36 there's almost a D there

You shouldn't tune historic pianos yourself without some experience on a modern one. They often are not tuned to A440. Raising the pitch to A440 could result in snapping the whole thing in half. Some pianos can handle A440 some cannot. Even just going too fast can be dangerous. A440 was not a standard until 1915ish. So if you have a piano from 1890 it's probably not in modern pitch.

Now tune it to just intonation if you wanna be cool

at first the tuned version sounds incredibly out of tune simply because the out of tune one was like a half step off

E

Play rush e