So this project was actually terrible. Like I don’t regret it. But damn, I cut out sooo much of the actual problems on this video. I’m either just extremely stupid or I had really bad luck with this project 😳

At some point Mattias will just start building musical instruments from scratch and realize he’s a piano manufacturer

My favorite line, “ I’ve made a piano that can never be tuned, I am an engineer” ……… Hysterical!

“I tried built a piano that can never go out of tune!” Electric pianos: am I a joke to you?

Ahh, Mattias single-handedly driving up the global price of tuning forks. Good lesson in supply and demand. 😂

"What's wrong with Mattias?" "I don't know, he's just been in that rocking chair cradling a tuning fork and mumbling to himself for days now"

You should open an art gallery, ie. a museum of the modified pianos, which are unique art in itself😎 Good job!😃

when you got to the part where you messed up the dampers, I relived every failed project I've ever given up on. Seeing you push through and fix each problem is inspiring, truly,

Let me know some really terrible video ideas I’m not sure exactly what to do next EDIT: Thank you for the ideas, I’ve been reading all of them and I think I have a strong list now

How it started: "I'm going to build a piano that can never go out of tune!" How it ended: "I built a piano that can't ever be in tune again!"

Mattias Krantz: "It's called a dulcitone. I still can't believe that thing _actually_ already exists…." Also Mattias Krantz: _literally creates a variant dulcimer_

im not into pianos or music... but the absurd level of willpower placed into this project deserves a subscription

Mattias: spends over $2000 USD dollars on a tuning fork piano Also Mattias: can't afford a tuning app without ads

“He asked me if I wanted to jump into the van because he had a surprise waiting for me inside”

Okay I'm not done with the video yet but I'm at 23:15 and following you through this hellish process and seeing how many times something went wrong but instead of just give up on the project or break it even (which is where I probably would have been tbh). Seeing you take care of the pieces even when you had to take them all back off again which was probably one of the hardest things I've watched but it was so impressive, seriously. You've got grit, dedication, and a mental strength that is pretty remarkable. So, thank you for sticking with the project and posting about it because this made my night and gave me a deeper perspective on some things in life. Thanks man, cheers!

I was wondering how a Dulcitone is made so that the tuning forks don't wear down and go out of tune there... Apparently the hammers are covered with felt. Maybe you need felt strings ;)

I want to see a whole video series of Matthias independently inventing things which have already existed for hundreds of years.

"It's kinda like the Piano is screaming in pain." Yeah, just like the entire process of making it.

25:25 the song is River Flows In You by Yiruma. Took me a while to find (Shazam struggled with the tuning forks lol) but hopefully anyone looking sees this

i like the moment (27:27) when he realized that the forks would wear from the strikes over time and cause the weight to change. “I made the only piano that once it goes out of tune it can never go back in tune. I’m an engineer!”

"I made the only piano that can never be put back in tune." No, you found a way to torture people with absolute pitch, making their pain gradually worse. You truly are an engineer.

"I actually made the only piano that when it goes out of tune, it will never go back in tune again." I think they call that "planned obsolescence" these days. Give Apple a call and tell them you have plans for an iPiano.

hi Mattias, you could actually retune your piano by adding a tuning fork to the end and retune all the tuning forks to the next available note below if it goes higher with wear, so each one would move up or down one note depending if it goes higher or lower with wear, you just grind the rest of the worn keys down a tone/semitone a lot of work but you don't seem shy of hard work and you have a lot of patience so good job and well done.

honestly i appreciate how much you love doing this. the emotions you show when something doesn't work the way you wanted it to. it's honestly amazing and i appreciate you for that.

I like how he has a piano "dealer" like he's involved in some sort of piano crime ring

Mattias: I will make a piano that can NEVER go out of tune! Also Mattias: *makes a piano that will always gradually detune... forever*

It's so nice to see despite all the difficulties and things so often not going as initially planned, you manage to pull yourself back up. Not easy 💪👍 Subscribed

First time viewing this channel. And I have never in my 52 years seen such a brilliant dum dum. So strange though. I have perfect pitch and can tune instruments (stringed) by ear. But I cannot play (very well) nor can I read music. This fellow apparently cannot tune his instrument without a tuner (damned phone) but can play extremely well. This young man is gifted. Intelligent and talented yet humble.

Legend has it, that tuning fork manufacturer is still waiting for him to buy their next set for $150

The amount of effort that went into this is insane

I think my favourite thing is how you show every mistake and failure. Internet is so embellished with only positive, we forget the real effort behind it all... It makes the result so much more rewarding and impressive.

This was one of the most informative and entertaining and funny videos I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Its truly remarkable your tenacity and patience. Perhaps the impatient parts were edited out, i don’t know. I love how you snubbed NASA to stay on point. I was looking for videos showing how tuning forks were made and stumbled onto yours. I’m so impressed. I’m 53 and have always wanted to play piano but have made zero effort in that direction. You, my friend, have inspired to me to pursue this dream. To be more specific, you have helped me to remember that I had this dream in the first place. I had long forgotten it. As a man searching for any inspiration I can find and finding very little, you might possibly have inspired me to change my life in a dramatic and lovely way. I wanted you to know this and I wanted to thank you as this is what I have been searching for as tears of hope and joy stream down my face. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Food for thought: Don't think of it as "going out of tune," think of it as "developing character." It's a piano that, if you built 100 identical copies, each copy would, by design, sound unique and different to all the others after a sufficient amount of play time. That's something special, in and of itself, I think.

I love how this dude is just gradually becoming an expert piano technician.

The sound of filing a running fork is like the opposite of ASMR-inducing. Some kind of evil anti ASMR.

Makes it sound a lot brighter than a normal piano

"I just used math to solve a problem in real life" Mattias, you are the question in a math book that will never apply to real life. "Mattias is replacing the hammers on a piano with tuning forks. Work out what angle they need to be"

"Not a single one of them was in the middle as I wanted." Center Drill: "Am I a joke to you?"

Your tenacity and problem solving skills are out of this world! So creative and it looks so pretty when you’re playing it!

Amazing job on the piano, and an even more amazing job on your perseverance. It is very clear to me how hard you worked on this and I'm glad to see you didn't give up. Results are nice, and sometimes it is the journey itself that is the biggest reward. I love your attitude. Well done. You have earned this subscribe. ...and hey, you just gave more job security to professional tuners. You've created a niche market. Now they have to tune your strings AND your hammers :]

Out of respect for this man, and the effort, time, and money that he put into this project, I watched this whole thing without skipping any of it. The outro, the ad break, everything. And though that may not sound like a lot, I'm supposed to be studying for a test. For you, Mattias. I'm procrastinating for you ✌️ Love you man, thanks for this video

I died a little inside when he spent so much time grinding that the farmer's dog befriended him. Well done.

3:31 - I was expecting to see Free Candy or Puppies...

Mad props and big hugs for putting so much passion into your beautiful works!

This video is just an emotional rollercoaster, it's showing a true creative KZfaq creator putting his entire emotional self into a project; dedicated to the success of a project as if the subscribers take priority over his own happiness. Good job buddy!

At this point the tuning fork seller must be looking at Mattias' order and just say to himself "Ah, yes, my favourite customer."

This is a great lesson in the saying measure twice cut once. My instructor used to say. “If you had enough time to do it twice you had enough time to do it right the first time”

Just found your channel. I have watched the “swimming pool baby grand piano “, the “real hammers exchange “, and “the tuning fork” Piano. I am located in north east area of Utah, USA. My wife of 37 years, and I were born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon, USA. Coos Bay is a deep sea shipping and fishing port, we also have made crab boats that are featured in the reality show “ DANGEROUS CATCH Crabfishing in the Bering sea” My family is full of concert pianist of the highest sort. Me I have a bad left ear. Spent 40 years milking Jersey cow, and operating three beef farms. Yep, horse, hat, dogs, and pistol . My night job was as REGISTERED NURSE- FLIGHT NURSE, TRAUMA RN, specializing in pediatrics. Did that for 24 years. Did I mention that I am disabled and trying to keep busy. Your videos are cracking me up. You have a great knack for getting into a project very deep. Like the time my wife arrived at our house and I have just finished sawing 1/2 the siding off and cutting off a couple floor joists. She screamed.

“The first piano that’ll never go out of tune” Electronic pianos: are we a joke to you?

Each of these pianos brings this guy to tears but he still keeps making them. Champion of champions.

You are so amazing!! I honestly love what you have done with the pianos and hope you continue!!

Your videos are unique bro. Dont lose hope when making them. The whole 30 mins watch is worth it. Watched all of it and loved it.

As an independent mechanic with my own shop, I've learned the hard way that doing everything one step at a time is more disastrous than doing all the steps on one side first before moving to the other side in case I find a short cut that'll save me time and resources on the other vs destroying everything or doing it all incorrectly. Fascinating fails my friend. Glad to see such motivation to succeed.

mate, i'm no musician, i'm no engineer, you basically earned my subscription by suffer. huger persistence and work. congratzz

I really genuinely love this project. Love the content you make man, I appreciate the hard work you put in your videos

That sounds beautiful great work thank you ! 😊👍

Mattias: I hope I didn't waste my life doing this Everyone: Yeah no you did as usual champ

I love the honesty he approaches these projects with, makes no bones about the fact he's kinda flying by the seat of his pants, and while definitely clever and creative, is obviously learning as he's going, and it's pretty cool to see the time and money being put into these projects. Seeing the tuning fork company fearing being bought out by a reseller or just happy to cash in and jacking the price almost double (edit: raised by quadruple....and prob gonna keep rising....) is pretty sad/funny too. 25:30 worth it.

I just had the same idea and glad to see it emulated just as quickly. Thank you!

"I used my exceptional bargaining skills and almost ended up increasing the price." That's so me 😂

“he asked me if i wanted to jump into the van” aw man, welp… that it for Mattias

You should tune a piano, to play your favorite song by tuning all the keys in that order. So if your song have 55 keys, you should be able to hit the lowest note and work your way up, and the piano will play the song.

I think your original idea was *crazy* - but this video was so interesting to watch. I watched the entire thing in complete awe. I was worried that you might hurt yourself with the drilling equipment (and then not be able to play piano!). I have always thought about how amazing musical instruments are (even from the engineering aspect - let alone the talent it takes to be able to play them). I was fascinated about how hard it was to take the simple idea, and by the time you do all the math and engineering in it, it was a *lot* more complicated then it first started out. I love that there were engineering problems, but you were able to overcome them after a little thought. (The cooling forks was a mistake that I could see making myself - who would have thought?) I am so happy that your parents were able to help (and tell your mom she needs a haircut). Most importantly, this is the awesomest and most personalized piano in the world - I hope you play it so much that it goes out of tune, but then you can show everyone this video and let them know how special of a project this was. Thank you for making 30 minutes of my life better.

From 21:10 this part actually made me really sad. I nearly cried with you. So much time spent on something that wasn't worth it. I hope you took some positivity out of this issue and the fact you came back from it is incredible. You are such an inspiration Mattias and your determination is unbelievable. I've enjoyed all your builds so far so much! Keep up the amazing work, I look forward to more crazy and cool builds to come!

Seller then: "Prices must be raised, we'll be rich!" Seller now: "Spare a coin for an ol' tunin' fork peddler?"

I'd love to hear a song on this where the strings are tuned to different notes than the forks, effectively playing two notes with one key

As a fellow crafter. I. Feel. You! Great job sticking to it.

The work that went into that is absolutely exceptional

“It’s like the piano is screaming” It’s reflecting the emotions of its creator 😌

Seller: *increases price of forks* Mattias: iLl TaKe YoUr EnTiRe StOcK

This was incredibly inspiring, and a true testiment to analog or die.

You are AMAZING. This took you so many tries and so much money and with many errors and redoes you could’ve given up but you kept on going for us. THANK YOU

Let’s just say that this man just combined the music box sound and piano sound together and believe me that even though Matthias went through so much I think he has made the best one yet and I want a sample of the audio. No jokes this piano should travel around the world for everyone to listen to

This video is an emotional roller coaster. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a youtuber suffer for their videos so much.

It’s the journey. Great work I’m with you no matter the out come. It’s the process that ids the key.

I LOVE how it turned out!!

I know this has been a nightmare to do, but I'm glad it's finally here, gonna watch it now, thank you for making it!

Genius! Instead of a "Self Tuning Piano", we get a "Self Un-Tuning Piano" that is certain to drive any professional piano tuner into retirement!

The dude selling you those tuning forks was like the guy that sells you magic beans in the legend of zelda ocarina of time lmao

can we just appreciate how hilarious the little jokes are in these videos? no? ok.

Your ability to push past your errors is inspiring to say the least haha. I wonder what sort of chaos you could cause on a toy piano though. Would the miniature size make it more difficult to work around or is it roughly the same?

You should sell any leftover holey tuning forks as merch. I totally want a random note tuning fork from your crazy experiments. Looking forward to seeing what poor piano tuner or pianist you get to play / work on the piano.

Can we just appreciate the consistence Mattias has put into this, like if this was me I would have given up in the first 2 minutes of this video😭😂

+1 purely for the song choice. That hard work on this is great to watch. Taking those crazy ideas we all have and putting them into action.

Maybe you should write a song called "While My Piano Gently Weeps" (LOL). I have severe tinnitus so I have a background noise around C#. My Aunt was a piano and violin teacher and could never get me to play on the pitch. I can barely play a FM radio. I admire your tenacity it reminds me of most of my projects that seem like a good idea at the time.

"I am an engineer." You crack me up. My husband is an engineer, and he says it that way, too. :D

I'm an engineer and I found this excruciating to watch. I'll start by saying I respect the effort. The forum people told you to remove the strings because the strings will always resonate and the piano is designed to maximise their sound so it doesn't really matter if the tuning forks are in tune or not, the piano will fall out of tune as normal. The strings are still producing sound and the holes that sound emerges from are designed to cope with or control constructive/destructive interference. Any sound you produce from the forks will interfere with this, so you move from one end of that piano to the other and you could potentially hear a different quality from the same key being struck, depending on how loud those forks are. The original hammers are designed to damp resonance in the key/hammer mechanism which will add noise, so when those tuning forks are encouraged to resonate there's going to be a bunch of other crap shaking around in the key side of the piano, and that will probably be different for each key, sometimes loud sometimes not because they're in different areas of the piano. The weight of the forks will impede playing and potentially wear out the keys but I don't know much about their design. Drilling holes in the forks is a potential issue but restraining them on the fork arms will definitely change their resonant frequency. There was no need for removing material before installation, you would have to do it in place as is seen with your Dremel work later and this was in no way guaranteed to work. Always use a tap on your center, drill with a pilot hole using a smaller bit and measure a billion times before you start. Again I respect the 400 hour effort but fuck me you could have spent less and learned more spending 200 hours working in a piano tuning/repair shop and 200 hours in a machine shop.

That serious face/music with the immediate tool drop just earned you another subscriber. You're awesome man.

We will miss the piano tech guy. And to think that their friendship was finally flourishing...

Dude, you're actually insane! That level of determination to take on this project and to keep going with all those problems is incredible! Well done 🙂👍

I started to cry because this is sounds trouth the movie like buttercream. also when it's not workling properly. i like you're movies I'll seen since today!

Bro you put so much into your work its crazy

"I was in the top hundred percentile in my class." I love all these sleeper jokes.

I can’t wait to see the flip side on CNBC now that the project is done: “Tuning fork demand collapses overnight, market analysts worry it may have been a bubble that could kick off the next recession”

I subscribed to your channel because of this video.... you put in so much effort, it was respectful

24:40 Yes Mattias, I call that "Tinnitus type sound" I certainly can hear it all the time

"I made sure that they wrote the assembly instructions correctly." I laughed so hard at this 🤣

Fam, this is actually insane. A truckload of effort was put into this, and I applaud every bit of it.

Mattias I admire your perseverance. Chapeau!

This is a fascinating video! Thanks!❤