Just remember, you will want a high voltage, low current spark. It will make it safer and does not wear the string as much. Just using a camera flash cap is a pretty high current, you should try adding a small resistor in series to limit the current.

This might definitely be the best KZfaq collaboration of all time, as I told you a long time ago in your post. If you're gonna continue to follow electroboom, then this whole project will be... Beautiful And btw the flash voltage is I think around 300 volts DC, that won't kill you, it would just hurt a lot, so good luck :)

I think you need some sort of cavity in the hammer head with a spark gap triggered by a regular switch hidden somewhere in the mechanism for visuals instead of directly arcing on the string. The main thing you have to worry about is spark erosion, ie the string being eaten away by the spark every time a note plays, and with the string being under such great tension, I would expect it to snap after just a few arcs..

this is a pretty interesting idea. good luck. also maybe have emergency grounding just in case anything happens?

cant imagine how much soldering this would take for 88 keys

Looks interesting, but I'd be concerned about slowly eroding the string.

I ahve not seen electro booms idea but im guessing its a regular piano that has high voltage running through the strings? if so there is another idea for a sparking piano, but its much harder! you could make (or use premade kits) tesla coils all tuned to one specific note corresponding to each key on the piano. With what is available for purchase nowadays its provably not gonna be too hard but might cost a pretty penny, I am not sure. But it will for sure take a sparking piano to a whole other level! could call it an arching piano, arch piano or tesla piano or sth. It will also have a unique sound, never heard 7 tesla coils whining at the same time before :)

awesome

Revenge of the electric fence

Why was the original video removed ?

Isn't it better if you connect the strings with high voltage so that when the hammer strikes there are no loose wires moving around and it would just short the two strings together (for the 3 strings group two will be basically 1 looped string and 1 alone and by connecting the high voltage there,. For the 2 string group simply connect the high voltage between the two. This idea will only not work for the single string section so there you can do what you show in this video. Although this idea may be stupid because if the voltage is high enough, it will just arc between the strings forever.

That's an impressive amount of sparks! How much does the current hurt?

🤯 whoa that’s cool! please don’t hurt yourself no invention is worth a life

the bigger the spark the bigger the damage

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