This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober building and experimenting with Chopstix, a googly eyed, midi-controlled transparent player piano he built that can not only play some of the hardest songs out there like Rush E (previously), but also talk via pressing its keys to form the necessary
This is a video of musician Lorenzo Vaccaro playing “the supposedly impossible MIDI track Rush E” at a very respectable 152BPM. For reference, that’s about my heart rate on my walk down the driveway to get the mail. My doctor says I’m going to die. My bookie says the same
Ever wonder what a piano would sound like if its soundboard was completely submerged in water? Well you’re in luck, because Youtuber/piano sadist Mattias Krantz does just that in this video, which may also double as a long-form commercial for Flex Seal. The piano sounds completely different depending on whether
This is a video of Youtuber Handy Geng building and demonstrating his ingenious ‘BBQ Car’, a motorized piano that can be driven around WHILE PLAYING MUSIC AND BARBECUING. When you press a key the piano both plays a note AND spins the corresponding rotisserie skewer above. My God, such genius!
This is ‘The Detachable Rag’, a video of musician Jordan Ruddess performing a ragtime song on a Pocket Piano (a modular 88-key electronic keyboard designed for ease of transport) as his friend Maddi removes octave segments of the board, leaving him with fewer and fewer keys on which to play,
To celebrate Mario Day (Mar10), this is a video of classically trained pianist/starer Lord Vinheteiro performing the Super Mario Bros overworld theme on a baroque harpsichord while dressed as Mozart. Towards the end he also does a little underworld theme, and the starman theme (when Mario gets an invincibility star).
Because if you can’t work Star Wars into absolutely ever facet of art and music and life in general can you even call yourself the bigger fan in an argument with a friend that, God willing, is about to escalate into a fist fight, these are two piano covers of
Inspired by Vinheteiro’s performance of the Soviet anthem with an AK-47, this is a video of Youtuber EasyPianoHacks performing the Star-Spangled Banner with an AR-15 and silenced pistol. And what a day for it to, am I right? How timely. I can practically see the rocket’s red glare and bombs