I guess that's because back in the day they didn't do maintenance to the piano and they had to make the best of it, so more playful music so the notes aren't as notice. Also, first comment.
maybe because studio a lot of studio ghibli movies like howls moving castle and spirited away use out of tune pianos, and we all grew up with studio ghibli.
I may have gas lit myself into believing this, but I think it's called a honky tonk piano, I'm sure theres some history to it. But basically wild west pianos are not in tune.
when my house was flooded and i had to drag my piano out (it was already untuned for about 50 years) it had the craaaziest haunted sound to it. it almost sounded a bit like the old castlevania OST
I tune my piano every 5 years. Nobody really uses it anymore but it’s nice to sit down and play once in a while. Wife won’t let me play crocodile rock if she’s home because I used to play that song so much.
The out of tune piano was hauntingly beautiful. It felt abandoned, ghostly. Like it had a story to tell, and through its notes its story was being told.
@@RazzBeri1 wyschnegradsky has some preludes that are duets written for an in-tune piano and a piano tuned half a semitone flat! i think charles ives has some too!
i just realized are most of wooden part made of processed wood called medium density fibre (MDF), not entirely crafted from solid wood? I recognized here most of inner lids has no wood grains and finishes, looked similar to certain furniture made today. MDF in industrial aspect are easy to fabricate but has weakness to humidity and temperature than solid wood which used in old/antiques pianos. so consequently modern piano need to maintain regularly.
@@super4bobba421I’ve seen a few guitarists make some nasty riffs with out of tune guitars, one guy went as far as to use a guitar with a broken string. That’s also after it’s been completely showered with distortion and other effects tho
I swear broken pianos will always be my favorite sound. They're so peaceful and still manage to have their own spectrum of tuning all while sounding chaotic and broken. Damn that got randomly sad quickly.
That only works if it was properly tuned to begin with at some time, and you like the sound of a relatively out of tune piano. "Broken pianos" are just broken, lol.
I don’t have absolute pitch, but because I’ve been a musician basically my whole life, I cannot stand out of tune pianos. I don’t know how you can do that
My uncle did this his whole life. Even took antiques over 100 yrs old, rebuilt them, replaced sound boards, tuned them up and flipped them to folks who appreciated them.
The untuned piano sounded like something you’d hear in a book where everything is just a bit off but in an ethereal way instead of an uncanny valley way
@@monkeyking2030 idk probably he played the full song on the out of tune piano before it was fixed or a full audio of an out of tune piano playing this song.
@The Cubing Guy There is no difference between letting a piano detune naturally vs just giving certain notes a minor detuning. My point still stands. In some music people like certain notes to be slightly out of tune. There is a way of achieving that intentionally called preparing.
The out of tune piano sounded so chaotic and depressing that it’d actually make for a really nice addition to an emotional movie scene or game cutscene
My church has a piano that hasn't been tuned in a few years and it went through massive temperature swings as my church kept turning off the AC in Florida so we got up to 80% humidity. I was playing it, definently constisteny out of tune by a few cents, but I got to E6 and it played a natural D6. I have never seen it before in my life
Bluegrass musicians, specifically the banjo, use a special tuning key that drops the tuning to an amount, it's kinda like using a Floyd Rose tremolo to drop and raise the note with 1/4 turn back and forth at a whim.
