Pro Pianist tries a Piano with REAL Hammers 

Sup engineerers. This was the extra video I promised. In the beginning you’ll get to hear some longer versions of the meme/anime stuff than last video. But then it moves to much more classical music and Jazz because I read a lot of comments wanting to hear that. In the end of the video, I share the experience of recording this piano as a virtual instrument. That was an absolute nightmare. Hope you like it, I’m so tired of seeing hammers in the titles now so time to move on with my life!

After seeing all the effort he put into doing this, I don't care that he's milking this piano for money till it's bone dry. This . Is. Epic.

Ahh, see, the problem is that you're hiring pianists. Hire organists, they're much more used to playing actions that require your entire bodyweight to push down the keys.

IMO, she deserved her 1400 bucks. She spent so many hours for travelling in car and she played very well this piano.

"Is that jazz?!" "No, it's Bach..." That literally killed me

"Is that jazz?" "No. It's Bach." Best lines ever recorded to the internet!

Can we keep her? She's *good* at the pianothing, and she's also fun to watch.

She should have her own YT channel (edit: she has). She does beautiful covers and has a wonderful personality. In fact, her enthusiasm and talent made us forget the prank, she became the star of the show.

There's a saying I was told once; "a good craftsman never blames their tools". Now that I've seen this video I actually believe it. She was such a brilliant pianist that she even made your ridiculous contraption sound fantastic.

What a consumate professional she is. She wants to learn THIS action and figure out how to play THIS piano; despite hurting her hands and the fact that it's got non-working keys. That is rare my friend.

Letting her play whatever she likes was the right move! She's really talented 👍🏻

Please bring Jane Levkoskaya back for more videos, especially if you make another piano. She takes her craft very seriously and seemed genuinely fascinated by your work, and maybe can even give some tips for how to make the pianos work better, too!

23:31 - "It sounded great, I mean really great." .. well strictly speaking Jane, no, YOU made it sound great, really really great. Those performances, even the ones with the occasional stumble over the broken keys, were just stupendous.. full of emotion and .. in fact.. just great.

She said, she wants to play more. Giver her the opportunity.

she looks like she would be ready to test any future piano engineering endeavors

Wow she's a boss. She was even able to gauge the softer notes by the end.

I was surprised to see Jane playing without the music in front of her. It's like she memorized the music beforehand even though this is stuff she probably rarely ever plays.

that girls is amazing - she really goes all in to the project and tries to make it sound as best as possible and to adapt her self to the instrument. Thank you for putting a link to her homepage into the description. It is odd: On her homepage she is so polished, that it is hard to notice how hard she works - while here: clearly she is having a mix of personal fun, but also professional and personal ambitions. Seeing her putting in the work into essentially a stupid idea really shows how much of a skilled artist she is. Saying sorry for being exhausted after pouring her energy into hammering that thing? No reason to be sorry! This is the best this piano will properly ever sound - pace yourself. This is an instrument for effect/presence/solos - not playing all night.

She and the piano tuner should become recurring guests! They both seem to really enjoy your mods

The way she plays this piano like an (extremely good) excited child makes me feel good. I love when people have a passion for what they do.

I think she plays beautifully, and when she played Claire de lune my heart melted.. that harpsichord sound and my favorite piano piece was enough to get me to subscribe.. the tune from amalie was beautiful as well... I love what you did here, the hammers was a creative and fun idea.. so glad everyone was willing to play.. thank you for doing this.. can't wait to watch the fishing string video haha

The fact that we're seeing a distinguished professional make a meme play other memes and it's not an abomination is truly an achievement. Forget German engineering, Swedish engineering is clearly superior.

I love how Jane is immediately interested in the piano and responding to it - playing and inspecting at the same time, constantly thinking about how to improve the way to make music, searching for music that suits the piano. A true and passionate musician! And a great creation that worths the attention! Congrats on the last part. Really sir, you are one of the most hardworking person I've ever known!

I love this pro pianist. She's so cool and enthusiastic and full of personality and energy. She deserves to work on some really creative projects. I hope a producer or composer will see her in your vids and it will help to advance her career. Your dedication at sampling this piano is admirable too.

I am blown away with how soft she managed to play those heavy swinging hammers! Extreme skill in making this piano sound its most wonderful. So many lovely renditions. And very cool that you managed to make a VST of it eventually.

Unravel sounded really good on that piano, she killed it

In case nobody else did it yet: 03:51 Megalovania 04:47 Hammerfall - Hearts on Fire (truncated) 05:12 Tokyo Ghoul OP - Unravel 08:54 River Flows In You - No, Really 12:14 The Entertainer - Scott Joplin 14:42 Clair de Lune - Debussy 15:44 Comptine d'un autre été - Yann Tiersen 17:57 Prelude and Fugue No 2 - Bach 18:42 Prelude No 1 - Bach 20:19 Misty - Erroll Garner

22:00 Misty is one of the most beautiful things I've heard. I listened to every video on youtube of people playing it after I watched this the first time.

She is the embodiment of professionalism at its best.

"Cause you're sounding generally happy" "Yeah I'm pretty empty inside" ah good old Mattias saying it like it is

“Is that jazz?” “No it’s Bach” I choked on my food

I'm sooo impressed by how dynamic she made it sound even when the keys were already hella heavy @__@

I love the sound it is very close to the harpsichord and she played it so well. For an older man, it brought tears to my eyes it sounds so beautiful.

"Is that jazz?" "No it's Bach!" Mattias mind: "F me"

She made such an effort to do exactly what was asked of her, in my opinion I think that is such a massive professional approach and I commend her for it! You could tell she was almost disappointed with her performance, even tho to the rest of us... she did such an amazing job! I, like 98% of the rest of your community went to her page and watched several of her videos! She is absolutely amazing, and in my opinion she was the best out of all the people you had hired for this!

in case you're wondering: 30:41 "sounds for editing": log-sine sweep to get the impulse response of the room

Thank you very much for this "Megalovania Edition" I really enjoyed watching it. I know it's a big ask, but I would love to see the same Pianist in an "All the keys work now" Edition. Maybe a combination of stuff she wants to play? (More Jazz!) and a couple more audience suggestions?

After 2 minutes I stopped caring about the hammers in the piano. I'm just enjoying her playing 🙃

is it just me or does the piano actually sounds really cool? like i really like it. also this girl was awesome, the chemistry between her and mattias was kinda there. i vote we bring her back for another video.

I think what makes this video so good is getting to watch her figure out what to do with the instrument. When someone is this good at what they do, it's very interesting to watch them. They go "hm!" and then just try and try until they like what comes out.. It's a cool attitude to see in practice.

Jane is a true musician. You can tell how she's enjoying the challenges this piano brings and enjoys overcoming it. Love watching pros

Can we respect the fact that this man is hearting all the comments

I hope she didn't destroy her own piano back home. Haha. She surely gained some additional finger muscles after all that playing. Like when Rock Lee removed those steel restraints.

Claire de lune was definitely my favorite piece she played on this piano!! She is an amazing pianist and you should definitely have her in some more videos eventually!!

Her playing is really good. You should make her a regular on the channel. You should lighten the action of the keys. You could try cutting off the "claw" ends of the hammers, file down the sides, tops and bottoms of the hammers as well as drilling into the hammers to hollow them out.

I really like how she enjoys playing and srtated studying this wierd piano and figuring out not only a better way to play, but also how to make some accents and put musicality together. Great artist there!

What if you made a piano, but the keys were made from actual keys?

Lol like 200k guys fell in love with this woman. She’s pretty incredible.

Loved your guys’ chemistry in this video. It was just so wholesome and I hope to see more!

bro you actually have an unreal amount of patience haha. have loved all these videos and definitely gotta cop the VST when it comes out

They had you recoding sine wave sweeps in your room so that they could use those to correct for the reverb of your room. Since a sine wave sweep is a perfect waveform, they can invert the phase 180 degrees so cancel it out, so all that is left on your recording is the echo of the room. Those recordings without the sine waves are called impulse responses, and you can use them to recreate the sound of an acoustic space or speaker cabinet, a piece of equipment, or you can use it to cancel out the reverb on a recording., by inverting the phase 180 degrees. When they release the VST instrument or sample pack of your hammer piano, they will be able to give people the option of playing the sound dry, or with reverb added to it that sounds nicer than your house. There are studio monitor and stereo receivers that apply a similar process to room correction, so that the sound output by the speakers will compensate for the sound of your room and cut frequencies that have a tendency to sound louder because of the way sound bounces off the walls in your room. The idea is to give you the most accurate reproduction of what the sound coming out of the speakers is suppose to be. The cool thing is that when they’re done making it, and it’s available for purchase, you can make another video that compares the sound of playing the real thing to the digitally sampled version, and that will also help promote the product which you can hopefully profit from.

I still love the line, "Is that Jazz?" "No, it's Bach."

The Sound is amazing. Really can appreciate the effort of her and yourself to put this together. Love it and thank you.

8:55 me: did I just get Ric--- 9:01 Mattias, an engineer: idk, did you?

She's like "I don't know what they want to hear" And I'm like "whatever you play" You should make more videos with her

The piano evokes something good in me, the interaction between the two is heart warming, I hope to see more collaborations, and whatever happens will probably be great.

Wow, she was such a great sport, and really seemed to enjoy the absurdity of everything. Love her energy, and hope you can bring her back on future creations.

She just un-prank the whole thing, I want to see her play more of your experimental pianos!

This piano honestly sounds like it was MADE to play The Entertainer. Lol

Such a perfectionist! She really wanted it to sound right, no matter what was wrong with the piano. Very determined and professional, and also you could tell she enjoyed the challenge a bit.

I don't know what I was expecting but this exceeded all my expectations. Jane's playing was amazing and her attention to detail on the piano and musical choices (Amelie!!) sounded amazing. The sound of the hammers makes it so unique

I sincerely hope Jane gets so many paid jobs from this.

We need her to become a recurring character just like the piano tech

This is a really awesome sounding piano when you play it right and she's playing it really good! And it sounds like she's actually enjoying the piano. And she's got an amazing attitude.

She is a professional, everything is possible and its only to overcome the hardship. Its a healthy and positive challenge. She did do a great job on the piano and a good performer. Would love to see her come back and do it a second time.

You get her back on here and let her play all the jazz she wants dammit!

She's nothing if not dedicated, she really wants to make this bastard of a piano work! I checked out her website and her youtube channel, she's really talented. And you're talented too, the piano does sound amazing such a unique sound.

Genuinely hope all these crazy pianos get turned into synth packages in the future they all sound so fun!

i think the tone that the real hammers is actually pretty awesome. i know it's kind of a joke but it legitimately lends such a strong, sharp and punchy sound, and reminds me a bit of a harpsichord's attack but with the sustain and decay of a piano which is pretty cool to me.

To the Russian piano lady: You are easily the most wholesome person I ever seen to play the piano! Wish you luck with finding more enjoyable piano jobs!

Time to call Jane again, but this time using a digital piano so she doesn't have to get carpal tunnel and struggle so much :D Maybe you can offer her the samples and she can record anything she wants on her place. She was such a sport.

@ JaneLevkovskaya @Jane Levkovskaya I want to see more videos like this where you are playing the piano and having fun and smiling and enjoying doing what you love.

I knew as soon as she started playing jazz that it was Misty. I'm playing it for my senior recital on saxophone!! Such a good jazz standard

Sitting here laughing my ass off about his ignorance in piano playing and her trying to be professional but also make him talk and be less awkward. This may sound bad but it’s really a compliment. Please continue making these videos

I don’t think she was being sarcastic about the piano overall… genuine interest. I completely get what she means about different notes having a different quality, it will be interesting to see if that is transferred over well to the virtual, instrument. That would certainly lend itself to it being used as a special instrument as part of a overall sound mix, rather than playing the part of main piano where, as she said, the specialness gets kinda merged/drowned out. I hope it all and thanks for sharing your journey!

I just keep coming back to this every now and then, She is just so good and I really like the recording quality, it sounds great on this thing, I love it! 💜

Dude as a musician and one who tries production, your wit and comedic approach to struggle is not only relative but genuine. Props to you Mattias.

Can I say that it sounds cooler than a normal piano

The other lady was insane how well she played it too. They both took the prank like a champ. This girls channel is epic. Definitely go check it out. She has a killer voice

I ended up not pursuing a career as an audio engineer but I have always had a tremendous amount of love for music, audio production, instruments and especially audio engineering. Seeing that another guy from Sweden takes the time to create interesting and stimulating content in the realm of audio engineering puts a big smile on my face and I wish you all the best Mattias. Kärlek och respekt Jonatan

The sound is so unique on this, and when it all falls into place it sounds so good. She is a excellent pianist and made the best of this beautiful mess.

I love how he’s basically making his own circle of skillful and tolerant piano...ers?

>Is that jazz? No, that’s Bach. [GTA WASTED screen]

Wow! Great Work, Sounds very Unique, and nice to have this Sound as digital Software, thanks for your Effort. By the Way, she nailed it! She is absolutely amazing, love her enthusiasm and devotion, she makes it sound like it should and she is nice too, support her!

Absolutely awesome that you did this bro. Wonderful video - Can't wait to pick up a copy of the vst

to be honest it seems like she is enjoying the challenge that the heaviness adds. also megalomania sounds really good on this thing

I think you need to invite the pro back, she should be a regular tester, she was great.

I loved her and her passion for playing what must have been a difficult piano. Loved her. Professional.

I love the sound. Its raw acoustics penetrate beautifully when she plays.

I love that she was really enjoying herself, and all she wanted to do is keep playing! That's genuine love for the piano, and for the experience of playing in such a unique one... A true musician. ^^ So wholesome.

There's a strange chemistry between these two... But there's chemistry ;)

Now that you fixed the non working keys you HAVE to bring Jane back! She is so good! Also is very beautiful.

She really did her best to play the piano, and overall was very enthusiastic about making it work. Also she did Amélie Poulain, how aweasome is that.

I feel like this video needs chapters to help you navigate. But I actually don’t know the names of the songs. Anyone wanna help with the timestamps and which songs?

23:31 no sarcasm at all. she was hyped playing on a modified piano. her perfectionism kicked in and she realy wanted to sit down with that piano for the next 10 hours or even days. thats my impression

2 months later I still love seeing this date❤️

LMAO 11:40 "Flight of the bumblebee?" "...Yeah nah" That was my favorite part of the video

Damn, that "river flows in you" and "river flows in you 2nd movement" really sound amazing on this piano "River flows in you sonata NO.14" is really out of this world, amazing job!

I went to Clas Ohlson today and saw the hammer you used in the video. It felt like a pilgrimage.

dunno how i got here but this is pure pleasure for my ears i want more, also jane is cool person