Robot Piano Catches Fire Playing Rush E (World’s Hardest Song)

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Published 2022-03-19
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Oh, and it also speaks English.

Shout out to Sheet Music Boss. Go check out and sub to their channel!-    / @sheetmusicboss  

Also go check out Grant from 3Blue1Brown. He the best explainer of complicated stuff I know (the buttery smooth delivery certainly doesn’t hurt)- www.3blue1brown.com/

Cool piano animation by Jared Owen- youtube.com/JaredOwen

Finally, the piano in the video is from Edelweiss. Thanks to our friends at pianodisc.com/ for helping to modify one of their Prodigy player systems to make this possible. We had to modify it so it could play Rush E and all the keys at once otherwise out of the box they can play about 30 keys at once. If you want more info, you can find it here- www.edelweissinfo.com/

P.S. No Chopstix were hurt in the filming of this video (i.e. he didn’t ACTUALLY catch fire).

I started a company called CrunchLabs where we build a toy together and then I teach you all the juicy physics for how it works. So if you want to learn to think like an engineer and have really fun time doing it, check out the current promotion where you get 2 FREE boxes at crunchlabs.com

You should also go subscribe to the CrunchLabs YouTube channel cause we’ve got some bangers in the pipeline- youtube.com/crunchlabs

Thanks to these folks for providing some of the music in the video:

Ponder - youtube.com/@Pondermusic
Laura Shigihara - @supershigi
Andrew Applepie - soundcloud.com/andrewapplepie
Blue Wednesday - soundcloud.com/bluewednesday

All Comments (21)
  • @MarkRober
    Thanks to Sheet Music Boss and Grant and Chopstix!! Sorry it’s been a hot minute since I’ve uploaded but I promise I’ve been working harder than ever planting and cultivating some seeds that should bear some very delicious fruit for all of you over the next 5 months or so.
  • @SheetMusicBoss
    It was great to collaborate with you, Mark! Thank you for the invitation!
  • @DoodleChaos
    What an unexpected crossover! Rush E is the perfect final boss for chopsticks.
  • @treyposey8507
    "MY LAWYERS ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR A-" had me dying lol😂 Edit- YOO NEVER HAD THIS MANY LIKES BEFORE THANK YOU
  • @harigamedev
    As a piano player myself I never knew how piano actually worked thanks mark very cool
  • @eliaspeter7689
    Never realized how complicated the structure of a piano key is.
  • @shades3692
    Never thought I would get rick-rolled by a singing piano...
  • @ProHakerGaming
    Since I was a kid, I wanted to play the piano and make it say actual words. Here come my childhood dreams!
  • @SgtVennamo
    This seems like an extremely complicated way to rickroll everyone. Well done.
  • @IICubeII
    10/10 It "speaking" and "singing" is absolutely haunting.
  • @wishdoom
    Thank you for teaching us the mechanics of a piano.
  • Correction: John Isaac Hawkins Invented the upright piano, not Cristofori, those are two completely different machinisims where Isaac just took Cristofori's Hipsacord design and turned it upright. this is such a simple concept.
  • @bigchungu7698
    The part about how when it gets chaotic and some sounds are more or less muted is because the piano can't reset its hammers fast enough before the next note is played. That's why Rush E is strictly electronic. If you did play it fast enough, the piano wouldn't be able to keep up.
  • @HaddoxMc
    Bro got rick rolled by a PIANO!!!
  • @MandJTV
    Fun fact: the Green Needle Brainstorm toy is actually a Ben 10 Alien Force toy of the alien Brainstorm from about 12 years ago, so we know for sure Brainstorm is what it's actually saying!
  • @JCs_-
    That is insane, i've always wanted to see rush E played irl and to see it done by a robot is just the cherry on top.
  • @Stalbunny
    1:05 Did you say FLAMES?! I swear, if you so much as make me WARM, My lawyers are going to SUE YOUR A- laughed at that moment so much🤣