Awesome Mattias Krantz

It’s well known that octopi are some of the earth’s most intelligent creatures. Piano aficionado and maker Mattias Krantz decided it was time to see if a cephalopod could tickle the ivories with its tentacles. The 6-month process involved building a custom underwater piano keyboard and testing numerous methods to teach Tako to play the correct keys.

Piano? More like paino. Mattias Krantz has a thing for making dangerous musical instruments. After creating a piano that’s capable of electrocution, he moved on to one that triggers paintball guns when its keys are pressed. It plays music by turning its victims’ screams into notes.

Previously, Mattias Krantz built a series of unusual compound guitar picks. In this video, the musician and maker ramps things up. After experimenting with a few smaller multi-picks, he built a spinning rig on a fishing reel, then engineered a set of rings that spins 1000 picks in a circle beneath the guitar strings.

Most guitar players use their fingertips or a single guitar pick to strum. After “accidentally” 3D printing a triple guitar pick, engineer Mattias Krantz thought it might be fun to play with even more guitar picks at the same time. His compound guitar pick looks like it would a pretty good back-scratcher too.

After melting all of the strings on his piano with high-voltage sparks, Mattias Krantz wanted to see if he could still make music with the thing. So he got to work building a series of circuits that fire plasma arcs onto the piano’s metal backboard to make sounds when he presses the piano’s keys. But it wasn’t easy getting it to work.

Musician and maker Mattias Krantz has done some pretty crazy things to pianos. This time, he teamed up with Mehdi Sadaghdar of Electroboom to create the most dangerous piano ever. Using a bunch of cheap camera capacitors, he modified his hammer-head piano to create high-voltage sparks when played.