Pachelbel's Music Box Canon in D

[ishner]

try useing motors and pullys to syncronise and automate this

(pardon the spelling)

[St00sh13]

Mozart's table music is written to be played by two violinists at opposite sides of a table using the same sheet of music. (Or a retrograde inversion canon).

Am I right in thinking this could be played by two music boxes playing at 50% offset on a mobius strip of music?

[St00sh13]

@St00sh13 Actually, just realised my mistake, they would have to be two music boxes right next to each other but 1 upside down?

[St00sh13]

@St00sh13 Aargh, now I've confused myself. :-)

[DoctorWhoBAMF]

Fantastic! I love how you've done it, super creative and sounds amazing!

[lucasgelati]

that...was magical.

[BaconSizzle48]

This is soooo beyond nerdy... I absolutely love it though.

[007mano1]

where can you buy those music boxes

[T72icKSte72]

I couldnt stop laughing after i read the clk clk clk comment because thats all I could think about.

[Gabrielle261]

Wow Vihart, once again you show us that your coolness knows no bounds.

[s0m0c]

Genial.

[xLilPuddinTater]

that was really fucking annoying lmfao

[jacobblack18]

@xLilPuddinTater

there's a button on the top right of your browser. click it.

[xLilPuddinTater]

@jacobblack18 no. fatass.

[adrianfrom01]

What about if instead of a loop, you make a Moebius strip ? ^^

[WiVaBo]

@adrianfrom01 It wouldn't work, because it would go over the same notes, but upside down.

[0LoneTech]

@WiVaBo It did work - she did it, for another tune.

[WiVaBo]

@0LoneTech If you look at that video, the music is inverted halfway through. In other words, she wouldn't be playing Pachelbel's Canon in D. Half the time, it would sound different.

[0LoneTech]

@WiVaBo Pardon, I was misinterpreting the context. Of course it flips.. so one would have to have a tune that worked that way. The simplest method that sort of defeats the purpose is to have a second set of tone blades going the other way, and only mark holes on half the ribbon. A more interesting method is to compose a tune that should be flipped halfway.

[greatbungblaster]

Vihart, you are truly an interesting person ! Thank you for your art videos !

[freedomgc]

fap masters...

[SufferingPlanet]

I think I'm in love...

[mplungjan]

I have this box. I had grand plans. Gotta dig it out!

[zetdick]

nice work!

sorry but i wanna put the Canon video i made with my 20 note Music box ;)

/watch?v=eKFA77bPCGQ Take a look

[FantanaMonster]

I love Canon. Especially in D minor(or is it miner?) I might add. My favorite classical thingamajigger ever! Haha

[TheTrueRandomness]

Wow. That's maybe the most impressive way to break down Pachelbel's Canon in D.

I really feel like this would be worth doing on a bigger scale, maybe with less squeaky music boxes and small DC motors to drive them.

[EvanED]

As a (former, if I'm honest with myself unfortunately) cellist, that tiny tiny loop really goes to emphasize how large the contrast is between how terribly unfun it is to play for cellos vs how beautiful the whole assembly is. :-) (cf "Pachelbel's rant")

[FlowerGirl9016]

This brought tears to my eyes...I just love Pachelbel's Canon in D. Very creative! :D

[ktlee08]

wow...that is so awesome...it was fun to watch

[TheBerrekah]

That is by far the absolute COOLEST thing I have EVER seen. Bravo. Bravo.

[xxqqzzaa]

Thats amazing.

[notfree25]

crank crank crank crank crank crank

[ThePigBlimp]

so epic!

[freddawlanen]

Brilliant, beautiful and sublimely simple, an allround great video, thanks.

[RyuuseiRosuto]

This was extremly well put together guys! The only downside was that the audio quality wasnt very good. the lower the notes got, the less i could hear.

But what i could hear blew me away. And I loved the random tid-bits of information. bravo guys, bravo!

[ebbbakariblues]

thumbs up if you applauded at the end

[bryster17]

TOO GOOD! I'm more on the music side of things but hey Maths is found in music and music in math huh? What kind of mathematical relationship is that? One in each other?

[Euphonium1996]

@bryster17

Math creates music

Music is described by math

[Randomnessrulez1214]

Wow. Just.....wow -3

[DCTheGuitarist]

Err No...

Basso continuo is and accompaniment that is played by a harmony instrument (harpsichord, Lute, Organ etc) its purpose is to fill in the harmony’s, it is NOT a repeated bass figure as you said that is a ground bass.

I don’t know of on piano or organ arrangement that uses a different transcription mainly because it is possible and a lot of professional arrangers prefer to keep things as original as possible.

[DCTheGuitarist]

@DCTheGuitarist Part of the reason the Cello part is simple is because the descending 4ths in the bass was very popular in the mid Barque period composition tool allowing for a strong progression there are hundreds of little pieces written in canonic form floating around . And as I said I wasn’t just a bass line, it has a figured bass (accompanying harmony’s) so there is a bit more going on

[SkaMyEaH]

what is song name ? D:

[tempurasushisashimi]

WHERE CAN I GET THOSE BOXY THINGYS!!!!!!

[LewisAM37]

i love this song so much

[TheRazorKitten]

Rob Paravonian would bust a blood vessel /watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

[Gannondalf]

lol bunch of people sitting around turning music boxes

fun night

[MyMushroom1]

This is so lovley <3

[TheWindyMills]

I bet a cellist hid the music for 200 years

[mcrflyleafdisturbed]

@TheWindyMills Hahahaha! As a cellist, I can definitely see why they would do that :P

[TheRealBarnez]

@mcrflyleafdisturbed :3 I feel sorry for you. Cellos have some amazing music, but that part is just mean :3

[mspeir]

@TheWindyMills lol!

[MrChickn]

This gives me ASMR

[Wmilkrain]

I first see it. Wow

[Becca4cats]

At my school, one end of year concert played this, and it was lovely. I'm not sure which version I like better, yours or ours...

[randomguda]

I like the music, it's very familiar and I don't know what it's from...

[KidOnTheNet]

must be a real wrist workout.

[angelcollina]

Wow this is a wonderful video and performance. I had actually heard this song recently and had no idea what it was called. Thank you so much for reintroducing me to this wonderful piece!

[cyanastropyre]

I much prefer this version to any of the contemporary arrangements. Simple and elegant. Thanks, everyone.

[AlanCanon2222]

Three Pachelbel hatas out there. WTF? This is a brilliant little video. Thanks!

[LizaWall]

I like the sound of them turning the crank thingy xD

[zenthex1234]

arm of masturbation FTW?

[happysushichan]

me dejaron sin palabras... O.O

[ForsetiLover]

Very nice but I can't get over that annoying sound of hand cranking...but still very nice regardless

[boomer4666]

if your a cello you hate this piece lolol

[coolnerdie]

@boomer4666

I'm a cello but i believe Pomp and Circumstance was significantly worse than Cannon in D

[MrFungi93]

epic



[Spaceflightss]

"clk clk clk clk clk clk clk clk clk clk clk"

[Espherio]

:O

[loganightingale]

I want one of those music boxes :D

[iDK123xD]

I wish I had the friends to do this. ):

[gulllars]

Pachabel's canon is a great melody. I would love to hear this project re-recorded in higher quality.

How about having sets of music boxes for different keys, with each set synchronized by a common bar connected to all handles, and have small cheap electric motors power them to keep from straining your hands and have a consistent tempo?

[Ledriel]

WoW!!! Amazing

[unchiekun]

IT'S JUST A GOD DAMNED PIECE OF PAPER!!!!!!!!!!

[glashoppah]

Magnificent!

[boxoflols]

I believe that the baroque period doesn't extend that far... but of course, perhaps the art periods do not pertain to the same periods as the ones in music??

[AnnieNonymus]

Are there other cannons besides Pachelbel's? I can't recall any others.

[sanitynevermore]

This may be the first time I actually enjoyed listening to Canon in D after hearing it waaaay too often. o_o

[Jordan71495]

Wow that was really cool and pretty sounding :D

[Slivra21]

wow, this is a quality youtube video, and i mean quality videos are rare.

[GreenTeaGoku]

This should be a commercial about hands for something about hands or multi tasking

[vinvitvinnie]

Lmao "BUT ARE HANDS ARE VERY TIRED"

[Xenocide31337]

Unfortunately the Bass part is just as boring on the music box as it is on an actual cello.

[EyMeng]

where do you get this cool stuff

[youdoxie]

Makes me wonder if there's a melody so that you can print it on a möbius strip and play it in this fashion.

[humdeabril]

@youdoxie she already did it :D watch?v=3iMI_uOM_fY

[cliprepository]

This is so innovative and really shows the beautiful structure of the work. Your love of math shows through clearly despite this being a musical piece. I'm embarrassed to say I did not even know what the technical definition of a "canon" was in music before watching this, and now I'll never forget. Fine, fine work. Thanks for adding this to the universe.

[ahmunnaeechoo]

Having been forced to play this piece all throughout my adolescence, I normally treat arrangements of it with quiet disdain. However, this is quite beautiful and I've been sharing it will other lifelong musicians who seem, for a moment, also able to forget their shared contempt of this piece.

I was also going to suggest rigging up a few servomotors to automate the music boxes but I realized that would just ruin the charm. Keep up the amazing work!

[Twefrence]

This is so awesome, I mean sharing the paper thingy, turning the music box at the right time, at the right pace. wowww. =D

[sneekz07]

Sends you into a trance...

[BloodySnakeBites]

I was so amazed by this i forgot the breath through half of it..

[timberkoon]

Except this is not in "D". It is in A flat major.

[pirsquared99]

I am a cellist, so I usually am not a fan if this piece, but I am also an engineer, and a math nerd. I must say that this was beautiful.

[xxIreneCaffeine]

@pirsquared99 haha have you seen the pachelbel rant? you should youtube it, you'd probably relate.

[rstuckmaier]

Very cool. Must have been tough getting the 2nd and 3rd lined up EXACTLY right.

[KukaiTori]

Canons save trees. <3

[seektheskittle]

@KukaiTori It could be a shirt!

[Arntion]

Ok that is literally one of the coolest things I have ever seen

[411clo]

its amazing, i just find it all funny how theyre all awkwardly sitting there doing that haha

[0RPH3U5the666r3ml1n]

canons save trees!

[Skorphie]

My god. Wow. I am mindblown. That was simply spinechilling.Amazing.

[Misguidance]

how does it make sounds???

[HeckYeahImShort]

Music boxes make the beautiful music. 

[JamesLeonard95]

I think that some one could hook a motor with gears to split them so that it would be synced all out and then do the whole piece and then loop it over a series of pulleys so that it feeds back into the original music box. But lets add some more into it. have every rotation blink an led that shows the 'beat' of the music. Could this be done? Yes it could, just needs some mechanical know how. Care to try?

[DKM101]

watch this with sound off its way better

[Hiddovanos]

awesome!

[Javjean]

how do i get the vlogbrothers to publisise this?

[amaone]

I don't often say this, but this blew my mind

[teampandabani]

this is amazingg

[marco7centurion]

awesome, pachelbel's canon in D is one of my favourite pieces of music ever! and it's fun when you're listening to a song and your realize "hey! I know that music!"

[meipandafan]

WHere do you get one of these?!

[aquazangel]

lol board stabilizer

[mutantcamelsattack]

This is just completely amazing!

[ShadowFyre77]

*plays*

*replays*

*replays again*

i could practically listen to this all day. ._.

[asianwizard]

would a bar going across the handles of the 3 music box keep them synchronized? like the wheels of a train?

[pebopablo123]

@asianwizard

I'm pretty sure if you think about it.

[Gordzila19]

@asianwizard now your thinking with portals...

[ThatOneHEY]

That is amazing. Quite beautiful.

[kulo0903kid]

ahhhh this is SOO cool!

[Soymilllk]

how the fuck did you synchronise 4 little thingos

[SarahSmile43]

this is incredible!

[standardapples]

This is awesome. Except, it's in not in D, it's in Ab. Or G#.

[gatemarzipan]

lol!!

Canons save trees!!!

[bookaddict209]

where you in this?

[Nannirk]

@smallispowerful This has nothing to do with the company Canon.

[bryan6292]

how can you not like this XD ?

[kierstennalani]

I'm in orchestra (cellists ftw) and we played this song at our Christmas concert. I love this melody. I also played Ukrainian Carol with the eighth graders (I'm seventh, and yeah, I'm that good) and that's my most favorite classical song of all time. It's so...empowering. I don't know. I just like it.

[kierstennalani]

I'm in orchestra (cellists ftw) and we played this song at our Christmas concert. I love this melody. I also played Ukrainian Carol with the eighth graders (I'm seventh, and yeah, I'm that good) and that's my most favorite classical song of all time. It's so...empowering. I don't know. I just like it.

[kaveena1000]

Who'd thunk!

[whirligiggle]

RSI?



[FoolNamedJon]

While I was enjoying this video, I noticed that some people said something about a Mobius strip.

There is no Mobius strip in this video. There is only a loop.

A Mobius strip is a loop with a twist so that you can draw a line all the way around on both sides in one go, without lifting a pencil, instead of for example, going around the inside of a circle and then the outside of a circle.

[xlbrooklyn]

Oh, that was gorgeous. It brought tears to my eyes.

[Its0nMars]

This is Totally Awesome!

[samkusnetz]

the best ideas are always the simplest. this is totally brilliant.

[malhori]

I am incredibly impressed by this entire video; everything from the choice of music, the Möbius strip, the manual labour to play the piece, the fabulous information imparted throughout the video -- everything -- BRAVO!!!

[TwentySixCookies]

Tune on a Möbius strip, please!

[austrianmusicfreak]

this is totally amazing. i could hear/watch it all day long. well done.

[mauberni]

And then they all had tendinitis.

Great job though =)

[Xxmykewxx]

Best 2 hours of my life....

I think i may have raped the replay button on this... I LOVE THIS<3

[jbpenguin]

Whit?!

[geodesicks]

Damn! There might just be a God!

[Nani101]

It's not perfect, but dear Lord.

I wish I could like this again and again and again and again.

[Un5een]

simply awesome....

[hobomnky]

so awsome

i saw 2 vids and now i just have to sub

[chelsealauren2010]

This is...amazing.

[2929lol2929]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!

[cherrypotpi]

Hmmm, I was in orchestra so I know the piece fairly well, like how basso part is actually the cello part which all cellist despise because it feels like it goes on forever; but this is the first time where I actually realized that this song is great because its repetitive and simple.

[VulgarityDivine]

it'd sound much better if there wasn't so much turning noise LOL

[joebob1379]

THIS IS SO COOL!

[BIGMOY20]

I don't get how that thing works at all lolol!

[VulgarityDivine]

@BIGMOY20 the holes hit these prongs that when hit make a sound like so

[JoshLPB]

@BIGMOY20 I know right?? But its sooo awesome!! =)

[mindstormmaster]

Um, yeah, you win.

[stangbri666]

i had a old music box that played this when i was 4 or 5

[slavicpolymath]

I am a string player who has despised this piece since about the age of ten (because of wedding receptions, group recitals, and so on), but this is FANTASTIC FANTASTIC.

[shim2dawg]

why not just automate the whole thing?

[sarashine1]

I love this, this is one of my favorite songs since i was 7

[TrashGordon]

the closed ring made me think... what happens if you use a moebius? wraaaaah i need to get myself a music box!

[TrashGordon]

@TrashGordon silly me. been done lol

[dereko922]

ahhhhh-mazing

[Godzillabug1]

EPIC!

[herbertvanvliet]

Of course a piano or an organ can produce a canon, who decided it cannot? Duh!

[mafurock33]

you are so brilliant!! I have one of these, but this is really so brilliant, such a wonderful illustration of what is going on musically. <3 <3

[ChasingAce]

Too awesome! :)

[94spexx]

ya know you could add longer handles do you did have to twist so much?

[Bassetenator]

@94spexx or, you could make a ginormous contraption with one massive gear that runs the three in a continous loop and the same rod spinning the the big gear also spins another gear that runnis the bass

[m1ssychr1ssy09]

Omg. Amazing.

[insignificance]

Absolutely fantastic! A tractor-fed version of this could be constructed and would be self synchronized... Imagine full-size (and full range) music boxes, and how pretty that would be!

How strictly does the original score follow the canon form? Surely the original score couldn't be played by three time-delay instruments reading the same score for the entire piece... ?

[CerisaCristal]

@insignificance With the exception of the last measure, they actually could. That's the entire beauty of the canon. It's not an easy thing to write.

[nihilistopher]

This is in Ab!

[swizzazn]

i'd like to have you play this next to my bed.. before i go to sleep ^^

[HHOButterSkate]

very cool, but you guys must have an awful lot of time on your hands to punch all those holes