Blend Swap | Piano Hammer Action mechanism

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Sound is a vibration that propagates as an audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a medium such as air or water.

I always wondered how pianos work. So I did some reasearch and created this video. Hope you like it.

The piano model itself is a modified model from andreschneider's Pianos blend published under the CC-BY licence.

Blend contains 2 scenes. SingleKey with one HQ key, and 88Keys with 88 LQ keys.
The key skeleton comes with 3 NLA strips: Rapid, Begin, and End. Play the animation to see what they do.

piano hammer action animated key string inside

iAmTheWalrus

Really awesome! Good job!

Edited November 02, 2015
airwinggraphics

Wow! Many years ago (back in the early 70s) I took a master class on piano tuning at the local community college in Phoenix, AZ. I learned to tune using equal temperament and a bit about regulating the piano action. You a great job creating and animating it! Thank you for sharing!

Art (Air Wing Graphics)

Edited November 02, 2015
swift502

Ok, good. I don't own piano myself so I can't really tell if it can look exactly like this inside. Based it off wikipedia and google images. Thanks a lot. :)

Edited November 03, 2015
Lomar

Sweet! (This may be just what I need to finally figure all this out! ;-) ) Nice video too.

Thank you for sharing! Peace.

Edited November 02, 2015
swift502

Thanks!

And ... to figure what out?

Written November 03, 2015
Lomar

How these mechanisms work. I have always had this vague notion of how a piano translates a key press into a string being struck, now I can work it out in gloriously animated 3D! Always curious about how things work...

Written November 04, 2015
varden

Very well done. I showed it to my father, who is repairing and tuning pianos for a living, and he said everything is correct in the video.

Written December 12, 2015
swift502

That's awesome! Thanks. :)

Edited December 12, 2015
VincentM

Fantastic. Thank you.

Written December 27, 2017
swift502

You're welcome! :)

Written December 27, 2017