What does piano sound like when immersed in different liquids?

Also include gases.

I am not sure it would make much sound when submerged in liquid. I would imagine the liquid would dampen the vibrations of the string significantly, as well as preventing the hammer from imparting much energy onto the strings.

Anyway, here is a demonstration: https://youtu.be/JRkIuUDAirE?t=660
It is about what I expected.

What??

@janbb @ragingloli Link is SFW. I’m just wondering about different sounds from musical instruments in different gasses, and liquids.

The tone from a piano would change significantly based on what media it is being played in. Sound is vibration being transmitted across molecules. For a piano, those vibrations in air include the vibration of the string following the striking with the hammer. In water (or honey or any liquid) those vibrations are extremely tamped down.

Most other instruments couldn’t even be played underwater (or honey or petrol). Horns and reed instruments all require air to flow through a tube and valves to make the sound. In a liquid these tubes would all be full of fluid and therefore no sound could be made. Even if you had air forced through, it would likely sound more like bubbles than anything else.

Other percussion instruments (a piano is considered a percussion instrument) such as drums or xylophones would likewise have very muted sounds and for the same reason as the piano…the transmission of vibrations of the part being struck being suppressed.

You couldn’t hear a thing if it was immersed in honey.

^Yeah. I think the more viscous the liquid, the less we’d hear.

Sounds travel fine underwater.
I don’t believe the strings would vibrate for very long, so I think we’d hear something.

I’m tempted to opine that a stringed instrument like a guitar, or something plucked-rather than struck, might be more audible.

You might drown trying to listen to it.

“If a piano were immersed in liquid, it would likely produce very muffled and distorted sounds, if it could produce any sound at all. The liquid would interfere with the vibration of the strings and the movement of the hammers, which are essential for creating the piano’s sound. Additionally, the wood and other materials of the piano would absorb the liquid, causing swelling and potential damage.

In essence, the piano would not function properly, and the sound would be far from the clear, resonant tones we associate with the instrument. It would be more akin to a dull thud or a muted, garbled noise.”

Felt hitting a string immersed in water would not create enough force to vibrate the sting. You may get some qualities if hit hard enough.
If you modified the hammer to have a pin tip as opposed to felt, you may get good vibration on the string, but any liquid would not allow the string to vibrate and emit out the expected frequency.

Here is a supposed example
I am rather skeptical of it. in reality.