{"id":17876,"date":"2018-06-08T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17876"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:26:59","slug":"nintendo-labo-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/nintendo-labo-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Labo Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The last thing you can build with the Nintendo Labo Variety Kit is a piano!\u00a0 And it really works, too. \u00a0But not like a regular piano.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the most complicated thing you build, but also the most impressive.\u00a0 So let\u2019s tickle the corrugated ivories and check out this cardboard instrument!<\/p>\n

In reality, the piano works a lot like the Labo house does.\u00a0 You stick the right Joy Con in the back of the piano like you did the chimney in the house.\u00a0 Inside it is dark but when you press keys, flip switches, and turn knobs on the piano, reflective stickers show to the camera letting it know what to do.\u00a0 So when you press the C key, the Switch will make the correct sound, for instance, because it sees that reflective sticker pop up.\u00a0 When you press down keys, they\u2019ll pop right back up either because of how they\u2019re balanced or if they have a folded piece of cardboard behind them that acts like a spring.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the simple explanation on how the piano works.<\/p>\n

There are two modes of play with the piano.\u00a0 The regular mode is simpler and best for younger kids and anyone who doesn\u2019t want to mess around with too much of that music stuff.\u00a0 In this mode, you see these different colored creatures peeping out of holes, and when you press the keys, they\u2019ll pop out and make the right notes.\u00a0 Default is a piano sound, but when you insert in one of the knobs in the hole, you can play different sounds, too.\u00a0 Knob 1 turns them all into cats for meowing sounds (why no dogs?).\u00a0 Knob 2 gives them headphones and they all make singing noises.\u00a0 Knob three turns them into middle aged men with moustaches who hum, but if you make them hum too long, when you release they\u2019ll cough, which is funny.\u00a0 The last knob which has no number will make notes by making the Switch controllers vibrate at different frequencies, which is pretty amazing the first time I heard that in Kirby Star Allies.\u00a0 Turn the knobs while they are in the hole to change the pitch.\u00a0 Buttons on the top play sample songs.\u00a0 If you have the Switch screen in the stand, you can even shake the whole piano to make the notes vibrate!<\/p>\n

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The second mode, called Studio Mode, is a bit more complicated.\u00a0 You can do everything you can do in the other mode, but it\u2019s a bit less kiddy looking.\u00a0 The knobs now do things like change the pitch and reverb of the notes, but the last one still makes the Switch controllers vibrate.\u00a0 You can record a lick of music and play more music over it to make different channels of sound.\u00a0 Then you can wave the other Switch controller like a baton to \u2018conduct\u2019 the tempo of your recording (the game even comes with a cardboard baton attachment). Flip the lever on the side to switch octaves. There is a slot where you can put in sheets of cardboard or paper to make more things.\u00a0 Cut out waves in the sheet to make the piano notes sound different.\u00a0 The game even shows you how to make it sound like a violin.\u00a0 Another sheet has holes you can punch out to make rhythm drum beats.\u00a0 Although I imagine it would be hard to put the punched out holes back in when you want to make new rhythms.\u00a0 You can even use the piano to cut out a fish shape to use to make your own fish in the aquarium!\u00a0 Which reminds me of a joke: What is the different between a fish and a piano?\u00a0 You can tune a piano, but you can\u2019t tuna fish!<\/p>\n

So yeah, the piano is pretty amazing, but it does have a few problems.\u00a0 The keys are hard to make straight, and I had an experienced adult model-builder helping me make this, so I can\u2019t imagine how much trouble a kid would have.\u00a0 Also, the stickers on the knobs come off very easily, which is disappointing.\u00a0 The game recommends that you do not use tape to stick the reflective stickers back on, because it may mess up how the reflective stickers work.\u00a0 They suggest using glue instead.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s pretty disappointing how easy it is for the piano to not work as well because of these flaws.\u00a0 But if you enjoy making music and learning about how sound works, the piano is still a great Labo toy!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last thing you can build with the Nintendo Labo Variety Kit is a piano!\u00a0 And it really works, too. \u00a0But not like a regular piano.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the most complicated thing you build, but also the most impressive.\u00a0 So let\u2019s tickle the corrugated ivories and check out this cardboard instrument! In reality, the piano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17878,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876\/revisions\/17878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}