Snow Phoenix Piano Puzzle

This has been one of my more challenging projects. 

The customer asked if I could make a puzzle out of the song he wrote, that it was necessary to play the last 7 notes without error for the rest of the puzzle to be solved.

It took a total of 78 moves to gain access to the secret treasure at the heart of the piano.

The piano guts we kept from a vintage kids toy piano, though a very good musical instrument in its own way with a whopping 32 keys!

Perhaps the most difficult part was designing the system so that you could play the “lock” keys at the same time as the “unlock” keys.

After that is solved there are 12 drawers under the keyboard that all lead to helping solve for the piano lid.  Within the drawers are more tools, clues, and puzzle pieces for the tray found on the lid.

Not being musical, at all, didn’t seem to hamper my progress on this one, haha!

I will search for a few more pics of the internals and post them.

Thanks guys, a lil video if ya wanna check it out!