Timestamps for jumping around: 0:300:440:55 | 62 $ 1:532:082:19 | 130000 $ 2:563:113:21 | 185000 $ 4:004:154:25 | 285000 $ Timestamp description: 1. slow start section 2. fast middle section 3. high end section Mainly I made this for myself, but maybe it's useful for others, too :)
@Rob Landes - thank you! I think that video will really be enlightening for people. A person *can* purchase an instrument that doesn't sound like.... well... the $68 beginner version without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. People who want to play as a hobby, but who have enough of an ear that playing the first type of instrument would kill their soul should definitely know that there are options.
I actually started the violin freshmen year and here was a beginning program at my school so I gave it a shot. I rented one from the school that I didn’t like that much, and couldn’t wait to get my own. I did a garage sale and made about two hundred dollars? I was really upset because I wanted to buy one but felt bad if my family bought it for me. I was really upset. Then like fate, my family got a call from someone who they knew who heard about the garage sale to raise money for my violin. The lady said she used to play and kept her violin from many years ago and was willing to give me it for free! I was so happy. She gave us the cooking including a gorgeous bow. It needed new strings and bridge and a new bow. My money I made qualified to fix it up and my grandma volunteered to buy my hundred dollar bow. I love my instrument so much and am getting better each time. Sorry this was long but I felt happy to share.
This is awesome. I'm actually gonna get a electric viin in a few days so wish me luck. I've always wanted to play and finally have a way of getting one.
LuciFeR GrG no I would recommend something more “quality.” Perhaps a $110-$200 to start, rather than an overly cheap violin because I heard they are really wack and tuning them is more than enough pain. I’m no professional but at least I know not to buy super cheap violins
LuciFeR GrG I would suggest to not get a $60 one because those are cheap. I’d suggest to get anything in the 100-600 USD range, more ranging to the higher numbers though. If you go to a music store you can do this thing rent to buy and you pay off the violin as you see renting it.
You really hear the difference when you play those two right after each other. There's a better resonance and sound quality in the more expensive one. The cheaper one sounds like a newly started singer. Whereas the expensive one is like someone whose been singing for decades and knows her sound well and the quality comes out.
It was close, and they made it appear the setup was right out of the Amazon box. Put better strings and try to optimize the setup with new bridge and tail piece, which I assume the more expensive instruments had, it probably would be closer. I assumed he used the same bow for all, it appears to be the case, if it is his bow or one he likes from the shop it may cost 5-10 times more than the violin cost, that could be a factor. If you spent more than $62 for your violin and it sounds worse, it probably is mostly likely technique, if you think cheap bow is contributing it probably is, and a terrible setup probably is helping.
Of the three expensive ones I don't think there's one that's the "best" they're all good in different ways. Although they are definitely better than the cheap one.
To be honest, I can hear a slight difference between them but nothing that would justify that price other than the fact that they are very rare and pieces of collection.
If the guy who owns an expensive instrument decides to give it to some state museum he'll get tax returns. The amount of this money is the actual sound difference, and the only reason why such prices exist.
Jeklin Ed Warren: I loved your comment and I think it was very funny. I go to the same path as you, or maybe my sound would be even cheaper than US$ 62.00 😀
Lol you just gotta keep practicing. My fingers hurt for a long time when I first started. You eventually develop calluses. Tip for making an inexpensive violin sound better: buy a better quality set of strings and possibly a new bridge. I would have a professional do the switch for you though if you're new to it.
It is in the price range of those couples on those house buying shows. Where she works as a Gerbil Wrangler and her husband is a ticket taker at the subway. But they are looking for a 1.2 million dollar house.
@@thecommentator2925 Definitely don’t do that, unless you’re a master there is a pretty significant difference that could end up discouraging a new player
So what you will do if you find girl you love or you will have child and you will hold them in your hands? For me they are more valuable than all fancy cars in the world.
I'm sure violinist can hear the difference better than us non violin users. I know everyone has their thing and I respect that you'd spend thousands of dollars on a violin. The difference must be amazing.
L O L so the difference between each is the tone. The more expensive the violin the richer the tone quality is. The cheaper, it will still have a good tone but it's not going to have a super rich tone...... now before anyone asks yes I play the violin, I bought mine for $100 and I took it to be appraised in its current state it's worth around $75,000. I'm a musician, violin, cello, upright bass, piano, trumpet just to list a few....... also what will make a violin more expensive is the wood that was used and the people that made the violins. Helpful hint, if you have an expensive violin DO NOT drill a hole in it to turn it into an electric violin. The second you drill into it or alter it you cut the value of it down by more than half.
I spot the difference: Cheap violin- lacks resonance and depth,sounds scratchy at times. Expensive violin- sounds richer, has more depth and resonance.
@@demigodgilman You are really dumb, they are expensive because they require new materials to make because of the new hardware. They need to get their money back by marking up the price to afford to make them, like the note 8, it costed 369 dollars to make, if they priced it at 400, they wouldn't be able to afford the new materials. Why would you think it costs 10 cents? Not even an educated guess, you are saying the speakers, screen, and the other hardware is worth 10 cents?
@@adamguy4111 A 7% margin seems really slim, are you absolutely sure about that? I mean, they obvious don't cost 10 cents (I'm pretty sure they were joking about that anyway), but I really think they'd be aiming for a significantly higher margin. Edit: I looked up the retail and production price of a Note 8. While you are correct about the production price, the MSRP is $929. A 60% margin, which makes a lot more business sense.
Sorry man ... sold my farm this week ... have NO changes in my pocket to buy this ... you said 120K right? I will tell my Butler to send the guy who carry the water bucket for the assistant of the cleaner of my employees cabin to purchase from you. Is it ok?
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Rob, how did you turn off the Replies and "Thumbs Up" for the for the Comment I left a couple of days ago? I received 1300+ "Likes" in less than 7 hrs, then, suddenly everything stopped and for the remaining time -up to right now... Nothing. Weird, as I've watched and taken screenshots of the "action" and timeline. You're an odd one.
It requires a specialized buyer, the right person has to come along that just happens to be looking for not just an old violin, but a Milanese violin. Now if it were a Stradivarius I could go up to $100. :P
It’s not just the violin making the sound. Quality of the strings, the bow and quality of the hair on the bow and most importantly the player plays a significant role here. People like me won’t hear the difference. That is for someone who is really down to the very small details of sounds
Well, I can certainly say that the $62 violin would “twang” and squeak very frequently. The older violins had much smoother tones and had a richer sound to them.
There's an apocryphal story about Jascha Heifetz regarding a woman who came up to him after a performance and said: "I love the sound of your Violin.". Heifetz then placed the Violin next to his ear and responded: "Really? I can't hear anything." The morale of this story? It's more about the player than the instrument.
Yeah. It's a good story whether it's true or not. Great playing by the way. Hope you get to play my Violin Concerto one day. (With any one of those Violins.) :)
Hiiiiiii Rob Landes! I would love to ask a huge favor to please "Love" my original comment for everyone to view. It is in the comment section somewhere. Thank you everyone for liking my comment if you can find it! you are helping a lot!
Charles Coleman That's not entirely true. Of course it's disrespectful to say that after a world class concerto by HEIFETZ himself, but every Violin has a different tone, and you can't deny that. That's like saying a professional driver should be able to do all kinds of NASCAR shit on a junky car from the scrapyard.
They sounded dramatically different to me. The cheapest was very screechy and the sounds sort of slurred into eachother and were harder to hear precisely enough when this gentleman began playing very quickly. The more expensive, the smoother and richer the tone and the easier I found it to hear each tone distinctly without any, I guess I would say, "artifact" covering up the individual tones. I thought the last violin sounded the sweetest, warmest and silkiest of all played (the sensation of velvet and a warm bath mixed together). I don't know anything at all about violin or what makes a good or great quality violin versus a bad quality violin, but this is what I heard and I enjoyed listening to the comparisons. Thank you!
(I am stating this as someone who has no clue how a violin is even made, let alone main differences between the three shown here besides age) I feel the first, cheaper modern violin had somewhat a metallic "Buzz" to it as if there were bits of strings vibrating unintentinally. Whereas the later ones simply did not have that, which incidentally made it sound way nicer to the ears.
I felt the same way. The first violins were like voices that hadnt matured yet cracking to reach high notes or running out of air. By the final violin is was like listening to an experienced confident voice singing.
They're almost indistinguishable - also due to the poor recording quality: unless you're rolling with a Neumann KM183 or something similar, and in a very good room, the difference is negligible. The biggest difference, in this video, was due to his playing.
You have a good ear, but more importantly, you have the gift of hearing with your heart. That is absolutely essential to be a good musician. If you are interested, pull up some of Itzhak and Toby Perlman's RUclips videos. You'll see what I mean. Music is a language that not everyone can speak or hear. :)
Of the ones you played, the third instrument was clearly the most tonally balanced. The last was a bit more mellow voicing and just not able to project as much. If I had $185,000 to blow on a violin I think that third instrument was a pretty good value comparatively to the other ones based on the rich harmonics and nice voicing.
I'm in on that one... Went to the grocery store, bought about a holo charizard worth of food... shouldn't hurt that budget that much, got some bonus holo charizards this pay.
MainDoodler Do the blind test in a concert hall and play something that actually shows what the violins are capable of and I'd love to see it. This can't be taken seriously at all lol
That's not how violins work. The "prime" is anytime after about 5 years of use. They need to be broken in but after that they play well until they fall apart.
Yes, there's a noticeable difference between the $62 and the first expensive one. The other expensive violins are all too similar, so I wouldn't bother putting the extra $150k , not worth it imho. But hey, you made the cheap one sound amazing, so at least 80% of the sound comes from your hands.;)
I don't play Violin, but it seems to be similar to guitars, in that the very cheapest will sound a bit 'dead' (I don't think flat is the word I want), but even then, they're close enough that you can learn proper technique on them. And that then translates to the better sounding examples. And indeed, that's some excellent skill. I can barely find the chord I want, and I've got frets to help. stringed instruments that use bows are in a class of their own. I'd love to try and play one once, though.
It's harder to tell through video, in real life it's completely different. Although I don't know how much difference there is between a 100k and a 200k violin probably. Never heard those IRL to compare together
if you know anything about wood, you'll know that an instrument will age over time and that contributes to the sound, as does handling it and the natural oils from the human hand, dust from the environment, etc. The older instruments have a far more "mature" sound... warmer, darker, richer.
At the end of the day, it's subjective. I highly doubt the human ear is capable of differentiating the sound of these violins without shitty descriptions like "mature"
You can use physics terms. The cheap one, the wood doesn't resonate very well. So, it doesn't accentuate the low notes like the more expensive ones. That's what words like "warm" or "dark" mean, that your instrument accentuates lower tones, and muffles higher ones. On the high notes, it's pretty clear the cheap one is strung with steel. It's cheaper, and produces more stable notes. On the other hand, the stability of the tone makes it very flat. It produces one audio frequency at a time. Gut strings have more timbre when they resonate, which produces an undertone. Notice when he's playing the highs... hear how the instrument is also producing lower noise as well? That's the undertone of the string. That's what they mean when they say it's "rich." Age affects different instruments in different ways. In the case of violins, it's marginally better resonance of lower pitch, and marginally more muffling of highs. So, a "mature" violin sounds "warmer, and richer." The price of the instruments, though, has more to do with their rarity. You can find a quality instrument for 600 dollars, or one that sounds absolutely fantastic for 6000. These are a bit more akin to works of art.
The human ear is perfectly able to hear differences between these. You just have to understand what you are listening for, and that is a matter of experience not explanation for the most part. In the same way a precision engineer will see variations in steel work that a layman would not, to the point of being able to see identify surface flaws less than a sheet of paper thick
Sorry, I completely disagree as will science. There's already a study years ago, with multiple revists, in which a majority of the violinists cannot identify or were just completely wrong between which violin was being played. (Same piece of music played on a more modern instrument and the stradivarius). Not everyone has the same range of hearing. So if you have undamaged ears and understand what you are listening for - I'll give an extremely generous maybe.
"Tell use a bit about one of the more affordable ones" "Yeah here we have a nice little violin for 130k". Ehm, you see the way my bank account is set up....
I think we have to eliminate bias here first what we call an "expectancy bias." Knowing which is which may lead the player (conscious or unconscious) to play better on better (or expensive) one than those very affordable (cheap).
2nd one sounded a little like a cardboard box when first played but sounds sweeter overall, the 3rd has less of that hollow wet sound. If I'm not imagining it I'm guessing it's something to do with the wood being tinder dry in the older ones, but I know absolutely nothing of violins :P Apart from they have bows which are made of horse hair on which you put rosin which some violinists use weird additives like powdered meteoric steel and strings of gut preserved with sulfur dioxide and sometimes with olive oil on them. And yep that's the sum total of my violin knowledge, don't even know how many strings they have :D
As I understand it it's pretty much all bias. You get the same phenomenon in wine tasting. Professional wine tasters can't tell the difference between expensive red and cheap white dyed red if they're served with a bit of showmanship and misdirection.
My memory recall's back in middle school a music teacher had me hold a violin And a bass violin, she had asked me to mimic her playing hers. She was astounded and later told my mother that she wanted me to partake in music lessons from her. She was convinced I had potential. And that if she (mother) could buy a reed for the brass instruments she wanted to hear me mimic her on them too. My mother replied, "Sorry but no, that's not in my budget" ... It break's my heart to hear how music is being taken out of our schools.
playing that on a 300k$ violin is like watching those kids at guitar center go out and hook up a 6500$ les Paul to a giant 15k$ Marshall stack and then start playing nirvana or something equally repetitive and simple.
Mr. E .. I remember playing a (i think) 3,000 ibanez guitar and a six thousand fender amp in downtown Disney. I played some improvised blues in a booth. It was the first time I could get the pitch harmonics to work correctly. Some kid that looked exactly like the kid in a christmas story stuck his face to the glass n watched me play like I was another disney exhibit. The fender amp was amazing you'd hit a button and all the knobs would move. I felt like an exhibit looking at an exhibit. God has an amazing sense of humor.
now that kid is hopefully sitting in his room after school and sifting through everything he can get his hands on. From The Howlin' Wolf to Joe Satriani tabs and remembering where he first got bit with the guitar bug Good stuff!!
So after watching I have a few points. A $62 instrument you know is going to be limited, a more meaningful comparison would be a slightly more expensive violin like in the 300-500 dollar range, the price discrepency is still huge but the quality of a $500 violin from a decent manufacturer is leaps and bounds above a $62 one. As best I've ever been able to tell from researching, beyond a certain point, spending more on a violin for performance is mostly pointless, other than it being a collectors item and you want the history and provenance that comes with it. Like if i already have a $1000 violin, getting a $2000 one isn't going to make my music sound twice as good. Going from a $2000 to a $10,000 isn't going to make 5x improvement. The gap in what you get becomes more and more narrow the higher the dollar amount goes. They've done blindfolded tests and a lot of professional violinists can't tell when they're playing on an old and high dollar violin vs a much newer and cheaper on. Like multi million dollar violins vs a 20,000 one. Also a lot of cheap instruments if you do a basic setup, swap bridge for decent starter bridge, properly fit the sound post, put a decent set of strings on them, maybe adjust the peg fitting, and maybe some fingerboard adjustments, can go from almost unplayable to performance similar to an instrument several times more expensive, while having only spent maybe $50 on materials. It seems to me that the skill of the player is by far the biggest factor in outcome, it's like 99% player, 1% instrument, which makes the return on investment really low for spending a lot on an instrument beyond the point at which all aspects that affect how playable the instrument is are adequate.
hzuiel I didn’t read most of your comment but from what a read I agree. My violin is valued around $500 - $700 and it sounds much better than a $5 twangy thing. Personally I thought the best sound to value ratio was around a $2,000 violins. They all have a really nice and mellow sound.
That sounds about right, most things have a price sweet spot. I feel like people in the violin world revel in expensiveness, more = better. So they go in wanting an instrument of a certain price, and ask to see only ones of that price. Never mind if maybe sitting on the shelf below is a $700 violin that if you play tested it, you might realize you like better than the pricey ones. Why spend more than you have to? Spend exactly as much as is required to get what will please you and nothing more. Also as I said previously, a few adjustments to a mediocre instrument can potentially make fantastic. The most important factor with a violin is the quality of wood in the body of the instrument, which you can usually tell with your eyes and ears. Beyond that, most other things can be fixed, and cheaper factory violin makers have a habit for some reason of putting all their effort into the construction of the main components of the violin, and often neglect the smaller things, and mistakes are easily overlooked on an assembly line. Cheap instruments often come with cheap awful strings that when replaced with even a modest $20-30 dollar set will be leaps and bounds better. Beyond that, the biggest factors to playability, ease of use, and sound are: Well fitted soundpost Well fitted and carved bridge Well fitted pegs Shape/profile of the fingerboard The thing about these problems is they can all be fixed. It takes way too much work to bother fixing the body of the instrument or neck, but stuff like this is well worth it. Most cheap instruments(maybe even ones up over $1000 dollars) have poorly fitted, poorly shaped, thick, chunky looking, block of low quality crap wood for a bridge. A $10 or so bridge, carved down and fitted by someone that knows what they are doing is a huge improvement to both sound and ability to play the instrument. A stick of sound post material is also cheap, maybe $10-15. As long as the pegs aren't already nearly pushing through the holes in the pegbox, you can easily reshape the holes and pegs and get a smooth fit that doesn't slip or stick. As long as the fingerboard is actual ebony or rosewood and not painted cheap wood(which is easy to tell if you look closely, especially on the underside of the fingerboard), that can also be reshaped. A really junky tailpiece might also be an issue but as long as it's not rattling, you are usually good. If you study how to do luthier work or make friends with a luthier, you can easily address these issues and drastically improve a cheaper instrument with like 50-80 dollars worth of materials and a few hours of labor, that may make something like a 500-700 dollar violin play and sound like a 1500-2000 dollar one, as long as you examine the body and neck and find the wood to be of good quality and the shaping and thickness to be adequate.
hzuiel I don't know much about violins, other than how to listen to and enjoy their wonderful sound, but I have found in things I do know about, price is not always a major factor. Practice is one thing you cannot buy but makes a huge difference in performance. I used to do a little competition shooting, I have seen people spend thousands of dollars on guns and it didn't help their performance, I always said they should buy a moderately priced gun and spend the rest in ammo for practice. Would this make a big difference in playing the violin? Would you be better off getting a 500 or 1000 dollar instrument and put more time in learning to play it better?
+Bob Taylor Absolutely, without a doubt, the guy in this video has been playing the violin since he was a child and obviously had thousands and thousands of hours of practice behind this technique and sound. I would say Similar to the ongoing cost of ammo with shooting, usually lessons are the best option if you can afford it and they are available where you are, and they are an ongoing cost. If say you put all your money, 5k, into a violin, or go into debt for it, but don't budget any money for lessons and only spend a minimum amount of time practicing, you will guaranteed see less success than someone who buys a $500-1000 instrument and sets aside money to take lessons and spends an hour per day practicing. I think almost all hobbies work this way, with few exceptions, time effort and talent typically prevail over throwing money at it.
hzuiel I really appreciate your response, I didn't remember to add the question I meant to ask, and that is, can you teach anyone to play an instrument? Teach them to play it well I should say. Playing an instrument is more of an art, do you think anyone could be taught or do they need to have a natural instinct? I used to train people, or at least attempt to train people to run various equipment and some people just can't catch on. I have wanted to play an instrument but I just can't do it, do you think it is a waste of time for some people to try to learn?
The university im going is one of the best of America and the only one public in that international ranking we've got great professors, it's strange why you cant have good quality universities and public
You don't need a sleek, beautiful, brand-new school with labs and audio-visual equipment and a gym and a swimming pool either. The notion that our schools are "woefully underfunded" is bullshit. Socrates taught his students under a tree.
Talle13 Its not all the sound quality worth. Never heard of a painting that is worth a ton of money? Same concept but a violin imo is a better bang for your buck, i don't want to call it a collectors item but people who are master violinist and are rich would probably buy these types.
Ren I gathered as much, but then I don't understand the sense of this video. He should have used violins that are pricey primarily because of their better sound quality. Up to what price would they go? Also, do the violins used in this video have the best sound quality possible? Is that a thing that goes along with their noble history?
Kryptie Cool this is a RUclips comment section. It is social media where you can connect with billions of people across the world. You commented on a video, where hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same video. If you're gonna get so pissed when of the billions of people responds to something you say get the fuck off RUclips.
I'm a violinist myself, and I can say there has to be a huge difference between those violins. The sound quality of the video won't show it to us though.
Ah!!! Thanks for that honesty! Feels good to read that unlike so many "youtube experts", you also cannot hear a striking difference from watching the video! I am also certain that antique violins feel and sound better but... cannot hear it just like this!
Yep, seconded. Played violin for 4 and a half years. My first one was about 40 years old and later on I had one who was about 100 years old and the sound was distinctively better. I suppose that if we'd hear these violins from the video live we'd notice the difference much better than we do now.
The difference being that most likely the instruments being compared were actual, handmade, high violins vs stradivariuses; each instrument made at a high quality level will have their own nuances, with some stradivariuses being good, and others being so-so at best. The title is somewhat misleading. After a certain quality level, 'typing' of instruments is more or less thrown out the window: a stradivarius of high quality will not necessarily sound better than another instrument of high quality, but the same can be said of any instrument.
I had a $80 dollar violin and then recently upgraded to a $2,000 violin and there is a HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE. I can't imagine what playing a $200,000 violin must be like 😍😍
Yeah, that $62 violin sounded like trash, but I have to imagine there is something between the $62 violin and the the 130k violin that sounds pretty good.
Xuan Cong Nguyen The violins that most professional violinists play, those who sit in the orchestra chairs, cost far more than $62 but far less than $100k. Typically if someone has played for a few years and wants an upgrade from the $100 starter violin they get in the $500-$3k range. If they play many more years and want to turn it from a hobby to a job or career, it's time to spend $5k-$50k. It's only those violinists who are the premiere soloists, those who stand in front of the orchestra and have their own solo recitals, that must buy or, more commonly, are loaned, these antique-level instruments.
you do realize those are expensive because those are antiques ... doesnt mean a $1,000,000 instrument from the 1700s is better than a modern 2017 instrument.
I don't know anything about violins but I can definitely tell the difference between the cheap and expensive ones. The expensive ones have a smoother and cleaner sound
Just Chilin well i mean, 180,000 isnt like incredibly expensive for a violin if its your job. Like, theres no way you get any gigs with a violin not up there in price. It just doesnt sound very good. Ive seen people with violins over a million dollars before.
There's also a big factor with playability of an expensive violin vs a cheap one. Similar to how a guitarist would say that a nice expensive fender just "feels" better (summerizing the action, fingerboard, neck etc etc) an expensive violin just "feels" better to play then a cheap one. As to what someone else said that you wouldn't be able to get gigs without a $180,000 violin. That's not really true. Specifically for classical/orchestra gigs, yeah... you'll want a higher end violin for those since it does sound better and everything helps since getting a regular spot in an orchestra is competitive as hell. At a certain price point the differences between violins is pretty hard to notice. But you don't need an violin that expensive. I personally have preformed over a hundred paid gigs in North America using my cheap ($3000 ) beat up violin. Would I love a $180,000 violin? Yep! Would I not be able to play without a super expensive violin? Nope.
I know I'm a guitar player with no violin skills but I was like so in 1794 when they made this violin I'm absolutely sure they intended it to play AC/DC
So who wants the violin I'm giving away?? You watched until the end right? The top comment here will be shipped the Charizard violin as long as you live in the lower 48 states. Edit: Voting ends at noon Mountain Standard Time on Friday, August 11, at which time I will message the winner and make arrangements to send the Charizard violin, so keep checking back to see the leaders!
The Vincenzo sounded the best to me. A better way to do a comparison in this case would be for the owner to not tell you anything about each violin and if possible, hand them to you so you can't get a good look at them, then do the playing to see which has the best sound.
SO I pick around on the guitar and was always fascinated with the violin. Well I purchased the cheapest electric violin for about $65.00, Amazon. Figured I could plug it into my Marshall 1/2 stack and have some fun. For not knowing the violin the transition from a pick to a bow was difficult. Also the strings do not get tuned like a guitar. Also tuning it, the rosin, hand positions, holding it with the chin was all very foreign. I did manage to learn Twinkle little Star and it gets better every time I play it. So if you are wanting to know about the violin, I think $50-60 is not much to spend for experimenting. So my mother-in-law came to the house and said there was an old violin up at the farmhouse, i am on a farm. She brought it down and gifted it to me. I didn't think much of it until I tuned it and it sounded totally different for the Amazon model. It is stamped inside "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonenfis Faciebat Anno " I think it to be about 100 years old. It sounds fantastic compared to the Amazon violin. So warm and much easier to play. By the way let me know if I won the giveaway?
no disrespect to this video btw:-) working towards my 3rd grade violin exam as a life long musician but late to the game violinist, Iv promised myself a "new" violin when I pass my 4th. Musicians like yourself keep me focused and inspired, thank you.
In my days as a guitarist, I could hear a difference between sub-£100 guitars and £500-1000 guitars. After £2000, the difference was a lot less. I feel a big part of it, is having complete trust in your equipment. I upgraded my bow(archery) in dec and my archery has improved ten fold. I know any bad shots are totally on me, I have no excuses :-) its pushed me to be better.
Tbh I like the second one, it is really mellow and has a sort of echo that seems expressive. The difference between the first and second violin is very obvious in hallelujah. 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 The third one is very crisp and clear but expressive and the first one is just a regular violin. 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 However its the violinist that counts and his soulful expression is the real experience. :>
The second was my favorite to listen to as well. The latter two were really sharp - on the second half of the second tune (Thunderstruck), the pull back was overpowering the rest of the music.
Travis Marx there are many modern violins with outstanding craftsmanship that are worth barely a fraction of the price. Anything you pay for a violin under $100,000 (I would go as down as below 50,000) is pure craftsmanship.... Above $100,000 you're just paying for the name, plain and simple. Testore? Guarneri? Scarampella? Stradivarius? Those are just names you're paying for.... Not to mention the historical value of their violins. Those violins can even have not the best tone, and they'll still command those exorbitant prices....
not sure where the two commenters above are getting their information but they're mistaken. there are violins at every price point and many of them are fine instruments. a semi-professional like myself or professional player can get a good instrument for $10-$20k. It's all how much you want to spend and what level of playing you are at. Obviously if you play in a MAJOR orchestra like the CSO or NY Phil you are going to want the best money can buy but those players account for probably less than 1-2% of all violinists. Otherwise, it's all gravy as long as you can play well, you are comfortable with the instrument and you like the sound it produces. for example, Shar Music (very well reputed string player resource for instruments, bows, cases, etc;) out of Ann Arbor sells all price ranges of instruments from beginner to professional level instruments. www.sharmusic.com/Instruments/Violin/Advanced-Violins/?pageLength=12&pageNo=2&cid=1877 collection.sharmusic.com/Violin/
Wow i have no sense of music but i can hear the difference. The problem that this video is bad - what is the point to compare violins using camera microphone for the sound recording? like i am pretty sure that the difference is more obvious. Maybe i can hear it cause i use decent headset too idk, like if you listen this on some laptop or 10-20$ speakers i doubt you can tell the difference too
I dunno how I ended up on this video but I decided to watch it anyways. The expensive ones have better clarity and it’s crispy to its sound. Kinda like how you compare to a 480p to a 4K type of deal
@@treemoderator7312 i also saw your channel and it turns out you have one big nothing there. This explains interest in such trash as rock. You have nothing to say.
Your ear is not dumb, the instruments, from 65 dollar one to the "285,000" dollar one is made the same way, so its basic function will be the same. Of course, craftmanship will be vastly different and the materials used, but the sound coming out of the instrument will be more or less the same. What will make a huge difference is the skill of the musician. You can give that 65 dollar instrument to Hillary Hahn and it will sound amazing. No one will criticize her because she is playing a 65 dollar amazon violin. I know the purist will be up in arms about my comment but lets call a spade a spade.
Theres a very miniscule difference; quite frankly probably only noticable to a violin player...You're very talented. I'd still buy the $62 violin based on this demo. The acoustics is slightly different, not enough to bother in my humble opinion. ❤️ Well played! I enjoyed this!!!
I just found your channel today, I listen to this video as I was driving and I could tell the difference between all four of the violins, the first one was harsh and screechy the second still harsh and screechy but not as bad as the first, the third had a nice mellow tone to it with the fourth having an even more mellow tone, when you played the first bit of music on the last two violins it made me want to cry with a year running down my cheek, I have never been able to play an instrument, but I do like a good piece of music. So thank you.
Yes, the more expensive one has a richer sound. I've been playing violin though for more than half my life, so that may affect my ability to hear any difference...
Kinda, but I feel like that the cheap one is harder to play, just look at his facial expression and you can see him trying to get into a comfortable position, it's not always about the sound it's about how well you are able to play it at its cost
I have a violin that was made sometime between 1900 and 1920. Beautiful violin and it's been in my family the entire time. It's high range is not the best (though it's still quite good), but it is gorgeously rich in its lower range. My only complaint with the video is the choice of music. Not that I don't enjoy AC/DC, but in my opinion, there are much better pieces to use for the comparison. Plus, you made it seem (to the uninitiated) that you only play loud or soft on certain strings. You didn't show the delicate high range or the louder low range. Both would need to be included for a truly good comparison. That being said, I really enjoyed this and I think I will pick my violin back up.
Yeap .... once it is bought, it won't be played but displayed in a glass cage .... or I should say "dis-played" in one word for both meaning :D Then what's the purpose?
It can be about the players ego. "Oh I have a violin worth $100,000.00" with the emphasis on the 'I'. I have a $400.00 EWI and a $1200.00 EWI, but they sound the same. But with better sound equipment, they would sound better, and if I could play well.
This was interesting, but I really wished you had put the pieces side-by-side (close together). With all the talking, I really found it hard to tell the difference. Maybe you could put up a companion video with just the three pieces, like Violin 1, piece 1, Violin 2, piece 2, Violin 3, piece3, etc. so that I could hear them truly side-by-side. Also, you said you really loved the one in the middle, but you didn't say why.
I'd be curious to hear how they'd sound played against each other simultaneously, with the cheap violin in one audio channel and each other violin in the other. It may not help to evaluate them, but it's worth the experiment.
Honestly, if that little amount of time is enough to not be able to tell the difference, it means that the difference is not worth all those thousands of dollars. In my opinion, it only makes a difference when listening to a complete song or concert, especially one that you really like, because then, you do get disappointed when the violin doesn't meet your expectations
It's not about the time between the pieces. The pieces could be radically different in quality, and your brain will still only remember the last one. We aren't designed for comparing a series of sounds only heard once each. Switching back and forth amongst the performances would be the best way to show the difference so you can hear any change in quality as the sound shifts one to the next.
the guy who started walmart, sam walton, loved driving his noisy beater old pickup truck while he was worth billions, so it is not the money that makes the value, it is the feel and the sound, yes.
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Rob Landes u one of my music senpais
Rob Landes I’m from cremona and it is the most important city of violin in the word, stradivari was born in cremona
Oof
Do u have violin giveaways?
I've concluded that ur a shit violin player. I can comment because I don't play violin at all.
Timestamps for jumping around:
0:30 0:44 0:55 | 62 $
1:53 2:08 2:19 | 130000 $
2:56 3:11 3:21 | 185000 $
4:00 4:15 4:25 | 285000 $
Timestamp description:
1. slow start section
2. fast middle section
3. high end section
Mainly I made this for myself, but maybe it's useful for others, too :)
Darktemp THANK YOU!!!
You're a saint
What would an affordable 1000 $ violin sound like? Basically a good quality violin versus the ones from the 1700s?
+I3asher I'll be releasing a video on that in the next couple of months!!
@Rob Landes - thank you! I think that video will really be enlightening for people. A person *can* purchase an instrument that doesn't sound like.... well... the $68 beginner version without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. People who want to play as a hobby, but who have enough of an ear that playing the first type of instrument would kill their soul should definitely know that there are options.
I sold my car to buy a violin... best $68 I've ever spent.
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el bee OMG LOL
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el bee made my day, thanks
el bee lol
I actually started the violin freshmen year and here was a beginning program at my school so I gave it a shot. I rented one from the school that I didn’t like that much, and couldn’t wait to get my own. I did a garage sale and made about two hundred dollars? I was really upset because I wanted to buy one but felt bad if my family bought it for me. I was really upset. Then like fate, my family got a call from someone who they knew who heard about the garage sale to raise money for my violin. The lady said she used to play and kept her violin from many years ago and was willing to give me it for free! I was so happy. She gave us the cooking including a gorgeous bow. It needed new strings and bridge and a new bow. My money I made qualified to fix it up and my grandma volunteered to buy my hundred dollar bow. I love my instrument so much and am getting better each time. Sorry this was long but I felt happy to share.
Aww, that's so lovely!
This is awesome. I'm actually gonna get a electric viin in a few days so wish me luck. I've always wanted to play and finally have a way of getting one.
Brady
What a kind soul ! God bless that lady ! (And lucky you btw)
LuciFeR GrG no I would recommend something more “quality.” Perhaps a $110-$200 to start, rather than an overly cheap violin because I heard they are really wack and tuning them is more than enough pain. I’m no professional but at least I know not to buy super cheap violins
LuciFeR GrG I would suggest to not get a $60 one because those are cheap. I’d suggest to get anything in the 100-600 USD range, more ranging to the higher numbers though. If you go to a music store you can do this thing rent to buy and you pay off the violin as you see renting it.
0:30 - cheapest violin (62$)
4:00 - most expensive violin (approx. 280,000$)
You really hear the difference when you play those two right after each other. There's a better resonance and sound quality in the more expensive one. The cheaper one sounds like a newly started singer. Whereas the expensive one is like someone whose been singing for decades and knows her sound well and the quality comes out.
@@blame8008 yep hands down
Its all in your heads folks. Both sound like a violin(like crap) to the listener, nobody gives a shit.
It was close, and they made it appear the setup was right out of the Amazon box. Put better strings and try to optimize the setup with new bridge and tail piece, which I assume the more expensive instruments had, it probably would be closer. I assumed he used the same bow for all, it appears to be the case, if it is his bow or one he likes from the shop it may cost 5-10 times more than the violin cost, that could be a factor. If you spent more than $62 for your violin and it sounds worse, it probably is mostly likely technique, if you think cheap bow is contributing it probably is, and a terrible setup probably is helping.
kimseniorb
or maybe you just have shit hearing and/or headphones, the expensive literally just sounds way better. like objectively better
So let’s have a look at the affordable-ish range
*this one is $130,000, so more than most people’s cars*
That is so true
Fr I can't even afford my car lmao
Who spends even near that on a fucking car
@@Cal97g exactly, thats why he said more expensive then most peoples cars. Not AS expensive as their cars
But about you’re average American house,
Totally affordable
Sound comparison
Hallelujah
0:30 - Cheap 65 $ Violin
1:54 - 130,000 $ Violin
2:57 - 185,000 $ Violin
4:00 - 285,000 $ Violin
Thunderstruck
0:45 - Cheap 65 $ Violin
2:08 - 130,000 $ Violin
3:11 - 185,000 $ Violin
4:15 - 285,000 $ Violin
The gold standard of violin comparisons
Keith Rowsell thanks dude
Keith Rowsell thank you so much!!
Thanks bro
Of the three expensive ones I don't think there's one that's the "best" they're all good in different ways. Although they are definitely better than the cheap one.
If you want to hear the Demo's of each violin closer together for comparison:
0:30 ---$64
1:53--- $130k
2:56 -- $185k
4:00 --- $285k
Thumbs up if this helps :D!
Tyler M thanks a lot!
may god bless you
Tyler M excellent work thanks
wow! Thanks!
To be honest, I can hear a slight difference between them but nothing that would justify that price other than the fact that they are very rare and pieces of collection.
If the guy who owns an expensive instrument decides to give it to some state museum he'll get tax returns. The amount of this money is the actual sound difference, and the only reason why such prices exist.
It’s not just about sound but how it feels to play
Na its about sound lol
@@obed818 mostly yea but lmao but you don’t want a beautiful sounding instrument that is too rough or big for you
It’s diffficult to tell the difference from a video. In real life the difference is much more
My skill is, i could play a $285,000 violin sound like $62
Me too I bought an expensive one but ugh, I’m making it sound so bad I wanna cry
Jeklin Ed Warren: I loved your comment and I think it was very funny. I go to the same path as you, or maybe my sound would be even cheaper than US$ 62.00 😀
Geraldo Frade lol, i admitted that 5 seconds after playing *ugghh my fingers hurt*
Lol you just gotta keep practicing. My fingers hurt for a long time when I first started. You eventually develop calluses.
Tip for making an inexpensive violin sound better: buy a better quality set of strings and possibly a new bridge. I would have a professional do the switch for you though if you're new to it.
I can play 285000💲 violin sound like Toy Violin
Rob: "which violin is in a more affordable range."
Daniel : Here's a $130,000.00 violin
Me: mouth drops open
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
yeah i thought it would start at about 5k or smth...
It is in the price range of those couples on those house buying shows. Where she works as a Gerbil Wrangler and her husband is a ticket taker at the subway. But they are looking for a 1.2 million dollar house.
Yeah the presenter guy was like -.- lol
what type of violin is that
I think I would be more comfortable holding my heart out of my body than holding a violin more expensive than my life.
This made me laugh so hard. I was thinking similarly the whole time I was watching
Mood
Daniel Belmiro bro I would be terrified to snap one of the strings
Daniel Belmiro 😂😂😂😂!
Padd the floor with foam mattress
I can't tell the difference, simply because Rob plays them all equally as good
First comment on this comment
P.S. stop following meh.
The moral of the video, buy a $62 dollar violin as opposed to something over a hundred grand.
@@thecommentator2925 Definitely don’t do that, unless you’re a master there is a pretty significant difference that could end up discouraging a new player
I hear a big difference
or all equally as bad. jk
A good violinist can make a $62 violin sounds like a $2000 violin whereas a bad violinist can make a $2000 sounds like a $62 violin.
Love this! :)
I am that bad violinist
I could make a 2000 dollar violin sound like a $0 plastic harmonica 😂
No such thing as a bad violinist.
And a good violinist can make a $2000 violin sound like a $20,000 violin.
ok but can you play a 5-string 1.5 million dollar diamond bejeweled violin at 15 notes a second???
Most inacurite tho
This made me laugh
Super sacrelogious
Found the twoset fan (me too though)
*If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly*
I wouldn't be comfortable holding a Ferrari in my hands
So what you will do if you find girl you love or you will have child and you will hold them in your hands? For me they are more valuable than all fancy cars in the world.
i wouldn't be comfortable driving one either.
Sab maya h(everything is illusion)
Honestly Ferrari's aren't very comfortable cars.
They just look nice and sound loud.
NemoTheEight
Well, you would probably not fear to break your child in your hands, would you?
The difference is that one makes my wallet scream and the other doesn’t.
Comparison:
1st song = 0:31 1:54 2:57 4:00
2nd song = 0:45 2:09 3:11 4:15
3rd song = 0:55 2:19 3:22 4:25
Thanks
Thank you good sir
Do you know what the second song is called
@@montesquieu8005 AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Flavio Soares thank you
I'm sure violinist can hear the difference better than us non violin users. I know everyone has their thing and I respect that you'd spend thousands of dollars on a violin. The difference must be amazing.
Honestly, it's hard to hear much difference with the mic quality.
I absolutely hear a diffrence in all of them. I definitely prefer the ones with some more miles on them
I'm a guitar player and the difference is massive. BUT, wood instruments usually improve over time. Not actually a fair comparison.
I can hear a considerable difference, even just through my laptop speakers. The Amazon violin sounds like it was made out of wet cardboard.
L O L so the difference between each is the tone. The more expensive the violin the richer the tone quality is. The cheaper, it will still have a good tone but it's not going to have a super rich tone...... now before anyone asks yes I play the violin, I bought mine for $100 and I took it to be appraised in its current state it's worth around $75,000. I'm a musician, violin, cello, upright bass, piano, trumpet just to list a few....... also what will make a violin more expensive is the wood that was used and the people that made the violins. Helpful hint, if you have an expensive violin DO NOT drill a hole in it to turn it into an electric violin. The second you drill into it or alter it you cut the value of it down by more than half.
“Can you show us one of the affordable-ish violins?”
Owner: *UHH YEA THIS ONE IS ABOUT $130,000.*
Me: My car barely costs 15,000...
Itz Ash lol my car was $800
MidnightCyanide same haha
My car was £250.. :(
My car=800$
MidnightCyanide yooooo i posted without seeing ur comment
I spot the difference:
Cheap violin- lacks resonance and depth,sounds scratchy at times.
Expensive violin- sounds richer, has more depth and resonance.
Yes I can heard that sound, the depth
Shut up!
The resonance comes from the empty wallet
@@GottHoldNicetomeet 🤣🤣
Yeah i heard
I asked a violinist once what was the difference between a violin and a fiddle. He replied, "The number of teeth in the musician."
Orpheus Multimedia LMAO
Orpheus Multimedia It's how you pronouce the word string. "String is a violin whilst "strang" is a fiddle. Haha
Fiddles are played exclusively by people named Johnny
Violin and fiddle are the same exact instrument it just depends on the type of music u play.
But thats a hilarious response 😂
Nobody cares if you spill beer on a fiddle.
*Plays Thunder Struck on a violin that older than the usa*
Admiral Blake Cobalt I know right! It kind of hurts me . I dont play that on my 300 dollar violin
+Du Rocky fuck yea
Thunder Struck is Australian
Not saying it's an American song, but it's a very violent one to play on such an antique violin lol
Nextrate the USA is only a few hundred years old dumbass
1st violin 0:31 2nd violin 1:53 3rd violin 2:57 4th violin 4:00
Thank me later
Horacio Ulloa Thank you 😂
Horacio Ulloa h
thanks
Going from 1 through 4 was kind of impressive, but going back to 1 after 4 was just ridiculous LOL
how said I will
And here we are listening to this on our 5$ speakers on our phones🧐🤔
Concludety xD
@Taryn Arnold thos are the pro air pods
No no no remember it technically only costs around 10 cents to make a cell phone. The rest is all mark up by corporation.
@@demigodgilman You are really dumb, they are expensive because they require new materials to make because of the new hardware. They need to get their money back by marking up the price to afford to make them, like the note 8, it costed 369 dollars to make, if they priced it at 400, they wouldn't be able to afford the new materials. Why would you think it costs 10 cents? Not even an educated guess, you are saying the speakers, screen, and the other hardware is worth 10 cents?
@@adamguy4111 A 7% margin seems really slim, are you absolutely sure about that? I mean, they obvious don't cost 10 cents (I'm pretty sure they were joking about that anyway), but I really think they'd be aiming for a significantly higher margin.
Edit: I looked up the retail and production price of a Note 8. While you are correct about the production price, the MSRP is $929. A 60% margin, which makes a lot more business sense.
"tell use a bit about one of the more affordable ones"
"yeah here we have a nice littele violin for 130k"
ähm...yes...
Steve Warris ....hahaha
Interesting offer hmmmm
I couldn't afford the first one
Steve Warris lmao true
Sorry man ... sold my farm this week ... have NO changes in my pocket to buy this ... you said 120K right? I will tell my Butler to send the guy who carry the water bucket for the assistant of the cleaner of my employees cabin to purchase from you. Is it ok?
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Rob Landes is the guy playing the violn playing thunderstruck? o.o
Daaaaaaaang!
awww!
Oooohhh!
Rob, how did you turn off the Replies and "Thumbs Up" for the for the Comment I left a couple of days ago? I received 1300+ "Likes" in less than 7 hrs, then, suddenly everything stopped and for the remaining time -up to right now... Nothing. Weird, as I've watched and taken screenshots of the "action" and timeline.
You're an odd one.
Pawn stars : so you got a violin made in 1700, best i can do is $50
its gonna take up real estate
It requires a specialized buyer, the right person has to come along that just happens to be looking for not just an old violin, but a Milanese violin. Now if it were a Stradivarius I could go up to $100. :P
Lmao!
Sike, so old. The best I can do is $1
But maybe the violin itself priced lower than $50 at the year it was produced
It’s not just the violin making the sound. Quality of the strings, the bow and quality of the hair on the bow and most importantly the player plays a significant role here. People like me won’t hear the difference. That is for someone who is really down to the very small details of sounds
Well, I can certainly say that the $62 violin would “twang” and squeak very frequently. The older violins had much smoother tones and had a richer sound to them.
FyreMagyk67 While the body of the violin makes a very definitive sound difference, the squeaking probably comes from the cheap strings.
Sybrand Botes true
Agree. I guess nobody is going to use a $100 string set in a $60 violin.
FyreMagyk67 Yeah, RICHer sounds
Shit still plays good . Can't complain if it feeds your soul.
"This one was made in London in 1790... 94'." "...Cool." The appreciation.
Then continues to play "Thunderstruck"...
Oh yeah, nbd, it's just a 223 year old violin. You see those all over
What else do you say tho? Lol.
Daniel Cruz woah
Daniel Cruz Lol
There's an apocryphal story about Jascha Heifetz regarding a woman who came up to him after a performance and said: "I love the sound of your Violin.". Heifetz then placed the Violin next to his ear and responded: "Really? I can't hear anything." The morale of this story? It's more about the player than the instrument.
+Charles Coleman my parents have been telling me this story since I was a kid!!
Yeah. It's a good story whether it's true or not. Great playing by the way. Hope you get to play my Violin Concerto one day. (With any one of those Violins.) :)
True shit
Hiiiiiii Rob Landes! I would love to ask a huge favor to please "Love" my original comment for everyone to view. It is in the comment section somewhere. Thank you everyone for liking my comment if you can find it! you are helping a lot!
Charles Coleman That's not entirely true. Of course it's disrespectful to say that after a world class concerto by HEIFETZ himself, but every Violin has a different tone, and you can't deny that. That's like saying a professional driver should be able to do all kinds of NASCAR shit on a junky car from the scrapyard.
"More than most peoples cars"
Bruh. More than most peoples house.
correct
They sounded dramatically different to me. The cheapest was very screechy and the sounds sort of slurred into eachother and were harder to hear precisely enough when this gentleman began playing very quickly. The more expensive, the smoother and richer the tone and the easier I found it to hear each tone distinctly without any, I guess I would say, "artifact" covering up the individual tones. I thought the last violin sounded the sweetest, warmest and silkiest of all played (the sensation of velvet and a warm bath mixed together).
I don't know anything at all about violin or what makes a good or great quality violin versus a bad quality violin, but this is what I heard and I enjoyed listening to the comparisons. Thank you!
(I am stating this as someone who has no clue how a violin is even made, let alone main differences between the three shown here besides age) I feel the first, cheaper modern violin had somewhat a metallic "Buzz" to it as if there were bits of strings vibrating unintentinally. Whereas the later ones simply did not have that, which incidentally made it sound way nicer to the ears.
I felt the same way. The first violins were like voices that hadnt matured yet cracking to reach high notes or running out of air. By the final violin is was like listening to an experienced confident voice singing.
They're almost indistinguishable - also due to the poor recording quality: unless you're rolling with a Neumann KM183 or something similar, and in a very good room, the difference is negligible.
The biggest difference, in this video, was due to his playing.
"Velvet and a warm bath?" That sounds so pretentious. Truth is it hard to hear any differences.
You have a good ear, but more importantly, you have the gift of hearing with your heart. That is absolutely essential to be a good musician. If you are interested, pull up some of Itzhak and Toby Perlman's RUclips videos. You'll see what I mean. Music is a language that not everyone can speak or hear. :)
The second one has a softer tone and I love it cause it's so pure and doesn't feel like it's gonna pop your ear drums if you play too high
Now i just need a pair of 280,000$ headphones to hear the difference
ha, I'd say proper microphone that isnt across the room would be the biggest difference.
YJ wan i have heard the difference between the first and the second even whitout headphones
😂
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My headset was on sale for $40 and I could hear the difference.
Of the ones you played, the third instrument was clearly the most tonally balanced. The last was a bit more mellow voicing and just not able to project as much.
If I had $185,000 to blow on a violin I think that third instrument was a pretty good value comparatively to the other ones based on the rich harmonics and nice voicing.
I'm gonna start using Holo Charizard cards as a measurement of currency
"Oh yeah my laptop is like 55 Holo Charizard cards"
+Ian Hayes 😂
LMAO DIS ONE
I'm in on that one...
Went to the grocery store, bought about a holo charizard worth of food... shouldn't hurt that budget that much, got some bonus holo charizards this pay.
Glad I'm not the only one who uses pokemon card currency or pcc in the card community.
Ian Hayes my country uses only Zapdos, what is the current conversion of Zapdos to Charizard? 😅
*DID YOU KNOW?*
“This is equivalent to
the value of
20,371 copies of Shrek 3.”
thats alot of all star playthrough
That's a lot of swamp
shrek 3 is shit and should not be considered canon
Stings - The Science Of that’s kind of why it’s funny
Why shrek?
i would be scared shitless to even touch one of those
like they would desintergrate if i made one wrong move
HECKproductions I know LMAO
HECKproductions haha well im in a class for so wish me luck!
yeah they dont but dont break the strings or bridge
HECKproductions actually it is
_"Here's my Ferrari 488 Spyder. Go take it for a spin on a slalom course."_
You played the $62 violin very well, but I could tell the violin didn’t have a nice ringing sound. The expensive one had a nicer tone
Maybe, or maybe ypu are in placebo.. i think same. And i am musicman
The expensive ones sounded better on the higher notes
Maybe because the top vibrates better, more resonance
@@yourtubebro6178 as a violinist the $62 one sounded pretty awful lol
Invite some people and make a blind test. That'd be awesome.
MainDoodler Do the blind test in a concert hall and play something that actually shows what the violins are capable of and I'd love to see it. This can't be taken seriously at all lol
Person my fave was the third one. Im listening on ink'd skullcandy earbuds. I feel the last one may be past its prime :(
That's not how violins work. The "prime" is anytime after about 5 years of use. They need to be broken in but after that they play well until they fall apart.
CJameco ah, didnt know that, i play piano, and they do have "primes" depending on quality. Im no motzart or chopin, but i can play zelda themes:)
Po Panda if you upkeep a piano well it also will play forever, there's an old 1802 Steinway at my college I love playing when I can get time on it.
Yes, there's a noticeable difference between the $62 and the first expensive one. The other expensive violins are all too similar, so I wouldn't bother putting the extra $150k , not worth it imho. But hey, you made the cheap one sound amazing, so at least 80% of the sound comes from your hands.;)
haha thanks
I don't play Violin, but it seems to be similar to guitars, in that the very cheapest will sound a bit 'dead' (I don't think flat is the word I want), but even then, they're close enough that you can learn proper technique on them. And that then translates to the better sounding examples.
And indeed, that's some excellent skill. I can barely find the chord I want, and I've got frets to help. stringed instruments that use bows are in a class of their own. I'd love to try and play one once, though.
It's harder to tell through video, in real life it's completely different. Although I don't know how much difference there is between a 100k and a 200k violin probably. Never heard those IRL to compare together
Heres a quick easier side-by-side comparison if you guys are lazy to check :)
$62 - 0:30 0:45 0:54
$130k - 1:53 2:09 2:18
$185k - 2:56 3:11 3:22
$285k - 4:00 4:14 4:24
I think the $130k was the smoothest.
I can hear a difference a difference in my wallet
The Lamborghini and the Ferrari sounded equally good to me.
Yeah....I know how to play one of those!
@@ubatooba8467 r/wooosh
They are also easier to play
@@technicalmaster-mind That is the most-stupid woosh I've ever seen. I'd expect more from someone called "Windows and Android Tutorials".
@@spectrfox7661 mood
true though XD
i have 3 dollars
gathered them till 1200$
eino thats 2 more than me
eino i have like $800 in debts
€300 here
I have a half-eaten cheeseburger from McDonalds...
if you know anything about wood, you'll know that an instrument will age over time and that contributes to the sound, as does handling it and the natural oils from the human hand, dust from the environment, etc. The older instruments have a far more "mature" sound... warmer, darker, richer.
Warmer and darker are the same thing though...
I think?
At the end of the day, it's subjective. I highly doubt the human ear is capable of differentiating the sound of these violins without shitty descriptions like "mature"
You can use physics terms.
The cheap one, the wood doesn't resonate very well. So, it doesn't accentuate the low notes like the more expensive ones. That's what words like "warm" or "dark" mean, that your instrument accentuates lower tones, and muffles higher ones.
On the high notes, it's pretty clear the cheap one is strung with steel. It's cheaper, and produces more stable notes. On the other hand, the stability of the tone makes it very flat. It produces one audio frequency at a time.
Gut strings have more timbre when they resonate, which produces an undertone. Notice when he's playing the highs... hear how the instrument is also producing lower noise as well? That's the undertone of the string. That's what they mean when they say it's "rich."
Age affects different instruments in different ways. In the case of violins, it's marginally better resonance of lower pitch, and marginally more muffling of highs. So, a "mature" violin sounds "warmer, and richer."
The price of the instruments, though, has more to do with their rarity. You can find a quality instrument for 600 dollars, or one that sounds absolutely fantastic for 6000. These are a bit more akin to works of art.
The human ear is perfectly able to hear differences between these.
You just have to understand what you are listening for, and that is a matter of experience not explanation for the most part.
In the same way a precision engineer will see variations in steel work that a layman would not, to the point of being able to see identify surface flaws less than a sheet of paper thick
Sorry, I completely disagree as will science. There's already a study years ago, with multiple revists, in which a majority of the violinists cannot identify or were just completely wrong between which violin was being played. (Same piece of music played on a more modern instrument and the stradivarius).
Not everyone has the same range of hearing. So if you have undamaged ears and understand what you are listening for - I'll give an extremely generous maybe.
Why buy an expensive car when u can buy a violin 😂😂
Idk
Music is expensive
Because even the cheapest car can still run over the most expensive violin 😂😂🤣
Because you get no pussy with a violin
A HOUSE EVEN
"Tell use a bit about one of the more affordable ones"
"Yeah here we have a nice little violin for 130k".
Ehm, you see the way my bank account is set up....
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Looooooooooooool from kevin harts standups its fucking hilarious
Safaa El Haimoudi no one likes you
Adam Devries what's that even supposed to mean? F U
Safaa El Haimoudi you called Kevin Hart's stand ups trash
"show us something on the affordable ish range" "so this one is 130,000 dollars" 😂😂
edit: ok wow I didn't realise I got top comment lmao ty
What are you talking about?
Don't you have a 130,000 dollars lying around in your house?
Even I don't.
😂🔫
Cooper CowleyVEEVOO That's what I thought!
"Too cheap."
As soon as I finish printing :D
I think we have to eliminate bias here first what we call an "expectancy bias." Knowing which is which may lead the player (conscious or unconscious) to play better on better (or expensive) one than those very affordable (cheap).
Yes, he fucked it up the second he said "i'm going to play the $100 violin first"...
That said the 100 one sounds like a cardboard box to me lol
2nd one sounded a little like a cardboard box when first played but sounds sweeter overall, the 3rd has less of that hollow wet sound. If I'm not imagining it I'm guessing it's something to do with the wood being tinder dry in the older ones, but I know absolutely nothing of violins :P Apart from they have bows which are made of horse hair on which you put rosin which some violinists use weird additives like powdered meteoric steel and strings of gut preserved with sulfur dioxide and sometimes with olive oil on them. And yep that's the sum total of my violin knowledge, don't even know how many strings they have :D
I could tell the first one was a cheap one, strings sounded like they were almost slipping, but the rest all sounded the same.
As I understand it it's pretty much all bias. You get the same phenomenon in wine tasting. Professional wine tasters can't tell the difference between expensive red and cheap white dyed red if they're served with a bit of showmanship and misdirection.
My memory recall's back in middle school a music teacher had me hold a violin And a bass violin, she had asked me to mimic her playing hers. She was astounded and later told my mother that she wanted me to partake in music lessons from her. She was convinced I had potential. And that if she (mother) could buy a reed for the brass instruments she wanted to hear me mimic her on them too. My mother replied, "Sorry but no, that's not in my budget" ... It break's my heart to hear how music is being taken out of our schools.
Thunder struck is as impressive to play as it is painful to listen to on a violin.
What are you talking about. I test all my violins with thunder struck for insurance reasons.
playing that on a 300k$ violin is like watching those kids at guitar center go out and hook up a 6500$ les Paul to a giant 15k$ Marshall stack and then start playing nirvana or something equally repetitive and simple.
Mr. E .. I remember playing a (i think) 3,000 ibanez guitar and a six thousand fender amp in downtown Disney. I played some improvised blues in a booth. It was the first time I could get the pitch harmonics to work correctly. Some kid that looked exactly like the kid in a christmas story stuck his face to the glass n watched me play like I was another disney exhibit. The fender amp was amazing you'd hit a button and all the knobs would move. I felt like an exhibit looking at an exhibit. God has an amazing sense of humor.
now that kid is hopefully sitting in his room after school and sifting through everything he can get his hands on. From The Howlin' Wolf to Joe Satriani tabs and remembering where he first got bit with the guitar bug
Good stuff!!
Just In- Dude.
both violins sound like logitech speakers. Amazing
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And that does it. Thanks for coming everyone.
lmao
bennyS LMAO underrated comment!
I wish I could give you more thumbs ups.
So after watching I have a few points. A $62 instrument you know is going to be limited, a more meaningful comparison would be a slightly more expensive violin like in the 300-500 dollar range, the price discrepency is still huge but the quality of a $500 violin from a decent manufacturer is leaps and bounds above a $62 one. As best I've ever been able to tell from researching, beyond a certain point, spending more on a violin for performance is mostly pointless, other than it being a collectors item and you want the history and provenance that comes with it. Like if i already have a $1000 violin, getting a $2000 one isn't going to make my music sound twice as good. Going from a $2000 to a $10,000 isn't going to make 5x improvement. The gap in what you get becomes more and more narrow the higher the dollar amount goes. They've done blindfolded tests and a lot of professional violinists can't tell when they're playing on an old and high dollar violin vs a much newer and cheaper on. Like multi million dollar violins vs a 20,000 one.
Also a lot of cheap instruments if you do a basic setup, swap bridge for decent starter bridge, properly fit the sound post, put a decent set of strings on them, maybe adjust the peg fitting, and maybe some fingerboard adjustments, can go from almost unplayable to performance similar to an instrument several times more expensive, while having only spent maybe $50 on materials.
It seems to me that the skill of the player is by far the biggest factor in outcome, it's like 99% player, 1% instrument, which makes the return on investment really low for spending a lot on an instrument beyond the point at which all aspects that affect how playable the instrument is are adequate.
hzuiel I didn’t read most of your comment but from what a read I agree. My violin is valued around $500 - $700 and it sounds much better than a $5 twangy thing. Personally I thought the best sound to value ratio was around a $2,000 violins. They all have a really nice and mellow sound.
That sounds about right, most things have a price sweet spot. I feel like people in the violin world revel in expensiveness, more = better. So they go in wanting an instrument of a certain price, and ask to see only ones of that price. Never mind if maybe sitting on the shelf below is a $700 violin that if you play tested it, you might realize you like better than the pricey ones. Why spend more than you have to? Spend exactly as much as is required to get what will please you and nothing more.
Also as I said previously, a few adjustments to a mediocre instrument can potentially make fantastic. The most important factor with a violin is the quality of wood in the body of the instrument, which you can usually tell with your eyes and ears. Beyond that, most other things can be fixed, and cheaper factory violin makers have a habit for some reason of putting all their effort into the construction of the main components of the violin, and often neglect the smaller things, and mistakes are easily overlooked on an assembly line. Cheap instruments often come with cheap awful strings that when replaced with even a modest $20-30 dollar set will be leaps and bounds better. Beyond that, the biggest factors to playability, ease of use, and sound are:
Well fitted soundpost
Well fitted and carved bridge
Well fitted pegs
Shape/profile of the fingerboard
The thing about these problems is they can all be fixed. It takes way too much work to bother fixing the body of the instrument or neck, but stuff like this is well worth it.
Most cheap instruments(maybe even ones up over $1000 dollars) have poorly fitted, poorly shaped, thick, chunky looking, block of low quality crap wood for a bridge. A $10 or so bridge, carved down and fitted by someone that knows what they are doing is a huge improvement to both sound and ability to play the instrument.
A stick of sound post material is also cheap, maybe $10-15.
As long as the pegs aren't already nearly pushing through the holes in the pegbox, you can easily reshape the holes and pegs and get a smooth fit that doesn't slip or stick.
As long as the fingerboard is actual ebony or rosewood and not painted cheap wood(which is easy to tell if you look closely, especially on the underside of the fingerboard), that can also be reshaped.
A really junky tailpiece might also be an issue but as long as it's not rattling, you are usually good.
If you study how to do luthier work or make friends with a luthier, you can easily address these issues and drastically improve a cheaper instrument with like 50-80 dollars worth of materials and a few hours of labor, that may make something like a 500-700 dollar violin play and sound like a 1500-2000 dollar one, as long as you examine the body and neck and find the wood to be of good quality and the shaping and thickness to be adequate.
hzuiel I don't know much about violins, other than how to listen to and enjoy their wonderful sound, but I have found in things I do know about, price is not always a major factor. Practice is one thing you cannot buy but makes a huge difference in performance. I used to do a little competition shooting, I have seen people spend thousands of dollars on guns and it didn't help their performance, I always said they should buy a moderately priced gun and spend the rest in ammo for practice. Would this make a big difference in playing the violin? Would you be better off getting a 500 or 1000 dollar instrument and put more time in learning to play it better?
+Bob Taylor Absolutely, without a doubt, the guy in this video has been playing the violin since he was a child and obviously had thousands and thousands of hours of practice behind this technique and sound. I would say Similar to the ongoing cost of ammo with shooting, usually lessons are the best option if you can afford it and they are available where you are, and they are an ongoing cost. If say you put all your money, 5k, into a violin, or go into debt for it, but don't budget any money for lessons and only spend a minimum amount of time practicing, you will guaranteed see less success than someone who buys a $500-1000 instrument and sets aside money to take lessons and spends an hour per day practicing.
I think almost all hobbies work this way, with few exceptions, time effort and talent typically prevail over throwing money at it.
hzuiel I really appreciate your response, I didn't remember to add the question I meant to ask, and that is, can you teach anyone to play an instrument? Teach them to play it well I should say. Playing an instrument is more of an art, do you think anyone could be taught or do they need to have a natural instinct? I used to train people, or at least attempt to train people to run various equipment and some people just can't catch on. I have wanted to play an instrument but I just can't do it, do you think it is a waste of time for some people to try to learn?
imagine buying an instrument that costs almost as much as most houses lol
Where do you live that a house costs 280k 😂
@@jamesblackwell1154 australia has an average of 150k-250k
@@jamesblackwell1154 average houses in Canada are about a million now lol
The more expensive ones sound more clear and give off a better vibe. Idk...
FAZElite it’s almost as if adding over 100,000 dollars to the price tag gets you a better instrument
@@keithollenburg8199 yeah I know it's not worth it.
ClumZ yes you don’t know
It's worth it if you're a professional violin player. You don't perform with 50$ violin most pros buy their violin for 300-400$
@@miaohare9177 Most pros actually buy theirs for thousands, not hundreds lmao
I don't know. I think I liked the 2nd one the best. They all sounded better than the $62 one though.
But I bet in 150 years the $62.00 violin will sound better and cost you $100K
No, it won't. In 150 years the $62 one will be gone.
exactly! cause if the wood ages well and cared for that $62 in 10 years will sound like an expensive one. its a lot about the aging of the wood.
plemax so will you
Polar Hadles I won’t. That is the mystery of the 22 century.
"Did you know? The value of this Stradivari is equivalent to my student loans"
did you know? you dont need a loan to study? lol
Not if you want uninterrupted study and quality guidance other people can appreciate... of course unless you don't have to work to live, then, sure...
The university im going is one of the best of America and the only one public in that international ranking we've got great professors, it's strange why you cant have good quality universities and public
Maybe that's why your grammar is broken
You don't need a sleek, beautiful, brand-new school with labs and audio-visual equipment and a gym and a swimming pool either. The notion that our schools are "woefully underfunded" is bullshit. Socrates taught his students under a tree.
Hi, I'm 11 years old and have played the violin since I was 4 years old. Great video btw 💫
good, keep it up, the best of life for you ;) :D :D
Hi, I'm 4 years old and will start playing the violin when I will be 11 years old. Wish me luck
i hear a difference, but not a 200k difference XD
Right on dude!!!! :-)
Yeah, best i can do is 432 american euros.
Talle13 Its not all the sound quality worth. Never heard of a painting that is worth a ton of money? Same concept but a violin imo is a better bang for your buck, i don't want to call it a collectors item but people who are master violinist and are rich would probably buy these types.
Ren which poor person could afford these? of course only the rich....
Ren I gathered as much, but then I don't understand the sense of this video. He should have used violins that are pricey primarily because of their better sound quality. Up to what price would they go? Also, do the violins used in this video have the best sound quality possible? Is that a thing that goes along with their noble history?
Those violins are older than the United States itself
😂😂😂😂
+Nick DaRose cool did I ask ?
And a lot more classy.
Kryptie Cool this is a RUclips comment section. It is social media where you can connect with billions of people across the world. You commented on a video, where hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same video. If you're gonna get so pissed when of the billions of people responds to something you say get the fuck off RUclips.
SebaSWBRL well said my friend
I have no clue why this is in my recommended section...
May you, by any chance, be a viewer of "8-bit keys"?
(cause this is the only music-related channel I watch and I got a similar question)
Alexander youtube recommendation is a mystery 😂😂😂
Me either hahaha
Alexander same here
same here hahahahaha I just watching a mv then it suddenly pop out this XD
The cheapest one sounds sharp and flat when he plays high note, but expansive one sounds soo round and smooth just like singing😮..
The cheap one sounded much more tinny too. The high notes sounded like ear-piercing squeaks.
I'm a violinist myself, and I can say there has to be a huge difference between those violins. The sound quality of the video won't show it to us though.
Ah!!! Thanks for that honesty! Feels good to read that unlike so many "youtube experts", you also cannot hear a striking difference from watching the video! I am also certain that antique violins feel and sound better but... cannot hear it just like this!
yep youtube quality sucks
Yep, seconded. Played violin for 4 and a half years. My first one was about 40 years old and later on I had one who was about 100 years old and the sound was distinctively better. I suppose that if we'd hear these violins from the video live we'd notice the difference much better than we do now.
i'm an official youtube expert and your comment offends me.
The difference being that most likely the instruments being compared were actual, handmade, high violins vs stradivariuses; each instrument made at a high quality level will have their own nuances, with some stradivariuses being good, and others being so-so at best. The title is somewhat misleading. After a certain quality level, 'typing' of instruments is more or less thrown out the window: a stradivarius of high quality will not necessarily sound better than another instrument of high quality, but the same can be said of any instrument.
I had a $80 dollar violin and then recently upgraded to a $2,000 violin and there is a HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE. I can't imagine what playing a $200,000 violin must be like 😍😍
Super Cookie Diminishing returns. If the $100k+ instruments are 100% possible tone quality then the
Yeah, that $62 violin sounded like trash, but I have to imagine there is something between the $62 violin and the the 130k violin that sounds pretty good.
Super Cookie i am not really into this particular field. Can you tell how different is that ?
Xuan Cong Nguyen The violins that most professional violinists play, those who sit in the orchestra chairs, cost far more than $62 but far less than $100k. Typically if someone has played for a few years and wants an upgrade from the $100 starter violin they get in the $500-$3k range. If they play many more years and want to turn it from a hobby to a job or career, it's time to spend $5k-$50k. It's only those violinists who are the premiere soloists, those who stand in front of the orchestra and have their own solo recitals, that must buy or, more commonly, are loaned, these antique-level instruments.
you do realize those are expensive because those are antiques ... doesnt mean a $1,000,000 instrument from the 1700s is better than a modern 2017 instrument.
I don't know anything about violins but I can definitely tell the difference between the cheap and expensive ones. The expensive ones have a smoother and cleaner sound
Luffy san no definitely not. I mean I guess if you really love violins and if you had a ton of money to just spend then maybe..? but even then..
Just Chilin what is that supposed to mean, less string bite? Better acoustics?
Just Chilin well i mean, 180,000 isnt like incredibly expensive for a violin if its your job. Like, theres no way you get any gigs with a violin not up there in price. It just doesnt sound very good. Ive seen people with violins over a million dollars before.
Well another factor is the year they where made and by whom.
There's also a big factor with playability of an expensive violin vs a cheap one. Similar to how a guitarist would say that a nice expensive fender just "feels" better (summerizing the action, fingerboard, neck etc etc) an expensive violin just "feels" better to play then a cheap one.
As to what someone else said that you wouldn't be able to get gigs without a $180,000 violin. That's not really true. Specifically for classical/orchestra gigs, yeah... you'll want a higher end violin for those since it does sound better and everything helps since getting a regular spot in an orchestra is competitive as hell. At a certain price point the differences between violins is pretty hard to notice. But you don't need an violin that expensive. I personally have preformed over a hundred paid gigs in North America using my cheap ($3000 ) beat up violin. Would I love a $180,000 violin? Yep! Would I not be able to play without a super expensive violin? Nope.
Every time he played “thunderstruck” my everything clenched and my heart sank lol 😂
I know I'm a guitar player with no violin skills but I was like so in 1794 when they made this violin I'm absolutely sure they intended it to play AC/DC
That's funny, I feel the same way whether hearing Thunderstruck on or off radio :D
Yep total cringe
So who wants the violin I'm giving away?? You watched until the end right? The top comment here will be shipped the Charizard violin as long as you live in the lower 48 states.
Edit: Voting ends at noon Mountain Standard Time on Friday, August 11, at which time I will message the winner and make arrangements to send the Charizard violin, so keep checking back to see the leaders!
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The Vincenzo sounded the best to me.
A better way to do a comparison in this case would be for the owner to not tell you anything about each violin and if possible, hand them to you so you can't get a good look at them, then do the playing to see which has the best sound.
The diifference in the sound is the sound of an empty wallet and full wallet
eggh man Zen philosophy in it's finest ! Kudos to you , sir !
eggh man Whahaha, this was a good one😂😂😂😉😎
comment of the year
LOL
Either way I’d still be wasting money on something I can’t use and don’t need
SO I pick around on the guitar and was always fascinated with the violin. Well I purchased the cheapest electric violin for about $65.00, Amazon. Figured I could plug it into my Marshall 1/2 stack and have some fun. For not knowing the violin the transition from a pick to a bow was difficult. Also the strings do not get tuned like a guitar. Also tuning it, the rosin, hand positions, holding it with the chin was all very foreign. I did manage to learn Twinkle little Star and it gets better every time I play it. So if you are wanting to know about the violin, I think $50-60 is not much to spend for experimenting. So my mother-in-law came to the house and said there was an old violin up at the farmhouse, i am on a farm. She brought it down and gifted it to me. I didn't think much of it until I tuned it and it sounded totally different for the Amazon model. It is stamped inside "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonenfis Faciebat Anno " I think it to be about 100 years old. It sounds fantastic compared to the Amazon violin. So warm and much easier to play. By the way let me know if I won the giveaway?
Id be interested in how a £5000-9999 violin compares to a £20000 and £50000 violin.
+photographymatt i might have to make another one soon!
no disrespect to this video btw:-) working towards my 3rd grade violin exam as a life long musician but late to the game violinist, Iv promised myself a "new" violin when I pass my 4th. Musicians like yourself keep me focused and inspired, thank you.
+photographymatt yeah, no problem! You're right it would be fun to hear the difference in violins for something quality but affordable.
In my days as a guitarist, I could hear a difference between sub-£100 guitars and £500-1000 guitars. After £2000, the difference was a lot less.
I feel a big part of it, is having complete trust in your equipment. I upgraded my bow(archery) in dec and my archery has improved ten fold. I know any bad shots are totally on me, I have no excuses :-) its pushed me to be better.
photographing
For those of you looking for quality instruments that are under $1500, check out roblandesinstruments.com
Can the y be shipped to Europe ?
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#selfpromo
For a 1.2m violin it better come with a wife and a fresh gaming PC and a house
Um your bow path was not strate
Tbh I like the second one, it is really mellow and has a sort of echo that seems expressive. The difference between the first and second violin is very obvious in hallelujah.
🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
The third one is very crisp and clear but expressive and the first one is just a regular violin.
🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
However its the violinist that counts and his soulful expression is the real experience. :>
The second was my favorite to listen to as well. The latter two were really sharp - on the second half of the second tune (Thunderstruck), the pull back was overpowering the rest of the music.
I agree with you totally. The difference was in the alleluia song. Second one is the best.
I’ve been playing guitar for a decade or so and starting to play violin. I absolutely LOVE that you’re playing thunderstruck !
Really nice. But for a 285000$ violin I expect he plays by itself! ;-)
And make me a sandwich
The obvious craftsmanship and the fact that it's over 300 years old it's a steal
Did you just assume it’s gender?
Travis Marx there are many modern violins with outstanding craftsmanship that are worth barely a fraction of the price. Anything you pay for a violin under $100,000 (I would go as down as below 50,000) is pure craftsmanship.... Above $100,000 you're just paying for the name, plain and simple. Testore? Guarneri? Scarampella? Stradivarius? Those are just names you're paying for.... Not to mention the historical value of their violins. Those violins can even have not the best tone, and they'll still command those exorbitant prices....
Exactly hhhh
i sure can see the difference in my pocket
xD
sad..
This comment is hilarious yet depressing at the same time lol
xD
😂
are there no violins between $62 and $130,000?
Sadly nope :(
Na, there’s really no consumers in that price range.
not sure where the two commenters above are getting their information but they're mistaken. there are violins at every price point and many of them are fine instruments. a semi-professional like myself or professional player can get a good instrument for $10-$20k. It's all how much you want to spend and what level of playing you are at. Obviously if you play in a MAJOR orchestra like the CSO or NY Phil you are going to want the best money can buy but those players account for probably less than 1-2% of all violinists. Otherwise, it's all gravy as long as you can play well, you are comfortable with the instrument and you like the sound it produces.
for example, Shar Music (very well reputed string player resource for instruments, bows, cases, etc;) out of Ann Arbor sells all price ranges of instruments from beginner to professional level instruments.
www.sharmusic.com/Instruments/Violin/Advanced-Violins/?pageLength=12&pageNo=2&cid=1877
collection.sharmusic.com/Violin/
Mine is £600
If you are planning to actually learn seriously, around 1-2k is a no brainier.
I saw how you play this violin beautiful and i started the play violin 3 months ago. I WANNA CRY...
Id be interested in how a $5,295,098 violin compares to a $9,807,521 and $375,972,610 violin.
Jon Kahananui lmaoooo
I don't think there is a 370 million dollar violin. Unless I'm mistaken, the world's most expensive violin is a 45 million dollar Stradivarius.
i dont even play violin why am i here
JumboCod91 the viola is equivalent to the violin. Why would you ask "why is he waving his arms around?".
You've been doing drugs ?
Dawid Czerniak im 14 i dont do drugs lol
Chelsea Same
same dude
Its 3 am in the morning..why the fuck am I watching this
i am exactly at 420 am
almost 3 AM. Still early.
3:30 am for me
Mike Read 5:50 my guy
its 4:30 PM, i still dont get why im watching it... im not about to buy a violin
I could be wrong but Daniel is living the life! Selling violins and just pure vibes!
The more expensive violins definitely had a more distinct and clean sound, rather than the cloudy and (kinda) flat the cheap one had.
TESH HOTCHKISH couldn't honest tell the difference you most have a good ear for music.
TESH HOTCHKISH I agree, the first one had a scratchy sound to it and the more expensive ones each sounded clearer.
Wow i have no sense of music but i can hear the difference. The problem that this video is bad - what is the point to compare violins using camera microphone for the sound recording? like i am pretty sure that the difference is more obvious. Maybe i can hear it cause i use decent headset too idk, like if you listen this on some laptop or 10-20$ speakers i doubt you can tell the difference too
Space Pony that's a very good point you have made maybe that's why I can't tell the difference
I dunno how I ended up on this video but I decided to watch it anyways. The expensive ones have better clarity and it’s crispy to its sound. Kinda like how you compare to a 480p to a 4K type of deal
Title should have been Thunderstruck played on 300 year old violin....
Maybe I’ll do that...
That was awesome haha
It is a shame to play such a trash on such an instrument
@@treemoderator7312 You are poor if the music for you is just between the waste of pop and the junk that is rock. Sooo pooooor;P
@@treemoderator7312 i also saw your channel and it turns out you have one big nothing there. This explains interest in such trash as rock. You have nothing to say.
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My ears is dumb, I can't appreciate the different. Anyway, nice video for showing it :)
Your ear is not dumb, the instruments, from 65 dollar one to the "285,000" dollar one is made the same way, so its basic function will be the same. Of course, craftmanship will be vastly different and the materials used, but the sound coming out of the instrument will be more or less the same. What will make a huge difference is the skill of the musician. You can give that 65 dollar instrument to Hillary Hahn and it will sound amazing. No one will criticize her because she is playing a 65 dollar amazon violin. I know the purist will be up in arms about my comment but lets call a spade a spade.
I carry $500k as pocket money
Theres a very miniscule difference; quite frankly probably only noticable to a violin player...You're very talented. I'd still buy the $62 violin based on this demo. The acoustics is slightly different, not enough to bother in my humble opinion. ❤️ Well played! I enjoyed this!!!
So cool! The second to last one sounded incredible. Super clear in the higher register but very full in the lower notes. You should go with that one.
+Amelia Murdock I agree 👌🏻
That was my fav honestly
I’ll have the airplane one thx
Yollie Liu *O H M Y*
Yollie Liu me2
is that the one that sounds like my coffee grinder just before it drops dead.. the $62 one.. used kitty litter.
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haha I also saw ur comment on the flute video lol
i love how he compares prices to pokemon cards.
I just found your channel today, I listen to this video as I was driving and I could tell the difference between all four of the violins, the first one was harsh and screechy the second still harsh and screechy but not as bad as the first, the third had a nice mellow tone to it with the fourth having an even more mellow tone, when you played the first bit of music on the last two violins it made me want to cry with a year running down my cheek, I have never been able to play an instrument, but I do like a good piece of music. So thank you.
"There's no way he's going to play Thunderstruck on a $280,000 - nope he's doing it."
0:30 and 3:59, can you hear the difference?
Nop
Yes, the more expensive one has a richer sound. I've been playing violin though for more than half my life, so that may affect my ability to hear any difference...
Yes we can!!!
I'm not a musician. My ears can't hear much of a difference.
Kinda, but I feel like that the cheap one is harder to play, just look at his facial expression and you can see him trying to get into a comfortable position, it's not always about the sound it's about how well you are able to play it at its cost
I have a violin that was made sometime between 1900 and 1920. Beautiful violin and it's been in my family the entire time. It's high range is not the best (though it's still quite good), but it is gorgeously rich in its lower range. My only complaint with the video is the choice of music. Not that I don't enjoy AC/DC, but in my opinion, there are much better pieces to use for the comparison. Plus, you made it seem (to the uninitiated) that you only play loud or soft on certain strings. You didn't show the delicate high range or the louder low range. Both would need to be included for a truly good comparison. That being said, I really enjoyed this and I think I will pick my violin back up.
Better rep for comparison probably is partita 3 and the gypsy concerto
Me noob at playing and knowledge on violin: ...
Them: This violin is-
Me: Whaaaaaat? There’s more than one type on violin?
After some point , it’s not about the sound anymore, it’s more about how rare it is.
Yeap .... once it is bought, it won't be played but displayed in a glass cage .... or I should say "dis-played" in one word for both meaning :D
Then what's the purpose?
It can be about the players ego. "Oh I have a violin worth $100,000.00" with the emphasis on the 'I'.
I have a $400.00 EWI and a $1200.00 EWI, but they sound the same. But with better sound equipment, they would sound better, and if I could play well.
Yeah them shits all sound the same to me
Lol
* goes to school * i got a new shiny charzard violin wanna trade ?
This was interesting, but I really wished you had put the pieces side-by-side (close together). With all the talking, I really found it hard to tell the difference.
Maybe you could put up a companion video with just the three pieces, like Violin 1, piece 1, Violin 2, piece 2, Violin 3, piece3, etc. so that I could hear them truly side-by-side.
Also, you said you really loved the one in the middle, but you didn't say why.
+Scott Gartner good points, yes I'm already coming up with ideas for future comparison videos. Thanks.
I'd be curious to hear how they'd sound played against each other simultaneously, with the cheap violin in one audio channel and each other violin in the other. It may not help to evaluate them, but it's worth the experiment.
Honestly, if that little amount of time is enough to not be able to tell the difference, it means that the difference is not worth all those thousands of dollars.
In my opinion, it only makes a difference when listening to a complete song or concert, especially one that you really like, because then, you do get disappointed when the violin doesn't meet your expectations
It's not about the time between the pieces. The pieces could be radically different in quality, and your brain will still only remember the last one. We aren't designed for comparing a series of sounds only heard once each. Switching back and forth amongst the performances would be the best way to show the difference so you can hear any change in quality as the sound shifts one to the next.
Open RUclips multiple times and run the video in each one up to the start of a different violin. That way you can go directly from one to another.
what i want to know is how you acquire a violin for a video thats worth the same amount of money as a ferrari
You don't. You get invited to play it by the owner.
You sell your Ferrari.
the video isn't THAT expensive :p
the guy who started walmart, sam walton, loved driving his noisy beater old pickup truck while he was worth billions, so it is not the money that makes the value, it is the feel and the sound, yes.
Free advertising I guess?