As everyone hears, one don't need any expensive instruments. The only preconditon is the ability to treat an instrument with a certain feeling for music. You did a fantastic job, guys!
Brilliant! I usually play a Yamaha alto even though I have a Von Huene Rottenburg. The high notes are easier to hit on the Yamaha. This video gives new meaning to "get down and play some music".
Thanks to Timon for the keyboard, Pumba for the recorders and Mufasa for providing the pioneering, 'rack-of-bikes' background acoustic that was to became _en vogue_ with so many baroque ensembles of the 2020s.
Thumbs up! Plastic recorders aren't as bad as we mostly think. Cheap wooden recorders have warmer sound, but harder to play. (I have a £900 dolmetsch alto, and some Aulos plastics).
Better in what aspect? They are playing with such a magical vibe. You can hear how much they love the music and how well they understand it. And how well they harmonise with each other. I have never heard anything in this quality of making music together in that sort of setting before. I must say, it really took my breath away and it shows once again thst you don't need expensive instruments to make good music. The most important contribution to this is your soul. You can have a Strad at home and play like something the cat brought in because you are not interested in what you are playing and on the other side you can busk in the street with cheap plastic instruments and make your audience cry. It is the soul that makes the music, not the Instrument. The Instrument is just a tool.
Of course different material makes a different sound . All I am saying is that it is the musician's soul that counts and not the instrument itself. You can get a lot of boredom out of an expensive instrument if the musician playing it doesnt give a damn about what he/she is playing.
Yes, I really like this. I have had this as an idea for some time and call it plastic baroque. An inexpensive electronic keyboard and plastic recorders available to all and masses of baroque music which can be played. Thank you María Martínez Ayerza and Seldom Sene.
As my music teacher told, when they were youngsters, went to Vienna with a 80's Yamaha keyboard, two girls from the music school with plastic recorders, and a car battery (for the synth). They played Telemann triosonates at the subway. Just for fun (and earning some money in the hat). Just after the iron curtain fell down in the early 90's...So plastic baroque was performed live!
Thank you for proving in the most visceral possible way that it is possible to make good music on plastic student recorders. I figure 85%+ of great recorder sound is the player, not the instrument... though yes, the student yamaha's sound is a bit thin compared to wood, and I prefer my wooden soprano to my plastic one. The 10-15% is real, but people overestimate it.
Here we have the occasion to see the Dutch comfortably surrounded by their beloved Omafiets, doing what they love the most (after hagelslag): sharing their exceptional music talent with the world. Love from Italy!
What other instrument costs $3 and allows you to play music from the Middle Ages to the Barroque... and beyond? One will encounter ensembles in which plastic instruments are frowned upon, even when the musicians themselves are not particularly proficient. These women are an example of the opposite. Congratulations!
You can hear the same performers with good room acoustics, recording means and top quality instruments in their last CD "Concerto Barocco"... Jaw-dropping
So glad you made this video. I cringe every time when I say I play recorder and people say oh no it sounded so terrible when I was in school. Now I can show them this! Fabulous playing!
Bravo!! I taught recorder to 7 and 8 year-olds for many years, ending in '08 - my own instrument was a plastic or bakelite Dolmetsch made in 1965 and better than the Yamaha or Allos offerings to schools. I understand the challenge faced in making a cheapie sound as good as you did! Mr Havinga, quite a change from the bench of St Bavo!
Why are they're seating on the floor? Why are they on a bike storage? Why are they so good musicians? Why isn't Vivaldi more popular? So many questions
Q1 and Q2: They are just having a casual go on the school recorders. Q3: A lot of practice and years of study. Q4: Maybe cause he's centuries old, so he can't physically promote his work in TV or ads.
@@Bangy In the hands of those guys I can hear it clearly!, rsrs. Every instrument is good if it turn on the passion for music in someone. I wish I´d still have my very first guitar. A cellist friend of mine told me that some musicians choose to delay indefinitely buying a real good , expensive violin or cello, ´cause they will have no more the excuse of the instrument to blame for a bad performance. O didn´t mean to say bad things about cheap instruments.
amazing - you guys sound so good even on such cheap instruments - shows how good you all are. I've long harboured the desire to start a band where everyone plays instruments that many people dismiss as awful/children's instruments or just terrible sounding - such as the plastic recorder, the ukulele, and the melodica - our name would be "The Much Maligned" and hopefully we would show the world its error - problem is I'm far too lazy and my friends are too sensible - lol!!
I used to had a similar desire long time ago, but then I realized that I'm deeply in love with sound and that makes me wanna play less when I practice in a cheap instrument. It's not the same to play in a cheap classical guitar than play in a expensive one. I mean, I could play the whole day in a instrument that I love the way it sound, but on cheap instruments I just want the torture to end.
Eduardo Salas - I agree - I wasn't really making that argument - what I mean't was that the world has a negative idea about certain instruments - that they are not 'real' instruments but children's play things. My idea was to be really good - to sound really good - and make the world realise it's error. Perhaps I should not have said 'plastic' recorder - merely the recorder - although some of the top instrument makers use resin - such as Vincent Bernolin - to make very good recorders. In my opinion, one of the worst things about cheap instruments such as guitars and ukuleles is that they are often difficult to play: they refuse to stay in tune owing to bad quality tuning heads, and have a high, uncomfortable action. When we begin learning to play an instrument, having a decent instrument makes learning a lot easier and the pupil is more likely to carry on playing.
Eloy Cortinez - I think the point about bad posture is not whether there are/were good players who have poor posture, but rather that bad posture is a serious health issue. I have looked after the elderly for much of my life and can tell you that many age related conditions can be avoided or at least minimised by paying attention to posture.
Is it just me who noticed how they all sat differently on the ground? Cross-legged, straight-legged, bent-legged... Details aside, this is amazing. But I really think it takes a professional to sound (so) good on those cheap instruments. Except the Yamaha. I have those. They sound good even when I play them. That's saying something, believe me.
I'm interested in this way to enjoy music. Here my town, students learn recorder in the class, but they don't keep training. Because here there isn't no teacher. So I think that I become local music teacher as volonteer stuff.
Bravo! I love the performance on this video, and as a recorder learner I am often hearing wonderful performances on our beloved instrument both live and on RUclips. I wasn't aware of the ShittyFlute site until I stumbled upon this video. I went in in to check it out and I had such a great laugh. I found it really funny! I agree with Artur that there is no need to take it so personally, but to each it's own I guess :-)
Oh My God! Look at those fingers fingering.. you do not even have chairs! Non avete neanche sedie.. che meraviglia ragazzi strumenti di plastica.. e un organo sgangerato.. you do not need thousand dollar instruments to play good music
Just good musicians...they are worth much more than $ 1,000 , though ! They can make anything sound amazing, because their love and enthusiasm transfers to the instrument for that moment in time. It becomes a living extension of the performer ! Being a performer, I can attest to that transformation. It never fails to amaze me!
Excellent! Let everyone who dismisses the recorder as an inferior instrument take a good long listen to this. Nothing wrong with a recorder - plastic or otherwise - if played well. Personally, the floor-sitting posture makes me very uncomfortable, though - I'm sure the plethora of bikes could have doubled as music stands ;-)
I think that space is doing no favors to the sound. It would be very interesting to hear this in a proper auditorium to get a good comparison. Have Yamaha sponsor it and provide decent student recorders.
Ja sehr schön ! Aber Bitte nehmt diesen Clip runter, jetzt kommen die Eltern so : siehste! Die Plastik Flöte für 10€ ist voll ausreichend habe ich selbst im Internet gesehen..und die Lehrerin meinte ich soll ein Mollenhauer für 40€ kaufen! Bin ich Jeff Bazos oder was? 🤣🤦♂️
Are you sure this is Vivaldi? I have an Archiv CD (400 041-2) that labels it as the third movement of Bach's Concerto for 4 Harpsichords and Strings in A minor (BWV 1065). Just sayin. Otherwise, fun performance and a wicked earworm.
Yes. Bach transcribed BWV 1065 from a Vivaldi's concerto. See here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_concertos_by_Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Concerto_in_A_minor_for_four_harpsichords,_BWV_1065
Echt super, ihr habt es auf die Spitze getrieben mit »billigen« Schul-Kunststoff-Flöten - super Idee! :) Aber als B.c. hättet ihr vielleicht besser ein Yamaha-Bike statt dem -Keyboard genommen ;) [ z.B. ruclips.net/video/FH0MZoQHSro/видео.html ] - das Keyboard klingt schon echt gruselig dazu. Das Stück hat ja zwischendurch auch etwas von einem Motorrad-Start (Stichwort »Aufdrehen«). Leider kommt der Tenor kaum mal durch... So habe ich aber zum erstem Mal etwas von Seldom Sene gehört (ja, ich kannte das Ensemble noch gar nicht im Gegensatz zu Vivaldi und seinem Musikstück) und gleich auf eurer Homepage weiter gestöbert.
As everyone hears, one don't need any expensive instruments.
The only preconditon is the ability to treat an instrument with a certain feeling for music.
You did a fantastic job, guys!
It is not the instrument that makes good music. It is the good musician that makes good music doesn't matter the quality of the instrument.
A perfect example of the fact that the energy of music depends on the performance of the musicians themselves!
Brilliant! I usually play a Yamaha alto even though I have a Von Huene Rottenburg. The high notes are easier to hit on the Yamaha. This video gives new meaning to "get down and play some music".
True, I can hit a C7 and even an F8 in the Yamaha plastic alto
Thanks to Timon for the keyboard, Pumba for the recorders and Mufasa for providing the pioneering, 'rack-of-bikes' background acoustic that was to became _en vogue_ with so many baroque ensembles of the 2020s.
The kind of 'garage music' that I can relate to! Excellent.
Thumbs up! Plastic recorders aren't as bad as we mostly think. Cheap wooden recorders have warmer sound, but harder to play. (I have a £900 dolmetsch alto, and some Aulos plastics).
Love my aulos plastic recorders, had them since 1990 and still a delight to play
I love the idea to show that you can make wonderful music on simple instruments (even if would be better on good ones).
Better in what aspect? They are playing with such a magical vibe. You can hear how much they love the music and how well they understand it. And how well they harmonise with each other. I have never heard anything in this quality of making music together in that sort of setting before. I must say, it really took my breath away and it shows once again thst you don't need expensive instruments to make good music. The most important contribution to this is your soul. You can have a Strad at home and play like something the cat brought in because you are not interested in what you are playing and on the other side you can busk in the street with cheap plastic instruments and make your audience cry. It is the soul that makes the music, not the Instrument. The Instrument is just a tool.
@@sisfantasto7004 Don't you think the sound would be richer? Why should musicians buy expensive instruments if there was no difference?
Of course different material makes a different sound . All I am saying is that it is the musician's soul that counts and not the instrument itself. You can get a lot of boredom out of an expensive instrument if the musician playing it doesnt give a damn about what he/she is playing.
Yes, I really like this. I have had this as an idea for some time and call it plastic baroque. An inexpensive electronic keyboard and plastic recorders available to all and masses of baroque music which can be played. Thank you María Martínez Ayerza and Seldom Sene.
As my music teacher told, when they were youngsters, went to Vienna with a 80's Yamaha keyboard, two girls from the music school with plastic recorders, and a car battery (for the synth). They played Telemann triosonates at the subway. Just for fun (and earning some money in the hat). Just after the iron curtain fell down in the early 90's...So plastic baroque was performed live!
Thank you for proving in the most visceral possible way that it is possible to make good music on plastic student recorders.
I figure 85%+ of great recorder sound is the player, not the instrument... though yes, the student yamaha's sound is a bit thin compared to wood, and I prefer my wooden soprano to my plastic one. The 10-15% is real, but people overestimate it.
I have the standard set in plastic from bass to sopranino. I would love to have a cheap great bass to buy. But those start being so expensive
Fantastic! Loving the casual atmosphere
The best music never dies...
Here we have the occasion to see the Dutch comfortably surrounded by their beloved Omafiets, doing what they love the most (after hagelslag): sharing their exceptional music talent with the world. Love from Italy!
Magnifique! Et tout cela assis par terre et avec des flûtes en plastique!
Should be shown in every school
WOW...!! Belíssimo trabalho...! Congrats... from São Paulo, Brazil..!
What other instrument costs $3 and allows you to play music from the Middle Ages to the Barroque... and beyond? One will encounter ensembles in which plastic instruments are frowned upon, even when the musicians themselves are not particularly proficient. These women are an example of the opposite. Congratulations!
You can hear the same performers with good room acoustics, recording means and top quality instruments in their last CD "Concerto Barocco"... Jaw-dropping
Very good. Next time please use the bike spokes for the harp!
So glad you made this video. I cringe every time when I say I play recorder and people say oh no it sounded so terrible when I was in school. Now I can show them this! Fabulous playing!
De même pour moi en Occitanie !
Cordialement
Brilliant - I love this .. so much energy! The music is everything. Bravo!
Simply beautiful...The great Music is always fantastic, even if played with "poor" instruments
a bad dancer is always hindered by something, a good master will play on a stick for 3 €, the girls are super masters, bravo!!
I have listened to this at least 5 times already. Had to push the slider to 00:19, however after the 1st time. I love your group.
BRAVIIII!!!! ...
👏👏👏👏👏
👍👍👍👍👍
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bravo!! I taught recorder to 7 and 8 year-olds for many years, ending in '08 - my own instrument was a plastic or bakelite Dolmetsch made in 1965 and better than the Yamaha or Allos offerings to schools. I understand the challenge faced in making a cheapie sound as good as you did! Mr Havinga, quite a change from the bench of St Bavo!
Another meaning for concrete music.
Why are they're seating on the floor?
Why are they on a bike storage?
Why are they so good musicians?
Why isn't Vivaldi more popular?
So many questions
Q1 and Q2: They are just having a casual go on the school recorders.
Q3: A lot of practice and years of study.
Q4: Maybe cause he's centuries old, so he can't physically promote his work in TV or ads.
So nice. Good instruments never replace good players.
Proof positive that it is the art, not the instrument.
But it's a good instrument
@@Bangy In the hands of those guys I can hear it clearly!, rsrs. Every instrument is good if it turn on the passion for music in someone. I wish I´d still have my very first guitar. A cellist friend of mine told me that some musicians choose to delay indefinitely buying a real good , expensive violin or cello, ´cause they will have no more the excuse of the instrument to blame for a bad performance. O didn´t mean to say bad things about cheap instruments.
@@brunosampaio2399 Skills are Paramount, however recorders aren't 'bad' instruments in any stretch of the imagination.
I had no idea the recorder could sound so beautiful.
This is absolutely beautiful, love the staccato of that keyboard! Cant stop replaying...
AMAZING !!!!! SO GOOD!!! THANKS!
You guys are amazing.
Bello, quello che conta è la passione!
BEAUTIFULLLL!!!!!!!
Cuando hay pasión y talento no hay instrumentos baratos. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Absolute fantastic!
Wow. Just wow 😲
En daar gaat het excuus dat "die fluit niet goed is"! Geniaal gedaan dames.
Ik denk niet dat ze Nederlands spreken
@@TomSistermans Amsterdam.
Nu je het zegt, de namen zijn best wel Nederlands
Please release this as an actual recording on your next CD! This is too good to bypass!
P.S. I love Vivaldi.P.S.2 You're a inspiration.P.S.3 Y'all rock!.
Magnifique !!!
Congratulations, a Real Dream!
Thank you.
And name of the piece, please. It's so beautiful!
Why doesn't this have 60 milion views?!
Pure Joy. Fantastic. Well played. Bravo. Excellent. Wow! Love it!
That's extaordinary
amazing - you guys sound so good even on such cheap instruments - shows how good you all are. I've long harboured the desire to start a band where everyone plays instruments that many people dismiss as awful/children's instruments or just terrible sounding - such as the plastic recorder, the ukulele, and the melodica - our name would be "The Much Maligned" and hopefully we would show the world its error - problem is I'm far too lazy and my friends are too sensible - lol!!
I used to had a similar desire long time ago, but then I realized that I'm deeply in love with sound and that makes me wanna play less when I practice in a cheap instrument. It's not the same to play in a cheap classical guitar than play in a expensive one. I mean, I could play the whole day in a instrument that I love the way it sound, but on cheap instruments I just want the torture to end.
Eduardo Salas - I agree - I wasn't really making that argument - what I mean't was that the world has a negative idea about certain instruments - that they are not 'real' instruments but children's play things. My idea was to be really good - to sound really good - and make the world realise it's error. Perhaps I should not have said 'plastic' recorder - merely the recorder - although some of the top instrument makers use resin - such as Vincent Bernolin - to make very good recorders.
In my opinion, one of the worst things about cheap instruments such as guitars and ukuleles is that they are often difficult to play: they refuse to stay in tune owing to bad quality tuning heads, and have a high, uncomfortable action. When we begin learning to play an instrument, having a decent instrument makes learning a lot easier and the pupil is more likely to carry on playing.
I can't stop listening to this
No wonder you ladies are one of the best recorder ensembles EVER! Congratulations!
GOD BLESS YOU GUYS. THIS IS DOOOOOPE.
heh awesome
Cool!
Suuuuuuuuuper!!
Masters...
This is SO AMAZING! Vivaldi would be proud. Besides, one of my favorites from L'estro armonico.
Excellent playing. Very cool idea. Not sure about promoting less than stellar posture but I dont' want to rain on the parade.
there was a player who promoted "less than stellar postures", what a shame, his name was Frans Bruggen
Agreed. Worst posture ever. Love this video.
Eloy Cortinez - I think the point about bad posture is not whether there are/were good players who have poor posture, but rather that bad posture is a serious health issue. I have looked after the elderly for much of my life and can tell you that many age related conditions can be avoided or at least minimised by paying attention to posture.
Now I have listen to this ten times this day.
so fun 🤩
Vivaldi could sound great on kazoos, but really-this is an excellent job!!
Matthias Havinga! hes going to be a judge in my organ exam in 1 month
How was your exam? I trust that your judge was _Havinga_ stimulating time listening to you.
@@EdiDrums hes my organ professor now!
Absolutely nailed it.
Magnificent!!! Bravissimo!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💐
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏bravo!!!
Deze mooie muziek in een ongebruikelijke ambiance verhoogt het plezier van speler èn luisteraar.
👌
oh thank you so much for this - you guys should do an album immediately!!!!
You will be pleased to find that there are at least 5 recordings available now.
Is it just me who noticed how they all sat differently on the ground? Cross-legged, straight-legged, bent-legged...
Details aside, this is amazing. But I really think it takes a professional to sound (so) good on those cheap instruments. Except the Yamaha. I have those. They sound good even when I play them. That's saying something, believe me.
Cell phones to record, on the top of bear pack
Tenor was regretting wearing a dress that day LOL!
I love this 😍
So beautiful!
I'm interested in this way to enjoy music. Here my town, students learn recorder in the class, but they don't keep training. Because here there isn't no teacher. So I think that I become local music teacher as volonteer stuff.
Che brave/bravo
Bravo! I love the performance on this video, and as a recorder learner I am often hearing wonderful performances on our beloved instrument both live and on RUclips. I wasn't aware of the ShittyFlute site until I stumbled upon this video. I went in in to check it out and I had such a great laugh. I found it really funny! I agree with Artur that there is no need to take it so personally, but to each it's own I guess :-)
You know when you've been shitty-fluted
ruclips.net/channel/UCHMmLi8z1HbyhTEvfBgXpygvideos
Oh My God! Look at those fingers fingering.. you do not even have chairs! Non avete neanche sedie.. che meraviglia ragazzi strumenti di plastica.. e un organo sgangerato.. you do not need thousand dollar instruments to play good music
these people do own proper instruments, check
the other videos
Just good musicians...they are worth much more than
$ 1,000 , though ! They can make anything sound amazing, because their love and enthusiasm transfers to the instrument for that moment in time. It becomes a living extension of the performer ! Being a performer, I can attest to that transformation. It never fails to amaze me!
An alto
Dem Kalifen zur Ehre!
Wonder how it would sound without the bikes:)
Damn. Outstanding!
Love it!
how to arrange this music that make this good?
Excellent! Let everyone who dismisses the recorder as an inferior instrument take a good long listen to this. Nothing wrong with a recorder - plastic or otherwise - if played well. Personally, the floor-sitting posture makes me very uncomfortable, though - I'm sure the plethora of bikes could have doubled as music stands ;-)
Traumhaft
I think that space is doing no favors to the sound. It would be very interesting to hear this in a proper auditorium to get a good comparison. Have Yamaha sponsor it and provide decent student recorders.
Whaoo...this part is playing on reapeat in my brain right now.
If you really think about it, this is just a conversation. Music is so crazy it’s amazing 😩
Somebody can tell me the name of this piece?
Esteban Toledo
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Op. 3, #10, movement 3 (Allegro)
♥
LOVE IT!!!
Name of the piece,please?
Vivaldi, l'estro armonico.
this is the 3rd mov. of concerto n. 10
@@61rmd1 ♥
Uh, it's embedded in the bottom right corner of the video in the first ten seconds?
@@cjimcook u r smart! thumbs 4 u!
YAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!! This. Is. EveryTHING!!!
meravigliosi
Bellissimo!
quiero prender a leer en partituras, yo solo las se sacar las canciones a oido jajaa
👏👏👏👏👏🍀🦋👍🏼🎵❤️🎶(^_-)Excelente!!
Ja sehr schön ! Aber Bitte nehmt diesen Clip runter, jetzt kommen die Eltern so : siehste! Die Plastik Flöte für 10€ ist voll ausreichend habe ich selbst im Internet gesehen..und die Lehrerin meinte ich soll ein Mollenhauer für 40€ kaufen! Bin ich Jeff Bazos oder was? 🤣🤦♂️
Are you sure this is Vivaldi? I have an Archiv CD (400 041-2) that labels it as the third movement of Bach's Concerto for 4 Harpsichords and Strings in A minor (BWV 1065). Just sayin. Otherwise, fun performance and a wicked earworm.
Yes. Bach transcribed BWV 1065 from a Vivaldi's concerto. See here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_concertos_by_Johann_Sebastian_Bach#Concerto_in_A_minor_for_four_harpsichords,_BWV_1065
Whoops! My bad.
Awesomesauce
Sensacional
Faltou sitar o nome da aria de Vivald, isso precisa ser inserido. lindo trabalho.
Concerto Op 3 No 10 (II Allegro)
Great video and great initiative!
What's the name of this piece?
Thanks
Vivaldi Conserto 3 opus 10 Allegro III Its a consert for violins but here they play it on recorders...and I like this much better
Me too!
This is how schools imagine their music/band classes are like, but unfortunately ...
HalleluYAH!!!!!! Exaltado es YAHWEH
Echt super, ihr habt es auf die Spitze getrieben mit »billigen« Schul-Kunststoff-Flöten - super Idee! :)
Aber als B.c. hättet ihr vielleicht besser ein Yamaha-Bike statt dem -Keyboard genommen ;) [ z.B. ruclips.net/video/FH0MZoQHSro/видео.html ] - das Keyboard klingt schon echt gruselig dazu. Das Stück hat ja zwischendurch auch etwas von einem Motorrad-Start (Stichwort »Aufdrehen«). Leider kommt der Tenor kaum mal durch...
So habe ich aber zum erstem Mal etwas von Seldom Sene gehört (ja, ich kannte das Ensemble noch gar nicht im Gegensatz zu Vivaldi und seinem Musikstück) und gleich auf eurer Homepage weiter gestöbert.