I found a "real" Stradivarius violin!!
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2020
- Inside secrets and stories from the violinmaker.
Master Violin Maker Olaf Grawert talks about the Stradivarius violin passed down through the generations, found in the attic or even in an old cupboard or shed.
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Came to youtube to see my favorite luthier talking about violin history, thats awesome :)
That costumer will end up getting a god pillar for his Strad
Totally, and then sell it for 20 million dollars 😄
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker asfkgk. I love your videos. I'm learning a lot through this quarantine. Thanks for the great content and keep up this great art of yours 😌 you should totally consider rating your viewers violins sometime 😂 it would be fun. Good energy from Peru 🇵🇪
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker Wait - the god pillar would then be free? (given current private market asking prices) :)
hopefully it's not a stradicoronavarius violin.
@@normansmithers7631 🤣
Twoset violin: lets go to Olaf and make some fun videos...
Next:
Olaf: let’s go to twoset violin to make some fun videos....
I’d really love to see you go to them and make a fun video...
😊😊😊😊😊
You should visit them with a left handed violin.
@@herr_barus Um... do you mean you use your right hand to hold the violin?
@@will2998 lol
@Hduf Lolly No...just no
@Hduf Lolly get your head out of the gutter
Wait- Olaf has his own channel? How did I not know this??? I was busting up at first during the video, and then taking notes!
Me: *looks inside my grandpa's violin* "Jakobus Stainer 1765"
Wikipedia: "Jacobus Stainer 1619-1683"
Me: ...even dead he kept making violins.
maybe Jakobus is Jacobus younger brother
@Archie Bunker r/whoosh
Febrizki Mawikere no i think you're the one that didn't get the joke
@@febrizkimawikere229 it means it is copied from an authentic jacobus stainer instrument but made after he passed away. In other words they had a genuine Stainer instrument in the shop, took all the measurements carefully, analyzed how it looks etc, maybe even knew the kind of wood and tried to reproduce that design. Some copies made in this way end up being close enough to the original that it doesn't matter which you play. depends who made it and how much practice they had..
@@vmprie He's the one that made the joke, it's hard to not get your own joke without a lobotomy.
This bloke just wanted his Grandad’s Strad valued and instead got a lecture on mass produced copies. Poor guy...
It really does happen all the time... It's hard to be the one telling the client.
I have to say I love the internet! People often find out that there pretty much zero chance that it is real.
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker Olaf is CORRECT , He has had to endure total assholes like myself ...... right Olaf ? I think you do your best ... there is a high greed factor , hero to zero , in a sentence or two . Plaf has had to put up with a lot of crap .. from Joe Public .......... I just make 'em lady ... now f off . Etc.
He should be referred to a hairdresser. That colour!
@@sadhbhdelahunt Purple Haze ?
Hi Olaf , I got a gig with the Kennedy Centre / Clan . I need a violin . And maybe Ray Chen to play my compositions . I have a dear friend in US Military intel , Roman Stange . He asked me to send some of my music to him for his YT channel " San Fransisco school for the Dada " . I got the shock of my life when I saw what you put my music to . In was about a week ago two posts " God is Love " music starts at 2:46 mins and " Look Up.Look Up " . There are about seven works I have done in the last few years in my recording studio . It would be nice to have live strings ? Hope you like the vibes . July 4 this year could be a real doozy . Jay
Btw your pronounciation of german words is really good.
Thank you... it may have something do do with me being German 😄
I always thought you were Scandinavian. 😁 Now I know.
What a shocker :D
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker the perfect reason 😆
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA TRIGGERED
i am disappointed in twoset....they never mention olaf's channel D:
they still mentioned Olaf's Studio: theviolinstudio.com/ in their notes
Or maybe you never watched a certain video about them mentioning Olaf's channel.
yeah me too im gonna complain to twoset
@@summerli7619 Did you even read our comments?!
@@joanniebacus i wrote the comments before I even read your comments and no need to yell please calm down I didn't mean to make you mad
I have two very old violins that were my grandfather's, one of which is a Strad copy (it has a german made label inside) that he'd been working to restore before he died and the second violin is a complete mystery! It's label is hard to make out inside, but it's a truly beautiful piece and has such a beautiful voice. I honestly don't care about value, I care about the fact that it's part of my grandfather's heritage and love of music which he wanted to pass on to his grandchildren 💜
That is beautiful...
It is great to have an old instrument in your family.
It would be worth getting it professionally valued. Occasionally you can be lucky and find a gem. When I was working in a shop in Germany a gentleman bought an old violin for $500... It turned out to be a Vuillaume violin which would now be worth between $350,000 and $700,000
Now I'm curious to know more about the second violin's history!! Please keep us updated!
This is like a way more knowledgeable ‘Pawn Stars’ sale haha. “Best I can do is 4 dollars and a high 5”
Yes... I should comment on Pawn Stars... old violins is just not something they know that much about .... even their "experts" knowledge was surprisingly basic
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker oh yess please make a reaction video to pawn stars and violin or instruments you are knowledgeable about.
TheMusicalKnokcers That would be great haha!!!
@@TheMusicalKnokcers I think I can get $ 70 million US for mine ? LMFAO
... and I'm taking a risk! I already have 7 of them out back as no-one is buying them now... 😊
I play a German workshop violin, no makers label.
My great grandfather brought it to Australia when he migrated from England, passed to my grandmother who was a pianist and violinist. She got married and left that career to have 9 kids. Some of my aunties and uncles remember her and my grandfather playing from time to time, but eventually it ended up in a cupboard. It skipped a generation and passed to me once I started getting serious about my playing. It took a lot of restoration but it's served me well for the last 8 years. I'm now studying music at the same Conservatorium my grandmother studied at, with the same violin.
Just last week I found a tiny initial etched into the back of the scroll. It's no Strad but I'm so grateful to have this instrument and all its history.
Yes, it's definitely special to have an old violin thats been part of your family.
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker These old violins may be somewhat battered and bruised over the years of neglect but when restored and played on virtually all the ones I've seen turned out to be magnificent instruments. Violins age better than wine. It's almost appropriate to say that something ages like a violin.
It's probably a knock off by Nicola Amati. He made loads of them.
thank you! my friend said that her violin is a Strad, but i didn’t believe her, i checked, and it is not a Strad! i showed her this video, then she believed me.. hehe ♥️
I'm glad I could help 🙂
Jascha Heifetz I think your violin was a strad lol
Your friend does not believe the great Heifetz? Sacrilegious.
I love how the video was serious for some time until "but it's definitely genuine!" came out of nowhere. Great stuff as always!
I got a violin as a present and the label said it was a Stradivarius, so I knew it has to be some of these mass produced violins, but it's in good shape, and it was great for me to strat to learn on the violin :)
Thank you for the video! The wig looks really great on you :D
have you ever had it checked out? you might get a nice surprise- you just never know
Lumiere Marianna, that “ strad” is probably a copy of a strad
@@pinnaple6943 or a copy of a strad copy
I believe that my Yamaha electric violin is a genuine Stradivarius
😂
This made me laugh so hard😂😂
😂😂😂😂
I'm embarrassed to say I also mistook my uncle's violin for a Stradivarius. It had a large label declaring it was such. Of course I was dubious, because we weren't rich by any standard. So I asked a violin forum about the possibility that this could be a forgotten treasure, and they all said it was impossible, and to look at the label closely. Sure enough, the label said in tiny letters "Reproduction". :-/
Misread the video, thought you actually found one. Very fun and informative video still, you can tell that customer is hiding something by wearing a wig.
Me: Plays piano
Also me: **subscribes anyways**
This is Pawn Stars in a nutshell. Love the wig. I regret nothing from subscribing to you.
Correction, BETTER than pawn stars
Ling ling approves.
How do you tell a genuine Strad from a copy?
The real one burns with a bright BLUE flame.
...you can do the same test on violas of course. But you have to account for the fact that a viola burns a lot slower...
(SCNR)
"hellew!"
"hello! :D"
my favourite part lol
that skit is beautiful
And here I was hopping that Olaf really did find a Strad! xD
Btw. My Violin Teacher in Germany still gets these people atleast once a month trying to sell a "Strad"
Olaf, thank you for the video...your impression of the disgruntled customer is hilarious!
Great information, as always.
Take care and keep healthy!
Olaf is extending the TwoSet cinematic universe
"I would like you to write an appraisal for $20 million, please."
"Oh, so you'll give me $20 million in payment if I write you an appraisal testifying that your violin is a cheap and low quality East Germany copy of a Stradivarius?"
I have always felt really bad for violin shop owners when they are put in this situation. I have taught music for almost 40 years and I have had to tell a fair number of people that their violin was not priceless.
Price means worth, but priceless don’t mean worthless.
I woman once told me that she had a Strad. The label clearly said "Copie". I told her that it was French for copy and she got really mad.
Hah! Love the hair! Great video, we need more! Have you seen the pathetic strads on pawn stars? Most of them aren't worth their cost in firewood.
Haha, yes... more hair than I have had in a long time 😀
Yes, I often have people coming in with instruments like that. It's never fun to be the bearer of disappointing news.
@@AskOlaftheViolinmaker Yeah, it's sad to tell someone that they aren't going to be a millionaire because an old violin. As a flutist, getting to play actual old instruments is very hard, you mostly only get replicas of the not-so-great instruments because all the good ones were worn down after years of playing. Almost opposite to string instruments!
I'm actually from that region you were mentioning. Kinda cool to hear its name on here.
Olaaaaaafff❤️🥰
My grand- father visited Germany quite often for business. As his business grew he made a lot of friends there. It was one such friend who, on a special occasion, gifted my grand- father a Strad for good luck.
Needless to say it was passed down to my father along with the business he’d built, which, by now, was running very well.
My father kept it in a glass safe in our living room and concentrated on the business, which began thriving.
He just considered it lucky and my brother thought the same , however I grew up knowing how worthy it was.
Not being one for hard work, ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to sell it and enjoy the luxuries of life.
So it is no surprise that last week, when my father asked us how the business should be divided, I laid out my plan before him. My bother was to inherit the business and I would be the owner of the Strad.
We signed the papers yesterday.
And here I am, right now, holding my Strad, my shortcut to success ... as I stumble upon this Video.
The date on my Strad.. 1760.
lmao
I inherited a Guarneri copy from my grandma's cousin when he passed away. When I first read the label, I got very excited, but with a google search, it didn't take very long at all to learn what it really was.
Nice...
Yes, as a violinmaker I love Google! It means I don't have to be the one to deliver the bad news. 🙂
@@AskOlaftheViolinmakerI like when patients find out the have cancer so I don’t have to tell them. Partly because Google told them, and partly because they don’t actually have cancer 😂
Saw this in my recommendation and thought what another sacrilegious boi there? Click and see it’s Olaf lmao. subscribed!
I have a lovely violin with two labels inside, one says Nicolaus Amatus fecit et Cremona 1643 the other says Peterson and Steenstrup 1905. Obviously it's an Amati copy sold by a Danish harmonium retailer (I looked them up on the internet) in 1905. It has a lovely one piece quilted maple back and all high quality woods throughout. It was probably made in Germany in the period you are talking about. It's somehow found it's way to the UK via Scotland, I believe. I play it every day and often wonder what it's been through and who made all the little dings and scratches on it throughout its 115 years. I'm very careful with it but still managed to add a few minor varnish dinks myself, so thats part of it's history now.
Thanks for a very interesting and informative video, I've subscibed and look forward to many more.
I also have another "Nicolaus Amatus" violin, but it says 1647 instead. It once belonged to my grandfather, and I truly wonder about the real history and origin of the violin.
very funny video and also nice history lesson, super interesting! thanks for sharing
A love my 1900s German violin! I'm a beginner, and it sounds a 100 times better than my first Chinese violin and was affordable.
That's wonderful to hear. It's so important to play an instrument you love.
I have seen very lousy Chinese violins. However my 2600 dollars Chinese violin of seven years have been wonderful. I also have a 32000 dollar Italian. The two violin sounds different, yet I love them both and play both alternately
Sounds gEnuAyInE!
Did you know that in the Middle East we change violin tune? G, D, G, D
That tune make arabic song easy to play
Yes,
I have met some amazing Persian violinists ... such beautiful music!
😂🤣
I don't even play violin but this channel is so wholesome I'll think I'll stick around :)
YES OLAF coming thru with the funny and educational videos on the history of violin making!!
Hahahahaha!!! 😂 Thanks for the information Olaf we love you so much! 😍❤️❤️❤️
This was so lovely to watch ♥ Thank you Olaf
Oh Olaf... hahaha, I think there’s good reason he and Twoset get along as well as they do.
Humour and all, I especially enjoy Twoset videos where Olaf swoops in with Luthier wisdom. I’ve helped repair my own cellos and other violins, and even started my own copy of Guarneri del Gesu “Plowden” 1735 violin, as an apprentice 😃
Theres a stradivarius label on my school bass 🤦♀️
yeah schools use copies of Stradivarius. they are pretty good instruments for students. I took one semester of strings at UCF in orlando fl way back in my college years. thats what they used for string class. just because its says Stradivarius or a copy of like in the video they were a lot of bad instruments made.
I really enjoy these classical musicians and violin makers... especially their wigs :)
I am so glad to discover this. Thanks Olaf!
Clever and informative video.
Sidebar: I had a friend who owned a one man aircraft radio repair business. One day he asked his grandmother if she could actually play the piano he had always seen in her home. To his surprise she sat down and played classical pieces. She later gave him a photo with news clipping showing her as a little girl at the piano dressed like 1:44. The clipping said that this "Child prodigy" was touring the country and listed music compositions she would be playing. She was living in the hills above Hollywood and had been married to someone important with the early movie studios. "Trap" or "Tap" comes to mind. I remember him say something like that to someone who was surprised at the name.
I love this Olaf!
Ayyyy glad to see your youtube channel, loving how knowledgeable you are and how effortlessly you deliver that info ❤️
Yes Olaf, serve us the delicious historical facts! History nerd appreciates! :)
Olaf!! I didn’t know you had a RUclips channel too! Glad this popped up in my recommended. 😁
Thank you for the video! It was entertaining and I learned something knew about violin.
I play a turn of the century Mittenwald. My teacher found it for me at a little shop where it was on consignment. It was filled with dust bunnies and my luthier made some repairs on it. It is pleasure just to hold, I don't know if it's the wood or the worn varnish (not the plastic feel you get from high gloss varnish). The construction and tone is wonderful.
I just bought a Mittenwald violin about middle of March! Supposedly was made around 1850. It is really cool to own something that old and I really love how it sounds! Thanks for the video Olaf!
This is one of reasons I've chosen to own a violin by a living Luthier. I know it is authentic, the maker has verified that, it makes a sweet and resonant sound that I appreciate, and I don't have to live in fear of it being stolen of broken.
Thanks for the history lesson!
I didn't know you have a channel! Love this!
Fantastic video. You explained a common asked question very well.
That was an entertaining lecture! The old ads from Australian newspapers were an amazing find. Thank you for bringing them to our attention.
Thank you for the feedback...
I found some great stories and ads in old Newspapers... the National Library of Australia has done a wonderful job archiving them.
I’ve seen you in TwoSet’s videos, but I didn’t know you had a channel, Olaf! This was both educational and entertaining, I enjoyed it. You got yourself a new subscriber :D
How have I been a fan of twoset for so long and never knew Olaf had his own channel?!
I really like your genuine humor :)
I have a violin, and one of the parts of it is a German Strad copy from 1850-1890. (Long story short, it was a violin pieced together from parts from at least 2 separate violins) Even though it is not a genuine strad, it has a beautiful mellow, rich, yet clear tone color and I love it. The thing about it is, the original luthier who made at least the top half made some mistakes, so the bottom had to be warped to fit the awkward shape (it was slightly A-symmetrical) and the bottom half has some really tight wood grain. It is technically not worth much, but it means the world to me, as my grandfather's family was from Germany, and his violin got destroyed, so having a violin from Germany, pieced together like a repaired violin, it makes it special.
Wow... beautiful story...
I have a 1783 stradivarius that was handed down to me, I know it's not ones worth millions, but sentimentality its priceless, I'd love to learn how to play it one day
I have a violin passed down to me just like that one! My great grandparents thought they had the real thing and kept it hidden in a closet. It then went to my grandmother, then to my aunt and then to me. I took it to my local lutheir, thinking that it was a forgery (I know how closely they track the real ones), but he told me that it was merely a copy in the style of a Stradivarius. Mine has cracks and the fingerboard actually has divits from heavy playing. I asked what it would take to restore it and he told me that it would cost about $300 to restore and it might then be worth about $100. I cleaned it up and it sits on my bookshelf as an ornament. :-)
I saw this video and just had to watch it and I laughed out loud when I saw that the label is EXACTLY the same as mine. I backed up the video and then used a magnifying lens on mine to be sure. Thank you so much for making this video!
Imagine walking up to the workshop and seeing Olaf talking to himself XD
I have had the same experience so many times in our shop 😂 usually it’s people that don’t actually know anything about instruments and they just looked up the label online and got too excited. I actually really love so many old German instruments. Even the not so nice ones I will just graduate since they were made super thick and then strip the old varnish and put on a better one if necessary. They pretty much always end up sounding really good and sell really easily.
so informative yet funny to watch, thanks olaf
Awesome seeing the fiddlers too, I’m a huge fan of Marcus Martin’s playing he was from NC. And he played some fabs Old Time Fiddle, he wrote one tune I love ❤called Jenny Ran Away in the Mud in the Night.
I've got a genuine Stradivarius trumpet from when the great master worked out of a quaint, little shop in the American state of Indiana. It is truly a miracle of the woodworking craft. You can't even see the grain, it is so fine! And what tone woods ring with such metallic clarity as these Stradivarius-es? I know it is real because the Master stamped his signature right on the bell! I love the work of Mr. Stradivarius! I only wonder why he never included spit valves on his violins…
good video olaf, keep up the good work
I love the casual history drop😂 great context to bring light to this era! Thanks!
I love this guy! I didn't know he had a RUclips channel.
I love these videos man!
I came to laugh but did not expect to learn too. This deserve a like.
i appreciate your craft olaf ! very informative and entertaining video
Great video!!!
Just received my great grandfather's violin that is a Hermann Giepel "Earl" copy from 1900s. Its still in good shape and mean I get to learn a new instrument.
This happened to our family...great grandfather played the living daylights out of this particular violin...my father wanted to trash it, as he was going thru everything. After seeing the Strad label, we figured it was a fake but wanted to make sure. Obviously, a real Strad needs to get into the hands of an accomplished player. Our find was valued at $400 and we chose to get it repaired...boy does it sound nice, so loud and haunting. Being a life long musician and the father to a young "aspiring" violinist, this violin is priceless...well, maybe I'd sale for $2 mil...
Fascinating... Violin were the Walkmans of those days
You must know how to play the violin? I've been curious and wanted to see/hear you play for some time now!
I do, but I'm nowhere near as good as Brett and Eddie...
No 40 hours for me 😀
I'm better at violin making. I do love improvisation.
Nice
My favorite Olaf
olaf we love you!! 😂😂😂❤
Tnx for the history lesson Olaf 😘
Funny, educational, perfect!
I love this
You should do a video explaining how to tell the difference between a good violin and a cheap one, or a very old one
LOL! I bet you get this aaaall the time! Thanks for the history lesson! I didn't know most of the stuff you covered. I have a half way decent cheap violin that I use because I play for me. I would definitely have to upgrade to perform, but its not so cheap that it has a flat bridge! What an interesting experiment! The videos you did with 2set were so much fun! Glad you popped up on my feed today! Looking forward to more!
Nice video, you have a knack for it, keep it up!
LOVE your characters LOL
I've seen you on two set but I didn't know you had your own channel! Need more of this quality content
Great video, Olaf; I'm so glad I found your channel! I see you and Eddy get your wigs at the same shop.
This is brilliant
You are the Bob Ross of Violins
I learned a lot today.
Heyy great video Olaf. 👍👍
A very well done and useful video Olaf! I will be treating my heirloom violin somewhat better from now on! It was made in Grass Valley, California in 1916 by a great-great uncle of mine.
His pronunciation of the German places are incredibly well! (I’m from Germany)
Wait Olaf has his own channel?? That is so cool! Why hasn‘t anybody told me? 😂. Liebe Grüße aus dem Ruhrgebiet 😁👍🏻