I'm not a violin player but I watch Olaf so often...haha I"m tempted to go learn violin, just so I have a reason to bring my violin in to see him..hahahahah But thank you for sharing and the time you take to film and educate the internet world about violin making!
It may be a matter of unintentional manifesting. "At least Olaf is right nearby when something goes wrong with the violins". Those kinds of thoughts may seem reassuring, but you might want to correct yourself when it comes to you.
My bow broke in dress rehearsal a couple seasons ago and our local luthier just happened to be playing in the symphony that season. He took it home with him and brought it back the next day to the concert for me. Thank goodness! I have backups, but they're not my best concert bow.
Here I am eagerly waiting for the next video, to learn what I should do if something happens to my non existing violin 😂 I don't know why it's so interesting to learn about these things, but it is 😁
How fortuitous they were playing in Brisbane (of all places) and not somewhere in America! Glad you saved the day/night, Olaf. Bet Eddy was stressing out with this one!! I missed their first UK concert (London) thanks to having surgery on a fractured wrist on the day but they're coming back to the UK so now have a ticket for Manchester instead! Yay.
I was at the Brisbane concert ❤ the drama before the concert was *chefs kiss* The night was spectacular and Brett, Eddie and their pianist Sophie gave an amazing performance. Thank you Olaf for your expertise on the night! Nothing beats a happy ending!
Not a string player, played baritone horn and in a marching band half time show at an American football game, my second and third valves froze! Yes, it was that cold with the wind chill! Got the second valve free by go time but the third valve didn't free up till the second number! Luckily there are alternate fingerings for many notes and the others, well the band was short one horn.
You all have provided an open view into the workings of the musical world. From all the instruments that pass through your hands Olaf , to Two Set and their exposure into other professional instruments of all sorts. Collectively you all have made music more open to see and to feel at home with. I think that’s as good as I can describe it. Thankyou to you all…. 🤓 J
Having people you can rely on (especially in an emergency like that) is paramount. Kudos to you for being one of those people. Thanks for the vid. Big fan.
As a stage manager/technician I've dispatched various string players to the local luthier here in Birmingham (UK) mere hours before a concert or show, usually with bridge or soundpost issues, but also had a loose fingerboard and one with an odd buzz. Only once have they needed a backup instrument.
That was my first concern upon viewing this video, that you would not have enough glue up clamping time by the time of the concert. I think the trick was the heat gun assist. saved your butt on that one Olaf.!. that and good glue! and having it warmed up and ready to go when they arrived helped also. I would presume. great video loved it. thanks for sharing. ECF.
Eddie must have freaked out! LOL and had the jitters. But those guys had to have had a backup instrument just in case. But Olaf the Violin ER Doctor stepped up and got the patient fixed in a jiffy. The show must go on Yay!
Can't imagine the pressure guys were on. And the timing...Not much time for glue to usually dry up either, i guess the heat helped to reduce moisture in the glue so it solidified quicker, but still... Well this is why you are professional. Great job 👍
This is very cool and glad to see you’re still helping out “the boys”! I am a bowyer making Native American equipment. I have made my own hide glue from scratch. It is a remarkable and VERY useful substance!👍
Last year, I was on tour with the Jimmy Kelly Band (as a video filmer!), when suddenly Jimmys guitar quit working on stage, in the middle the show. So he grabbed the guitar of the other guitarplayer of this band, and I instantly took the guitar for an emergency check. Luckily we had a very professional monitor guy, who instantly prepared a DI-box for doing a quick check and localizing the problem (which was a broken endpin-jack). As the build-in pickup was a LR Baggs, that uses (as I knew) a small 3,5mm plug at the pickup, I run to the tour-bus, heated up my battery powered soldering iron and built an adapter cable that plugged straight into the pickup. Then, the monitor guy and I attatched this construction to the instrument temporary, using Gaffa tape - and after not even two songs, the instrument was back on stage, performing perfectly. Of course, the next day, before the show, I went to a local music shop, bought the needed spare parts and did a proper repair of this guitar.
Hello Olaf, I have been watching quite a few of your videos and really enjoying them. Do you think a video on varnish would be something you might make in the future? I’d love an overview on the process you do for matching existing varnish on instruments and what your polishing process is. I really liked your recent video on instrument levels/values/repair worthiness as it pertained to my day-to-day as a luthier for a music store. Thanks for all you post/make!
3:20 "pop!" Yes. I think for once we have a genuine reaction to a startling thing. I think there are many violinists who don't know *all that much* about how their instrument works/functions. It's essentially a box *made* to project sound ... and so anything that happens to it physically is "naturally amplified". Sometimes bridges are at such a large angle that they eventually get pushed suddenly to the belly of the violin and then fly off somewhere. It sounds like a cartoon gun-shot when it happens but in most cases the violin is actually perfectly alright. Literally: perfectly alright! In the bridge scenario - it's just that one small bit of tonewood hit a musical box made of tonewood and so it created a much louder sound than wanted. Many (younger) violinists think that their violin has snapped or split or broken, but really none of these things has happened and the violin will be perfectly playable in no time (and more than 95% of the time won't need any follow-up repairs). Perhaps just a bit of touch-up varnish if the bridge made a dent in the belly.... but that's just part of a violin ageing anyway. All those Strads, 300 odd years later, of course there will be many many many marks on the belly and perhaps one of those dents is caused by a bridge flying off! We won't quite know.....
Thank you again for the varies and extremely interesting backgrounds of your work area while you’re explaining everything! And of course, great job helping out twoset!!
What a close shave! 😮I was thinking, maybe it could be good to make up some clamps with chinrest hardware so it can stay on, but for something like that it wouldn't be good. Oh the fingerboard coming off would not be a good one either. I've had one player use cellotape to get through 'their gig'. I remember (a couple of decades ago) prior to our local orchestral concert when the double bassist was lifting his d'bass out of his little hatchback (why do bassists drive little cars?) & with the body mostly out it slipped & fell a very short distance catching the neck/scroll on the back of the car & sadly the neck broke out (mostly because of the previous dodgy repair). He didn't get to play that concert! That was no easy fix, needing a grafted backbutton etc as it wasn't done the first time it happened (just glue & paint to cover up).
gods, being a choral singer, i can imagine the stress. performing on stage, there's sooo many things that can go wrong. the worst is when it's concerning the main star of the show - the instrument itself.😂
Suppose there was even less time. Would he have been able to play just with the clamps in place closing the gap or would it interfere with the vibration of the plates? Apart from the obvious weight and balance being off, of course.
One is expensive enough as it is. Violins aren’t “take two, they’re small”. Only one person in my band has a backup instrument, and she doesn’t bring it to shows.
@annagreets I don't think it's only about money. It takes months to adjust to a new violin. If you practiced for hundreds of hours on an instrument and have to switch suddenly to another just before a concert, chances are that your performance will be sub-par compared to how you usually play. Even the best soloists who own several violins usually choose a specific one to prepare for a concert.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Yes, but if you didn’t manage to get your violin repaired at once, you’ll end up with a hastily rented or borrowed one you’re not prepared to play at all and your performance will be even more sub-par.
Is that still his violin he commissioned in Europe? Those weren't crazy expensive for a title performing artist. Perhaps they should both order spares to the same specifications for reasonable consistency?
I wonder if you correct the spelling of Eddy's name (you spelled: Eddies) in your title if more people will find your video? Thank you for using your amazing expertise to save the day!
Every musician needs to Know A Guy. I play the melodeon (a kind of English button accordion) and I had a dreaded buzzing sound meaning some of my valves were loose and My Guy That I Go To fixed that right up. Just… find out from players near you who your local Person In Shed is that fixes that instrument. Never know when you’ll need them.
@@auricia201 Yeah, they gave them back after the concert in November, a little bit over a year ago, so you were not that far off. Don't worry, despite the fact that's it's already February, I think a lot of us still struggle with the idea that we're in 2024... 😄
These higher end wooden instruments are fragile, capricious and high-maintenance. Luckily, for beginners/amateurs there are carbon fiber and composite violins you can take where violin makers can't be found and crack nuts with them.
Hahaha... I know! It's like it has no soul! Everyone is doing it at the moment. It was just what TwoSet had posted and I needed it to tell the full story.
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If you can fix it slowly, you can fix it quickly. Great job, Mr. Grawert!
Talking about arpeggios practice 😂😂
Talking about arpeggios practice 😂😂
And this time, the meme literally makes sense 😄
His violin is gorgeous. What a heart-breaker.
*Heroic* violin repair!
Luckily they were in Brisbane when this happened, on 'home turf' with the legendary Olaf to save the day.
3 hours to dry hide glue? You're a madman and it's fantastic.
The show must go on!
Oh how I miss TwoSet... Olaf, you are one of the people they introduced me to. Glad they did =)
As a violinist when Olaf showed him opening the violin up I had to turn away 😭
I'm not a violin player but I watch Olaf so often...haha I"m tempted to go learn violin, just so I have a reason to bring my violin in to see him..hahahahah But thank you for sharing and the time you take to film and educate the internet world about violin making!
Queen Sophie being so unbothered on her phone on the floor lol😂
Oui, oui!
Yeah, I noticed that 🤣
i cant believe eddy watched the surgery😭
You were like an on call doctor. Impressive how you were able to fix it for their concert. Thanks for sharing
More like an on call surgeon! 😅
Out of all the concerts of the whole world tour, it happened five minutes from Olaf!! Haha, does that qualify as a miracle?? :D
It may be a matter of unintentional manifesting. "At least Olaf is right nearby when something goes wrong with the violins". Those kinds of thoughts may seem reassuring, but you might want to correct yourself when it comes to you.
I know! Very fortuitous! ❤️
Ooooh lucky for Brett and Eddy!! At least they had a luthier friend nearby ❤
Glad you are there for them Olaf!! Eddy's violin sounds great in Singapore on both days! Thanks for everything!!
You went twice!!! I'm so fortunate they're coming back to the UK so will get to see/hear them this time!
Golly, and what are the chances this happened in Brisbane, of all places! Not DC, not Helsinki...! Good thing you were there for him:)
I just commented the same thing.... And only 10 minutes away too.
Good thing you were close. I guess the old adage is true: "Location, location, location."
My bow broke in dress rehearsal a couple seasons ago and our local luthier just happened to be playing in the symphony that season. He took it home with him and brought it back the next day to the concert for me. Thank goodness! I have backups, but they're not my best concert bow.
Here I am eagerly waiting for the next video, to learn what I should do if something happens to my non existing violin 😂
I don't know why it's so interesting to learn about these things, but it is 😁
Not all heroes wear capes! Bravo Olaf!
How fortuitous they were playing in Brisbane (of all places) and not somewhere in America! Glad you saved the day/night, Olaf. Bet Eddy was stressing out with this one!! I missed their first UK concert (London) thanks to having surgery on a fractured wrist on the day but they're coming back to the UK so now have a ticket for Manchester instead! Yay.
I watched the Two Set video about this first and was wondering "Why not take it to Olaf, the magician?" And voilá. 😅
I was at the Brisbane concert ❤ the drama before the concert was *chefs kiss* The night was spectacular and Brett, Eddie and their pianist Sophie gave an amazing performance. Thank you Olaf for your expertise on the night! Nothing beats a happy ending!
You basically saved their concert!
From the twoset community: thank you olaf for coming to the rescue!
Well done sir, that was an excellent story of how your skill and services might suddenly be required. Like a surgeon!
Not a string player, played baritone horn and in a marching band half time show at an American football game, my second and third valves froze! Yes, it was that cold with the wind chill! Got the second valve free by go time but the third valve didn't free up till the second number! Luckily there are alternate fingerings for many notes and the others, well the band was short one horn.
Olaf the violin superhero!!! ❤🎉 Love it, well done 😊😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Olaf coming in clutch once again! 👍👍
I was wondering if there would be an Olaf video on this... I was betting they bought it to you!
And I was freaking out when my E-String snapped for the first time last month 😂 Glad you could help Eddy so quickly!
You all have provided an open view into the workings of the musical world. From all the instruments that pass through your hands Olaf , to Two Set and their exposure into other professional instruments of all sorts.
Collectively you all have made music more open to see and to feel at home with. I think that’s as good as I can describe it. Thankyou to you all…. 🤓 J
Love when two channels I watch cross-over. Awesome guys!
You are absolutely amazing luthier! And I really want to hear TwoSet live :)
You are a violinist Hero.
Having people you can rely on (especially in an emergency like that) is paramount. Kudos to you for being one of those people. Thanks for the vid. Big fan.
I'm so glad you were there for the boys!
Funny you are talking about an emergency operation in a room with at least 25 excellent violins on the shelf! Haha!!
As a stage manager/technician I've dispatched various string players to the local luthier here in Birmingham (UK) mere hours before a concert or show, usually with bridge or soundpost issues, but also had a loose fingerboard and one with an odd buzz. Only once have they needed a backup instrument.
That was my first concern upon viewing this video, that you would not have enough glue up clamping time by the time of the concert. I think the trick was the heat gun assist. saved your butt on that one Olaf.!. that and good glue! and having it warmed up and ready to go when they arrived helped also. I would presume. great video loved it. thanks for sharing. ECF.
Thank u Olaf❤❤❤
Congrats to Eddy, my bridge snapped in half today and I cried for thirty minutes 😭
Eddie must have freaked out! LOL and had the jitters. But those guys had to have had a backup instrument just in case. But Olaf the Violin ER Doctor stepped up and got the patient fixed in a jiffy. The show must go on Yay!
Good thing they where in Brisbane!
I’m so sad I missed this concert
Good job Olaf you saved the day 👍
So glad you were able to help them!
Can't imagine the pressure guys were on. And the timing...Not much time for glue to usually dry up either, i guess the heat helped to reduce moisture in the glue so it solidified quicker, but still...
Well this is why you are professional. Great job 👍
Great for your business that u saved the show!for them
This is very cool and glad to see you’re still helping out “the boys”! I am a bowyer making Native American equipment. I have made my own hide glue from scratch. It is a remarkable and VERY useful substance!👍
Last year, I was on tour with the Jimmy Kelly Band (as a video filmer!), when suddenly Jimmys guitar quit working on stage, in the middle the show.
So he grabbed the guitar of the other guitarplayer of this band, and I instantly took the guitar for an emergency check. Luckily we had a very professional monitor guy, who instantly prepared a DI-box for doing a quick check and localizing the problem (which was a broken endpin-jack). As the build-in pickup was a LR Baggs, that uses (as I knew) a small 3,5mm plug at the pickup, I run to the tour-bus, heated up my battery powered soldering iron and built an adapter cable that plugged straight into the pickup. Then, the monitor guy and I attatched this construction to the instrument temporary, using Gaffa tape - and after not even two songs, the instrument was back on stage, performing perfectly.
Of course, the next day, before the show, I went to a local music shop, bought the needed spare parts and did a proper repair of this guitar.
Hello Olaf, I have been watching quite a few of your videos and really enjoying them. Do you think a video on varnish would be something you might make in the future? I’d love an overview on the process you do for matching existing varnish on instruments and what your polishing process is. I really liked your recent video on instrument levels/values/repair worthiness as it pertained to my day-to-day as a luthier for a music store. Thanks for all you post/make!
It was a great show. I was in an upper side box with a great view, loved it.
I'm so glad they had you to rely on!
3:20 "pop!"
Yes. I think for once we have a genuine reaction to a startling thing. I think there are many violinists who don't know *all that much* about how their instrument works/functions. It's essentially a box *made* to project sound ... and so anything that happens to it physically is "naturally amplified". Sometimes bridges are at such a large angle that they eventually get pushed suddenly to the belly of the violin and then fly off somewhere. It sounds like a cartoon gun-shot when it happens but in most cases the violin is actually perfectly alright. Literally: perfectly alright!
In the bridge scenario - it's just that one small bit of tonewood hit a musical box made of tonewood and so it created a much louder sound than wanted. Many (younger) violinists think that their violin has snapped or split or broken, but really none of these things has happened and the violin will be perfectly playable in no time (and more than 95% of the time won't need any follow-up repairs). Perhaps just a bit of touch-up varnish if the bridge made a dent in the belly.... but that's just part of a violin ageing anyway. All those Strads, 300 odd years later, of course there will be many many many marks on the belly and perhaps one of those dents is caused by a bridge flying off! We won't quite know.....
Great job! You saved the day!
What an amazing story. We went to the Philadelphia show. Great show.
I had a mandolin emergency at my last gig. Apparently I was playing in tune ;-)
Congrats! Great work!
Always bring at least two instruments to the gig!
I just love you. Mad skills and courage!
Thank you again for the varies and extremely interesting backgrounds of your work area while you’re explaining everything! And of course, great job helping out twoset!!
Incredible! You're a Legend 🤗
Good job Olaf!
Sounds like a great premise for "Olaf, The Video Game."
What a close shave! 😮I was thinking, maybe it could be good to make up some clamps with chinrest hardware so it can stay on, but for something like that it wouldn't be good. Oh the fingerboard coming off would not be a good one either. I've had one player use cellotape to get through 'their gig'.
I remember (a couple of decades ago) prior to our local orchestral concert when the double bassist was lifting his d'bass out of his little hatchback (why do bassists drive little cars?) & with the body mostly out it slipped & fell a very short distance catching the neck/scroll on the back of the car & sadly the neck broke out (mostly because of the previous dodgy repair). He didn't get to play that concert!
That was no easy fix, needing a grafted backbutton etc as it wasn't done the first time it happened (just glue & paint to cover up).
Great it worked out! 😄
gods, being a choral singer, i can imagine the stress. performing on stage, there's sooo many things that can go wrong. the worst is when it's concerning the main star of the show - the instrument itself.😂
Great job Olaf!!!
I would have used a little bit of CA glue to guarantee it would be closed up solid. Then, the next day, if possible, fix it the right way.
That would have caused irreversible damage to Eddie's violin...
Watch my glue video and you'll understand.
Danggg Eddy never fail to amaze me 😅
Bravo!
I had to have the seams near the tail piece reglued on my stainer last month. Took my guy a month, wish it only took a few hours lol.
You are so cool!
Was a great concert!!!!!!
Took the guys some mental toughness and confidence in Olaf to perform well after this.
Suppose there was even less time. Would he have been able to play just with the clamps in place closing the gap or would it interfere with the vibration of the plates? Apart from the obvious weight and balance being off, of course.
WOOWWW YAYAYAYAY i needed a video:)
Hi, a good reason on why one should own more than one violin?
One is expensive enough as it is. Violins aren’t “take two, they’re small”. Only one person in my band has a backup instrument, and she doesn’t bring it to shows.
@@nickiemcnichols5397
These two can afford a backup instrument.
@annagreets I don't think it's only about money. It takes months to adjust to a new violin. If you practiced for hundreds of hours on an instrument and have to switch suddenly to another just before a concert, chances are that your performance will be sub-par compared to how you usually play. Even the best soloists who own several violins usually choose a specific one to prepare for a concert.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia
Yes, but if you didn’t manage to get your violin repaired at once, you’ll end up with a hastily rented or borrowed one you’re not prepared to play at all and your performance will be even more sub-par.
The pins of that violin, what material is it??? Is it a boj???
Is that still his violin he commissioned in Europe? Those weren't crazy expensive for a title performing artist. Perhaps they should both order spares to the same specifications for reasonable consistency?
I wonder if you correct the spelling of Eddy's name (you spelled: Eddies) in your title if more people will find your video? Thank you for using your amazing expertise to save the day!
Oopsies...
Thanks for letting me know!
Super Olaf to the rescue!
weird, i don't see a cape
Ill fix bring Hammer, glad it worked
Every musician needs to Know A Guy. I play the melodeon (a kind of English button accordion) and I had a dreaded buzzing sound meaning some of my valves were loose and My Guy That I Go To fixed that right up. Just… find out from players near you who your local Person In Shed is that fixes that instrument. Never know when you’ll need them.
3:22 help ☠
Seems the climate is quite humid there.
How do you tip a luthier who already has a ticket to your concert?
Olaf to the rescue! Cue William Tell theme.
Overture, 4th movement.
When you just don't have a couple of spare Strads to choose from.
Maybe next year.
Note to self always have more the one instrument 😂
( I have 20 ish)
Eddy watching his baeee 😭
Imagine living in a place where there's no luthier.
Was it the Strad?
They don't have the Strads any more, I think, they got them for last year's 4M concert
Kurt Widenhouse
@auricia201 It wasn't last year, it was in 2022. Yep, I know, time flies!
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia I mean sure 🙈 but it hasn't even been one and a half years, so I'm not that wrong
@@auricia201 Yeah, they gave them back after the concert in November, a little bit over a year ago, so you were not that far off.
Don't worry, despite the fact that's it's already February, I think a lot of us still struggle with the idea that we're in 2024... 😄
what violin's are these guys playing now? the video of "cup of coffee" being opened up, that violin wasn't graduated right with a badly made bass bar.
They both have been playing a Widenhouse for 3 years now. (Except when they got loaned Stradivari, but it was only for a few months in 2022.)
💗 🎉
Sign in the mechanic's shop:
MY FLAT RATE: $50 PER HOUR
IF YOU WATCH: $75 PER HOUR
IF YOU "HELP": $100 PER HOUR
Ductape ;)
These higher end wooden instruments are fragile, capricious and high-maintenance. Luckily, for beginners/amateurs there are carbon fiber and composite violins you can take where violin makers can't be found and crack nuts with them.
Peepo
Ditch the AI voice. It’s like listening to an out of tune violin 🙉
Hahaha... I know!
It's like it has no soul!
Everyone is doing it at the moment. It was just what TwoSet had posted and I needed it to tell the full story.