So you're still to get a Bari Sax, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor Horn, Flugelhorn, Contrabassoon, Cor Anglais, Timps and Harmonica then I see lol!
@@InstrumentManiac As much as I like euphonium, you probably don’t need one. Though there is a bunch of used stuff online that might serve well, even if it’s not a modern style of euphonium. Conn 20-I is a good example.
@@InstrumentManiac I’m going to tell you what you need in the brass family, kid. Tuba (BBb or CC, NO F or Eb tubas) Two-Bell Euphonium, Cimbasso, Bass Trombone, and the Contrabass Trombone. Those are the ESSENTIALS of the brass family. And then get yourself an oxygen tank… trust me when I say you will need it.
Awesome collection and this has to be the best one yet better than the rest!. Compared to your instruments and their brands, here are some of mine! C Flute: Jupiter Soprano recorder: Yamaha Oboe: Yamaha Bb Flat soprano Clarinet: buffet crampon Bb12 Bass clarinet: selmer bundy Bassoon: selmer bundy (Wood) Alto saxophone: Yamaha Tenor saxophone: Yamaha French horn: Yamaha Trumpet: Yamaha Cornet: Yamaha Straight horn tenor Trombone: Yamaha Tenor Trombone witch F attachment: Accent Plastic trombone: (colored blue) Euphonium: Yamaha Tuba: Yamaha Percussion kit: pearl That’s all my instruments I could list in terms of brands!. I hope you liked it.
I'm retired now, but you lived my childhood dream of getting and playing so many instruments. However, in my teenage years through to my twenties, I had dreams of getting a good grand piano because I grew up with such a junky upright, on which I taught myself to play, since my parents did not have a lot of money and would not pay for lessons. Now in old age I have a Roland digital piano I love, because it stays in tune. Back to instruments...my best eBay find from a few years ago is a $53 Bundy (by Selmer, not the Chinese one!) nickel flute from about 1982 that is like new, because the owner started in the 5th grade, didn't practice much and within a year quit. Something was terribly wrong with the headjoint, but I had other headjoints that fit. Anyway, the Bundy flute is a work of art among less expensive student model flutes of that era (1970 to 1980s) because of the quality of craftsmanship, and durability/design of the mechanism. A student of Jeanne Baxtresser, former principal flutist with the NY Phil, told me that Jeanne used to get her Bundy (which she started on) out for her students and play it, and it was indistinguishable from her Haynes w/Lafin headjoint. (She used Cooper before Lafin.) Now that I have my own Bundy, I can say the mechanism is slightly clunkier or noisier than a good professional flute, but it works very well, and makes my Gemeinhardt (my first flute) feel like junk. I have a good flute also, the one I eventually bought after I sold my Haynes to my teacher, the principal flutist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. So, it played on without me. Bundy flutes were also made back into the 40 or 50s I think, when one of the Haynes brothers designed the embouchure hole for Bundy, which looks kind of squarish like a Powell, compared to the oval of the Gemeinhardt. If you're looking to buy a Bundy though, get one of the models from the 70s or 80s. I don't like the quirky old model with the sharp-edge tone holes. When I was young, and switched from clarinet, I got serious about flute at one point and headed to Europe to study. I wanted to enter the Geneva Wind Competition in the early 1970s. An American named Paula Robison won on flute in 1966, and it launched her solo career. She was on TV all the time, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER. I thought if I could win or place high, I might get a position teaching at a small college, and be able to forego auditioning for orchestras or going for a PhD. In my nightmares about orchestral auditions, I'd always make some mistake in Volière or Classical Symphony (the two excerpts they're going to ask at any professional orchestra audition), and the judges would be shouting NEXT, and I wouldn't even make the finals. I got over all that pressure by switching careers while I was in Europe. That fixed things. I never auditioned for any professional orchestra. However, several years later I was invited by an old composer friend to debut his flute concerto in NYC. So I brought my flute out of the closet for a while. Anyway, whether you're an aspiring flutist with little money, or someone looking to buy their first flute cheap, a Bundy by Selmer that has been restored or is in lightly used condition is a good choice for the body of the flute, although be aware you will need to get a new headjoint cork for it, if it hasn't been recently redone. Sometimes a flute headjoint cork can shrink and gap in as little as a few years, and then the flute will sound bad, like the low notes will just disappear. But once you've got that decent flute body, pads all closing properly and in good condition, the next thing you'll need if you love the flute is a new headjoint. A headjoint is essential in optimizing your sound, and that means finding the headjoint that plays like magic for you, complete with full low notes, ability to tongue rapidly, and ability to sound high D with ease (for more serious flutists). A search for the right headjoint is what you should spend time on, if you don't have money, or even if you do have money. Try all brands and styles, starting with the reasonably priced ones. Who knows, maybe a stock headjoint might work great, better than a $6000 Lafin. I think Lafin sold his style to Brannen. Twenty years ago, you used to have to travel to Germany, to get one made for you. I just looked up prices and the new Powell flute costs $10,000 now. Wow, that's a lot. But there are dozens of great brands. Galway plays the cheaper extruded Muramatsu, the soldered tone holes being the more expensive. He liked that model better and it is more durable. Solder gets old, and fails. In the old days, it was Haynes, Powell, Lot, or Hammig, with the first two being the big ones, especially after Rampal changed from Lot to Haynes. But these days there are so many well made flutes. Again, the headjoint is more than 90% of the sound of the flute. The size and shape of the blowhole, the uncutting (if any) all determine the sound, even more than type of metal -- nickel vs. silver vs. gold.
People were making fun of you for playing flute?!? Boy, don’t listen to those guys. Always be yourself. There are plenty of male flute players, some of them I’m close friends with and they are really talented! I even met some of them including Ian Clarke, such a nice guy! James Galway is a male flute player and it is one of the most amazing flute performers I’ve ever heard. So don’t listen to those people who make fun of you for being a guy and playing flute. Always be yourself :) Fantastic collection you have! I don’t have as many instruments you have but I have two flutes: one Yamaha and one Powell. The Powell is my primary flute with open holed keys and low B natural key. Of all the flutes I’ve played, Alto flute was the hardest because I have short arms XD I tried playing clarinet until I realized my friend gave me a 3 1/2 inch reed instead of 2 inch so it was really difficult to play and many people wanted to play Clarinet because of Squidward, true story. I was originally going to play saxophone in 6th grade but everyone else wanted to play saxophone because they wanted to play jazz. I’m glad I chose flute because it was a perfect fit for me and I learned it was one of the hardest instruments to perform so I’m glad I was able to learn something that many said was difficult. If I had to choose a brass instrument that I’ve always wanted to play, it would French Horn. Just the sound of it is so beautiful, especially in a chapel or empty chamber. I even learned a Thomas and Friends tune on the French horn and it was fun to transpose and learn. I love it :)
Aw thanks flute girl! Unfortunately that's what a lot of guy flute players went through growing up in the 90's 00's. Hopefully things are a little better these days :)
@@InstrumentManiac It's cool that there are male flute players. I remember when I was in high school, most of the tuba players I saw were male, except for one tuba player, who was a FEMALE! That's pretty rare. But you know what the good news was? She was not made fun of at all.
It's funny how instrument passions change through the years as you live on and on. I'm nearing 70 and in the last decade have played violin mostly, an instrument I taught myself to play in the 7th grade, when my father paid $3 for a fiddle I wanted, which weeks before at the same auction house he refused to pay $10 for. I just really love the violin literature, even if my playing is wretched. On clarinet, which I played for only a few years after sax (with I started in 5th grade) I made All-State in New York, although I hated the reed situation, and frankly, I wasn't that great. So I had this friend in high school who played flute. Listening to her practice inspired me, especially after I bought a metal pipe with six holes in it and drove my parents crazy playing it. My father let me trade my sax for a flute. My parents had confiscated the pipe and thrown it away, making me believe I lost it. I got very dizzy the first few days playing the flute, but by the second week I was playing the three Mozart concertos etc., and in my second month things like the Ibert Concerto. My school friend who inspired me was a year ahead and going to major on flute in college. So in my second week of playing flute, we played her Kuhlau duets and she was stunned, exclaiming that my tone was gorgeous and I played better than her teacher. She quit flute in her second semester at college and I think it was partly my fault. With other instruments, I either faced barriers or I hit them along the way. With piano, it was my left hand. With violin, a lot of things. But with flute, everything was natural. And so I kept advancing, learning the literature. I even played violin literature on the flute. Growing up, I learned all instruments by myself, or a little through class lessons in school. I was really excited about having my first private lessons on flute in music school. But there, I just had a terrible start with my teacher, a retired professional flutist who had been a student of William Kincaid, who had taught nearly half the top flutists in the US at the time. It was a series of misunderstandings, starting with I hated his tone. It turned out he had a leak in his Powell, and didn't get that repaired for a year, but then he sounded a lot better. Also, I could kind of sightread rings around him, on duets of his that I'd never even played. We ended up getting along pretty well, but I was ready to go after two years of the four year program, and I worked in a factory for year, ugh, and new Haynes in hand, headed for a top teacher in Europe. Here's the flutes I've played in the not very many years I've played flute in my lifetime. I'll put the ones in caps that I owned: GEMEINHARDT, Haynes, Lamberson, HAYNES, HAYNES, Haynes, YAMAHA, BUNDY. When I was playing the flute, I loved it. I had a special passion for it, but at the same time, I hated the idea of ever auditioning for a professional orchestra. Just the thought of having to play Volière flawlessly at an audition, competing against between 30 and 80 other flutists, was enough to make me break out in a sweat. So there in Europe, I decided to just make music my hobby, and choose a different career. I left the conservatory and prepared for a career of international travel and adventure. Before I bought the Yamaha professional model, I tried over 100 flutes, used and new, in the NYC area. When I bought the Bundy a few years ago, I realized it was never about the flute which made me choose the Yamaha decades ago, as much as the headjoint. I love playing the Bundy with the Yamaha headjoint, CY cut. It just feels so good in my hands, and maybe part of that is that it has an offset G. I also realized that the only reason I spent too much on a custom headjoint for the Yamaha, was that the cork shrank. Sometimes a cork will be okay for 10 years, many times not. I bought a revolutionary design cork replacement which is made out of plastic and is supposed to last forever. It has O rings like the Space Shuttle that crashed, only it hasn't crashed. Powell is a good flute though and it's important to love your instrument. With all the choices available in the last 40 years, how did you come to choose Powell? When I bought my custom headjoint, I kind of considered going to Germany to have Lafin build me one, and I regret that a little now because they are so extremely expensive. But, by not playing the flute much anyway, I guess what I found out is I love music, and not any one particular instrument. I guess I regret not trying and failing on flute a little more. But it's kind of a relief to play violin and piano just for enjoyment. I also realize I should have never had so much Haynes/Powell lust when I was young and couldn't afford one, because a Bundy with the right headjoint can be almost just as good, or even better in some aspects.
I'm not old by any means (only 27), but I remember that in my childhood, it was quite common to make fun of someone for no reasons basicly, like wearing glasses, having braces, or playing a 'female' or 'girly' instrument as a boy or vice versa. Like playing the tuba as a girl. It was almost something to be ashamed, therefore unheard of because no one wanted to be ridiculed. Some older people even shamed girls for playing not just the tuba, but even the trumpet or any brass instrument really. Maybe the horn was a little bit more accepted. And don't you dare play the flute as a man. In fact, even the clarinet was considered to be a 'women's instrument' in some villages like a 100 years ago. Some even called it the horse's dick. 😆 Luckily this retarded attitude is dying out. Slowly, but steadily. In fact, in the youth band at the local music school, the tuba player is actually a girl. And one of the trumpet players as well and fortunately, no one is shaming them for it. Still no male flute players though. And one correction. Reeds are not measured in inches for multiple reasons. Most of them are made in France, so they would use metric, and they all have the same length and width. Generally most people will tell you that the thickness is different, but some say it's actually the same as well and they are just treated different, so they have different strength, but I'm not sure, I haven't measured them yet. But one thing is for sure, the number measures hardness or stiffness, and without units. A number 3 reed is not 3 inches or 3 cm. It's just a number 3. And it's not even standardized. A Rico number 3 reed is much weaker than a Vandoren number 3. Some companies don't even use numbers, but letters instead.
this is such a cool collection!!! can’t wait for the grand opening of the “InstrumentManiac Museum of Instruments” 🤩 loved hearing the history and stories behind how you got some instruments! casually goes to a pawn shop to use the br and comes out with a french horn.... ICONIC!!!!! 😆
I wish I had this much instruments. It is just something about the challenge of learning how to play, usually when I come home I am covered in homework and also I have to prepare for the exams, but the only thing that makes me not lose my spirit are instruments, just learning how to play the instrument makes me extremely happy, when my fingers are bleeding from playing on the string instruments I go and play on wind instruments, when it becomes hard to breathe I go and play on key instruments and finally when my fingers stop working properly I go to play on percussion instruments, playing instruments just brings me joy, I don't care if I don't like the sound of the instrument the thing that I like in instruments is learning how to play on it.
4:18 Haha, that makes me glad I picked it up early on in my musical career! But the tradeoff is that now I'm trying to learn oboe and it's also very hard haha. Your collection is an inspiration to me! My collection already feels big but yours absolutely dwarfs it, I can't wait until I can get my hands on as many instruments as you have.
Seriously! It's a gift to start bowed strings at a young age. But I guess learning woodwinds later in life could be tricky too if you're not as used to air & embouchure 😂 Good luck on your journey!
Might be late to the party, but here is my instrument collection Keyboard (Alesis) Soprano Ukulele (Mahalo) Guitar (Oscar Schmidt Washburn) Mandolin (Alvarez) Banjo (Savannah) Accordion (Hohner) (its a 72 bass) (I did have a kids accordion, but that one is crap) Musical Saw Washboard Spoons Jaw Harp Tambourine, Clarinet Kalimba Djembe Melodica Recorder Irish Whistle three recorders about 5 kazoos harmonica steel tounge drum violin (its being rented) Otamatone Desk Drums Egg shaker Rainshaker and last but not least, a vibraslap. That's all of the instruments in my collection.
Long overdue update: I still have pretty much everything that I previously listed before. But there are some significant changes. I now have a full 120 bass accordion (a 32k Italian one too lol), a Charango, a bass guitar, a talking drum, bongos, electric guitar and a full size piano keyboard. My main instrument of choice is upright bass though.
I have friends who used to live in Burkina Faso and they had friends there made authentic djembes, goat skin and all. When one of them came back to Canada after visiting his parents there for a while, we found out that not only United Airlines breaks guitars, but they also break djembes :(
I have a violin, a trombone, a trumpet, a tuba, and a French horn, I need a viola, a cello, a double bass, a guitar, castanets, a drum kit, a xylophone, a triangle, a tambourine, a flute, a piccolo, an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon, and a saxophone!
Keep saving up that’s how your going to buy those instruments it just takes time and money. Also Good luck I sure you do great as a collector!. It’s really awesome to have a lot of these you should definitely try it I do recommend eBay since most of those instruments have good deals on them like the clarinet, flute and even the alto sax for example!. Bassoon abs double bass are some of the most expensive witch you gotta save big for those and witch you could probably get those last if you want more instruments badly like starting of with flute and clarinet witch I recommend I can give you good tips and some advice and ideas on what I think would work that’s if your interested!. 😁
Had a heck of a time with a university issued plastic clarinet I needed for woodwind methods class. This tuba player couldn’t manage the break. Later, when I had my own high school band, I picked up a very old Pan American brand wood clarinet that was hidden in the band storage room. By the end of the year, I was able to play excerpts from the Mozart Clarinet Concerto on it (because I had to teach it!). What a difference a quality instrument makes.
I plan on being this kinda person when im older lol, this is so cool to me. My current collection is 2 accoustic guitars 1 electric guitar A shitty soprano ukulele Baritone ukulele Electric bass Violin Cello Keyboard Flute Xylophone Snare drum Kalimba With cello being my main one
I understand your struggle! I got made fun of for playing trumpet, so now I play trumpet, oboe, trombone, tenor sax, and now I’m planning to play the bassoon!
Interesting key work on the Linton bassoon, particularly the wide low C and thumb Eb, my Heckel has the thumb Eb for the Right thumb and I really love it!
Also you should do the shining time station theme song if you don’t know what that show is well maybe you’ve seen Thomas and the magic railroad the movie that the maid along time ago, it had shining time station in it and also they made a tv series of it two and Thomas the tank engine was prominently featured in it as well as certain narrators like ringo Starr and George carlin who narrated the first two seasons ringo for seasons 1 & 2 for the UK version of the show and George Carlin for the first 4 seasons of the US version of the Thomas and friends tv series in case you didn’t know at the moment!. Yes the intro theme song for shining time station well it’s an old series that aired since 1988?! I believe I was just watching UA-cam videos about it two full Length episodes just simply UA-cam search shining time station full episodes and you even see the intro theme song that I was talking about just now!! When you click on the video of what episode you watch it starts with the intro!. Yes just like tugs and the Thomas series in general! Yep I think shining time station will complete it too in my opinion.
Hmm... My collection... 4 and 5 string bass Electric upright bass Fretless 4 string bass Bass VI Baritone electric guitar Electric guitar Acoustic guitar Spanish guitar Soprano ukulele Tenor ukulele Mandolin Bozouki Cello Electric drumkit Acoustic drumkit Repinque Tabla Ceramic bongo Aluminium conga Harmonica Alto Saxophone Home made pvc whistle On loan - tenor viol de Gamba Melodica Keyboard Portuguese guitar I think that's everything, probably some small percussion things I've left out as well. I've been totally obsessed with drums since 2020 so a lot of my energy has gone there, although I'm hoping to focus on saxophone next. Just like you I legitimately want to learn every instrument, so I'm learning to be a luthier so I can just make anything I want lol
At first I was a little disappointed we woodn't get to hear an arrangement of yours of some pop hit, but it was nice to listen to you giving us details on how you came accross some of them. Some instrument reviews are in order, I'd say, starting with the AKAI synth and the autoharp. They are curious little beasts and I'd like to know more about them. P.S. as for shattered dreams/projects that didn't pan out... you're not alone in that, don't you worry. And you still manage to make valuable musical content for us all to enjoy 🥰
Yeah I thought I'd take a year off 🤣 For sure! When I get more time I'm definitely doing more in that demo series I've learned it's always ok to have shattered dreams/projects and laugh/grow from them because it leads you to something new :)
okay I have seen quite a few of your covers, and I know that I am pretty late to the game on this video, but let me say, as a person who has been playing the cello since I was 5 years old, I think I am qualified to say that you my good sir do not suck at it. It is decently obvious that it isn't your main instrument but your shifting, hand position, vibrato, and bowhold/bow control is pretty good and you look comfortable with it! for it not being your main instrument! you make a good sound on the cello and you are definately better than the average high school cello player my friend. Also I was very pleasantly surprised when you mentioned your strings! you have clearly done your research. I use jargar on a and d and spiracore on my g and c
They say your brain can only store about two terabytes of data, this man used about six, remembering how to play all these. Jesus man. I though playing the double bass was a little difficult.
My first instrument was a Bb clarinet also by selmer. I got it 6th grade for me band. It was the reason I like classical but i don’t give it much credit it doesn’t always sound good and it’s always pushed to a backup roll rarely every getting a substantial role.everyone also made fun of me because I was the only boy playing clarinet sense we had 6th grade in elementary school all the schools haven’t collided and I never changed I was one of it not the best player in the band along with my other friend who also played clarinet I wasn’t about to play something else because I already knew how to play clarinet. Getting a keyboard this Christmas, my sister played the flute and I learned how to play like 5 notes because for some reason f just wouldn’t work. And I hope to get a cello someday.
You should try to get an ophicleide. They are cool because they have a brass mouthpiece, (similar to one of a trombone or euphonium), and keys like a woodwind instrument. They were ultimately replaced by tubas, but they sound different and unique. They are very cool.
Nice!! I play many instruments, too, and have quite a collection. I've been teaching myself to play lever harps and eventually want to progress to pedal harp. Do you have any plans to eventually get your own pedal harp?
I'm late but my collectin is Electric piano Yamaha Oboe Yamaha Clarinet etude Kalimba 2 kazoos Nylon string guitar and metal string guitar 3 harmonicas According Flute pearl Tongue drum Marimba Bassoon Full sized concert harp (it's huge and it sucks to tune) French horn Trumpet Saxophone also And otamatone
Damn! I think you may have be beaten. But just for the record, I have: Modern instruments: flute by Gemeinhard that I bought online, an oboe by I forget how a Selmer clarinet I bought on ebay an English Horn by Fossati a bassoon by Polisi which was recommended to me by my bassoon teacher in college back in the late 70s a contrabassoon by Amati a baby grand by Steinway (not their top of the line model, but I absolutely love it) a cheap cello from Cecilio a cheap (actually free) violin from Cecilio. When I bought the cello, they threw in the violin for free. a cheap viola that I got from ebay. I got it just to complete my string collection. Baroque instruments a Zuckermann harpsichord that I bought from Bob Lazar's early music website. I bought a LOT of early music instruments from him over the years. Unfortunately he retired several years ago. a baroque oboe (at 440) a baroque oboe (at 415) a Baroque oboe d'amore (440) a Baroque bassoon (440) a Baroque bassoon (415) a Baroque lute a Baroque theorbo a set (SAT) Rottenburg recorders by Moeck Medieval and Renaissance instruments a set (SATB) of crumhorns a set (SATB) or cornamuses an alto sordune a tenor sordune a tenor racket a bass racket a contrabass racket a set (BBTA) of dulcians an alto Spanish shawm by Hanchet a tenor Spanish shawm by Hanchet a soprano shawm by Moeck an alto shawm by Moeck a tenor shawn by Moeck a rauschpfeife by Moeck a treble viol an alto viol a tenor viol a bass viol a cittern a rebec a vielle a hurdy-gurdy a Renaissance lute a set (SATB) of Renaissance recorders, mostly from Moeck a greatbass recorder from Moeck a contrabass recorder from Moeck an alto bowed psaltery a tenor bowed psaltery an alto(?) plucked psaltery Folk instruments a gothic harp a lever harp a duduk a jouhikka (a Finnish three string harp)
You gotta get a Tuba! Conn 5J is my favorite! In school I played tuba and flute, nobody gave me a hard time for playing the tuba. The flute on the other hand...
CARO LUCA, YOU MUST BE EXTREMELY RICH TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD ALL THESE INSTRUMENTS, I'M RETIRED & LIVE ON A SHOE-STRING BUDGET, BUT GOOD LUCK, YOU ARE THE ENVY OF MANY MUSICIANS!
With the trombone you could also do small big band wind ensemble covers that be cool!. It could be another Thomas theme, or a video game cover or an anime or a movie score! 😁 any thing that you could play rather it’s for pep band you could even reference a small pit orchestra heck even do the 7 winds in a small symphony orchestra cover pretty cool huh😊
I learned how to play the B flat cornet when I was in 4th-6th grade of elementary school. I still have it and I hope to return to playing it someday when I can find where my parents have put it. It’s one of the few instruments that I could play easily with one hand due to having mobility limitations caused by having cerebral palsy on my left side. Having braces on my teeth while playing this instrument was very hard. You should one add a trumpet to your collection.
Don't forget your larynx, a built-in instrument and unique to you-- if you don't sing, you should definitely learn! As a multi-instrumentalist myself, I'm surprised how many other instrumentalists can't sing worth a damn.
Luke! Nice collection! You should look into the ocarina family! I play in an ocarina septet and it’s one of the easiest instruments to double on if you are a woodwind player. Check out shooting Star Ocarina on UA-cam!
Seeing how difficult it is to keep a decent level at 10 instruments, I bet it must be 8 time more difficult with 79 of them, although "instruments" 49 to 74 are just... percussions :D Coming from a conservatory trained percussionist, we def do not say we play 30+ instruments :P Some suggestions for the future: electric violin and cello! Try the NS Design cello, and Yamaha makes a great and beautiful violin, the YEV-104, also available in 5 string ;) And why not try the Harpejji, that's also a US made instrument, and you would probably be great at it! And what about a button accordion? I promise you'll find the right hand system is very very logical!
Wow this is amazing! My biggest passion with music is learning new instruments, but it's so expensive for me, you should try learning more Oriental Instruments, like the Guqin and the Erhu
Does it get easier to learn the clarinet after learning how to play the flute? Is it hard to learn another member of the flute family? (Like the alto or the piccolo) I'm looking forward to get another instrument, but I'm afraid of not getting into it or to find it too difficult
It helps, the upper register of the clarinet (when you use the octave key) is the same fingering as the flute. Plus you probably know how to read music, rhythms and have good breathing already so that's defiantly going to help. Don't be afraid to try new things! 😀Join the multiinstrumentalist gang
@@hello-bt6hs Thanks! I'll definetly have a look into it, but first I'll give a bit more pratice to the flute (studies have taken most of my free time lately).
The clarinet and flute fingerings are very similar in many parts, but the top octave of the flute has some weird fingerings that take a while to learn. I don't like the way Bb is played on the flute - I wish they had a side key for it, for the right hand, as on the clarinet and saxophones. Also, it is annoying that finger 1 has to be lifted for middle D and Eb. I find the clarinet much easier to play than the flute, and its altissimo register fingerings are very simple and logical. The top B and C fingerings are a bit odd, but the clarinet is seldom played that high and the tone is weak up there. A is about the last note with anything like a good tone. I prefer playing the clarinet in the low register up to about G in the middle register: that is quite a good range. It is very handy that the clarinet goes down to E (concert D) halfway down the bass clef.
I get what you mean with tenor sax being uncomfortable. I play bari and alto too and I don't know if it's just the yamaha horns or what but I find it to be the hardest to play.
I've talked to a few people about this actually. The way the tenor is setup it's unique in terms of sound production which makes it kind of it's own beast!
I am surprised that you find the tenor saxophone awkward. I started on the alto, which i enjoyed, but a friend had a silver Selmer Mark VI tenor and I started using it when I was playing in a (jazz) quartet, and the others urged me to switch entirely to the tenor, which I then did. I got a gold-colored Selmer Mark VI, which I still have. In his book on woodwind, Anthony Baines says, correctly, that the alto has a rather monotonous sound. The tenor, though only a fourth lower, has a much richer sound and there is enormous variety in the sounds of the famous jazz tenor players. Before switching from alto to tenor, I had, and retained, a Selmer Mark VI soprano, which is the best soprano saxophone ever made. It lacks the front top F mechanism (added on later Selmers) and so you need the top F# key. My favorite tenor player is John Coltrane, and I go for that trebly sound - Lou Donaldson said that Trane sounded like an alto on it, and Trane did start out on the alto. The baritone sounds too raspy for my taste, but Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams were amazing on it, and they transcend the rather rough sound. If I could afford them, I would like an Eb contrabass clarinet and an alto flute. Also, my (Bb) bass clarinet is an el cheapo and lacks the register pip on the neck, which makes the middle register a bit awkward to play. Bass clarinets are lacking in volume in the middle register, and if you push them, they squeak. They tend to get drowned out by the drummer, unless there is a mike. Buddy de Franco was amazing on the bass clarinet and made it sound just like a regular clarinet an octave lower. He did an album on it with Art Blakey. Eric Dolphy on the bass clarinet was described by my Dad as sounding like a turkey cock being chased around a farmyard, ha ha.
So you're still to get a Bari Sax, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor Horn, Flugelhorn, Contrabassoon, Cor Anglais, Timps and Harmonica then I see lol!
Haha not quite all those but we'll see what the future brings!
@@InstrumentManiac As much as I like euphonium, you probably don’t need one. Though there is a bunch of used stuff online that might serve well, even if it’s not a modern style of euphonium. Conn 20-I is a good example.
And a trumpet!!
And a garklein recorder the best instrument
Contralto clarinet
@@InstrumentManiac I’m going to tell you what you need in the brass family, kid. Tuba (BBb or CC, NO F or Eb tubas) Two-Bell Euphonium, Cimbasso, Bass Trombone, and the Contrabass Trombone. Those are the ESSENTIALS of the brass family. And then get yourself an oxygen tank… trust me when I say you will need it.
Awesome collection and this has to be the best one yet better than the rest!.
Compared to your instruments and their brands, here are some of mine!
C Flute: Jupiter
Soprano recorder: Yamaha
Oboe: Yamaha
Bb Flat soprano Clarinet: buffet crampon Bb12
Bass clarinet: selmer bundy
Bassoon: selmer bundy (Wood)
Alto saxophone: Yamaha
Tenor saxophone: Yamaha
French horn: Yamaha
Trumpet: Yamaha
Cornet: Yamaha
Straight horn tenor Trombone: Yamaha
Tenor Trombone witch F attachment: Accent
Plastic trombone: (colored blue)
Euphonium: Yamaha
Tuba: Yamaha
Percussion kit: pearl
That’s all my instruments I could list in terms of brands!. I hope you liked it.
Nice that's a great group of instruments you have!
@@InstrumentManiac thank you I’m glad you liked it!.
So last year you had 69 instruments, and today you have 79, that’s an impressive difference! You’re impressive, Luke!!
Thanks Sativum! One of these years I'll get to 100 🤣
I thought 12 was a lot
@@InstrumentManiacwelp this aged very well
Now he has 111
Now for me your 113 instrument collection video premieres in 44 minutes
I'm retired now, but you lived my childhood dream of getting and playing so many instruments. However, in my teenage years through to my twenties, I had dreams of getting a good grand piano because I grew up with such a junky upright, on which I taught myself to play, since my parents did not have a lot of money and would not pay for lessons. Now in old age I have a Roland digital piano I love, because it stays in tune.
Back to instruments...my best eBay find from a few years ago is a $53 Bundy (by Selmer, not the Chinese one!) nickel flute from about 1982 that is like new, because the owner started in the 5th grade, didn't practice much and within a year quit. Something was terribly wrong with the headjoint, but I had other headjoints that fit.
Anyway, the Bundy flute is a work of art among less expensive student model flutes of that era (1970 to 1980s) because of the quality of craftsmanship, and durability/design of the mechanism. A student of Jeanne Baxtresser, former principal flutist with the NY Phil, told me that Jeanne used to get her Bundy (which she started on) out for her students and play it, and it was indistinguishable from her Haynes w/Lafin headjoint. (She used Cooper before Lafin.) Now that I have my own Bundy, I can say the mechanism is slightly clunkier or noisier than a good professional flute, but it works very well, and makes my Gemeinhardt (my first flute) feel like junk. I have a good flute also, the one I eventually bought after I sold my Haynes to my teacher, the principal flutist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. So, it played on without me.
Bundy flutes were also made back into the 40 or 50s I think, when one of the Haynes brothers designed the embouchure hole for Bundy, which looks kind of squarish like a Powell, compared to the oval of the Gemeinhardt. If you're looking to buy a Bundy though, get one of the models from the 70s or 80s. I don't like the quirky old model with the sharp-edge tone holes.
When I was young, and switched from clarinet, I got serious about flute at one point and headed to Europe to study. I wanted to enter the Geneva Wind Competition in the early 1970s. An American named Paula Robison won on flute in 1966, and it launched her solo career. She was on TV all the time, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER. I thought if I could win or place high, I might get a position teaching at a small college, and be able to forego auditioning for orchestras or going for a PhD. In my nightmares about orchestral auditions, I'd always make some mistake in Volière or Classical Symphony (the two excerpts they're going to ask at any professional orchestra audition), and the judges would be shouting NEXT, and I wouldn't even make the finals. I got over all that pressure by switching careers while I was in Europe. That fixed things. I never auditioned for any professional orchestra. However, several years later I was invited by an old composer friend to debut his flute concerto in NYC. So I brought my flute out of the closet for a while.
Anyway, whether you're an aspiring flutist with little money, or someone looking to buy their first flute cheap, a Bundy by Selmer that has been restored or is in lightly used condition is a good choice for the body of the flute, although be aware you will need to get a new headjoint cork for it, if it hasn't been recently redone. Sometimes a flute headjoint cork can shrink and gap in as little as a few years, and then the flute will sound bad, like the low notes will just disappear. But once you've got that decent flute body, pads all closing properly and in good condition, the next thing you'll need if you love the flute is a new headjoint. A headjoint is essential in optimizing your sound, and that means finding the headjoint that plays like magic for you, complete with full low notes, ability to tongue rapidly, and ability to sound high D with ease (for more serious flutists). A search for the right headjoint is what you should spend time on, if you don't have money, or even if you do have money. Try all brands and styles, starting with the reasonably priced ones. Who knows, maybe a stock headjoint might work great, better than a $6000 Lafin. I think Lafin sold his style to Brannen. Twenty years ago, you used to have to travel to Germany, to get one made for you.
I just looked up prices and the new Powell flute costs $10,000 now. Wow, that's a lot. But there are dozens of great brands. Galway plays the cheaper extruded Muramatsu, the soldered tone holes being the more expensive. He liked that model better and it is more durable. Solder gets old, and fails. In the old days, it was Haynes, Powell, Lot, or Hammig, with the first two being the big ones, especially after Rampal changed from Lot to Haynes. But these days there are so many well made flutes. Again, the headjoint is more than 90% of the sound of the flute. The size and shape of the blowhole, the uncutting (if any) all determine the sound, even more than type of metal -- nickel vs. silver vs. gold.
People were making fun of you for playing flute?!? Boy, don’t listen to those guys. Always be yourself. There are plenty of male flute players, some of them I’m close friends with and they are really talented! I even met some of them including Ian Clarke, such a nice guy! James Galway is a male flute player and it is one of the most amazing flute performers I’ve ever heard. So don’t listen to those people who make fun of you for being a guy and playing flute. Always be yourself :)
Fantastic collection you have! I don’t have as many instruments you have but I have two flutes: one Yamaha and one Powell. The Powell is my primary flute with open holed keys and low B natural key. Of all the flutes I’ve played, Alto flute was the hardest because I have short arms XD I tried playing clarinet until I realized my friend gave me a 3 1/2 inch reed instead of 2 inch so it was really difficult to play and many people wanted to play Clarinet because of Squidward, true story. I was originally going to play saxophone in 6th grade but everyone else wanted to play saxophone because they wanted to play jazz. I’m glad I chose flute because it was a perfect fit for me and I learned it was one of the hardest instruments to perform so I’m glad I was able to learn something that many said was difficult. If I had to choose a brass instrument that I’ve always wanted to play, it would French Horn. Just the sound of it is so beautiful, especially in a chapel or empty chamber. I even learned a Thomas and Friends tune on the French horn and it was fun to transpose and learn. I love it :)
people will poke fun at you for any reason. Some people are just geared that way.
Aw thanks flute girl! Unfortunately that's what a lot of guy flute players went through growing up in the 90's 00's. Hopefully things are a little better these days :)
@@InstrumentManiac It's cool that there are male flute players. I remember when I was in high school, most of the tuba players I saw were male, except for one tuba player, who was a FEMALE! That's pretty rare. But you know what the good news was? She was not made fun of at all.
It's funny how instrument passions change through the years as you live on and on. I'm nearing 70 and in the last decade have played violin mostly, an instrument I taught myself to play in the 7th grade, when my father paid $3 for a fiddle I wanted, which weeks before at the same auction house he refused to pay $10 for. I just really love the violin literature, even if my playing is wretched.
On clarinet, which I played for only a few years after sax (with I started in 5th grade) I made All-State in New York, although I hated the reed situation, and frankly, I wasn't that great. So I had this friend in high school who played flute. Listening to her practice inspired me, especially after I bought a metal pipe with six holes in it and drove my parents crazy playing it. My father let me trade my sax for a flute. My parents had confiscated the pipe and thrown it away, making me believe I lost it.
I got very dizzy the first few days playing the flute, but by the second week I was playing the three Mozart concertos etc., and in my second month things like the Ibert Concerto. My school friend who inspired me was a year ahead and going to major on flute in college. So in my second week of playing flute, we played her Kuhlau duets and she was stunned, exclaiming that my tone was gorgeous and I played better than her teacher. She quit flute in her second semester at college and I think it was partly my fault.
With other instruments, I either faced barriers or I hit them along the way. With piano, it was my left hand. With violin, a lot of things. But with flute, everything was natural. And so I kept advancing, learning the literature. I even played violin literature on the flute. Growing up, I learned all instruments by myself, or a little through class lessons in school. I was really excited about having my first private lessons on flute in music school. But there, I just had a terrible start with my teacher, a retired professional flutist who had been a student of William Kincaid, who had taught nearly half the top flutists in the US at the time. It was a series of misunderstandings, starting with I hated his tone. It turned out he had a leak in his Powell, and didn't get that repaired for a year, but then he sounded a lot better. Also, I could kind of sightread rings around him, on duets of his that I'd never even played. We ended up getting along pretty well, but I was ready to go after two years of the four year program, and I worked in a factory for year, ugh, and new Haynes in hand, headed for a top teacher in Europe.
Here's the flutes I've played in the not very many years I've played flute in my lifetime. I'll put the ones in caps that I owned: GEMEINHARDT, Haynes, Lamberson, HAYNES, HAYNES, Haynes, YAMAHA, BUNDY. When I was playing the flute, I loved it. I had a special passion for it, but at the same time, I hated the idea of ever auditioning for a professional orchestra. Just the thought of having to play Volière flawlessly at an audition, competing against between 30 and 80 other flutists, was enough to make me break out in a sweat. So there in Europe, I decided to just make music my hobby, and choose a different career. I left the conservatory and prepared for a career of international travel and adventure.
Before I bought the Yamaha professional model, I tried over 100 flutes, used and new, in the NYC area. When I bought the Bundy a few years ago, I realized it was never about the flute which made me choose the Yamaha decades ago, as much as the headjoint. I love playing the Bundy with the Yamaha headjoint, CY cut. It just feels so good in my hands, and maybe part of that is that it has an offset G. I also realized that the only reason I spent too much on a custom headjoint for the Yamaha, was that the cork shrank. Sometimes a cork will be okay for 10 years, many times not. I bought a revolutionary design cork replacement which is made out of plastic and is supposed to last forever. It has O rings like the Space Shuttle that crashed, only it hasn't crashed.
Powell is a good flute though and it's important to love your instrument. With all the choices available in the last 40 years, how did you come to choose Powell? When I bought my custom headjoint, I kind of considered going to Germany to have Lafin build me one, and I regret that a little now because they are so extremely expensive. But, by not playing the flute much anyway, I guess what I found out is I love music, and not any one particular instrument. I guess I regret not trying and failing on flute a little more. But it's kind of a relief to play violin and piano just for enjoyment. I also realize I should have never had so much Haynes/Powell lust when I was young and couldn't afford one, because a Bundy with the right headjoint can be almost just as good, or even better in some aspects.
I'm not old by any means (only 27), but I remember that in my childhood, it was quite common to make fun of someone for no reasons basicly, like wearing glasses, having braces, or playing a 'female' or 'girly' instrument as a boy or vice versa. Like playing the tuba as a girl. It was almost something to be ashamed, therefore unheard of because no one wanted to be ridiculed. Some older people even shamed girls for playing not just the tuba, but even the trumpet or any brass instrument really. Maybe the horn was a little bit more accepted. And don't you dare play the flute as a man. In fact, even the clarinet was considered to be a 'women's instrument' in some villages like a 100 years ago. Some even called it the horse's dick. 😆
Luckily this retarded attitude is dying out. Slowly, but steadily. In fact, in the youth band at the local music school, the tuba player is actually a girl. And one of the trumpet players as well and fortunately, no one is shaming them for it. Still no male flute players though.
And one correction. Reeds are not measured in inches for multiple reasons. Most of them are made in France, so they would use metric, and they all have the same length and width. Generally most people will tell you that the thickness is different, but some say it's actually the same as well and they are just treated different, so they have different strength, but I'm not sure, I haven't measured them yet. But one thing is for sure, the number measures hardness or stiffness, and without units. A number 3 reed is not 3 inches or 3 cm. It's just a number 3. And it's not even standardized. A Rico number 3 reed is much weaker than a Vandoren number 3. Some companies don't even use numbers, but letters instead.
I thought the instrument in the thumbnail was a rifle and was like "I suppose instruments of destruction count"
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An instrument is an instrument
best comment ever
Spongebob reference?
this is such a cool collection!!! can’t wait for the grand opening of the “InstrumentManiac Museum of Instruments” 🤩 loved hearing the history and stories behind how you got some instruments! casually goes to a pawn shop to use the br and comes out with a french horn.... ICONIC!!!!! 😆
Thar would definitely solve the whole storage issue😆😆 Thank u clari-qween!
As a bassoon player, I’m so glad you’ve got one 🥹
I wish I had this much instruments. It is just something about the challenge of learning how to play, usually when I come home I am covered in homework and also I have to prepare for the exams, but the only thing that makes me not lose my spirit are instruments, just learning how to play the instrument makes me extremely happy, when my fingers are bleeding from playing on the string instruments I go and play on wind instruments, when it becomes hard to breathe I go and play on key instruments and finally when my fingers stop working properly I go to play on percussion instruments, playing instruments just brings me joy, I don't care if I don't like the sound of the instrument the thing that I like in instruments is learning how to play on it.
4:18 Haha, that makes me glad I picked it up early on in my musical career! But the tradeoff is that now I'm trying to learn oboe and it's also very hard haha. Your collection is an inspiration to me! My collection already feels big but yours absolutely dwarfs it, I can't wait until I can get my hands on as many instruments as you have.
Seriously! It's a gift to start bowed strings at a young age.
But I guess learning woodwinds later in life could be tricky too if you're not as used to air & embouchure 😂
Good luck on your journey!
Thank you :)
I'm glad I'm part of the select group of 5 people who watch this
Bassoon=best instrument
Might be late to the party, but here is my instrument collection
Keyboard (Alesis)
Soprano Ukulele (Mahalo)
Guitar (Oscar Schmidt Washburn)
Mandolin (Alvarez)
Banjo (Savannah)
Accordion (Hohner) (its a 72 bass) (I did have a kids accordion, but that one is crap)
Musical Saw
Washboard
Spoons
Jaw Harp
Tambourine,
Clarinet
Kalimba
Djembe
Melodica
Recorder
Irish Whistle
three recorders
about 5 kazoos
harmonica
steel tounge drum
violin (its being rented)
Otamatone
Desk Drums
Egg shaker
Rainshaker
and last but not least, a vibraslap.
That's all of the instruments in my collection.
Update: Upright bass (currently trying to earn, but I use it)
Long overdue update: I still have pretty much everything that I previously listed before. But there are some significant changes. I now have a full 120 bass accordion (a 32k Italian one too lol), a Charango, a bass guitar, a talking drum, bongos, electric guitar and a full size piano keyboard. My main instrument of choice is upright bass though.
I have friends who used to live in Burkina Faso and they had friends there made authentic djembes, goat skin and all. When one of them came back to Canada after visiting his parents there for a while, we found out that not only United Airlines breaks guitars, but they also break djembes :(
Oh no! Ugh yeah there are such horror stories with airlines and handling instruments. I always carry on whenever possible :(
OMG!!! You are the epitome of my instruments addiction 😆
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I’m also from Minnesota, choo choo bobs was a special place
I have a violin, a trombone, a trumpet, a tuba, and a French horn, I need a viola, a cello, a double bass, a guitar, castanets, a drum kit, a xylophone, a triangle, a tambourine, a flute, a piccolo, an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon, and a saxophone!
Keep saving up that’s how your going to buy those instruments it just takes time and money. Also Good luck I sure you do great as a collector!. It’s really awesome to have a lot of these you should definitely try it I do recommend eBay since most of those instruments have good deals on them like the clarinet, flute and even the alto sax for example!. Bassoon abs double bass are some of the most expensive witch you gotta save big for those and witch you could probably get those last if you want more instruments badly like starting of with flute and clarinet witch I recommend I can give you good tips and some advice and ideas on what I think would work that’s if your interested!. 😁
I am an instrument addict too and I thought I was high maintenance until I saw this video.
I can now relax because you have me beat hands down.
I’m excited for another video that comming up! And ps: your first comment. 😀
nah cus im mad asf you dont got millions of subs... you're EXTREMELY talented u really deserve to be a big celebrity
wow. out of my mind.😂not doubt why your songs was so beautiful😘😘
He becomes more of a maniac as each year passes!
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Cool!!!! Another guy with instrument addiction!
Bass recorder for $50??? Wow! I love your entire collection. I have just a fraction of a similar collection and I need to stop!!
I enjoyed the facts and seeing your collection. :-)
Thanks for watching Jeremy!
This guy actually dwarfs a tenor sax!
I actually used to use a wooden Clarinet from Selmer when I was in Middle School. It worked REALLY well.
Glad to hear! Some of those older wood instruments from the 70s kick major butt!
I had the same one
Had a heck of a time with a university issued plastic clarinet I needed for woodwind methods class. This tuba player couldn’t manage the break. Later, when I had my own high school band, I picked up a very old Pan American brand wood clarinet that was hidden in the band storage room. By the end of the year, I was able to play excerpts from the Mozart Clarinet Concerto on it (because I had to teach it!). What a difference a quality instrument makes.
Not bad ! I'm a multi-instrumentist too ^^
I plan on being this kinda person when im older lol, this is so cool to me.
My current collection is
2 accoustic guitars
1 electric guitar
A shitty soprano ukulele
Baritone ukulele
Electric bass
Violin
Cello
Keyboard
Flute
Xylophone
Snare drum
Kalimba
With cello being my main one
Next year this man is gonna start the video holding a whole harpsichord he got for $2 on Facebook Marketplace
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So amped for this
I understand your struggle! I got made fun of for playing trumpet, so now I play trumpet, oboe, trombone, tenor sax, and now I’m planning to play the bassoon!
being fun of for playing flute is reasonable but why trumpet? its a respectable instrument (ik you dont play flute im referencing luke)
Love your instrument collection it is nice
Thanks Elijah!
Interesting key work on the Linton bassoon, particularly the wide low C and thumb Eb, my Heckel has the thumb Eb for the Right thumb and I really love it!
You make complete sense to me, I have a desire and obsession with learning instruments (i still dont have many)
Amazing collection!
That thumbnail made it look like that instrument was a musket
As a tuba player. I believe it it necessary to have one 😂. In all seriousness I love your videos!
I like how your instrument collection has been growing. I was surprised when Trombone was part of it.
Thanks Marty!
@@InstrumentManiac I love Trombone
Also you should do the shining time station theme song if you don’t know what that show is well maybe you’ve seen Thomas and the magic railroad the movie that the maid along time ago, it had shining time station in it and also they made a tv series of it two and Thomas the tank engine was prominently featured in it as well as certain narrators like ringo Starr and George carlin who narrated the first two seasons ringo for seasons 1 & 2 for the UK version of the show and George Carlin for the first 4 seasons of the US version of the Thomas and friends tv series in case you didn’t know at the moment!. Yes the intro theme song for shining time station well it’s an old series that aired since 1988?! I believe I was just watching UA-cam videos about it two full Length episodes just simply UA-cam search shining time station full episodes and you even see the intro theme song that I was talking about just now!! When you click on the video of what episode you watch it starts with the intro!. Yes just like tugs and the Thomas series in general! Yep I think shining time station will complete it too in my opinion.
Shining time has a great theme!
@@InstrumentManiac I agree 100%
Hmm... My collection...
4 and 5 string bass
Electric upright bass
Fretless 4 string bass
Bass VI
Baritone electric guitar
Electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
Spanish guitar
Soprano ukulele
Tenor ukulele
Mandolin
Bozouki
Cello
Electric drumkit
Acoustic drumkit
Repinque
Tabla
Ceramic bongo
Aluminium conga
Harmonica
Alto Saxophone
Home made pvc whistle
On loan - tenor viol de Gamba
Melodica
Keyboard
Portuguese guitar
I think that's everything, probably some small percussion things I've left out as well. I've been totally obsessed with drums since 2020 so a lot of my energy has gone there, although I'm hoping to focus on saxophone next. Just like you I legitimately want to learn every instrument, so I'm learning to be a luthier so I can just make anything I want lol
A very interesting educational video! Very good explaining about all the instruments, and I like the way that you used them in orchestral order.
Why don't you ask Mike o'donnell to be a special guest for playing there musical
yes please
Maybe one day!
Wow, that’s a lot of instruments you play!
The fact you remember why and how you came across all these is very interesting wow
At first I was a little disappointed we woodn't get to hear an arrangement of yours of some pop hit, but it was nice to listen to you giving us details on how you came accross some of them.
Some instrument reviews are in order, I'd say, starting with the AKAI synth and the autoharp. They are curious little beasts and I'd like to know more about them.
P.S. as for shattered dreams/projects that didn't pan out... you're not alone in that, don't you worry.
And you still manage to make valuable musical content for us all to enjoy 🥰
Yeah I thought I'd take a year off 🤣
For sure! When I get more time I'm definitely doing more in that demo series
I've learned it's always ok to have shattered dreams/projects and laugh/grow from them because it leads you to something new :)
okay I have seen quite a few of your covers, and I know that I am pretty late to the game on this video, but let me say, as a person who has been playing the cello since I was 5 years old, I think I am qualified to say that you my good sir do not suck at it. It is decently obvious that it isn't your main instrument but your shifting, hand position, vibrato, and bowhold/bow control is pretty good and you look comfortable with it! for it not being your main instrument! you make a good sound on the cello and you are definately better than the average high school cello player my friend. Also I was very pleasantly surprised when you mentioned your strings! you have clearly done your research. I use jargar on a and d and spiracore on my g and c
Love your Instruments I love Instrument ❤
Hey Luke!! I can't believe it's been 10 years since I first saw you! It was Poker Face on Bass Clarinet. Keep up the good work!!
Haha no way that's an oldie - i appreciate it! 😊
I found this video really really interesting. Very cool!
Dude you’re the first UA-camr I know that lives in MN
They say your brain can only store about two terabytes of data, this man used about six, remembering how to play all these. Jesus man. I though playing the double bass was a little difficult.
This man doesn't need FL studio at all he just has the entire sound library in his house
Can you pls do the Breakdown train theme (Rescue Theme) plsssss.
Currently arranging it ^_^
My first instrument was a Bb clarinet also by selmer. I got it 6th grade for me band. It was the reason I like classical but i don’t give it much credit it doesn’t always sound good and it’s always pushed to a backup roll rarely every getting a substantial role.everyone also made fun of me because I was the only boy playing clarinet sense we had 6th grade in elementary school all the schools haven’t collided and I never changed I was one of it not the best player in the band along with my other friend who also played clarinet I wasn’t about to play something else because I already knew how to play clarinet. Getting a keyboard this Christmas, my sister played the flute and I learned how to play like 5 notes because for some reason f just wouldn’t work. And I hope to get a cello someday.
Dude! I didn’t know half of these! XD nice instruments!
You should try to get an ophicleide. They are cool because they have a brass mouthpiece, (similar to one of a trombone or euphonium), and keys like a woodwind instrument. They were ultimately replaced by tubas, but they sound different and unique. They are very cool.
Nice!! I play many instruments, too, and have quite a collection. I've been teaching myself to play lever harps and eventually want to progress to pedal harp. Do you have any plans to eventually get your own pedal harp?
Currently have a pedal harp through lessons 😄ua-cam.com/video/lfqvEhcC9Go/v-deo.html&ab_channel=InstrumentManiac
Have you ever thought of doing a song with all of these instruments? Seems far fetched, but it could be possible
That's actually what I normally do every year ^_^
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ARGH YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL
I'm a flute player, but I also play piano and I really want to learn Bassoon next year. Nice vid
So are really cool!
I wish I was at his house he has a musical playground this is just making me wish so hard that I was there so many instruments and one room
OMG, just only have a bass clarinet, a 4 recorders yamaha flute and a tranversal yamaha flute
It's not how big your collection, it's how much fun you get when you play it 😄
That's an awesome collection!
Wow!
I love the alto flute
I'm late but my collectin is
Electric piano Yamaha
Oboe Yamaha
Clarinet etude
Kalimba
2 kazoos
Nylon string guitar and metal string guitar
3 harmonicas
According
Flute pearl
Tongue drum
Marimba
Bassoon
Full sized concert harp (it's huge and it sucks to tune)
French horn
Trumpet
Saxophone also
And otamatone
Wow, you have a great collection! Soon I would have the same.
I only have a few instruments at my house today in 2022.
I have:
Drum set
Alto saxophone
Clarinet
Ukulele
Cowbell
Tambourine
Damn! I think you may have be beaten. But just for the record, I have:
Modern instruments:
flute by Gemeinhard that I bought online,
an oboe by I forget how
a Selmer clarinet I bought on ebay
an English Horn by Fossati
a bassoon by Polisi which was recommended to me by my bassoon teacher in college back in the late 70s
a contrabassoon by Amati
a baby grand by Steinway (not their top of the line model, but I absolutely love it)
a cheap cello from Cecilio
a cheap (actually free) violin from Cecilio. When I bought the cello, they threw in the violin for free.
a cheap viola that I got from ebay. I got it just to complete my string collection.
Baroque instruments
a Zuckermann harpsichord that I bought from Bob Lazar's early music website. I bought a LOT of early music
instruments from him over the years. Unfortunately he retired several years ago.
a baroque oboe (at 440)
a baroque oboe (at 415)
a Baroque oboe d'amore (440)
a Baroque bassoon (440)
a Baroque bassoon (415)
a Baroque lute
a Baroque theorbo
a set (SAT) Rottenburg recorders by Moeck
Medieval and Renaissance instruments
a set (SATB) of crumhorns
a set (SATB) or cornamuses
an alto sordune
a tenor sordune
a tenor racket
a bass racket
a contrabass racket
a set (BBTA) of dulcians
an alto Spanish shawm by Hanchet
a tenor Spanish shawm by Hanchet
a soprano shawm by Moeck
an alto shawm by Moeck
a tenor shawn by Moeck
a rauschpfeife by Moeck
a treble viol
an alto viol
a tenor viol
a bass viol
a cittern
a rebec
a vielle
a hurdy-gurdy
a Renaissance lute
a set (SATB) of Renaissance recorders, mostly from Moeck
a greatbass recorder from Moeck
a contrabass recorder from Moeck
an alto bowed psaltery
a tenor bowed psaltery
an alto(?) plucked psaltery
Folk instruments
a gothic harp
a lever harp
a duduk
a jouhikka (a Finnish three string harp)
So cool! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
amazing collection
HOW DO YOU AFORD ALL OF THESE! (Specifically the bass flute I really want one)
😉👍🏽
How did you find picking up the double strung harp? I'm thinking of getting one but heard it takes a long time to get your eyes tuned in!
It's still rough as heck! But the tradeoff is you can play full arrangements on a tiny instrument 😄
You gotta get a Tuba! Conn 5J is my favorite! In school I played tuba and flute, nobody gave me a hard time for playing the tuba. The flute on the other hand...
I've been waiting for this! Lol
CARO LUCA, YOU MUST BE EXTREMELY RICH TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD ALL THESE INSTRUMENTS, I'M RETIRED & LIVE ON A SHOE-STRING BUDGET, BUT GOOD LUCK, YOU ARE THE ENVY OF MANY MUSICIANS!
With the trombone you could also do small big band wind ensemble covers that be cool!. It could be another Thomas theme, or a video game cover or an anime or a movie score! 😁 any thing that you could play rather it’s for pep band you could even reference a small pit orchestra heck even do the 7 winds in a small symphony orchestra cover pretty cool huh😊
Those smiles…and those chests…👀
I learned how to play the B flat cornet when I was in 4th-6th grade of elementary school. I still have it and I hope to return to playing it someday when I can find where my parents have put it. It’s one of the few instruments that I could play easily with one hand due to having mobility limitations caused by having cerebral palsy on my left side. Having braces on my teeth while playing this instrument was very hard. You should one add a trumpet to your collection.
Bass sax vid soon?
Don't forget your larynx, a built-in instrument and unique to you-- if you don't sing, you should definitely learn! As a multi-instrumentalist myself, I'm surprised how many other instrumentalists can't sing worth a damn.
Luke! Nice collection! You should look into the ocarina family! I play in an ocarina septet and it’s one of the easiest instruments to double on if you are a woodwind player. Check out shooting Star Ocarina on UA-cam!
Haha I actually have one but lost it somewhere along the way. Ocarina septets sound like a bunch of fun!
Awesome! 🤗
One of my favorite instrument is the double bass
Seeing how difficult it is to keep a decent level at 10 instruments, I bet it must be 8 time more difficult with 79 of them, although "instruments" 49 to 74 are just... percussions :D Coming from a conservatory trained percussionist, we def do not say we play 30+ instruments :P
Some suggestions for the future: electric violin and cello! Try the NS Design cello, and Yamaha makes a great and beautiful violin, the YEV-104, also available in 5 string ;) And why not try the Harpejji, that's also a US made instrument, and you would probably be great at it! And what about a button accordion? I promise you'll find the right hand system is very very logical!
WHOA IMPRESSIVE
I've tried growing my instrument collection over the years, but I'm only at 20 because my parents refuse to be a part of my madness 🤣
I've got a trombone too! (But it's from Jupiter not Yamaha)
Wow this is amazing! My biggest passion with music is learning new instruments, but it's so expensive for me, you should try learning more Oriental Instruments, like the Guqin and the Erhu
Maybe one day!
Does it get easier to learn the clarinet after learning how to play the flute?
Is it hard to learn another member of the flute family? (Like the alto or the piccolo)
I'm looking forward to get another instrument, but I'm afraid of not getting into it or to find it too difficult
It helps, the upper register of the clarinet (when you use the octave key) is the same fingering as the flute. Plus you probably know how to read music, rhythms and have good breathing already so that's defiantly going to help.
Don't be afraid to try new things! 😀Join the multiinstrumentalist gang
You should totally give it a try! The fingerings roughly translate, a lot of what you'll need to focus on is embouchure. Good luck!
@@hello-bt6hs Thanks! I'll definetly have a look into it, but first I'll give a bit more pratice to the flute (studies have taken most of my free time lately).
The clarinet and flute fingerings are very similar in many parts, but the top octave of the flute has some weird fingerings that take a while to learn. I don't like the way Bb is played on the flute - I wish they had a side key for it, for the right hand, as on the clarinet and saxophones. Also, it is annoying that finger 1 has to be lifted for middle D and Eb. I find the clarinet much easier to play than the flute, and its altissimo register fingerings are very simple and logical. The top B and C fingerings are a bit odd, but the clarinet is seldom played that high and the tone is weak up there. A is about the last note with anything like a good tone. I prefer playing the clarinet in the low register up to about G in the middle register: that is quite a good range. It is very handy that the clarinet goes down to E (concert D) halfway down the bass clef.
Was so scared when I saw the way you held the stringed instruments 😟
Cool! Your channel is nice!
You should check out slide instruments like the lapsteel?? very fun!
Hi there,
maybe for a kind of "Western sound" there´s a HARMONICA missing ! I´m shure you´ll reach 100 Instruments in future... Fantastic ;-))
Great idea!
Could you try more Pokémon musics and if you do could you do route 10 from gen 5?
I get what you mean with tenor sax being uncomfortable. I play bari and alto too and I don't know if it's just the yamaha horns or what but I find it to be the hardest to play.
I've talked to a few people about this actually. The way the tenor is setup it's unique in terms of sound production which makes it kind of it's own beast!
I am surprised that you find the tenor saxophone awkward. I started on the alto, which i enjoyed, but a friend had a silver Selmer Mark VI tenor and I started using it when I was playing in a (jazz) quartet, and the others urged me to switch entirely to the tenor, which I then did. I got a gold-colored Selmer Mark VI, which I still have. In his book on woodwind, Anthony Baines says, correctly, that the alto has a rather monotonous sound. The tenor, though only a fourth lower, has a much richer sound and there is enormous variety in the sounds of the famous jazz tenor players. Before switching from alto to tenor, I had, and retained, a Selmer Mark VI soprano, which is the best soprano saxophone ever made. It lacks the front top F mechanism (added on later Selmers) and so you need the top F# key. My favorite tenor player is John Coltrane, and I go for that trebly sound - Lou Donaldson said that Trane sounded like an alto on it, and Trane did start out on the alto.
The baritone sounds too raspy for my taste, but Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams were amazing on it, and they transcend the rather rough sound.
If I could afford them, I would like an Eb contrabass clarinet and an alto flute. Also, my (Bb) bass clarinet is an el cheapo and lacks the register pip on the neck, which makes the middle register a bit awkward to play. Bass clarinets are lacking in volume in the middle register, and if you push them, they squeak. They tend to get drowned out by the drummer, unless there is a mike. Buddy de Franco was amazing on the bass clarinet and made it sound just like a regular clarinet an octave lower. He did an album on it with Art Blakey. Eric Dolphy on the bass clarinet was described by my Dad as sounding like a turkey cock being chased around a farmyard, ha ha.
For a second I thought this video was only gonna be flutes lol! I play the regular clarinet!
Wow , i wish i had one
3:20 electronic wind instrument
An Alto Clarinet by Vito, this is NOT a Silver Saxophone! 🤣