Watch what happens when a fiddle player is handed a Stradivarius violin
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2016
- I got to play a Stradivarius violin and then a fiddle once owned by Tommy Jarrell, that has a rattlesnake rattle in it. Guess which one I liked better.
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My own fiddle is a copy of an Amati, who was Stradivari's teacher. It has two snake rattles in it, placed there by my father back in the 60s. My grandfather bought it well over 100 years ago from an old man who had it for years before that. My grandfather won fiddler conventions with it at least as early as 1917, as I have a poster for that convention from his personal papers.
What do the rattles do to the sound of the instrument?
@@patriciajrs46Make it rattle?
Just imagining what the Strad itself must be thinking... like it was shaken from a deep sleep and ‘what... is... this?’ 😃
The Tommy Jarrell Fiddle has Geared Tuners & he popularized them so much that the Interest of having tuning gears on a Violin, Viola, or Cello has gone back up.
No wonder Stradivari lived so long. If you love what you do for a living, there is less stress that will affect your health and I'm sure that he loved his livelihood.
Oh my - I know exactly what this feels like. I was once in a situation where I was obliged to use another drummers kit, at a concert, because of the hassles changing over between sets. All I can say it was probably the third-happiest 90 minutes of my life. The kit was a heritage Gretsch, with two (rather better than me) famous owners.
cool!
When playing the Strad, Sadie's expression was unbridled delight!
My daddy was a fiddle player. He would come home from work, pick up the fiddle and pretty soon he'd be sound asleep playing the fiddle the whole time. He was really a fine player of the style. He won several awards at fiddle competitions.
Jimi Hendrix & another famous guitar player used to play until they fell asleep 👍
I think as much as he strived for perfection he also wanted them played..i think that passion is what allowed him to live so unusually long for those times..
This is where the expression " stop fiddling around with that... you'll break it." comes from.
You can hear it in the curator's voice. He is VERY nervous!
wow that is like handing a guitar that jimi hendrix played to a kid for his first lesson
Ron Cornett sounded the same as well
I love how the classy, high-strung violin has a fun-loving kid brother named the "fiddle".
I am British, but love violin 'blue grass' style!!!
@@user-mm8vw1ow1x or a Spanish guitar
"Sounds like someone hitting a baby with a cat"
You cut the part at the end where she tells him "I done tole you once you SOB I'm the best that's ever been"
There are always minor variables between instruments. When I play a different instrument I always hit the scales to find them and adjust.
A fiddle played with love is a true instrument .
Great to see you play these fine violins. You sound like a great player too.
The way she just grabbed that violin from his hands made me nervous
That violin is BREATHTAKING
This is like going offroading on a mud trail in a Rolls Royce.
I love the sound of Tommy Jarrell's Fiddle so fun and authentic.
I love Old Time Music.
What a super cool thing for a young musician to be able to experience. I liked this a lot.
I thought the title was gonna say, "watch what heppens when a fiddle player is high"
She comes accross as a great girl, even when the cat gut strings hampered her playing she didnt let it phase her at all, good for you girl
The gut strings are made of sheep's guts.
@@vincenthuang5635 I suspect that change was a slight fabrication for the benefit of sensitive UA-cam viewers.
@@vincenthuang5635 cat gut = cattle gut
@@Sporkmaker5150 They do have a Special sound.
Growing up in Phoenix my teacher had an Amati Viola on which he often used raw gut strings. I played on them too and they're constantly stretching and drying out.
Allowing Sadie to "play" the Stradivarius is like strapping a thoroughbred horse to a plow.
One thing you'll never here is: "That's the fiddle players' Mercedes parked over there!" 🤣🤣🤣
Ah. That’s probably opposite of true. Classical is under appreciated. Try this listening to 10 pieces of each genre and see how far you can go without going insane. I can do classical all day but fiddle style (country, bluegrass, etc) about 5 min. But face it. Country is way more profitable.
A “fiddle” player friend of mine parks her BMW over there.
A horse with No Name
her husband must have a good job, then😜
Throwing pearls before swine...
@@thefreedomwarrior Oh, I took it to mean they'd never spend that kind of money on a car when they could spend it on a fiddle, or lots of fiddles xD
Oh my! I bet she loved every second of that! I know I would!
That Tommy Jarrell fiddle is supposed to sound like a poor man's fiddle. It does.
obbzerver it also depends on how good the person who's playing it is
Which is why Tommy Jarrell is seen as such a great player. Coming from the time, and his background, he didn't have to option of a quality instrument, but had to focus and dedication to learn this one instrument intimately and get the very best from it. There cannot be more than a handful of people who could make it sing as he did, if anyone, and almost certainly no-one just picking it up 'on spec'. Making nasty observations about someone having the chance to share that instrument, and her luck, with us shows their lack of maturity, critical thinking skills, experience and knowledge of Jarrell himself.
Mark Mansell the person playing doesnt seems to have a nice one
@@manfred7657 The Tommy Jarrell Fiddle actually has Geared Tuners, so it's easier to tune, yes because Friction Pegs are way too obsolete.
That intonation though..
Ken Slowick's one of the nicest guys in the world and has one of the best jobs ever.
You're someone special, Hon. Great to watch.
Glad to find a journalist who can play. In the early ‘80s I started learning to play as stress relief for publishing a small -very small - weekly newspaper in South Georgia. About the same time, the editor of Atlanta Magazine took up the same instrument and wrote a couple of columns about it. A couple of years ago I called to ask how his skills were coming. “The family asked me to stop playing” he admitted. I am still trying to play.
Once in a lifetime experience. Love it.
She got that thang back there
Well, no offence, but Alison Krauss should have been the "fiddler" to play that Strad.
Cool and fun experience! Thanks for sharing!
Can you imagine how nervous she was? OMG!
she didn't seem nervous at all. i don't think she *fully* understood what she was getting her hands on.
it's honestly not that big of a deal to play a strad. take a trip to one of the big luthiers who have them. ask to play one. it's that easy. at least it was for me.
Completely. I think thats why she struggled with the tune.
I think he was more nervous. For good reason.
Hahaha I can feel how happy she was. That's a nice experience :)
Imagine what an excitement it must be from the violins' point of view...getting a chance to play a whole new form of music that they've never played before. If instruments could talk I bet those ones would say that was an awesome day for them. I see a lot of people in the comments trying to be gatekeepers, trying to pretend like they get to say who can play what music on which instruments, and, well...that ain't how music works! Awesome vid!
If instruments could talk, that one would be calling rape!
Listen to Bach then listen to bluegrass then listen to Ravel then bluegrass then listen to Prokofiev then bluegrass. Then tell me what music would be more worthy for a 20 million dollar violin.
Aaron, you missed the point completely! No one will argue that folk music taken on average has greater technical complexity or nuance than pieces composed by some of the greatest classical maestros of all time. I'll say it again: Imagine it from the violins' point of view. You're used to playing one kind of music your whole life, and then all of a sudden someone comes along (in this case the lovely lady from the Washington Post) and opens your world to a whole new genre! Every genre of music has unique structural and artistic qualities, and its own intangible spirit when you experience it. Nothing else can replace it. Even the finest classical music cannot be all-encompassing, nor would its creators have committed the folly of believing so. Indeed, many of them were enthusiasts of folk music and composed pieces based on folk music. A violin is born to be played, to bring music alive, and these violins are some of the finest ever made. Those violins had a good day, the music they played had a good day, the people in the video had a good day, I had a good day watching it, and I feel badly for those who actually get upset at this kind of intermural beauty.
No. An instrument is made to be played. And while stradivarius sound incredible and nowadays make million when sold, the Violins when first made a normal person could by them. While it is continuously hard to find actual numbers, his more expensive instruments sold for the yearly wage of a musician. Considering he made over 600 instruments that are still around (and very likely more that have been lost) a lot of them were less that that. There is nothing "holy" about those instruments that only the "best" should play on them. They are just very well made and old, thus expensive and unreachable for your normal Violinist.
Aaron exactly
Well done! Congratulations!
About time those instruments were truly played
Looked like a lot of fun!
I'd rather own Tommy Jarrell's fiddle if I had my pick.
I like how she is wearing a bustle to be authentic 19th century while playing the vintage instrument.
Jesus, that's like putting a NASCAR driver in the #722 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR.
Love it..God bless you always
A chemist discovered the anti-wormwood worm, pest chemicals used in the trees to save them from worms, was absorbed into the roots & transferred into the tree trunks for years making the wood resonate the way it does. That wood is now, re-creditable making more of these violins available in 50 years if someone makes the effort.
Bile them Cabbage Down? They put a Stradifuckingvarius in your hand and and all you could think of was BILE THEM CABBAGE DOWN???
What is the difference between a violin and a fiddle .... A fiddle is a violin you don't mind spilling beer on ...
:) In session, that has to be a sad reality :) A classically trained friend of mine, who started playing folk, told me that the main difference between a fiddle and a violin is how high in the air the player sticks their nose :)
one went down to georgia
I asked my dad about this ... "Son, violins are what the English were playing whilst we were shooting at them during the siege of Mafeking, and a fiddle is something the Yanks play". Good enough answer.
A violin has 'strings', a fiddle has 'strangs.'
They are the same instrument.
Wow! Sadie sets that fiddle....ummm, I mean VIOlin....omFIRE!
Tommy Jarrell is the King of Old Time Fiddle and Round Peak Music.
Merely a 'king'? I think not :)
Black Diamond Fiddle Strings would've been a good match for both instruments. Tommy Jarrell popularized the use of machine head tuners.
The Tommy Jarrell Fiddle has mechanical pegs on the Scroll which makes it easier to restring and tune.
I think that is really interesting I didnt know there was that much of a sound difference.
I think the sheep gut strings were trickier for the sheep than her.
I bet you had to pre-qualify before they let you get NEAR these instruments, but I'm surprised you tried that pluck at the end.
poor handle, you have feel the history of the violin
this is like watching those idiots with supercars get in crashes, just because you can doesnt mean you should
Hmph! Thoroughbreds may be faster but a fine well bred Clydesdale is equally magnificent.
And that's what he's saying. They are both great animals but they have different jobs to do, and different personalitys to go with that job.
Didn't know you could murder a violin
What a thrill, for any musician, to be able to play such an instrument. "Good on'ya, Girl"! Nicely done.
Boil Them Cabbage down, on a Strad!? Okay then. I will laugh with her.
Sadie got some back!
Great job!
What a great opportunity!
That Stradivarius violin sounds like an intermediate modern violin.
Reminds me of an old joke. Someone said "I came across this old fiddle, it had some strange name in it, Strod or Strada, somethin' nother. Anyway, I painted it blue....
That joke makes me hurt to my core
LMAAAI
Stradivari had Irish relations, the O'Stradivaris who emigrated to the USA and played
Bluegrass fiddle on his instruments.. the band was called The Strado-Casters.
and they then, moved to California, where a Fender employee married one of the
daughters, and the Stratocasters became famous.... hope this clear up the
confusion....
I’d sure like to have a shot at playing those fiddles , but I’m sure there not any different than mine except price and history. Good going little lady , I’m sure in about fifteen minutes a piece you would have got used to playing them. Every fiddle player sets up his fiddle differently, not all but some do.
she is handed a Stradivarius...and she plays this peasant music..!!!!
The sound...wow
0:55 Plays Boil them cabbage down
the difference between a violin and a fiddle is, the violin has strings. The fiddle has 'STRANGS.'
Rob H I understood that reference
There are other important differences. For instance, when you're buying one, it's a fiddle, but it magically becomes a violin when you're trying to sell it.
The difference between a fiddle and a violin ........a fiddle burns for longer !
This is like driving a hearse in the Indy 500.
Pretty sure if you gave her an hour with it, she'd be making it sing. For those asking, fiddling is the style of play and a fiddle is to a violin what an "axe" is to an electric guitar.
OMG I thought she was going to break it.
OMG! The caboose on this woman! I want it! And her talent. I would marry her.
Some say that Antonio Stradivari didn't make one instrument himself. He had a team of makers. It would take more than a lifetime to turn out 1100 violins as the sole maker.
the Stradivarius was *SCREAMING IN AGONY* at her *HAM HANDED* Playing*
I hope Stradivarius appreciated this and did not turn in his grave.
Tommy was invited to play a Strad there in "Sprout Wings & Fly" and he didn't like it either.
Love playing boil'em Cabbage Down on one of the most expensive violins in the world lol. Honestly, it's a mood. As a fiddle player, I'd prolly play Cherokee Shuffle. I think that's pretty much THE go-to song when testing instruments😂
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1:17 That Tommy Jarrell Fiddle has Geared Tuners like a Guitar rather than Friction Pegs (which explains why there are no fine tuners on the Tailpiece) so it makes the instrument easier to tune (from the look & sound), plus a string winder will make stringing it even quicker & smoother. Every Violinist, Violist, & Cellist would much prefer Geared Tuners cause they're so much more accurate, & the Guitar/Bass Style Tuners in particular make the instrument look like it's going to hold tune. Double Basses used to have Friction Pegs but those have been replaced w/ Geared Tuners which are far more superior & easier to adjust.
What a difference in tone color between the two!
Just remember kids a fiddle is just a violin that didn't go to college.
'Boil Them Cabbage Down' I believe she's playing...
She's great.
Her giggle is so transmissible! I could definitely feel the giddiness of the moment. The excitement of playing such an instrument is real!
Hunny got a fine thumper on her
She played us like a damn fiddle!
Very nice.
It’s kind of like putting a full-blown NASCAR race car in the Indy 500 or Formula One. They just don’t go together!
Jesus! Such a lot of _nice_ people commenting here...
Glad you got to play the Strad Sadie, I'm sure it was a delight for you. For us electric guitar geeks, getting to play a 1959 Gibson Les Paul is a similar experience.
Yep. A lot of these comments are super gross.
I prefer Telecasters and original Danelectros, but to each his own. Nobody else can play a Les quite like Les.
+Clinton A Thanks for your kind reply.
+per aspera I'm not not the one who's in any misapprehension of the facts bud. In 1959 there were only 643 Bursts shipped, and though the early bursts started in '58 and culminated in '61 with the advent of the "SG" shaped Les Pauls, the totals of those early ones still are estimated at less than 1500. And again, _I wasn't comparing the instruments directly._ Your analogy of P-51to Blackbird was quite apropos. For someone who's ga-ga for powerful piston motored prop planes, the Mustang's the cat's meow. Blackbird for those who drool after super-jets. _The appreciation factor in either case is equal for the recipient, whichever one they favor!_
Btw, unless your "63 Les Paul" is from another reality, you're a liar as well as a condescending asshole.
Gibson quit producing the traditional shaped Les Paul in 1961 and didn't begin producing them again until 1968. How 'bout that for some facts...
per aspera ad astra ¿ thats the thing, mr gerson wasnt making a direct comparison, he was saying to a guitarist thats about as close as it gets, both the “holy grail” of each instrument. My favorite guitarists are duane allman, alex lifeson, frank zappa, gary moore, jimmy herring, jimmy page, jeff beck, i could go on. Im still pretty positive there were no les pauls made in 63, unless it was 62 sg body shape that was sold in 63. Is yours an SG shape? Im a proud les paul player too. Ive got an 86 custom with tim shaw pickups. But im sure its got nothing on your mystery 63 les paul {wink}
the sound of the STRAD is way way wayyyy more sweet and clear sound, IS NOT DIFICULT to here 😊👍
You played a Stradivarius like a fiddle? Poor thing. Its still recovering from the shock.
😂😂😂
Acctually a good thing. They need to be played or else they "die". A little bluegrass won't kill it.
Just imagine what would Martin Hayes do with that fiddle.
Or Caoimhin o Raghallaigh.
It would have been awesome to watch an Appalachian fiddle player showing the European aristocracy how to play the violin.
I hope the conservator knows to clean all that rosin off the varnish!
I once played “Chopsticks” (rather poorly) on a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Piano. I was summarily dismisses from the hall.
There is a shop in Cincinnati where the owner often lets people play his Stradivarius. I declined because I am not good enough to get the better sound out of a high end instrument. I'm just happy to be on pitch with anything.
You should give it a try when you feel a little more confident as a player. Finicky high end instruments tend to amplify your faults so playing one can show you where you need to focus some attention ( as well as make you cringe and die a little inside from embarrassment :) )
Mark Mansell I just though about dropping it lol.
*grins* :)
Where is the shop? I live in Cincinnati
A shop owner in Cincy owns a Strad??? He lets people play it?? Why do I have a hard time buying into that?