Different Size String Quartet
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I think their chairs should've gotten smaller every time they dropped a size
that would be epic
And tee-shirts!
no its actually a bit of camera trickery they are actually getting bigger along with their chairs and are forced to play on their increasingly smaller instruments
And make the music smaller......🙃
Cello gang supports this idea!
I love how Brett becomes smaller while playing.
I-
They even went to the trouble of getting a 1/2 size brett
I thought his glasses were not enough and he had to get closer 🤓
LOL, he actually does become smaller. Didn't think that was possible. (although, to be truthful, he's still taller than I am)
He is a smol bean who is 29 years old
imagine an entire orchestra playing a piece with 1/16 size instruments
* laughing in the piano 😏*
@@knownanonymous1691 *glances at toy piano*
@@SodiumChloride_NaCl but that's not technically getting smaller because it doesn't have the 88 notes.
It's like having a violin with 2 strings instead of 4.
It would be cute and horrible at the same time Hahahaha
Yeah but when you have adult size hands on an itty bitty instrument you can't necessarily play all the notes you could on a full size. I'm willing to bet that the distance between say an A and A# on a 1/16th is a few millimeters. Rather than a toy piano, a piano without the black keys may be a better comparison.
I think the cello is having the least problems, the violins are sounding like rubber chickens
I agree, but the two smallest ones sounded more like a viola than a cello. Especially the 1/8 one.
cello pog
I'll give this to the chickens. Especially those from TSV older videos.
cos the cello is bigger and lower, it can't sound as screechy haha
That's because cellists have already been doing this shit with their friends' violins for years
On a serious note, we need more of TwoSet String Quartet! The full size part was actually so epic
FourSet
@@Guyoguy that should become a separate channel tbh. It will be pretty cool😊
Agreed!
Definitely!
Fourset Quartet
The string quartet started sounding like a strangled quartet
Lmao
Lol
😂
@@rosegranger2872 - I'd give this a second thumbs up if I could.
@@wickedcabinboy just a second one?! xD
The sound quality went from string instruments -> kazoos -> rubber chickens
Some of Two-set's earliest videos were on rubber chickens.
Actually, they never change instruments. They just switch out the performers for slightly bigger versions of themselves each time.
😂😂😂
How dare they bait and switch us!
Once they got to the 1/16 I couldn't stop laughing. I didn't expect it to affect also their tempo so much 🤣
1/16 is when it turns into a Shostakovich piece.
Amigo acabo de terminar de ver un video tuyo que haces aca
xd
They also sound like a hive of bees XD
Those tiny bows lol
Macakiux que haces por acá? 😅😅
All hail Nicole, THE VIOLA QUEEN, for having the fortitude to play with those two goofball violinists. :)
And Eddy crossing his legs while playing cracks me up. So casual!
I knew a girl who had to take her shoes and socks off while playing the violin. Apparently little foibles like that are pretty common...
He said yes m'lady I do play the violin
Well Carol, your 'likes' tally is way ahead of the Guy Without a Mustache!
This was so much fun for us and them, though. Amazed how child prodigies cope with the sound from such small instruments...
Well, whatever makes you most comfortable, short and long term, while playing an instrument (without sacrificing technique) should be pursued! You should make performing enjoyable for yourself too!
They should get Viola King and Viola Queen together and call them twosetViola
Developing brand new respect for child prodigies, they sounded so good even on a smaller instrument
Tbh, one of the main reasons that it sounds bad is that the instruments are too small for them, so their finger placement is wrong. It is also probably some fairly cheap instruments as well.
@@ferusskywalker9167 I understand that it is hard to play on a too small instrument as an adult, but I am also referring to the general bad sound quality of smaller instruments. I don't think makers would have made a really good violin in small sizes, yet the prodigies were able to do double harmonics or make high notes sing as we have seen on some previous episodes. I just thought it was an extra challenge when you are not playing on full size.
@@ferusskywalker9167 There are definitely just acoustic differences even just taking out any fingerings. If you hear them just play open strings the sound is still very tinny and not full at all, as there is much less room for air to resonate inside the instrument. I also agree that these probably aren't "top of the line" small instruments, if such a thing even exists, as that would be a complete waste of money since the child will grow out of it and most children aren't good enough to need a good instrument.
That’s because they are small too
Well the smaller instrument fits into their tiny kid hands.
At some point the cello sounded like a violin and everyone else were mosquitos
🤣🤣
The smallest instruments would sound great playing Bretts Lofi!
Omg yes we need a remix
That'll be epic!!
Or my field show “Desert Lightning”
Among all the jokes I sometimes forget what a nice instrument the viola still is. That full-size part of the video really reminded me how beautiful the viola can sound! :D
@Neutral Viewer ok comment til you finished with the unnecessary’dumb dumb’
@@susanbryant6516 I think was meant to be... cute😰😨
Last time when they play this piece, the viola's sound catches my attention and gosh it was really beautiful. Ever since I fell in love with the tone of it
@Neutral Viewer your on a CZcams comment section not in a concert hall,so take it easy
We are supposed to have fun here not agrue ✌️🙂
@Neutral Viewer Who hurt you?
Minjin was really holding it all together past 1/4, we Stan a talented cello
Ya'll Stan a good Cello.
Brett grew smaller with the instruments…
BAHAHA I DIDN'T NOTICE UNTIL I SAW THIS COMMENT😭 btw luv ur pfp
He is a 29 year old smol bean
Did he get smaller or just further away?
Edit He got smaller
Here is the timestamp that no one asked for:
0:44 4/4 size (you may want to come back to this after you finish the whole thing)
2:31 3/4 size (READY EDDY?)
4:24 1/2 size (here we go!)
6:04 1/4 size (Eddy's violin sounds like it's screaming in pain)
7:19 1/8 size (the first cry of newborn LingLing may even sounds better than this)
8:44 1/16 size (I thought this is a casual recording on any street in Manhattan at 12am)
10:51 grand ending (you are a qualified Twosetter now! But did you practice today?)
Thanks and yes, I did! Open strings.... Such admiration for violinists when you realise how hard an instrument it is to play but looking forward to the challenges ahead!
@@wakingtheworld I totally feel you! The way Brett and Eddy and other virtuosos play it is just so effortless but there is a long way to go before reaching their level! Let's keep practicing and we will get there (or somewhere nearby lol) eventually!
@@wakingtheworld g
Thanks lol
@@mentallyunstablernplssendhelp ✿✿ヽ(°▽°)ノ✿
That first piece was really good. Sounded amazing.
It's a privilege to reply to your comment first
i agree
@@tudor__ Too early in the day/night yet!
If ur everywhere and I keep seeing u, does that mean I'm everywhere? 😅 At least u dont troll!
Omg im so done we literally like the exact same things and i see u everywhere im so done /lh
Their math tutoring payed off with these fractions.
TwoSet MathTutoring
it's the way they play passionately even tho its on 1/16 instruments and completely ridiculous
In the spirit of “if you can play it slowly you can play it fast” I proclaim that” if you play it biggly you can play it smally”
*Flashbacks from when they played Navarra on different sized violins*
Yes!
@@xandraxandra1437 i loved that episode, so chaotic 🤣
That's one of my favourite videos of theirs!
@@sarahC19 me too! One of my comfort vids lol
@@sarahC19 same💖
The one video where Twoset is supportive of violists
Lets go places
Anyone else want a full 4/4 version after this? I mean they have kind of practised it anyway, so why not do a real recording?
How about inviting guests to their virtual world tour and play this quartet live?
@@tea_and_music YESSSS!
That is what I'm wishing every time they do this type of videos...
Yes please! T.T
Yes!
I feel like this was an extended excercise in not making eye contact because you just know you're going to fall apart if you do.
Brett's playing like he is putting all himself into the playing while Eddy's posture is just so manly.
godly*
I am very confused with the energy we have created in the studio today
@@ipsharoy7398 lol
Lol
After a year of watching 2set…my first violin lesson is in 2 days!!!!! I’m so excited!!! I hope I’ll be able to play as well as brett and eddy one day
Yet another TwoSet inspired LingLing wanabee! I've just started as well. I got off to a good start by busting my E string. Push the peg IN first before turning it! My tutor forgot to tell me. Rapid learning curve on re-stringing. But now playing the open strings... I too hope to play as well as them in 30yrs or so!
Good for you! :)
Good luck!!
Yay! It'll be hard at first but stick to it, you'll love it!
@@wakingtheworld Yeah busted my E string in my first week of lessons too! Cue frantic searching on CZcams for how to change strings. But as a result of that the YT algorithm gods led me to Olaf and TwoSet so it was kismet after all.
Is no one talking about how amazing the cellist is? She was getting an amazing, thick cello sound even at 1/8th size!
Pretty sure its a she
@@fadhilahzahran6786 you’re right, I’ll edit that really quick
This reminds me of my cello teacher's holiday party/concerts she would throw every year. She would invite all the families of her students and former students to perform something, and then at the end, all the former students had to borrow the smallest instrument they could from one of the young students, and they'd all play Jingle Bells. The result was much the same as here. 😹
Genius. Always remember your roots, no matter how torturous.
Pu
The size of the instruments become smaller, just like everyone’s intonation lol
One of the problems is their hands are too big for the instruments (which is why they all had less trouble with the 1/16th cello).
Not related but Minjin's hairstyle looks so good 😍
Agree!! Feels the same too!
I agree!
@@ipsharoy7398 she looks like the Airtle 4G girl's Asian auntie
@@noctopanda9576 oh I actually do see the resemblance lol
She has STYLE I love it
Gotta love how the smaller they go the more their playing divulges into absolute, unadulterated c h a o s.
r u b b e r c h i c k e n s
I would love to see the same quartet, but each size down they get replaced by a correctly sized prodigy.
I honestly don't know how they got through this recording without bursting out in laughter🤣. I would have died.
The end sounds as if they were just playing their own piece on top of each other at primary school orchestra practises.
It just got better and better all the way through. I wanted them to finish with the Merry Melodies theme and Eddie saying "That's all folks".
Underrated comment!!
That would have been so funny (and fitting).
Now Eddy can tell others he played the "small cello" before without sounding sacrilegeous.
Other ppl: You mean violin or viola?
Eddy: No, I mean small cello on my shoulder.
All jokes aside, the viola sounds really nice, especially at the start of the video
That mini cello looks UNCOMFORTABLE
We should have the different sizes but in reverse, from 1/16 to 4/4, so the sound get better as the instruments “evolve”
It's a good lesson in the importance of projection and resonance for the sound of a string instrument...
Only reason the cello sounded okay still though so small is because it still has room to resonate...
It could make for a fun example based lesson for a child
If this was a competition then the cellist surely won but that doesnt say that much since it still sounds like mosquitos
Sounds amazing!
Like something out of a horror movie...
Only one for musicians. Horror movies actually require great music most of the time.
So these 3-year old beginners sounding horrible - it's not their playing, it is the instruments!
Seriously, 3/4 still sounded really good. Then it went downhill fast...
I think when they're at 1/2 size they still sound okay-ish, but when they switch to 1/4 it drastically changes 😂 and the beginning of the 1/8 somehow sounds like a questionable erhu 😂😂
Okay that opening was chaotic as hell 😂😂😂😂
Brett's solo at 7:20 is impeccable
i don't know but if i'm not mistaken from tiktok, they shoot this video like 2 days ago, they edited and upload it really fast, just wanna say thank you for your hard work guys!!
Editor-San is amazing
@@rawrrr9763 You beat me to it :)
All hail Editor-San!
Editor-san needs to work so they give her food in the basement
The 1/16 version is a nice experiment of microtones.
At 1/4 size, the sheet music starts ejecting itself.
The quality gets so bad the paper is frightened. :O
Dvorak wanted out of this mess
someone: you play the big violin right?
brett+eddy: no, only the small violin ;)
someone: what’s that?
brett+eddy: heh
is this the musical equivalent to sitting at the kids table at a family gathering lol
Violas finally getting some solo time.
I laughed so hard 😂
The way they look at each other trying to figure out which instruments makes that horrific noise and hoping it's not theirs 😅
This begins as musicians showing off their musical talents and ends in DEATH
And to think of the sound child prodigies are able to create with these tiny instruments.
I had kids who played violin. I endured these concerts for years. And I’m pretty sure they were playing full size instruments. Thanks for the memories. 😭🙃
I love how everyone’s posture just disintegrates the smaller they went just like my practice schedule.
I love that Brett tries to shrink down and make himself physically smaller to accommodate the instruments
As it drops in size, more rosin is on the fingerboard
And on Minjin's left leg XD
I love it when Twoset plays in Quartets. More of that please!
I'm giving bonus points to all the youth orchestras I've ever heard. Didn't realize how much harder intonation and clean full tones are to get out of the smaller instruments.
12:00 i died laughing editor-san is so funny 😂
Proves the theory that cellos are the secretly talented ones!!!!
It’s no secret!!
@@Weeping-Angel frick i blinked
The video we didn't know we needed. This was so fun to watch!
0:44 - 4/4 size
2:30 - 3/4 size
4:24 - 1/2 size (smooth transition by the way)
6:03 - 1/4 size
7:19 - 1/8 size
8:43 - 1/16 size (also love how Eddy just kinda gave up at the end of the 1/8 section)
Something writing this comment has made me really think about the fact that 1/2 string instruments are not actually half the size, and the same for every other size. Can any string players explain what the logic is behind the ratios in size of the instruments?
Sincerely,
Oscar Gill
A violin is measured from it’s shoulder, just beside the nose, to the edge by the end pin at the bottom, in inches using a tape measure.
Full size, or 4/4 on a violin measures 14”
3/4 - 13”
1/2 - 12”
1/4 - 11”
1/8 - 10”
1/16 - 8”
Violas, however, don’t have a ‘standard size’ as such, and anything from 15” - 17” is considered ‘standard’, with 16” being the most common.
I don’t know how smaller violas work, one of my friends learnt viola on small violins tuned down a fifth, so perhaps that. As a violinist who has only ever had one viola (because my school orchestra has a surplus of violins, and three violas, including me), I’ve never had to play any other violas than my full size one. I’ve never measured it but now I’m curious xD
Huge props to the viola for getting as much projection as she did from that teeny tiny little thing! As Brett and Eddy mentioned in a previous video, there are very few solo opportunities for solo viola, mainly because it's an instrument that doesn't project well at all. It takes SKILLS! Very well done! Color me impressed!
Lol they started sounding like they were playing Shostakovich string quartet towards the end 😂😂
Even though this exercise was amusing and interesting, the selection of the music was one that forced me recall what the heck it was. Yes, Eddy mentioned it at first, but I scanned around to find the text, and couldn't. Then I listened again to the beginning. Ah!
Dvořák - String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American" !!!
I chastised myself for recognizing the music, but not remembering the name. And I went to the 'Tube to find it, and even using Shazam!
Eventually I found it in my iTunes anyway, hehehe, and now I want to thank the quartet for reminding me about this luscious bit of music again! It will be an earworm for the next few days.
SALUT!
And right after that in my iTunes library was Symphony 7 of Dvořák, and now I am grooving to that. Nice Sunday Morning music!
👏👏👏🤩🤩👏👏👏 Thanks!
And then after Symphony 7, it led to a thrilling 1923 recording of Hamilton Harty conducting the Hallé Orch in Symphony 9, and then from that I found some interesting new music by Hamilton Hardy:
Piano Concerto
An Irish Symphony.
A word to any detractors of our Brett and Eddy. They have in the last few months led me to both new music and old music that might not have occurred if I had not taken the time to laugh and grin at this different size string quartet.
And add to them many others who do what some perhaps would consider weird or outlandish takes on music, such as Jacob Collier, and several others.
THIS IS HOW CLASSICAL MUSIC GROWS.
WE WANT MORE, Brett and Eddy!
amazing, thanks for sharing! i wish a great musical sunday for you :))
@@BFDT-4 Yep indeed... I often listen to the full version of pieces they play snatches of, and discover other TwoSetters doing likewise. One interesting evening for me was their 'Matching Classical Music to Famous Artwork' which led me to the Sculpty Works' reacting to it vid. He has a degree in Art and his choices of music were fascinating but then someone in those comments, who has a deep knowledge of music, threw in his opinion and these were more obscure pieces which I also listened to and imagined if they fitted the artwork better... or not. Of course it's all subjective. Next recommended was Sculpty Works' vid where he actually took up Brett & Eddy's challenge of assembling... or rather throwing together... a $60 violin. This was fascinating as he's a luthier and he took great pride in doing a top notch job. So one thing led to another and I wonder why even later nights are becoming the norm! I'm blaming TwoSet!! But it's all educational fun...
Tbh, Minjin still sound amazing on a 1/8 Cello! 8:25
the bow was so short that brett sometime run out of bow without him even realize 🤣🤣🤣
That moment where eddy took the violin off his shoulder 😭
I love how all the projection suddenly just disappears at 1/8 XD
If there was a soundtrack for my sanity for what happened during quarantine, it would sound exactly like this--slowly descending into madness
The 1/16 so small Min Jin marked her leg and was knee-gripping it without the endpin lol! Great show all!
2:30 It can only go downhill from here ...
Edit: I was not disappointed.
I think something important to mention is that the full size instruments in addition to being bigger, are also much higher quality. For example, you can find 3/4 size instruments that are really really good, but they just arent available to them in this video.
I thought it was really funny to see them play a violin that small and still managed to make music out of it 😂
4:52 you can see Eddy laughing because his bow fell off the string, proper bow management becomes so difficult on a smaller instrument
hooray minjin and Nicole are back!!
And in the end only the cello can use vibrato. Everyone else is in full blown survival mode. Noooo bow nooooooo bow. Fingerpiles galore. Love it!
Aw man, I remember when I was like 10 and small my teacher would tune my 2/4 cello and then instantly pull out a Dvorak concerto on it. He'd nail this challenge
11:12 HOLY MOLY I'VE WAITING THAT FOR A LONG TIME LOL
I love how the 1/16 cello still looks bigger than 4/4 violins lol
**B A S S**
I love how Brett’s still hella confused with the sound that’s coming out of his 1/16 violin after playing Navarra with it last year.
7:35 cello still has a respectable low voice!
My cat was seriously annoyed by the time they started playing on the 1/8 instruments 😂
They sounded great until the 1/4 size. I’m impressed! But really, nothing new here, I’m always impressed by Brett and Eddie, and company!
Wish to see the bloopers of this video (if there are any!) I was laughing so hard behind the screen. I can't believe how the players were able to hold themselves together
the moment when they stopped sounding like a string quartet and instead like a set of bagpipes
Omg the laughter behind the scenes must've been amazing when they had to switch to the smaller instruments. 🤣
They might as well call it "what a string quartet with exponentially decreasing sound quality sounds like."
Imagine if they would’ve played Canon in D on 1/16 size instruments 👰🏻♀️💀🤵♂️
I love how the cello just gradually animorphs into a viola
I love how the difference in sound isn't super dramatic with each drop in size, but you can definitely hear it progressively get worse to the point where I started to wonder if they were still playing the same piece
8:45 is what it sounds like when your entire DnD campaign is made up of halfling bards.
Nice video of Twoset to represent the viola 😊 showing love to the viola ❤
watching them trying to keep a straight face is literally priceless
The 1/16 sounds like ants crying.
Brett and Eddy mess around so much we always forget how good they actually are
of course there will be this type of annoying comment in every video of them playing. I don’t know which one is more annoying at this rate, your comment or the comments mentioning Brett’s dead face
@@mandch5990 omg im so sorry this comment must have made u feel SO angry and frustrated, what an inconvenience to u!
The music goes from beautiful to close to Brett's lofi to ambulance noises by the end
I love how hard they really try to make a sound out of those tiny instruments