Violinmaking: A historic art
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- Musicians agree that the best violins are still the ones made three centuries ago in a small town in Italy. Dean Reynolds experiences the magic up-close with concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, and meets a Chicago violinmaker still creating instruments the old-fashioned way.
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Anne is gorgeous and so talented.
I love it that she keeps playing Vivaldi.
My first instinct was ¨OMG a Stradivarius¨ Hahahahahah 5:22
Anne is a strikingly beautiful woman and a amazing musician!
This is wonderfully interesting. I say, of corse they have residual residue and spirit from the masters who have played them. Myers is top notch, and she described the violins as vibrant and able to produce ranges of color, that give Myers a deeper innovation to immagination, with such rich, explicit, intonations. She canst not but create and flourish.
An amazing glorious Art...🎼🎼🎼
Awesome video! Thanks for allowing this educational and super cool video to remain available for viewing today. Take care and stay healthy. (Smile)
Just wonderful!
To me what Anne Akiko Meyers says around 1:30 is very significant. I own four violins, one I bought one I made and two carbon fiber violins. All of them communicate with me when I play. Both carbon fiber violins have a surprising amount of handwork in them and one maker actually saves certain acoustic tests from every violin he produces. If an inanimate object can have both personality and soul all four of my violins feel like they do when I play. Like many, I also have carbon fiber bows. Four in all and each is also unique. My most expensive one is a pleasure to play and my first is not vet good by current standards but was a revelation when I first tried it. All of my babbling is to try to say that the maker puts part of themselves in everything they make and wood is only part of the answer though I will admit to pondering over my wood selection for an hour or so when I bought the wood for the violin I made and then felt this enormous obligation to the wood to do my best making a violin out of it.
Sorry to rant on about this but Anne Meyers words were very significant to me.
Please continue to rant. I love your passion. Very nice.
Beautiful ❤️
I prefer the tone of the Guarneri any day to the Strad though. Deep, velvety, sad 🎻
I feel that way about the Amati viola.
This just lifts the heart now we're in this corona mess
Vieuxtemps Guarneri is absolutely gorgeous... simply stunningly beautiful.. I cant stand it.. its too much for my eyes...
next time when I go to a concert, i know what exactly i pay for to hear.
Thank all of you who have contributed to my vapid understanding of the Lire De Bracio and MISS Meyers for sampling some of the finest violins on the planet. ITS LIKE SHE SAYS, A FINE INSTRUMENT WILL ALLOW AN ARTIST TO TRANCEND REALITY.
Where is the ending,, need more,😅lol, thank you for the video, though,.
Comment: This can be compared to people. These Violins at times have great chemistry connection with some of its players. 2024
She’s my neighbor’s daughter
GUARNERI!!!!!!!!
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:D :D :D Guarneri=the best. Look at us Guarneri enthusiasts!
I believe we can still make this piece of art, its just that people nowadays are too much preoccupied with so many things around us. Unlike in those days, people have so much time to devote on their craft. Old or new is just relative. If a price tag of that instrument is more valuable what else do you expect? You tend to be more emotional...
I wonder what they sounded like with only gut strings 😮
what's the title of this piece in 2:38? :)
+Alfretch Ebuña prokofiev violin concerto no.2 first movement....
How are the strings changing colors in the middle of the Vivaldi piece? lol
Its just light reflecting off of metallic strings
it is because she switched from her Guarneri (with evah-pirazzi gold strings) to her Stradivarius (with peter infeld strings(i think))
@@hassaanahmed23 @violinsheets was talking about the winding at the end of the strings
@@danielphendarko2651 oh i see :)
Way to go Milwaukee :o
Guarneri and Stradivari for violinist are comparable to Gibson Les Paul and Fender Strat for rock guitarist. Am I saying it right?
What was the first and song she was playing
Bach - Air on the G String
anyone else amazed at how her strings are evah pirazi golds at one angle and then magically turn into PI strings at the other angle?
Physics Only
it was two different violin
The Evah Pirazzi Golds are on the Guarneri and the PI's are on the Strad
Who are these modern violin makers that rival Stradivari?
what's the music she is playing at 1:00 ?
It is Vivaldi, the so called Summer opus 8 no 2
Physics Only Summer 3rd Movement
Digan lo que quieran, pero entre un Stradivarius y un Guarnierius el sonido del segundo es muy superior; , tiene potencia, color y brilho, su vibración es más cálida y penetrante, produce matices inigualables.
Ya el Stradivarius es más famoso por su impecable construcción, maderas de calidad única y respecto al sonido diría que su principal característica es el "equilíbrio" perfecto entre graves, medios y agudos; pero aún así no es tan tocante cuanto el Guarnierius.
Prefiero un Guarnierius, es sin duda, el mejor de todos.
pienso exactamente lo mismo, pero leí un artículo no recuerdo en donde, pero para poder tocar un guarneri, debes ser un buen violinista ya que un stradivari es más sencillo de tocar, la razón es por que, si es mas potente el guarnerius,y como lo mencionas el stradivarius esta mas ajustado en cuanto a la proyección del sonido.
The dislikes are the viola gang 😝😂🤣
At 4:57 an absurd comparison is made. They would have had to test the group of violins, using a group of violinists, each one playing selected pasages on all the instruments. The violinists would have to have been:
1. Fritz Kreisler
2. Nathan Milstein
3. Heifetz
4. Erica Morini
5. David Oistrakh
6. Zino Francescatti
7. Gregory Dinicu or Enescu
It's like testing artists quality paint.
+almeronfilms Whoops, I left out Ruggiero Ricci....And I would include Isaac Stern, since he was a very tone quality oriented player.
+almeronfilms Oh yeah, big mistake.....
I left out Mischa Elman, who might be one of the best for comparisons.
You could use him on one end of the spectrum and Milstein on the other.
It is just my observation: every interview she had and even the narrator will always quote "a concert violinist" as a form of marketing. Sure she is one of the well known in the world. But I don't think it is because of her. I think it is with her management that they have already debriefed with narrators and the interviewer to quote her that. But many violinists not even Jascha Heifetz, Midori, Hahn, or Chang always have never heard of quoting them as "concert violinist" and just simply violinists because they all are concert violinists anyway
The guy looks like lestrade from Sherlock
It hurts every time he pronounces something wrong
Yeah...but will it blend? Also can it play Crysis? OK OK im leaving now...
She is an amazing player shame she hated teaching at UT Austin she thought the students weren’t up to her standards. Plus she owns all those violins it’s no “anonymous donation.” Everyone knows her husband bout them all. Great player she plays like no other.
Enjoyed this very much, until the concertmaster compared having an instrument stolen to watching one's child being kidnapped.
Oh god, way to take things literal. He said “maybe” and “or something.” He made a point about it being incredible painful. It’s only about the money for investors, for musicians it’s their voice. Violinists careers have been destroyed by losing their instrument and plunged into depression. it wasn’t that outrageous to put it that way.
The reality is that, unless you're comparing a really cheap violin to a really good one, they all sound 99% the same and the sound variation from one to the other is determined by the player rather than the instrument.Attributing the terms "dark" and "gutsy" and "ballsy" to her violin - it's all in her head.
Do you play?
Patricia Slocum
Yes. I do play. I’d hardly call myself an “accomplished” violinist - in fact, I wouldn’t even call myself a violinist. But yes, I play. I also play piano, so I have a pretty strong musical background. Most of what violinists say about the sounds of violins is highly, highly subjective, inconsistent, and not based in any objectivity, much less based in science.
@@mas3ymd Thank you. Perhaps the feelings are the ones stirred in her by the deepset anticipation of crescendoes and quiet passages, then on to bursts of fiery excitement. Just my opinion. I am not not much for science, but I am a creative. I do not play, as of yet, but I sing, write songs, novels, and poetry. Not that that means a hill of beans.
"No one has done it better"...Wrong...There were some maker whos violins were as good as sradivari. and the maker guarneri made some violins which are better then strad. violins. Paganini has several violins from strad and guarneri but always played the guarneri
Ann even prefers the guarneri.
@@branflakes2600 doubt that, in this video, she plays the best melodies on her strad. guaneris are power houses, but for the sheer sweetness of sound, its a strad any day. even copies of those instruments exhibits similar character.
funny things violins . no 2 sound the same no one has done it better ! guarneri were preffered by others of the time paganinis guarneri
Lord have mercy, he needs to work more on his research, especially pronunciation and names!! SMH
The way he pronounces some of those words make me angry. He definitely needs to work on that.
A violin could be worth one hundred billion dollars if some rich fool wants to pay that kind of money.
expensive violins are auctioned and because of that, it could be possible
Where is the ending,, need more,😅lol, thank you for the video, though,.