Watch what happens when a fiddle player is handed a Stradivarius violin
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 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?
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.
When playing the Strad, Sadie's expression was unbridled delight!
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.
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!
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..
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 love the sound of Tommy Jarrell's Fiddle so fun and authentic.
I love Old Time Music.
Great to see you play these fine violins. You sound like a great player too.
You can hear it in the curator's voice. He is VERY nervous!
"Sounds like someone hitting a baby with a cat"
This is where the expression " stop fiddling around with that... you'll break it." comes from.
What a super cool thing for a young musician to be able to experience. I liked this a lot.
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
A fiddle played with love is a true instrument .
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
Oh my! I bet she loved every second of that! I know I would!
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"
Once in a lifetime experience. Love it.
This is like going offroading on a mud trail in a Rolls Royce.
The way she just grabbed that violin from his hands made me nervous
You're someone special, Hon. Great to watch.
There are always minor variables between instruments. When I play a different instrument I always hit the scales to find them and adjust.
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.
That violin is BREATHTAKING
Hahaha I can feel how happy she was. That's a nice experience :)
I thought the title was gonna say, "watch what heppens when a fiddle player is high"
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.
Cool and fun experience! Thanks for sharing!
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
Looked like a lot of fun!
Ken Slowick's one of the nicest guys in the world and has one of the best jobs ever.
Well done! Congratulations!
Allowing Sadie to "play" the Stradivarius is like strapping a thoroughbred horse to a plow.
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 CZcams viewers.
@@vincenthuang5635 cat gut = cattle gut
@@Sporkmaker5150 They do have a Special sound.
I'd rather own Tommy Jarrell's fiddle if I had my pick.
Didn't know you could murder a violin
About time those instruments were truly played
That intonation though..
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.
Love it..God bless you always
Bile them Cabbage Down? They put a Stradifuckingvarius in your hand and and all you could think of was BILE THEM CABBAGE DOWN???
Great job!
I think that is really interesting I didnt know there was that much of a sound difference.
She got that thang back there
poor handle, you have feel the history of the violin
The sound...wow
What a great opportunity!
She's great.
What a difference in tone color between the two!
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.
It took weeks to talk them into it!
Very nice.
What a thrill, for any musician, to be able to play such an instrument. "Good on'ya, Girl"! Nicely done.
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
Jesus, that's like putting a NASCAR driver in the #722 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR.
fun video! thanks
Well, no offence, but Alison Krauss should have been the "fiddler" to play that Strad.
Tommy Jarrell is the King of Old Time Fiddle and Round Peak Music.
Merely a 'king'? I think not :)
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😂
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.
I like how she is wearing a bustle to be authentic 19th century while playing the vintage instrument.
This is like driving a hearse in the Indy 500.
Her giggle is so transmissible! I could definitely feel the giddiness of the moment. The excitement of playing such an instrument is real!
The Tommy Jarrell Fiddle has mechanical pegs on the Scroll which makes it easier to restring and tune.
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.
Good for you Sadie
She played us like a damn fiddle!
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.
Wow! Sadie sets that fiddle....ummm, I mean VIOlin....omFIRE!
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....
Black Diamond Fiddle Strings would've been a good match for both instruments. Tommy Jarrell popularized the use of machine head tuners.
'Boil Them Cabbage Down' I believe she's playing...
FUN! Jim
she is handed a Stradivarius...and she plays this peasant music..!!!!
That Stradivarius violin sounds like an intermediate modern violin.
Sadie got some back!
Ken Slowik, what a great guy.
I think the sheep gut strings were trickier for the sheep than her.
There is a room upstairs, in the World famous Ashmoelian Museum, in Oxford, full of these incredibly beautiful and highly prized Stradivarius instruments.
There is something about the lustre of the varnish, and their construction, that signifies their special instruments.
this is like watching those idiots with supercars get in crashes, just because you can doesnt mean you should
'LET ME FALL'
Go Tommy!
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.
OMG I thought she was going to break it.
Wow she didn’t even give her thoughts on it
I hope Stradivarius appreciated this and did not turn in his grave.
Very cool
You just see her fingers twitching--"Just hand it to me and shut up!!!
She played it like a damn fiddle
I once played “Chopsticks” (rather poorly) on a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Piano. I was summarily dismisses from the hall.
Oh, that poor Strad !
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.
Just remember kids a fiddle is just a violin that didn't go to college.
OMG! The caboose on this woman! I want it! And her talent. I would marry her.
Boil Them Cabbage down, on a Strad!? Okay then. I will laugh with her.
Rock it Sadie!
A Violin is a fancy Fiddle and a Fiddle is a Hillbilly Violin.
Itzhak Perlman considers himself a fiddle player
It would have been awesome to watch an Appalachian fiddle player showing the European aristocracy how to play the violin.
Try recording them from the same distance. The Stradivarius clearly had the mic palced much closer whereas with the fiddle sounds like the mic was fixed to the camera sveral feet away. This will account for a far greater sonic difference than the violins themselves.
Helllllooon Sadie😳😍