Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
Today, we will be reviewing our childhood musical items.
Did you know I've been playing violin for...
Twelve years for me.
How old are you?
Twenty-two years for me.
Yeah.
- And twenty-four for you. - Like twenty-three, twenty-four for me.
So we've collected a lot of things.
For me not so much 'cause when we moved house
we threw a lot of it away or it just got lost.
So I only found a little bit but Brett's got a lot.
Yeah, it's weird. Some of the items, you see it...
You don't remember until you see it.
- Should we show our small violins first? So... - Yeah, show the...
- I found this... - Mine's smaller than yours.
Oh wow, what size is yours?
I think it's like 1/8th- 1/16th.
And look at this leather case.
That kind of looks cool in a vintage way.
- The metal's kind of all rusty now. - Same.
The zip.
- Oh, it's... - Whoa.
Look at that.
I even got the shoulder rest.
The sponge.
Dude, it must be disgusting.
This is a twenty-four-year-old sponge.
How old do you think you were?
Five or six.
This is your starting violin?
- This is my starting violin. - Oh, wow.
I think the glue just melted.
Look at the yellow s... Disgusting.
- Some melted varnish and a broken rubber band. - The rubber band for the sponge here.
The G's still kind of in tune.
Oh, guess what year it's made in.
1996.
You can see the stickers.
Remains of the stickers that every beginner usually has.
- Bro, look at that even... - I can't believe...
Even the leather's coming off now.
We can see the wood. It's not varnished there.
- You got the sticker points. - Yeah, the subdivision.
I remember, like, middle of the bow.
That's a weird subdivision, dude.
I feel like the middle is, like, here.
Maybe it's 'cause I was so small,
this was like a comfortable spot.
'Cause I know little kids just, like, swing it.
Or maybe your teachers can't measure distance.
Yeah, maybe the teacher's really bad.
There's still rosin.
- Maybe... - I don't even think this is legit wood.
- Oh, yeah, that wood looks pretty... - It's interesting.
- Like... - Yeah, yeah. It's not the wood you use to make violins.
They printed, like, lines over it almost.
Show the inside of the case as well.
- Look at that ancient case. - This is the inside of the case.
Blue, very nice.
Pretty cool case, though.
I want to see yours, now.
Dude, I had two bows.
Whoa.
Why do I have two bows at this age?
That makes no sense.
- You don't need two bows. - Eddy was starting to collect bows at a young age.
- Look, mine's golden. - Brett: Dude, dude.
Is this the same size?
Whoa.
- Mine's smaller. - Yours is smaller.
Oh, this is 1/4.
- It looks tiny for a quarter. - Yeah.
I don't know.
Oh, dude, the shoulder rest is like...
Ooh, that's disgusting.
Oh.
- It's like a bone that just cracked. - Just like...
I remember this used to be yellow and now it's black.
Dude, that's...
Nah, I'm not using the shoulder rest.
Yours is more in tune.
Good quality violin stays in tune for twenty-three years.
- Look at the hair, it's all yellow and it's disgusting. - Dude, is that like um...
I mean the metal part. What is that?
- Oh, god. It's, like, rusted. - Brett: It's just rust.
Hey, it sounds not bad.
Dude, it's resonating.
But I think it's resonating because all my strings
are tuned to G right now.
I'm so scared the string's gonna snap.
- Mine's louder, right? - Dude, that's resonant.
Wow!
What is this brand?
- That's a good freakin' starter violin. - Oh, what is the brand?
Dude, oh. TwoSet Violin brand. Nice.
But mine is bigger than yours, though.
That's true.
Slightly bigger.
Alright, that's about the only relic I have from the past.
But that's the most important one.
- Something you want to keep. - Starter violin.
I do have one more relic that I hold very dear to me.
Something from around when I was seventeen.
- So I'll show that when we get there. - Oh.
- We should go by like timeline, so... - Yeah, okay.
I want to show you my first music score I ever had.
Oh, keyboard.
This book- I actually still remember this book.
When I saw this, immediately I remembered
having all my lessons with this book.
My parents were writing stuff for me like...
"Semitone, tone, tempo."
Yeah, you can...
- Oh, wow. That's when you're in New Zealand. - New Zealand.
- Yeah, you can see the... - Your address.
Won't show it here but there's address stuff.
Oh!
That's the date, 1999.
Can you guys see?
I don't think they can see.
6th of March, 1999.
Some of you weren't even born.
Dude, I feel so old now.
- But this is the interesting stuff. - Wow.
I had this Yamaha kit from ages ago.
- It looks nice. - You know what I also learned?
Are you serious? You learned it officially?
No, I just played it.
Imagine if some, like, saliva bacteria
from twenty years ago is still there.
I'm not touching it.
- You like unleash some like... - Dude, look at that.
COVID-21 into the world by blowing it.
This is at least twenty-three or -four years old.
I like the case.
- It's a pretty cool case. I still remember the case. - It's really cool like if I was a kid I would show that off.
- I love this case. - Yeah.
That's why I still remember it.
- Like I just go... Yeah, look at that. Boom. - Eddy: Yeah.
That's sick.
This is the Yamaha kit.
Back in like 1999, there's always like...
- music classes after school. - Eddy: Yeah.
- So it's like Yamaha school's like a huge deal. - Ooh, is that a camera thing?
- I remember those. - No, are you ready, ready, ready?
A cassette tape.
Do you guys even know what this is?
This is ancient.
- Dude, this is some, like, vintage relic. - Yeah, it is.
Ooh.
I still remember these stickers.
When I was like five or six.
I still remember sticking them. The teacher's like, "Stick this on."
Putting all the right stickers
on the right instruments or something.
Yeah, look at all those instruments.
Dude, I actually remember this book.
So what is it like? Yamaha gr... Like...
It was like a group class.
In New Zealand or Taiwan?
This is in Taiwan.
What is this?
- Oh, that's like a... - Magnus?
One, two, three.
But look at this, I think I rage quit.
Oh.
Bro, what happened?
Eddy: The beginning of Brett's psychosis.
- Oh, yeah, yeah. - Oh, look at this.
Yeah, yes.
So that was...
That's cool.
Actually, no. I lied.
But yeah, we learned music on this too.
And then you had a piano.
Eddy: Oh, wow.
- Other way around. Yeah. - Eddy: That's kind of cool. Oh, can I see?
- Eddy: You stuck a Chinese bamboo flute on the C. - Brett: Yeah.
Brett: The next kit I want to quickly show you guys...
Whoa.
I remember, I think kindergarten, after school...
- Dude, that's sick. - Are you ready?
So, inside here, we have the triangle.
And also this.
That must've been so annoying.
Yeah. And this.
Oh, that's cool.
Imagine, like, a room of little kids...
- Oh, dude, it would've been hell. - Eddy: playing this.
Drumsticks.
This is my favorite.
I think it's broke.
Oh, that's why it's your favorite.
- You broke it. - Yeah, I still remember these two.
What's this wooden thing?
Oh.
Is it...
Oh, it's like those monks in Taiwan.
Yeah.
All the possible careers.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's an option.
I wish you good intonation.
Yeah.
Okay, and quickly just the same kit.
Oh.
- There's no in-between. Yeah. - There's no G sharp. Yeah.
No, I still remember these.
Yeah, that would've been so annoying.
- Okay, Eddy would be the annoying kid. - I like this. You can get your frustrations...
Eddy would be the annoying...
It took me so long to take all this out.
I'm surprised my parents still kept it.
- It's kind of nice, actually. Just like... - Yeah.
I mean, it doesn't mean anything to you guys but...
- We can show the music now. - Alright.
This black folder, I remember very much.
'Cause I spent, basically, my whole high school
with this black folder.
- I would just change whatever's inside. - You put it on top, right?
Yeah. Actually, this went... with me to uni even.
- Holy moly. - So...
You can see here, in the beginning,
- Saint-Saëns violin concerto. - Oh, yeah, I remember that.
That was one of my big competitions when I was sixteen.
I don't know whose phone number this is.
- Who Leon is. - Oh, no, he's the pianist.
- Oh, he's the accompanist. - I remember he's the accompanist, yeah.
You can see all these markings.
"Don't rush."
Yeah, you rushed it.
Don't rush it.
The one that really has memory for me is
the Prokofiev violin concerto.
- Oh, for your NYCC competition. Yeah. - Yeah, 'cause that was probably one of the...
concertos that I worked the hardest for in my whole life
- when I was seventeen for, like, a national-level competition. - Yeah.
I didn't win it. I won the state one.
That was my first concerto debut.
So many notes.
I don't do this anymore.
But back then... Look every bar had like...
all these notes.
"Keep this even," "Espressivo."
I still remember you playing that.
And you borrowed that violin too.
- Oh, that was a great violin. Degani. - Yeah, I remember that one.
Maybe in, like, I don't know, five mil subs, seven mil...
This page was messed up.
You can see how many markings are on here.
They all kind of just stack up.
And then, um...
Oh, yeah, I got some like random busking gig stuff
that I just put over because I needed a folder.
Dude, that folder's been through a lot.
And then my favorite.
- Brett: Oh. Oh, yeah, I still remember them. - AYO orchestral excerpts.
Oh, the Brahms.
Yeah, yeah.
But you can even see with these excerpts,
like, I practiced them a lot but
nowhere near thorough as the Prokofiev.
- The Prokofiev was like... - Yeah. Oh, but yeah, of course, like...
- every bar. - Dude, that was a whole national-level competition.
I think I spent like a whole year on that.
Yeah, this black folder. Lots of memories.
What's that, though?
If you're from a specific country, you'll know what this bird is.
That's not your handwriting.
My parents wrote all these notes for my first violin lesson.
And then look at the paper, it's like, all ancient and old.
Dude, you had to glue it on.
Yeah, back in the day,
you just glue the paper onto a scrapbook.
It's like super-duper old.
Lightly Row, Go Tell Aunt Rhody.
I think this is when I started Suzuki.
Couldn't afford the book so photocopied it.
This is also just another piano book.
Yeah, whatever.
I think this is the first one for violin.
- Dude. - Polend?
There was this, like, Saturday morning school,
and all the musicians went there.
You can see, concert 1999.
Ooh.
Brett, French Folk Song, Good King Wenceslas.
I can't say that.
And you can see everyone's names playing.
- Wow, yeah, that's a 1999 concert. Look at that. - That's pretty cool.
Do you remember the concert?
No.
I always hated those.
- 'Cause I get so nervous. - I remember doing an eisteddfod in New Zealand on piano.
Vaguely.
Who loves trinity exams?
Eddy: Electric keyboard.
Ew.
- Ew. - Just kidding, just kidding.
Okay, do you guys remember those, um...
"dress like your childhood" photos?
I found the ties.
You know like those footages of me performing in the
- black vests? - Oh, that's the tie?
These are the ties, yeah.
- No way. - I always brought them to eisteddfods.
And I still remember this.
So you just like...
I don't want to do it. It's going to rip.
It's pretty convenient, you don't have to tie it up.
- Put it around your collar. - Dude, adults should do this.
- I hate doing ties. - Brett: Why do your ties? Just do this.
And the last one.
I didn't bring any trophies but I got the medals.
- Oh, yeah, I had those. - Eisteddfod. Remember? Yeah, right?
- Yeah, Brisbane Eisteddfod, right? - Yeah.
So these are different, I think this is...
Beenleigh Eisteddfod.
- I had some trophies as well. Did you bring them? - Yeah, there's trophies, too. No.
I must have forgotten.
Yeah, I remember I used to have a bunch of trophies,
and you have a bunch as well.
Yeah.
- Silkstone Eisteddfod, 2005. - Eddy: Oh, wow.
JPC Stringsfest 2005, violin.
Anyway, that's just some of the medals.
That is the sound of practice.
Oh, yeah, also...
Oh, you did learn the recorder.
- Yeah, me and my brother shared a recorder, hey. - Ew.
Brett: Pretty disgusting. Not gonna touch it.
Alright.
That's enough for today.
- Trip down memory lane. - Brett: Yeah.
Not like it matters to you guys but...
Might be cool to keep some of your old stuff.
You might look back and be like, "Damn."
Yeah, I definitely wish I still had some of my old stuff.
See? Music is a long journey.
Yeah, can you imagine, like, when we're, like, eighty,
we're gonna watch these videos and be, like,
"These two stupid idiots."
"Haha, that's 4K? That's so bad quality."
"Now it's 6 billion K."
"Now is my deep dive virtual reality."
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
Anyway...
You know what you can't relive?
Not practicing, so you better go practice.