True...
Or...
...false.
- True or false! True or false! - Yeah!
- We all wanna know! - Dun dun dun!
Alright guys, we're gonna play a game of "True or False".
We should have, like, little signs.
That'll be cool.
- Alright, yeah, if we hold up our...bow, it means true. - Yeah.
- We hold up our violin, it's false. - Yeah, okay.
Because the bow is the true way of making sound.
Ooh!
True, and false.
The loser has to perform a sacrilegious violin playing for you guys.
- Yeah, something really sacrilegious. Done. - Yeah.
Alright.
How intense is this gonna get?
Don't know. Let's go, let's go.
Question number 1.
Oh, no! *chuckles*
That sounds about...
- True. - Actually, no, we shouldn't discuss.
True.
- *screams* - *laughs*
- False! Oh, dude, he wrote it when he was five! - That was a trick question!
- How am I supposed to know his age?! - First documented composition, a Minuet and Trio KV I.
Wow...!
What a Ling Ling.
I thought something was off with the six.
It's too...too old.
*chuckles*
It's too old.
Actually, I don't know.
I think he was partially deaf.
- He wasn't completely deaf. - Yeah.
- False! - Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I thought so, yeah.
Yeah, by his ninth one. Maybe even his eighth.
- He lost all hearing. - All, all of it, yeah.
- Amazing that he composes. - I know.
Isn't it so fascinating? Next one!
Ohhhh.
- That seems such a specific thing that it almost has to be true. - Are they like—yeah.
I'm with you guys on the viola.
*chuckles*
- Yeah, same, same, same. - I'm with you guys on the viola.
False.
- Oh... - Schubert played the viola. Oh...
- You know why I thought that? Quartets. - 'Cause of...of...
- Yeah, quartets, he writes so many...yeah... - He writes good parts for the viola.
- I wanted to think he said that, - *chuckle*
but I'm like, "No, violas, I trust in you guys."
And, actually, ironically,
a lot of good composers play the viola.
Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart.
- They gotta know their harmonies. - Mmm.
Viola gang!
- Yeah! Died of pneu— - No...!
- He did have a heart attack but he didn't die from it. - He didn't die...goddamn it.
- He had a heart thing and that was his fifth symphony. - Oh, you pranked me.
"Ta na na na—", that was his heart having, like, palpitations.
I had pneumonia as a kid.
- Good thing to be alive in the 21st century, guys. - Mm-hmm.
See, a lot of things we take for granted!
We even have this video.
Hello.
Alright, I got to catch up.
That is so...
...randomly specific, that I'm going to go with "True".
- I think true. - Yeah.
- Oh!!! - It is true, yeah!
I can't say it—
- Wow... - That's so funny.
That's so iconic.
That is iconic.
That's the thing with multiple choice test in exams.
It's not a test of if you know the knowledge,
it's a test of how well you can guess the examiner's, uh, intentions.
Yes, yes.
- It's like, "Hmm..." - "Hmm..."
- "Going by this question, it's probably true..." - "Yeah, it's probably just 'true' to throw us off."
Yeah.
I know Kreisler did something.
There's a story about Kreisler after he heard Hiefetz,
- but I don't know if he broke a violin. - I think there's a story.
He was like, "Holy..."
I say false.
- I'm gonna say true. - Okay.
Actually, no, he wouldn't though, he's a musician.
- He wouldn't— - You never know.
Is the examiner playing games with us now?
- False! - Yeah...! Kreisler...
That's right, yeah! He said "We might as well—"
"We might as well—"
We made a video on this!
I was like...
*laughs*
- And that's why I thought, like, smashing violins. - Yeah...!
Alright, that was really dumb on my part.
Obviously, he'd never smash violins.
- That sounds like a typical Ling Ling, so yes. - Yeah, I think true, I'll go true on that one.
Yeah...!
Be like Paganini's fath—
No, don't.
If you're a parent, encourage your kids.
And if you're a kid, keep practicing.
I mean, it was the same with me.
I wasn't allowed to eat.
It was just my mum set like, just 30 minutes.
- Yeah, I know. - As a kid.
- Now we're here— - If it was 4 hours, we'd be Paganini.
Now we're here making YouTube videos.
*sighs*
They all had STDs, right?
Schubert, Schumann, yeah.
But Sibelius?
- Fine, I'll go 'false'. - I'll go 'false'. I think 'false'.
- False. - Yeah!
That's right, too cold in Finland.
*snickers*
Whatever that means.
- *snickers* - Whatever that means...
I think he would. He seems like a guy that would.
- He likes Mahler. - Yeah.
- Yes. - Yeah.
There you go.
- Yeah, sounds about right. - You know what, it's...
We played on 7 famous Strads already.
- Yeah, probably 8 already, 9... - Yeah.
I'm sure Menuhin did, he was a great master anyway, so.
- True. - Of course.
Yeah, yeah...Khe...yeah. Famous violins.
See, that depends.
- Highest price by selling price, or actually got bought. - ...sold.
- Ahh, yeah. - Because it didn't get sold.
- Yeah, that's true. - Because someone just tried to sell it for 45 million.
But that says highest priced, not highest sold.
- Ah, I see. - I [go with] 'true'.
But if this is a trick question...
...damn you.
- Yeah, I'll go true. - Yeah, yeah.
True, oh.
...but was never sold.
What a viola thing to do.
I know. You know what,
we're just gonna stand above all the bullying,
and just put you all back down.
- *snickers* - *evil chuckle*
Whatever that means. *laughs*
Viola gang!
I mean, 2017 sounds about right.
I would believe it, true.
I would believe, yeah.
I mean, it was 2017, guys.
There was a petition for everything.
Oh.
*sarcastic chuckle*
Take my word back.
- Joke's on us. - Joke's on us!
Joke—
I will say, though, violists...
...are cool in the sense that they take it well.
- Yeah. I mean... - Any other instrument are like,
"Wah wah, don't you dare make fun of us."
and violas are just like,
"We're chill, man, like..."
"Make fun of us all you want,"
"'cause we're gonna come back one day."
Or more like, "Make fun of us all you want,"
- "we got a job in the orchestra." - Yeah...!
*laughs*
What's the definition of vegetable?
Like, is...tree...
(both) ...a vegetable?
I think edible, probably.
Hah...?
You have to eat vegetables.
Like, you cannot not eat a vegetable.
Nah, I'm just trying to imagine, like,
what would you make a violin out of?
Like spaghetti strings?
Mushrooms?
Like, wong bok for the body?
*laughs*
How would that work?
Paste a little, like, corn.
- Some, like, asparagus, somewhere. - Oh, the scroll.
I think it's false.
- Same. - False.
I find it hard to believe it's possible but—
This could be a trick.
Ohhh!!!!
Are you serious?
Dude, you play on it and then you eat it,
- that sounds kind of unhygienic. - It's disgusting, yeah.
- It's been under there, like, sweating... - *groans*
...blowing at it.
*groans*
See, I would argue that's not an orchestra.
It looks more like a band.
2018, last year. What happened last year?
I mean, we went viral last year so... *chuckles*
I guess so, but I don't know if we, like,
played a big role in classical, maybe, I don't know.
- That was a joke. I'm totally not claiming it's us. - Yeah, yeah...
- Yeah. - It's not us.
I like to think classical music grew faster.
Yeah, I don't know, but I like to think it as well.
- Yeah. - True.
- I'm scared of getting disappointed by this. - I know.
Ohhh!!!!
Guys, we're creating a revolution!
- Wow!!! Whoa!!!! - Classical music is growing!
- Faster than any other— - Whoa!!!
Whoa!!!!
That's awesome.
That's amazing.
Guys, keep it up.
Whoa, that's hard. Like...
- Is this a trick question? - It sounds believable,
- but then I can think of other... - I think it's a trick...yeah, I think it's negative.
Dude, clas—like, Pachelbel's Canon.
I think it's true because Pachelbel isn't a concert work.
You wouldn't hear it...
- Oh, it's a concert work, ah... - But you already said false. *sneers*
- NO!!! - *laughs*
Are you serious???!
Whoo, I'm one up!
Bernstein's West Side Story!
*gloats*
Serious?!
Is West Side Story even in the public domain yet?
The orchestra should be playing...paying so much royalty.
Woohoo I won!
But what defines a violin?
- Like, claim it's the first violin. - Yeah.
Okay, true.
- Just 'cause I need to make a point back, so. - Yeah... *chuckles*
- I need to take the opposite direction. - If I can lose, I'm gonna lose,
- but I need— - Yeah, I need to be different.
Midori!
- Ah, dude, I think I'm just panicking. - Power...
You're panicking *laughs*
No!!!
Woo!!!
It's a tuner, guys.
- I lost the last game we played as well. - Yeah, I know.
I love...
...viola.
Amati!
- I can still break even if you get both wrong. - You cool, Amati.
Yeah!
- Can't think, go. True. - True.
Damn it.
Hahaha I knew that.
True.
Yeah.
I don't know how it goes.
- True. - False.
- I like to think it's true.
Ooh! 9 in 10!
- See? Positivity. - I thought it would be less.
Dude, that's sick.
Practice revolution!
There's actually a lot of, like...
I do read comments sometimes.
A lot of musicians say,
"Thank you so much for the videos,"
"'cause I've started learning instruments."
- Yeah. - That's pretty cool.
I mean, every time we go to concerts, touring, everyone says that.
I think the more people that learn music,
the more love and joy there is in the world.
- Spread that wholesome positivity, guys. - Yes, practice revolution!
Practice, practice, practice!
So, I win, woohoo!
Not doing sacrilegious!
*groans*
What I gotta do?
Play a sacrilegious piece.
Whoa!!! Whoa!!!
Whoa!!!!
Nah, nah, nah, America's Got Talent.
*sensual beatboxing*
*laughs*
Ohhh, that was, uh...
That's on the story, now.
For the Instagram!
People are gonna see the story and they're gonna be, like,
'Oh, based on the story, I already know who lost.' - Yeah...!
*laughs*
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Uh, did you play along with us?
We hope there's some quirky facts in here.
- I'm actually just very um, like happy, about all those facts. - Yeah.
They're really cool.
I'm really happy.
It's taking a good turn. And I want to keep this going.
And with the help of everyone.
*blows a kiss*