Hey, what's up?
How's it going?
Welcome to another episode of TwoSet Violin.
So today we uh...
So we just found a bunch of weird clips
of weird musical instruments.
And we thought we'd just get inspired.
Okay.
Music is about creativity and getting inspired,
- so... - Music is about inspiration.
Let's get inspired by some...
weird, weird instruments.
Wait, what?
Adds a whole new meaning to Vivaldi's Spring!
The leaf is like "leave me alone."
That sounds like the...
you know, this Chinese instrument.
I don't know what it's called.
- I know. Like the very small... - Yeah.
Is that actually how they make that sound in, like, Chinese?
Cos I've heard that sound before,
- in like Chinese dramas and stuff like, old school. - Yeah.
But I'm not sure.
How does the leaf stay consistent, you know?
"He's the best leaf mu-"
That's a big- that's a big statement.
Did he win the...
International Leaf Music Competition.
Yeah, is there like a Queen Elisabeth equivalent?
Queen Elisabeth is like a violin competition, but-
...and piano, and singing.
I'm just trying to picture a leaf competition.
- Has he literally actually toured? - Whoa.
Wow...
That's impressive.
That feeling when a leaf blower has a better...
- successful music career than like, all of us. - I know. So sad.
We haven't even played in freaking Italy.
So what is this? Is this just like an embouchure like...
I don't know. And also like...
the life cycle of the leaf.
You always have to keep changing, right?
Is there like a Stradivarius leaf?
Do people farm like...
- I have no idea. - ...high quality-
Next video:
"$1 leaf vs $10,000,000 leaf!"
That's the music!
What are the arrows like, the pitches?
♪ Du⤴ Du⤵ ♪
More like that thing, right?
Or it's like indigenous?
I think.
- Cos it says "folk song." - Okay.
We don't know, just clarifying.
"As long as you pick the right leaf,"
"the sound you make is irreplaceable."
He must know like how to feel the flexability, the whole, like...
I wanna know how he picks the leaf.
Does he go like...
just walks, walks in the forest?
In the botanic gardens, he'd be like...
"Ah!"
"Buuuu! Oh, this is it!"
- Dude, he's doing like scales on a leaf. Amazing. - Yeah. Ha ha ha!
He's got a whole bunch of them!
Wow...
He changes, changes a lot.
Calm down, bro!
You're gonna take all the leaves, man.
- Dude, there's like textbooks on this. - Is it a textbook on it?
Yeah, I told you.
- This must be an actual thing in China. - That's legit!
- It must be, actually. - Legit!
I wonder what tree it is though.
That is amazing.
Dude, he's even got his own book.
- Wow! This guy actually has the most lit career! - He does.
That's crazy.
Dude, this guy should go on...
I mean, no, he do- He SHOULDN'T go on. But...
America's Got Talent thing, like, playing on a random...
Yeah.
Anyway.
Next one.
So this is the strocello.
What is that?
It's made... It's just a cello with...
with a horn.
which is just a gramophone horn.
- A gramophone... - Yeah, a gramophone. That's... yeah.
...that's meant to amplify the sound?
Yeah, maybe.
Why...
What is the purpose of this?
I really wanna hear him play it.
I don't get it.
You can just play a cello.
- That sounds like a cello, but like, weirder. - Yeah.
But that's the thing.
You can't even tell the tone quality
cos it's recorded on some freaking...
ancient potato camcorder.
That's true. You can't tell, yeah.
Nah, if we were in the room,
- maybe we can get a better feeling for- - Yeah, but cam- Yeah, I know.
But also like, how do you carry this instrument around?
Can you fold it?
- Or do you need a case that just protrudes- Ha ha ha! - Yeah, and the gramophone thing.
Maybe you have to unscrew, like a horn... you know?
Or you just wear it as a hat.
Imagine there's like an orchestra of those.
The section.
- It would take so much space. - Yeah.
I wish there was like a mouthpiece coming out.
♪ Sings Cello Suite No. 1 in G by Bach ♪
BUU BUUUU!!
Okay, next one.
He's using fire?
Dude!
- That is the most dangerous-looking instrument! - It's so dangerous.
There's wood, and there's fire at the same place.
It is basically just a bunch of Bunsen burners
- from like science class. - Yeah!
Does the pitch change
with the amount of fire and the oxygen?
Okay, I feel like there's actually some hardcore science
behind making this happen.
Cos do you see how the flame went smaller
for the music to come out?
But they're all one note only.
- When the flame is out, there's no sound. - Yeah.
Science!
Whoa...
- NASA! NASA... - Science! NASA violin!
You guys want this in your instrument?
That's what they're doing at NASA right now.
This is the real NASA.
That's why we're not on Mars yet.
Oh, I think I've seen this. This is pretty cool.
Dude, look at him. He's like...
Wow!
- It looks very tiring to play. - Yeah.
Oh!
Oh...
That's cool!
Wait.
- Where is that bass coming from? - I have no idea. *inaudible*
- Oh, he's playing the... - There's the bass. It's the guitar, okay.
- Dude, that's actually epic. - That's actually cool.
That's so much effort.
How long would it take to figure this out!?
Imagine one, like, marble didn't drop properly.
It just ruins all sequence.
He reminds me of like a modern day DJ.
- He does! He's like "Yeah..." - "Whoa! Press the snare button now."
Marble Man! Yeah! Next thing!
That was cool.
Can that only play one song though?
Yeah, I'm thinking how do you change it, you know?
- Yeah, it's like do you need to create a new... - Imagine you need to redo everything.
- a new machine just for a different chord progression? - Oh my god... That would be so annoying.
Alright, last one.
What the hell was that?
Okay, I know what this instrument is,
but why did you put a badger on it?
It's just a theremin.
- Why did you put it into a badger? - Yeah, why did you-
"I'm creeped that there is actually a dead badger-"
Yeah, okay. That's a bit creepy.
- He looks like a creepy villain from a movie. - I know.
He's like...
"I collect dead animal."
- It's just weird. It's just like the concept like, - It's just weird, yeah.
- why would you put that on an instrument. Yeah! - You could just have the theremin itself.
Who knows?
You do you.
Yeah, you guys... We're-
At TwoSet, we're not here to judge.
Yeah, you do you.
Okay, maybe not. I don't like watching this.
Alright, guys!
What do you think of...
I don't know. It's weird!
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