Stradivari had apprentices, including his son, who carried on the family business. Recent double-blind tests in Paris have shown that virtuoso players overwhelmingly prefer certain new violins to Strads.
+JiveDadson I believe that, because a couple of years ago there was a blind test with four violins, only one of them a Strad. Four experienced players had to walk into a room, pick up a violin and play a tune thay all had to learn. After all four people had played all four violins the result was clear: the Strad came in number three out of four..... Two others sounded more beautiful, obviously.
The vignette light filter assumably thwarts the copyright infringement so people can upload films they like do not have rights to. Sometimes it is altered with a faster audio track or out of sync- consider this good
It's funny, no matter the instrument, there is always one breed with mythical prententions. Countless case studies have asked professional violinists to compare violins made by Stradivari with high-quality new instruments while playing blindfolded, commonly finding that the most-preferred violin in the test set is a new one and the least-preferred had been made by Stradivari. They also found that most players seemed unable to tell whether their most-preferred instrument was indeed new or old. .....one thing they did find in Strads favor was their investment value and 'romance'. I play bass, not very well but, a '62 Fender 'Stacked' Jazz may 'sound' sublime to the player, to others, it's a case of the emperors clothes, I think all players have GAS😎
You play bass “not very well”. It takes a master to play a Stradivarius. It also takes time to adjust to a different instrument. Good musicians can take several hours to warm up and be ready to perform on stage. Maybe your opinion is your opinion. Stick with the rev-heads mate.
@@josephhapp9 "It takes a master to play a Stradivarius." No it doesn't. Any violinist is allowed to play a Strad if he's proven himself worthy of the privilege and has the connections. And good musicians don't need several hours to warm up before a performance, that is nonsense. They'd be too tired to perform after so much warming up. Maybe your opinion is your opinion. Stick with the rev-heads mate.
This lot commenting sound like a right bunch of tossers I myself have never had the desire to listen to classical music 🎶 but I never took my eyes 👀 of the video after 5 seconds I'd forgotten about the lighting and you told the story beautifully you should have a regular time slot 👍
Here is some cool history about that "Messiah" strad, the one seldomly played... it was indeed never sold by Stradivari, wish we knew why. his son sold it to count Salabue, and it was known as the Salabue for a while. it was then purchased by Luigi Tarisio (yes that Tarisio!) and he kept it until his death until it was sold to Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, a famous and prolific French Luithier and inventor...and he is responsible for naming the violin the Messiah, as one day he proclaimed to Tarisio "your violin is like the Messiah of the Jews: one always expects him but he never appears"...it is currently in the Ashmolean Museum in oxford for preservation, as this was a condition of its donation by the family of W.E. Hill...I think the only famous violinist to play it was Joseph Joachim and NAthan Milstein, both of whom only played it briefly but had glowing things to say about it....legendary lore!
Did the BBC run out of lightbulbs here? Sorry for the question but I just watched this for the first time and I just can't tell You how Annoying it is that this entire video is in the dark, it "hardly shines a light on the subject".... What a shame to this otherwise interesting video.
I don't understand how Strads can't be duplicated with modern technology. Sometimes the old ways are better. Gibson can't even duplicate the sound of their own '59 Les Paul.
Basically, this is incorrect. It is possible to build instruments of the same sound quality today, where neither professional violinists nor audience can tell which instrument is the original Strad and which one is the copy...
Gasparo da Salo 1560: is also recorded as one of the first Luthiers'. My question is did this person work with Andrea Amati? It just adds to our perpetual curiosity. Again his Violins & Viola's match Andrea Amati's time period.
I know what made his violin sounds amazing it’s 300 years old the varnish is dry well and Christianize dry. If you would have hear it when it was first done it did not sound like know,, I can make it sound just like if it’s a 300 yeas old. I use something special on the violin that makes it sound amazing. Thank you for the video his the best violin maker.
"The name of Stradivarius has held an almost mythical appeal". That's it. People want myths, and Strad happens to be the myth for the violin. Although Stradivarius was a very good violin maker, and a very savvy businessman, he's not magical. Many other makers have made violins that are at least as good.
***** I don't disagree. I'm just saying that you can't really draw a line, as many people seem to do, between Stradivarius and, say, Stainer, any more than you can draw a line between Santana and The Grateful Dead. Or can you? cheers from cool Vienna, Scott
@si james I suspect I've seen far more violins than you have, including Strads and many other fine instruments, since I'm an instrumentmaker myself. But have it your way.
"...out of ordinary blocks of wood..." Couldn't be more wrong, BBC. Stradivari looks pains to use only the best materials to craft violins from the most exquisite cuts of European Spruce and maple he could find.
a film perhaps made for 10 year old kids,without slightest attemt to explain to the public that there were in Cremona at that time Guarnieri,Bergonzi and other workshops that produced equally good instruments, and scientifical studies to unscover their secrets.
I discovered the secret of the strad some years back. the answer is very simple. but men have been searching for the wrong answer in the wrong place for centuries. only to be frustrated from their efforts. the key ingredient stra various used only exist in one place on the planet and even there it is rare and hard to find. it is in the mountains of turkey and we'll hidden that which is left. for now we leave the secret untold long live the name of strad.!!! the old master.
I'm no expert nor musician by a long shot but, there's something I'm curious about, being the old musical instruments Stradivarius violins are, I'm not curious about the making of the instrument but as to the type and age of the stings on it, are the strings the original ones or were they replaced at some point in time ???
Violin strings are consumables, replaced as they wear out and lose their tone. Also, with I think only one known exception, Stradivari’s violins have all been adapted to keep them in line with later developments in violin design. The necks have been lengthened and angled back, the bridges raised and made sturdier, internal parts (soundpost and bass bar) have also been replaced with sturdier versions. So really when you hear a Stradivarius played, it won’t sound like it did in his day.
Antonio Stradivari was born between 1644 and 1649 so perhaps I misheard you or perhaps you made a mistake. You said " in the 1560's , eight years before his birth when his home town ....." Did you say eighty years or eight years ? The golden period of violin building in Cremona probably started with Andrea Amati in 1560, 84 years before his birth but Amati's grandson was a very accomplished violin maker. His name, as you know was Nicola Amati and he was the principle luthier in the family bussiness and in Cremona by 1620_ 24 years before Stradivari was born. Oh Ok..... Now that I am watching a bit more of your video I see that your starting with Andrea Amati so that would be around Eighty years before. Sorry I think I just missed your accent and that you had said eighty years before his birth and that is certainly around the time that Andrea was active and building violins.
What's there to know? Stick it in an X-Ray or MRI, map the contours and 3D print it. If you want to recreate it using wood then I'm sure there are plenty of ways to achieve a specific shape...
You can't replicate it. Stradivari made the best instrument masterpieces in the world, not to mention the Stradivarius is hundreds of years old. Please sit the fuck down.
You seem so sure but don't give a reason why. Very dogmatic and rude response. The age is one thing but the shape/sound is something else. Where there's a will there's a way.
SOEL86 lol you seem to be under the impression that noone has tried haha. Tons of people have with varying results, and very few have even gotten close...
Different materials / wood vibrates differently, you can’t just 3D print it. also a major part of the greatness of a Stradivari is the history, as they have been played by some of the finest violinists who ever lived, like Oistrakh, Menuhin or Heifetz.
Yutter NutterButter I don't accept that. I've watched many full-length movies and documentaries here on TH-cam that are presented normally without being deleted due to copyright infringement.
Then you and 'many others' are easily distracted. For me, the lighting lends somewhat of a mystique to the presentation - a mystique that, you might say, the Stradivarius itself, possesses.
Stradivarius sounds alright, we have have beautiful modern violins that are comparatively the same. Studies have already been done where even trained ears when given a blind sound test cant tell the difference between a modern violin and a strad.
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Her appreciation for Stradivari and the Strad is very charming.
Her description of music on the sixth minute is, glorious
For someone who hasn’t played seriously since her teens, she’s still pretty damn good!
Tears to the eyes.
when the power is off but you still want to make a youtube video :3
Yep
LOL
thsi actually had me cackling
Fabulous - thank you all.
Fantastic documentary
Love the documentary!
Skillfully made indeed !! What i wouldn't give for a Stradivarius.
"it's presence in my hand"....wow!
I like the StradoCaster as well,
Very nice!
Stradivari had apprentices, including his son, who carried on the family business. Recent double-blind tests in Paris have shown that virtuoso players overwhelmingly prefer certain new violins to Strads.
+JiveDadson I believe that, because a couple of years ago there was a blind test with four violins, only one of them a Strad. Four experienced players had to walk into a room, pick up a violin and play a tune thay all had to learn. After all four people had played all four violins the result was clear: the Strad came in number three out of four..... Two others sounded more beautiful, obviously.
Oh wow the host can play violin like really well!!!
Somebody should do a documentary about early Turkish cymbals. Jazz drummers search for them the same way classical musicians dream about these.
This is fascinating! I'll certainly have to do some research on that. Thank you for sharing 🙏
The vignette light filter assumably thwarts the copyright infringement so people can upload films they like do not have rights to. Sometimes it is altered with a faster audio track or out of sync- consider this good
The light filter is very annoying
Thank you for explaining. I kept waiting for it to go away. Very annoying.
It's a real shame what happened to her. I'm glad she's doing better she still got a long way to recovery.
I have always loved the sound of a fiddle
John X Violin*
It's funny, no matter the instrument, there is always one breed with mythical prententions.
Countless case studies have asked professional violinists to compare violins made by Stradivari with high-quality new instruments while playing blindfolded, commonly finding that the most-preferred violin in the test set is a new one and the least-preferred had been made by Stradivari.
They also found that most players seemed unable to tell whether their most-preferred instrument was indeed new or old.
.....one thing they did find in Strads favor was their investment value and 'romance'.
I play bass, not very well but, a '62 Fender 'Stacked' Jazz may 'sound' sublime to the player, to others, it's a case of the emperors clothes, I think all players have GAS😎
You play bass “not very well”.
It takes a master to play a Stradivarius.
It also takes time to adjust to a different instrument.
Good musicians can take several hours to warm up and be ready to perform on stage.
Maybe your opinion is your opinion.
Stick with the rev-heads mate.
@@josephhapp9 "It takes a master to play a Stradivarius."
No it doesn't. Any violinist is allowed to play a Strad if he's proven himself worthy of the privilege and has the connections. And good musicians don't need several hours to warm up before a performance, that is nonsense. They'd be too tired to perform after so much warming up.
Maybe your opinion is your opinion.
Stick with the rev-heads mate.
please fix this video, its too dark. I dont remember watching it like this.
This lot commenting sound like a right bunch of tossers I myself have never had the desire to listen to classical music 🎶 but I never took my eyes 👀 of the video after 5 seconds I'd forgotten about the lighting and you told the story beautifully you should have a regular time slot 👍
Here is some cool history about that "Messiah" strad, the one seldomly played...
it was indeed never sold by Stradivari, wish we knew why. his son sold it to count Salabue, and it was known as the Salabue for a while. it was then purchased by Luigi Tarisio (yes that Tarisio!) and he kept it until his death until it was sold to Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, a famous and prolific French Luithier and inventor...and he is responsible for naming the violin the Messiah, as one day he proclaimed to Tarisio "your violin is like the Messiah of the Jews: one always expects him but he never appears"...it is currently in the Ashmolean Museum in oxford for preservation, as this was a condition of its donation by the family of W.E. Hill...I think the only famous violinist to play it was Joseph Joachim and NAthan Milstein, both of whom only played it briefly but had glowing things to say about it....legendary lore!
I shall have to steal one !
Love the description in the video, but why was it photographed as if it was done in a poorly lit mine shaft?
Did the BBC run out of lightbulbs here? Sorry for the question but I just watched this for the first time and I just can't tell You how Annoying it is that this entire video is in the dark, it "hardly shines a light on the subject".... What a shame to this otherwise interesting video.
The uploader is making the video look different to the original so as to avoid youtube's automatic copyright detection.
There's got to be a better way to get around that. I gave up watching after 4 mins.
Hilvert Scheper
do you actually think it came out like this?
the guy didnt want copyright
I don't understand how Strads can't be duplicated with modern technology. Sometimes the old ways are better. Gibson can't even duplicate the sound of their own '59 Les Paul.
Basically, this is incorrect.
It is possible to build instruments of the same sound quality today, where neither professional violinists nor audience can tell which instrument is the original Strad and which one is the copy...
Gasparo da Salo 1560: is also recorded as one of the first Luthiers'. My question is did this person work with Andrea Amati? It just adds to our perpetual curiosity. Again his Violins & Viola's match Andrea Amati's time period.
Soo dimm....
what is this music they are playing at the beginning? plz halpz?
Why is the video looks so dim?
The lighting is trying to set the Era, in which everything was done by dim candlelight.
9:50 playing bach double violin concerto in d minor, I know how to play that piece but I rarely hear of other people knowing it
💖
Wow the host plays the violin quite well and she understands Italian as well
I know what made his violin sounds amazing it’s 300 years old the varnish is dry well and Christianize dry. If you would have hear it when it was first done it did not sound like know,, I can make it sound just like if it’s a 300 yeas old. I use something special on the violin that makes it sound amazing. Thank you for the video his the best violin maker.
You use a vibration box to settle the wood.
"The name of Stradivarius has held an almost mythical appeal". That's it. People want myths, and Strad happens to be the myth for the violin. Although Stradivarius was a very good violin maker, and a very savvy businessman, he's not magical. Many other makers have made violins that are at least as good.
*****
I don't disagree. I'm just saying that you can't really draw a line, as many people seem to do, between Stradivarius and, say, Stainer, any more than you can draw a line between Santana and The Grateful Dead. Or can you?
cheers from cool Vienna, Scott
*****
Thanks, and stay above the ocean! Cheers from landlocked Austria!
@si james I suspect I've seen far more violins than you have, including Strads and many other fine instruments, since I'm an instrumentmaker myself. But have it your way.
"...out of ordinary blocks of wood..." Couldn't be more wrong, BBC. Stradivari looks pains to use only the best materials to craft violins from the most exquisite cuts of European Spruce and maple he could find.
From the last comment I assumed that the lighting doesn’t improve so I switched off.
Why is the film so dark? Been nicer if they use better lighting
a film perhaps made for 10 year old kids,without slightest attemt to explain to the public that there were in Cremona at that time Guarnieri,Bergonzi and other workshops that produced equally good instruments, and scientifical studies to unscover their secrets.
I discovered the secret of the strad some years back. the answer is very simple. but men have been searching for the wrong answer in the wrong place for centuries. only to be frustrated from their efforts. the key ingredient stra various used only exist in one place on the planet and even there it is rare and hard to find. it is in the mountains of turkey and we'll hidden that which is left. for now we leave the secret untold long live the name of strad.!!! the old master.
I will have a violin Stradivarius but i don't know when!
whats the music at 14:53 ?
Why so dark on the video
HArd to watch as it is so so dark but the audio is good...could be a radio broadcast
wtf is the light. so dim
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Turn a fucking light on... lol
Makes it more difficult to detect copyright infringement as the video is not identical to the original.
I MIGHT VERY WELL FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU CLEMENCY BURTON HILL. THANK YOU FOR WHETTING MY APPETITE FOR THEI STADIVARI VIOLIN.
What is up with the lighting on this video? The information is fascinating but center light is annoying.
i love my Strad 1703 my strad iss history
James Morris I Love my Strad❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
James Morris no my strad is stolen !!!!!!!
W.O.W.
What is the piece starting at 16:04 (Viotti)?
It's Serenade by Schubert
I owned a strad .....I traded it for a dodge Aries back in '84.... I made the choice and I'll stick with it
A copy probably.
+Cielmerlion Tyr I don't care if it was real anyway....that Aries is sweeeet
You had a fake one my dude
maidenrulz73 it wasn't a Stradivarius, kiddo.
maidenrulz73 wow! a 3 million dollar dodge truck, now that is something special!
How can I sell such a violin
stuff you should knooooooooow....;-)
Was this filmed in secrecy or why is it so dark?
I know why the Strad cannot be replucated. It's infused with the maker.
Wherw is the light?
Would be so cool if you could actually seethe vid. Not sure the point of it being so dark.
11:50 what’s the name of that song love it
Por Una Cabeza by Gardel played by Nicola Benedetti
The Stradivarius rest with The Moors 400 years in Europe. That is why it was discovered fully formed.
dark ages of stradivarius
just listen while you look at a diff website
what about the Red Stradivari??
I'm no expert nor musician by a long shot but, there's something I'm curious about, being the old musical instruments Stradivarius violins are, I'm not curious about the making of the instrument but as to the type and age of the stings on it, are the strings the original ones or were they replaced at some point in time ???
Violin strings are consumables, replaced as they wear out and lose their tone.
Also, with I think only one known exception, Stradivari’s violins have all been adapted to keep them in line with later developments in violin design. The necks have been lengthened and angled back, the bridges raised and made sturdier, internal parts (soundpost and bass bar) have also been replaced with sturdier versions.
So really when you hear a Stradivarius played, it won’t sound like it did in his day.
17:36 Idk what song that is but she's really good at playing it.
Preludio from Bach's Partita No. 3 for violin.
Joshua Lonsako Bach Partita III for Violin
Why the picture is dark ?
whats with the pin hole view?
Why there is no light ...!
Why Stradivarius?!? STRADIVARI, STRADIVARI, STRADIVARI!!!
You mean Antonio Stella Bottom Tile? (Ashens)
Why is it so dark? Was this copied off a tv screen?
And HEY he certainly did NOT use any "ordinary" wood whatsoever. He used INCREDIBLE woods. Get a clue.
Why so dark? Stolen video from BBC?!!!
Music from 2:00..Please?
it's Griet's Theme. It's from movie Girl with the pearl earring
What's the piece at 16:00?
+Michael Trejo Schubert Serenade. And the one on 17:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Partita 3
Michael Trejo ZZ Top telecaster in A major
music song title 21:01?
almost unwatchable.. so sad. Was so interested.. anyone know if there is a repost where you can actually see whats going on?
The actual BBC?
is made in italy!! what do you expect?!
Canção chama tocar nos escuro 😂😂😂😂😂. Som violino muito top …..deve se RF uma bela cópia .
How long after his death???
Why now we have all the best tools technology and can’t produce something like it or even better?
Unfortunately the video is to dark 🙁
Very weird lighting of lack of it.
Antonio Stradivari was born between 1644 and 1649 so perhaps I misheard you or perhaps you made a mistake. You said " in the 1560's , eight years before his birth when his home town ....." Did you say eighty years or eight years ? The golden period of violin building in Cremona probably started with Andrea Amati in 1560, 84 years before his birth but Amati's grandson was a very accomplished violin maker. His name, as you know was Nicola Amati and he was the principle luthier in the family bussiness and in Cremona by 1620_ 24 years before Stradivari was born. Oh Ok..... Now that I am watching a bit more of your video I see that your starting with Andrea Amati so that would be around Eighty years before. Sorry I think I just missed your accent and that you had said eighty years before his birth and that is certainly around the time that Andrea was active and building violins.
What a weird thing to not have anyone play the “Messiah” violin though. That must be really bad for the instrument, surely
What's there to know? Stick it in an X-Ray or MRI, map the contours and 3D print it. If you want to recreate it using wood then I'm sure there are plenty of ways to achieve a specific shape...
You can't replicate it. Stradivari made the best instrument masterpieces in the world, not to mention the Stradivarius is hundreds of years old. Please sit the fuck down.
You seem so sure but don't give a reason why. Very dogmatic and rude response. The age is one thing but the shape/sound is something else. Where there's a will there's a way.
SOEL86 lol you seem to be under the impression that noone has tried haha. Tons of people have with varying results, and very few have even gotten close...
Different materials / wood vibrates differently, you can’t just 3D print it. also a major part of the greatness of a Stradivari is the history, as they have been played by some of the finest violinists who ever lived, like Oistrakh, Menuhin or Heifetz.
Tunnel vision frustration
IS THE MESSIAH the Howard Hughes- "Spruce Goose"
and who?
Dont talk over the playing of the strad!!
Just think of her and hillary Hahn kissing you at the same time
I didn’t know Benjamin button made violins @13.40
cus is no secret! he just hit it. and he was not a greate violin maker. he was a good one. the thing was that he hit it working hard. and thats it.
The result of the rule of The BlackaMoors.
I agree with many of the others. The lighting ruins this documentary. Shame on the BBC.
+Jeff Puha it was done by the uploader to avoid copyright detection.
Yutter NutterButter I don't accept that. I've watched many full-length movies and documentaries here on TH-cam that are presented normally without being deleted due to copyright infringement.
+Jeff Puha Do you actually think it went out on TV like this? you absolute dope
+Jeff Puha you dont accept that?? lol... you really think somebody cares that you dont accept it??? if you dont accept, then sayonara!
Then you and 'many others' are easily distracted. For me, the lighting lends somewhat of a mystique to the presentation - a mystique that, you might say, the Stradivarius itself, possesses.
Is this what it's like to have glaucoma? Who turned the lights out?
Cop. E. Right. En. Fringe. Ment. Or just read the 300 other comments which point this out.
sorry cant watch, its dark censored or just jacked
Stradivarius sounds alright, we have have beautiful modern violins that are comparatively the same.
Studies have already been done where even trained ears when given a blind sound test cant tell the difference between a modern violin and a strad.
Omfg I started watching this in full screen and I panicked because I thought I was going blind. What is this fuckery about?
😂
this is what happens when you film a documentary when the power is off🌩💡 The lighting is awful I cant even see the strads