Concert Violinist Reviews a Cheap $69 Violin

Download my app Tonic today tonicmusic.app/join-in if you'd like join a community of musicians practicing together! 🎵 +Thanks for watching everyone! If you enjoyed it, please slap that like button and subscribe! It really does help defeat the YouTube algorithm

I can make a Strad sound like a $69 violin...

This poor violin during the advanced portion is like “WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME BRO?!? I WASNT MADE FOR THIS!! YOURE HURTING ME!!!

This should be titled "World Class Violinist makes $69 violin sound good"

Ray: "It's not bad" Me: Gets excited and orders the exact same model...then remembers that it sounded good only cause Ray played it

Ray: "that g string sound like a duck singing" Me on my $$ violin and years of training: quack

“Phobia of the string popping and going into my eye”.. every string musician ever 😂

9:24 I am deceased ☠️🦆

Just in case you're interested, the pieces Ray plays here are : Beginner : twinkle twinkle little star Beginner intermediate : Boccherini minuet, the happy farmer (Suzuki bk 1 I think?) Intermediate : Bach concerto for 2 violins in D (first movement) Advanced: Bach violin sonata n. 1, Bach rondo (from Partita 3), Bruch violin concerto, Mendelssohn violin concerto, Sibelius violin concerto

3:42 mhhmmnaaahh "Oohh yep it says A, you saw that, alright cool it works" -Ray indirectly flexing his perfect pitch

His definition of beginner-intermediate depresses me.........

My teacher: it's not the violin, it's the violinist Me: yeah right Ray:

8:22 - Ray: I can say that it's holding up pretty weil... TwoSet: (has left the chat).

lol youshould've played TwoSet's DIY Violin

Two set gets a cheap violin: Cheap violin: Falls aPaRt

Ray: tries to be polite about how bad the $69 Giarry violin sounds Me: nervously holding my $40 Amazon violin

The Level demonstration is giving me some hard suzuki flashbacks. Ray does love himself some happy farmers, huh?

When ray's camera actually focuses and twoset's just...cant

Let's get a $420 violin now, for the boys

Personally, I think this is an awesome deal.. Honestly, I'd even say it's just amazing for what it is! No one should feel ashamed for having a "cheap" instrument. (Fyi, I played violin for 12 years so I know what a "decent" and probably more than decent sound is). But seriously guys! It plays! It legitimately plays! And this has all the accessories needed(even a shoulder rest) to get started. And it's for the price of one of the greatest numbers of all-time.. $69. If you really haven't decided if you're interested in pursuing this(for school or a hobby or whatever) and are trying to see if you even like it at all.. this is PERFECT. What more could you ask for?? My opinion: Personally, I used to be a flautist and I wanted to see if it was worth trudging back to storage unit to relearn. I purchased an $80 flute; I had forgotten what a "good flute" feels like to play but I taught myself again and honestly learned better technique because of it being "harder" to get a strong sound out of. Mind you, I thought the matter was just me completely forgetting how to play, which isn't totally off-base considering I hadn't touched it in over 7yrs. That said, I played the cheap flute everyday for over a month before making that decision to relearn and dig up my old flute. Look, to those who are saying otherwise, "investing" in "just" a $200 instrument is still a pretty penny. Had I not found my old flute, I would absolutely would have continued on that $80 flute for a while. Maybe you want to try out a few instruments. In my opinion, it is better to buy a "cheap" violin, and a cheap flute, sax, clarinet, or whatever you want. There's a very good chance you'll decide you like one more than another. what you like most. Please PLEASE make sure you want to commit before you spend the money on it. (Don't forget, there is such a thing as returns. But like.. I wouldn't return an instrument that looks like it has been used.. A lot. So keep that in mind.) Sorry it was long.. But, I didn't see anyone else addressing this. I'm so sorry if someone already said this stuff though. But yeah, once again, while I may have stated these thing very firmly, this is just my opinion and I'm not claiming to have all the facts or knowledge. It's just person experience.