CHEAP vs EXPENSIVE violins - Can you hear the difference?

Before watching the answer, comment here which violin you think is the 10 Million Dollar Stradivari and I'll see if you were right. No cheating!

If you give me the 10 million violin I will make it sound like a 53 dollar violin

I would be scared to touch something worth 10 million dollars

Very interesting. $450- 1000 seems like the point of diminishing returns for the untrained ear.

Without hearing them in person, I prefer the 5th violin. Not surprised to hear it wasn't the most expensive. I have found that my preference in other instruments is always the "second" best.

Now let’s give those to a beginner violin student and hear how all those will sound like a $5 violin

Jokes on you,I can make a $10million violin sound like a $10 violin

I consider the cheap Amazon to be the most valuable violin for it provides people wanting to learn violin the means to develop this new valuable skill. So having such a starter violin and starting a passion like that is priceless.

With 4 and 5, you can hear the bow gripping the strings. They have incredible response and crisp, clean start and finish.

"Oh look!, it's a $10M worth violin!, let's play meme songs with it!"

I knew that the second one was the cheapest because my violin sounds like that. I need a new one

I'm a violinist and was super curious to see if I'd be able to recognize the "best" violin. I placed the first three violins correctly, but I kept being uncertain about #4 and #5. There are probably a few factors here which we can't recognize as listeners, regarding the playability. Rob talked a lot about how it felt to play #4, how the instrument wanted to give back a lot, and I think this is something that only the player can percieve best. To me, #5 sounded nicer than #4, but that's only half of the violin's personality. The other half is how it connects with the player. So I'm curious if I would still have ranked #4 above #5, if I had the opportunity to play it, myself 🤔

Very strangly I closed my eyes and I was able to notice which one was souding better and for sure I realized that number 2 never sounded good. Was very sharp and it felt like if someone was cutting on my skin. I knew third did not sound better tham the first and 4th and fifth was confusing, but they sounded a lot better than any of the previous ones

1. A violin. 2. Another violin. 3. Definitely a violin. 4. Sounds like a violin. 5. Still a violin.

playing megalovina on a 10 mil dollar violin... what a mad lad

Guessing from most expensive to cheapest - 35412 They do sound different, even though I have no musical experience. Also 3 and 5 are very similar.

I was surprised to find that my favorite sounding violin of the bunch #3 was the $450 student grade. Second favorite was #5. I honestly didn't like how dark the $10m strad sounded, but #2 was so obviously the cheap amazon one. This makes me feel better about buying a $700 Schuster&Co as my first violin. If I had spent any more $$$ the difference in sound would probably go unnoticed by me. I'm thinking this will last me for a long long time, if not for life

Rob: Im using this songs cause they're good to you hear the difference between the viollins... The truth: memes

“Can you hear the difference between cheap and expensive violins?” LingLing: With enough practice, you can too

I thought that the second one was one of the most expensive, I loved the sound 😅