Hello, guys. We are back again! And this time it's not just the violins... It's about violin bow. Mhm. On the table here, we have an array of violin bows. In the history of classical music, violins are one part of history. Bows are another part. Together they make music. And for those that are new, this is the Nippon Violin place and we have Sota-san here again. And explain to us about just how magnificent these craftsmanships are. So what bows do we have here today? Yeah, we have you know the Tourte, right? The top, top bow in the world. We have two here. Different period. So... This one with ivory is Tourte early period. Yeah. Early period Tourte. And this one is the golden period Tourte. So, it's heavier. A little bit heavier. And different shape. So similar to the violin maker Stradivari, there's a... Yeah, yeah. Early period and they say Golden period where - Yeah. Which one is this bow? This one is the Dominique Peccatte. - Mhm.
- Do you know? - Dominique Peccatte?
- I know. - Yes. Very famous.
- Yeah, it's also the great bow. - Mhm.
- Yeah. - I see.
- This is the... Golden tortoise shell. - Tortoise shell?
- Yeah, tortoise shell. Yeah.
- Wow.... You can see the - You know the regulation when you bring it overseas? - Yeah?
- So... Some countries doesn't allow to... - Bring the tortoise shell.
- To bring it... Yeah. - So, be careful.
- So... If - So if you travel with it and they see it... What happens to the tortoise shell? They will take it. - Take it away. And you cannot take it back?
- Take it away. No. You need to... That's insane. So if you go to the airport... - For $ 200,000 bow.
- They just take your $200,000 bow? And they just take it. Only the frog. - Only the - Ohh!!
- Ohh! It's like you only get the frog. - It's like don't take the whole thing
- Only the frog. - Okay.
- Yes. So make sure you change the frog, when you go to other countries. - Look at that.
- I'll do this. Woah. You can see the transparent colors. Mhm. Whereas this one is... The to - This is ivory? Yeah, ivory. The shape is different too. - Shape is different. Very...
- It kind of like shapes up. Very early period. And the price of Tourtes are just... In general... - Are like super expensive.
- It's - Yeah. It's super expensive. It's more than... Double... Triple... Triple! To the Dominique Peccatte. - So... 6... 700,000 USD?
- So, usually - Yeah... Sometimes. - At this point in time.
- Like - Yeah, yeah. Because you know the auction. Did you see the auction? Two... Two years ago. - I didn't -
- There was an auction in France. And the Tourte bow was for sale. And the bidding final price was... I think it was over $700, 000. So... Yeah. - Wow.
- It's amazing. Yeah. - Dude...
- It's so expensive... You can buy a house. - Okay, so and then -
- Oh. Which one is this? That's - That's to compare. It's a very normal... - Bow. Very regular...
- This is a normal bow. - For comparing purposes.
- Yeah, for comparing. Yeah. It's $2000. - $2000.
- Evaluated at $2000. Normal bow, guys. So we have $2000. $200,000. - And...
- And $700,000. - Roughly.
- Roughly. - Roughly. Yeah.
- All estimations, guys. And so what makes a... I guess what makes a good bow? Like... In your opinion, what makes these bows so different? - Different?
- Yeah. Yeah... The most important thing is the sound. - Sound.
- It's so different. It's so different. And the balance. The balance. It's the quality you can feel. Mhm. So, that's why musicians all love these top level bows. Yeah, I think people don't realize just how much... The bow actually affects the violin playing. It's funny too cause with violins, it's kind of like a good violin - Well, what I think is, a good violin is a good violin. But with bows, it's also more personal. - Yes.
- Because it depends on how you play. Yeah. Yeah, I mean bows is like weights. Lighter bows, heavier bows. - Harder, softer.
- Harder, softer. Balance is different. I mean there's just so many - So nuanced. It's a bit like Harry Potter. - Yeah.
- The wand chooses you and you choose the wand together, you know. - Let's try it.
- Let's try it, okay. Let's make some comparisons. Oh, by the way... For the trial we've got... We just casually got the Stradivarius again from the previous video. Yeah. So, this is - Are we allowed to say which one it is? 1732. - 1732.
- You know why I - I chose this one for today? Oh, why? Because it's always the Tourte... It's good match, with the Stradivari. - Oh!
- In general Many well known player say, it's very great match with the Strad and Tourte. It's the best match. - Yeah. It's the best match.
- In the world. My hand is actually shaking. I'm so nervous. Yeah. Okay. Let's play it. We can start with... Should we just start like upwards? I will start with the $2000 violin bow. Need to tighten it... - Someone hasn't practiced.
- Practiced. Do you want to play another bow? Okay. Now... Did you like this bow? I liked the violin. - The violin is amazing.
- I felt like the violin made the bow sound really good. Yeah. Where is Peccatte from? What country? - France.
- France. Yeah. - Tourte as well, right?
- France. Yeah. Because the bow is France. - And violin is Italy.
- And violin is Italy. - Yeah. Yeah.
- I see. - Okay.
- It's interesting, yeah. There you go, alright. Ta-dah, next one. The Peccatte. Oh, it is so different. It's so different. I just can't play because I haven't practiced. I hope you guys can hear the difference. It's so much more like... It's like sizzle... Ssss... Sizzle... There's more depth. Depth to the sound. And I think the Strad just sounds... - It's just - Better.
- Better. Comes out more. I need to be careful. I feel like it's gonna be - There you go. Big difference. I hope you guys can hear it. Alright. Early period? Early period, right? - Early period, yeah.
- Should we do this first? - Again, I'm gonna just -
- I'm actually so nervous right now. This one is softer. This is softer. Softer than maybe this - This Dominique Peccatte is maybe stronger... - Stronger, yeah.
- Stick. But this is softer. Actually something also is um... This... The early Tourte and the Peccatte are both round stick. Yeah. Round stick. - But this is you know octagon.
- The golden - - Which one is - That one, that one.
- Oh no, I mean this one. Yeah. It's a lot more rounder here. - Cylindrical.
- The stick. This is the Peccatte. Early Peccatte. And where is the - The golden period Peccatte. With the golden period one, you can see here... It's octagon. Compared to the other one. Interesting! Alright, last one. Alright. This is it. The golden age of Tourte. Wow. It's got bling as well. So shiny. - How's that sound?
- Nice. Really nice. It feels very nice. So much like... Flexibility. Flexibility? Yeah. Not the stick's flexibility but more like... I feel like I can press harder or softer and then it just makes different sounds. That sounds good. It sounds very good. That sounds very good. Wow. Do you want to try? I want to try. I still feel like I don't know the bow. I'm so like - It's - These bows it seems like it's a lot more to give as well. Mhm. - And you can just have fun.
- Yeah, yeah. A lot more fun with the bow. Because you know these days like... Violin is getting higher and higher for every instruments. So... The musicians switch to buying the bow. It's easy - It's sometime better to change the bow. - Than a violin.
- Than changing the violin. - Ahh...
- So... Yeah. Okay. So, what should we do with these? Should we just try to play with each other - on the bow and try to guess...
- Yes. I think we should do... - The guessing game.
- Guessing game, okay. - So...
- Okay. These are the rules. Brett's going to play all four. Then, I have to guess the sequence. And then vice versa. - Alright.
- Yeah. Okay, so we should name the bows. There's the $2000 bow. - The...
- The Peccatte. - Peccatte.
- Early Tourte. - Early Tourte and golden Tourte.
- And golden Tourte. Alright, first one. I never had so many options in my life. Hmph! Next one. Whoa. Okay. I have no idea. - Alright, ready?
- They sound different, but I don't know which one is which. Okay. Third one? Mhm. Okay, next. Last one. Alright. Okay. Order! 1, 2, 3, 4. Was the first one the... Peccatte? - I think I messed up.
- Let me just double check. The first one is... This one. No, this is the Tourte. The second one is the Peccatte. Oh... - I knew the last one is the $2000.
- Yes. - I knew it. I was like - That was very -
- Yeah. I was really worried I wouldn't get the $2000. But it was actually so obvious. So obvious, right? I was like, oh maybe the Strad makes all the bow sound good. But the moment you played the $2000, - I was like it sounds so bad.
- You can hear the difference, right? - It's so obvious.
- Yeah. Okay, well... So I had thought it was... I thought it was Peccatte, golden period Tourte, early Tourte, then $2000. - What was it?
- Yes. Early Tourte is third, you're right. And this is right. You got these two switched around. Ahh! I guessed these two right! I was like these three is hard to guess. Yeah. Because they're all good. And then the $2000 is - Oh yeah? - Cause I played these three first. One, two, three.
- Yes. Very obvious. - And I played this last.
- Yeah? - And I think he knew straight away.
- Yeah. He was like, nah, that's the cheap one. So I mixed up the Peccatte and the... Yeah... I - I might have put more force on the Peccatte. When I played softer, I felt like this one had a... Lot more. Yeah. - I mean I -
- Brighter sound. - And brighter, yeah.
- Yeah. This is more like thicker. But this one has - Yeah, this one has more... - I feel like I can play around with it a lot. Character.
- There's more character to it. I think. - Yeah.
- I think, anyway. - I don't know, I don't know.
- There's a lot of character here, - But there's more character here.
- Yeah. Okay. Anyway, my turn. There's no character for the $2000 one. - I'm so nervous, I might guess the wrong one.
- It was so different. - I'm going to try and play the $2000 one really well.
- Nah. - To get Brett to guess the wrong one.
- No, no, that's cheating! You got to play it the same. Alright. Is this still going? Mmm... Yeah, okay. Okay, that's enough. Next one. I'm scared I'm gonna forget. Oh, fu** my life. Ahh! Next one... Dude, I am so nervous. Last one. Oh my god. Ohh... I don't know! I'm so scared! Yeehahahaha Um... The third one... Was that the Peccatte? Correct. Good. Damn! The last one... - Tourte? Is it Tourte? The last one?
- That's impressive. Which Tourte? Early or Golden? I think it's golden. Say all of them first, I'm not going to tell you. - Say all of them and then I'll tell you.
- Freaking hell. - I feel like -
- I'm not giving you a hint. I feel like the second one was the cheap bow. No, the first one. I can't remember. The first one is the... I feel like the first... The first one is the... I can't say it. I don't want to. It's embarrassing. Is the first one the cheap one? Just say it all and I'll tell you. I'm not giving you hint. Cheap, Tourte, Peccatte, Tourte. The second Tourte is which Tourte? You mean the last Tourte? Yeah, what's the last Tourte? I think the last Tourte is the early Tourte. Nah! Ahh!!! You actually - You know what's funny? What? You had it all right in the beginning. - Oh! See!
- And then you second guessed yourself. I second guessed myself! Yeah. So I was right the first - - All of the first time?
- The second one was the cheap bow. - You were like - Is the second one -
- I was right! - Is the second one the cheap bow?
- I was right! I was right! - The first one - The first one was the...
- So I was right! Nah! - The Tourte -
- The early Tourte. - The early Tourte.
- The last one was the golden Tourte. - I was right the whole time.
- You were right. He had it all right but then he changed his mind. So you only got one right! Ah... I panicked! Got one out of four. - Yeah.
- But would've been four out of four. I also noticed... It's kind of a depressing fact but... It's a bit like I'm so used to driving a Toyota... I didn't know how to drive a Ferrari. - Yeah.
- So I... Even though the better bows felt better, in a weird way, the second cheaper felt a bit more familiar. Familiar, yeah. Which is depressing. So, guys... Practice a lot and get good bows. Alright, cool. There you go, guys. And we just wanted to say thank you so much, Sota-san for helping us - My pleasure.
- be able to have such a rare opportunity. - It is actually so amazing.
- Amazing. I don't know how to thank you to Nippon violin. My pleasure. It's amazing that you guys - What you guys are doing. Anyway guys, go check out Nippon violin. Also, smash that subscribe button below and like it. - Cool. Thank you.
- Thank you. - Awesome!
- Awesome! And is there anything else you want to say? No... It was very interesting... Today.
It's still czardas, just a different part.