ACTORS THAT CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THE VIOLIN!? 

"Practice... 40 hours a day... or you'll become a doctor." The ultimate threat, I'm laughing so hard rn.

"I played snare freshman year" - Gets ignored by the violin players in show - Gets ignored by the violin players in real life

“They haven’t said anything stupid yet.” As a medical professional, I can assure you they have.

I'm the other actress/violinist in this video! They told us that they were going to dub us over with professional musicians, so we were pretty chill about getting the music right and focused on the acting instead. When the episode aired and I realized they'd used our actual playing, I thought, "I should have asked for more takes!" Thanks Twoset!

Imagine if she was a pianist they just pulled out a 7 foot grand

"As musicians, losing our hearing is our worst nightmare" Beethoven : Sorry, didn't catch that

Twoset:”it’s hard to talk and play at the same time” Me, a wind player: “no freaking kidding”

As a musician with hearing loss, i can actually relate to the movie pretty well

Me: med student Also me: learning the violin My brain: how the heck are you going to fit 80 hours in a day?

That tuning fork is a medical tuning fork. They're used to test a person's hearing but also feeling of different frequencies to diagnose a multitude of different things from hearing loss to nerve damage in your hands. My mom has a few (she's a doctor) and they're really weird. They have overtones in nasty places (like that high one you picked out) and they are tuned to scientific pitch instead of concert pitch so a middle C is 256 Hz instead of 261.62 Hz. Thats 37.6 cents flat compared to A440 tuning! It does mean that all C notes have a frequency of a power of two (middle C is 2^8 for instance).

Guy in 3:04 "i played snare in a marching band when i was in freshman year" Doc and the patient : *ignores the guy* Twoset: *Also ignored the guy*

As someone that wanted to be a musician, but is studying medicine, I feel personally and brutally attacked.

Eddy: "I was fine, turns out i was just having funny problems in my hearing" _Oh, you mean perfect pitch?_

One of my adult piano students has a son who had this condition: tumours pushed against the ear making him deaf. He had a lot of treatment, which has restored 80% of his hearing. He wears a hearing aid to make up the difference. He’s now still only 7 years old & plays the violin! 🎻 Edit: thanks for all the likes! I just wanted to relay a positive true story.

I am a deaf musician! I wear two hearing aids, unfortunately I can’t always tell differences between notes and partials (I play euphonium and trombone) but I can feel difference in the vibrations, I dont get the satisfaction of playing and hearing my music but I do love the feeling of finishing a piece and seeing people look proud or inspired

Worst nightmares to a musician: 1. Lost hearing 2. Seeing the instrument being smashed 3. Prodigies 4. Become doctor (I guess??) edit: and maybe some sacrilegious bois edit 2: getting your body injured (i know i'm missing a lot, please forgive XD)

"Practice 40 hours a day... or you'll have to become a doctor" My wife and I both didn't practice 40 hours a day... and both ended up becoming doctors instead of musicians... :-/

I think I'm the only med student here, but sense she didn't lose all of her hearing before surgery meaning the tumor didn't invade the nerve , she probably will be able to restore most of it after treatment and rehabilitation.

Doctor: "There's a good chance you'll lose your hearing." Patient: "My hearing?" Doctor: "Didn't you just hear me?"

"Someone who hasn't practiced in ages" -- to me, the doctor sounded exactly like someone who used to be an excellent violinist but hasn't practiced regularly in a long time, which probably describes the actress perfectly. Some inconsistencies in intonation and tone, and the bow definitely touched another string at one point, but it's clear she knows how to play, used to be very good at it, and just needs to knock off some rust. The Bach double is a realistic choice for what that type of violinist (used to be really good but currently rusty) would want to play, too, because everyone who has played at a decent level knows the piece well. My girlfriend was concertmaster of her high school and college orchestras, but stopped playing completely after college. She decided to pick up the violin again at age 27. The next time she went to visit family she came back with her old violin, and when she opened her case for the first time in five years she immediately suggested that we play the Bach double. That came to mind when I watched this video, because it sounded quite similar.

Medicine is a fallback plan?? They just roasted every DOKTAH here!!

TwoSet Roasts is slowly transitioning into Twoset Appreciation

Earth’a rarest creatures: Bigfoot Loch Ness monster And the rarest of them all: Actors than can actually play.

"As a musician losing hearing is the biggest nightmare" When my mom was a little girl she knew she was going to be a pianist/piano teacher. It was her dream job. So she practiced like crazy every single day. She was a brilliant pianist, got to a fantastic school to study music and after graduating she didn't even need to apply to a job because everybody in the industry knew her. She lost her hearing from one ear at the age of 30. She couldn't play piano after that. So yeah. Be grateful if you have good hearing and can still play your instrument and listen music.

This episode was really interesting to me, as I was born completely Deaf on my left side and have some mild hearing loss on my right, as well. While Twosetviolin can comment on the musical aspect, and a doctor can comment on the medical aspect, I think there needs to be a Deaf/Hard of hearing perspective on this as well. I CAN, and do, play some piano by ear, as well as a TEEEENSY bit of sight reading, and I also play guitar a little bit, and I sing jazz and a little bit of gaelic style music. I have also had the great privilege of being allowed to play some open strings on a couple of other people's violins. This lady is experiencing hearing loss on her left side, which is the side I am completely Deaf on. Being Deaf on my left side, most people would think that the violin sound would be very much muffled and would really cut into my ability to hear the violin. However, the first time I picked up a violin and played open strings, it was literally the loudest, most beautiful sound I have ever heard. My deafness didn't keep me from being able to hear the music because of a phenomenon called bone conduction. Because a violin is pressed up against your jaw and cheek, the music can travel through your skull and you can hear it with your other ear. I'm sure most violinists are aware of this to some degree or another, but you likely don't realize just how loud it is just from bone conduction. If this lady lost her hearing on the left side, she might still be able to play because of bone conduction. Not only that, but it might also be the best instrument for her to play with hearing loss, as the bone conduction will make it louder to her than most other instruments. There are times when I struggle to hear higher pitched music on the piano or guitar, and in order hear it better, I place my head directly on the instrument. The vibrations of the music are then sent directly to my inner ear on the right side, and thus are louder and clearer to me. You get the same effect with the violin on a continual basis as you're playing. Because of all this, her hearing loss might not be the end of her music career, especially if it's only one side that goes deaf. Will it be harder? Probably. However, with persistence and ingenuity, she might be able to overcome and go on to do great things in the music world.

Video takeaway: Didn't make it as violinist or dok-tar But so glad to still have hearing

Actress: Says an actual piece name. Twoset: Wait what?

I had/have Acoustic Neuroma. I was weeks from death and experienced her symptoms and much worse. The brain surgery was 9 hours long and they had to remove my inner ear on the affected side (right side). What they didn't mention on the show is the tinnitus from the surgery. At times it sounds louder than a freight train. My surgery was Feb 26th, 2019. So my 1st anniversary is coming up right away here. Recovery has long but, i was going to die in a months time roughly...and i never would have witnessed the birth of my daughter.... ...and I play guitar too so music is very important to me.

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Hello! I'm a medical student from Singapore, and just want to give my input on the medical aspect of stuff in this video if anyone is interested in learning more! :-) - Eddy is right that the note that they made with the tuning fork is too high, and I do agree that the tuning fork looks rather chunky compared to the one I have. The medical tuning fork we use to test hearing is at 512Hz. When u strike the tuning fork against a hard object to get it to vibrate, the strike makes a high pitched sound around the same high pitch that is used in the video bcos it's the sound of the metal hitting a hard object. But the subsequent vibration of the tuning fork used to test hearing is much lower, at 512Hz, which is around the same pitch as the note that eddy played on his violin. - Not sure if this was cut out from the video clip, but after testing the patients hearing with the tuning fork and comparing both ears for any difference in hearing (yes, we do actually use tuning forks to test hearing in the clinic), the dr should proceed to do other tests with the tuning forks (called Weber's and Rinne's) to determine if the hearing loss is conductive (which means something blocking the path of sound travelling into the inner ear, such as a lot of ear wax) or sensorineural (which means something wrong with the nerve that is conducting the sound to the brain). It is important to distinguish the 2 types of hearing loss as you wouldn't want to be doing an expensive scan of the head if the hearing loss was simply due to ear wax. Typically, drs would also send the patients to do a quick formal hearing test with the audiologist to quantify the exact extent of hearing loss before doing anything further. In this case, it would have been sensorineural hearing loss. - In the video, the next test that the dr did was to check the movement of the eyes. And later on, they reported that there was nystagmus when looking to the right. Nystagmus is a flicking action of the eyeballs when looking in a certain direction, and the finding they report does corroborate with hearing loss on the left, and it's great that the show got it right! - So, based on the findings from the examination, it suggests a problem with the nerve that transmits sound information to the brain, most commonly an acoustic neuroma (also known as vestibular schwannoma), which is what the show mentioned and got it right. An acoustic neuroma is a tumour on the nerve transmitting sound to the brain, and thus affects hearing. In addition, the ear is also important for our balance, hence it seems like the patient came to the hospital bcos she fell down (bandage on her forehead) likely bcos she was dizzy and cldnt keep her balance. To confirm our suspicions, we would do a brain scan, which would typically be MRI Internal Acoustic Meatus instead of the CT scan of the brain that was done in the show as MRI is better able to see the soft structures like nerves and tumours (vs CT which is usually better for bone, and some other stuff). MRI also does not have any radiation to the patient, vs CT which has quite a bit of radiation, which we would prefer to avoid if possible. - With an acoustic neuroma, the girl may lose her hearing on the left ear, but the hearing on the right would still be normal. I'm not a musician, but does losing hearing on one side end one's music career? Could she train to just listen based on her right ear? It is unlikely that she has 2 acoustic neuromas affecting both ears, unless she has some sort of genetic condition like neurofibromatosis-2 where acoustic neuromas are more common in these patients.

"If I were just find out that I was gonna lose my hearing and the doctor was like 'Get out your Violin, Eddy. We're going to play Bach right now.' I'll be like 'what??' " OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHHA HELP

I love how I looked up “Paganini caprice 4 sheet music” and there’s ling ling comments. “Ling ling considers this a warm up”.

when the doctor brought her instrument, i thought she was going to say, "you may be going deaf, but at least you won't be able to hear this. it's a viola".

From a medical student's perspective, I can tell that the terms they are using are legit. In fact, the whole scenes they are commenting are pretty well done. There's nothing medically "sacrilegious" they said or did. Idk abt the whole series tho, I didnt watch it all.

I'm a cellist with hearing loss Never give up on your dreams

Me: *realising that TwoSet is going to review Chicago Med* Oh no please don't TwoSet : oh they know how to play Me: VINDICATION!

"It's so hard to talk and play at the same time" - Twosetviolin, 2020 That's why I hate people asking me questions during practicing…

The most unbelievable thing about this is a doctor with enough time to do a violin performance during her rounds.

WE DEMAND, NAY ASK POLITELY LIKE CIVIL ADULTS, THAT TWOSET PERFORM THAT BACH DUET FULLY! WHO'S WITH ME? P.S. I'm sorry for shouting.

Oooohhhh, I just got an idea for a challenge of sorts, for you guys!! How about you try playing the violin with noise cancelling earphones or plugs? Rely just on your skill and the notes and we'll call this an experiment? Huh? Whatcha say? Anyways, you guys have me clapping in front of my computer every time I hear you play, so thanks for that. :)

TwoSet: most accurate portrayal of violin playing ever. Me: .... Well that’s no fun.

eddy: says "lets watch it together" as if they haven't done a dozen other clip reviews with each other

It's so nice to see Eddy and Brett's facial expressions when they come across legit playing. Their smiles of, "Oh...? Oh yes...this is...not sacreligious!" starts to form and it's so pleasant to see. What a rarity lol. Their eyebrows at 8:28 and 8:40 are gems. I can't remember the last time they reviewed an actor/actress playing and it was silent throughout because they had nothing to critique and, instead, just sat back and listened to the music.

"Being a musician is harder than med" Me, a graduating medical student: laughs in procedure memorizations and lots of confusing disease names

As an almost housebound disabled person: I realise losing your hearing is your worst nightmare, however, like any other disability I can assure you, you find a way. You adapt. You may even lose your career. But you find new ways to live. When I explain that I vomit every day, have severe pain and dislocations, migraines for a week every month, sleep 14-20 hours a day and other difficulties... they say “I couldn’t do that!” The truth is, most people could. They would rather not! But when you get 3 hours of snuggles with your adorable 7yr old, chats and hugs with your lovely teen and some quality time with your husband or a friend or carer, it could be much worse!! Thank you for brightening up my time Twoset. And remember, everyone, you can enjoy your life no matter what it looks like, it just takes some hard work, gratitude, luck, love and waiting for the bad times to be over.

"i play snare marching band ij freshman year" everyone ignores even brett n eddy 😂

That hit me right in the feels. . On a lighter note, even Brett and Eddy didn't acknowledge the guy who mentioned playing snare. I was totally expecting them to rag on him, but it's like they didn't even notice lol

As someone who plays guitar, I can completely relate to how losing your hearing would make you not want to play. I could play from visuals and muscle memory but it just wouldnt be the same because I got into playing classical guitar because I enjoy listening to the music I can make. Not being able to hear the music completely ruins the point in playing

Brett and Eddy: “Reviewed by almost doctors” Asian parents all around the world: *S H A M E*

I have a condition called trigeminal neuralgia, and it hurts like hell - think lightning-like electrical shocks in your eye socket every time the wind blows or you brush your teeth or take a drink of water. Some days are better than others, but it’s still there. The only real treatment for it is surgery, but because of my particular anatomy, I risk losing hearing in my left ear if I get the surgery to cure me of this pain. My other choice is to take medicine for it, but the medicine makes my hearing go flat, and I have perfect pitch, and I can notice it. I play a Cmaj chord and my brain hears a B or B-flat. And it sucks. So it’s stay de-tuned, go deaf in one ear, or deal with episodes of horrific pain that make me wanna die. On the positive side, the existential crisis of it all has _really_ let me dump my frustrations into my music and my musicality is sounding better than ever. So I guess there’s a silver lining to even the worst of situations.

When I was at the Royal College of Music in London, there was a Viola student who was profoundly deaf. She performed the Schnittke viola concerto and stunned us all....she became lead viola in a major London orchestra. I wish I could remember her name....Anyway, please don't knock deaf musicians. There was Beethoven, there's Eyelyne Glennie. There's a mystery in musical communication that those of us who can hear, evidently don't understand.

3:05 Poor doctor got ignored by the ladies AND Eddy and Brett

I got teary eyed when they did the cut-scene to the violinist being wheeled to surgery and the music slowly fading away...🥺

A doctor usually spends just about 5 min in a pt room at most. It’s funny to me how she had the time to play violin with a pt. Lolol

I knew their violin playing was legit when Eddy didn't say a word during that performance

When you see the two set icon you just click asap

i really want them to react to hannibal episode 8 where the guy makes his strings out of human organs!!

10:00 "Practice! Or you'll have to become a doctor!" Ling Ling's ultimate punishment for not practicing 40 hours a day.

I'm a pianist, I study with an electric piano so I use headphones most of the time I practice. I actually lost part of my hearing last summer... a virus hit the nerve of my right ear, I suddenly couldn't hear anything with my right ear, 97% of hearing was gone. You can't even imagine the struggle when I practice or when I listen to my favorite music. Still can't get used to it. I can relate to that woman so much💔

Holy shit that got dark pretty quickly. I really felt that helpless cry when they announce the risk of losing hearing.

As a doctor, the diagnosis of an acoustic neuroma is my first diagnosis given the history of dizziness, unilateral hearing loss and nystagmus. However, acoustic neuromas can be operable, and even if there was hearing loss postop, it would be unilateral. Also, the testing with the tuning fork, called Weber's test in this case, is done by putting the tuning fork in between the eyebrows and seeing if the patient hears less on one side.

"Practice 40 hours or you'll become a doctor." As a kid I didn't practice 40hrs and now my dream is to be a doctor. I'm also asian welp

Imagine being in the next hospital room suffering from intense migraines adhkhfljdsgj

Those high pitched tuning forks are used in medicine for checking hearing and vibration sense

Was watching one of their old vids when this popped up, they're taking over my life 😬

9:50 I was anxious right there thinking brett couldnt catch up

This is actually pretty emotional. Like imagine working on something all your life, loving it so much..and then suddenly everything falls apart, and you might not ever be able to the thing you once loved.

Fun fact We all are watching this without fullscreen

No joke, I quit the violin when I was younger and now I'm going into the medical field. Laughed so hard at the ending 😂

This hits close to home. I've dedicated my life to being a flautist and ever since I became severely ill from Lyme disease playing has been a struggle. Sometimes it feels impossible. I've had to retrain myself so many times because I am sick for a while and lose my skill from not practicing and then I have to rebuild. It feels so frustrating never being able to truly improve but instead just having to catch up over and over. There have been times I try to play but I cant even hold my flute up and its absolutely soul crushing.

Me: failed in being a musician plus failed to get into Med school (double kill) but now a med scientist still want to sing or play music tho haayst ..cant have the time from all these researches *sigh* so here i am enjoying your channel whenever i have the time.. thanks guys. keep it up

Twoset: Practice! Or you’ll have to be a doctah! Me, a doctor:

But what i'm wondering is: Did she lose her earing?

I am a pianist and I have really bad tinnitus at times. It struck my junior year of music school. You’re right. It’s a horrible sentence for a musician and you need more than muscle memory to remain in that music-making headspace.That feedback loop gets messed up by the tinnitus and the changes we can make get restricted because we can’t hear. I stopped playing for twenty years but I’ve made my way back in the past eight years. It’s hard to describe the loss you feel to other. I have to admit the storyline made me tear up.

As a singer who has 40% hearing loss on both ears I totally understand...It was a so hard excepting that. I wear hearing aids for four years now and it helps but it will never be the same...I am a nurse ( my back-up plan😉) and i am still singing and music is a huge part of my life...Learning to play piano with my kids now ad hope to pass on the love for classical music to them. You guys are great musician and very fun to watch...Keep practicing 😊

Girl: Having a full-on breakdown because she might lose her hearing Beethoven: Yeah, yeah, what a tragedy.

*Inside my brain * Me: the world of medicine and music all combined into one twoset video. 🎶Two worlds, one family... 🎶

Not being able to hear as a Musician is the equivalent of a Painting Artist losing the ability to see. Or a Dancer having paralysis.

I almost cried when they started playing and Brett and Eddy got into the music

me: promise im gonna do my homeworks and stop procrastinating twoset: uploads me: .... me: it’s a scam 🤩

You guys should react to the violin playing from the movie "Abominable". Its an animated film and i think it looks pretty legit

I was born deaf in my right ear and luckily they were able to take a skin graft and create me an eardrum. Ever since I was little I have loved everything about music. I tried to teach myself piano and actually got pretty far. Then in elementary, my teachers mentioned orchestra class. I signed up without hesitation because I always admired the violin. Cello was also a huge contender for me but I had a huge passion to be able to play violin. Recently I’ve been having trouble hearing because it’s the winter season and I can get build up in my ears. It has been so hard to play in my orchestra because I can’t hear my section but out of my left ear. I sit third chair so I also can’t hear how my sound bounces off the walls. It’s terrible and I’ve had to remove myself from scales when we practice them because I don’t want to throw my stand partner off. Thankfully I’ve practiced our pieces so much that my fingers just know where to go. I have been slowly recovering after a doctors visit and my concert is next week. Hopefully I built up enough kinesthetic memory that when I can hear fully, it will sound better.

So glad to see there's a show that you two could enjoy here.... And there's such a lot of quality comments down there including those from medical experts and people truly experiencing hearing loss quality show -> quality youtube channel review -> quality comments the world suddenly sounds so wonderful :)

Me: *has two exams tomorrow* "Okay, it's time to study-" Twoset: *uploads a video* Me: ... "Oh my books can wait."

So early that Flight of the Bumblebee was still played with dynamics

Imagine that your in the room over literally like dying and in need of help but there busy playing the violin in the next room

I absolutely love when you two play the violin, so beautiful, musics to my ears :)

0:14 eddy staring in our soul telling us to practice

When I see both of them can play I burst into tears immediately

I actually LOVE this show and thoroughly enjoy your commentaries, so THANK YOU for this vid!

6:35 Eddy: "I'm gonna make a bit of a nuanced point here, I know this is probably gonna be taken the wrong way..." He then proceeds to deliver one of the most well-thought out reasonings I have ever heard about how profoundly hearing loss can affect musicians, and that although they would still be physically capable of playing their music, they wouldn't be able to enjoy it as much due to their feedback loop being permanently compromised. As a musician myself, I know I take my hearing for granted, and I'd be devastated if I were in her position, probably then just wanting to ask the doctors for euthenasia, as for me, it would be better to die than to learn to live without that which I love so dearly.

I have “early onset hearing loss” and constant tinnitus. I’m a clarinetist. Thankfully, my good ear is the one that faces the rest of my clarinet choir, and my bad ear only faces the other alto clarinet. I hope that there is something we can do to make my hearing better, or at least keep certain pitches from hurting me physically. But do check out Evelyn Glennie, if you haven’t yet. She is a Deaf percussionist and I believe it is congenital in her case. She is world-class.

That tv show was actually so deep, like I was imagining how I would react to finding out I would lose my hearing.

Just… damn. And your description about playing to create something to listen to is 100% spot on. I’ve been a professional guitarist for 40 years, finally got my first violin and hope to play as well as you two one day.

Good. I like the piece playing at the end. Thanks!

NGL when the doctor said "close your eyes and remember" I was reminded of that ridiculously long violin commercial with the deaf girl 😂but this was seriously impressive, good review, and good job Chicago Med!

I'm stuck at the intro, enjoying and reminiscing the times Twoset mess up the intro

Watched plenty of your videos. You two are terribly entertaining (in a good way)! Thanks for the videos and the laughs!

Twoset: Imagine if doctors react to this? Dr. Mike: Am I a joke to you?

After finishing this video, I’m just left wanting to listen to Brett and Eddy play the full Bach concerto though 😭