Can You Turn A Violin Into A Guitar? 

How do you think it turned out?

As a guitarist it’s always broken my brain how string instruments are played without frets like how do you know where the notes are then???

Was it just me who thought he was gonna play the violin like a guitar

Pssst, it is called Pizzicato ! Thanks to my one year of violon-studying, but I stopped, cuz it's too much hard, that's why I have an infinite respect for you Rob Landes !

In fact, the instruments from the viola da gamba family are fretted (with gut frets) and they exist for 500 years. Frets are not bad for bowed instruments at all. The violin community is just very conservative and continues to spread a lot of stereotypes. For example, they say that vibrato is completely impossible with frets (we can see it is not true), that mechanical tuners are bad, etc.

At least with frets, you can hit the right note easily. Violinists really impress me with how they can hit the right note without being too flat or too sharp on a smooth fingerboard

You’re turning the violin into a mandolin.

The dog singing along with Rob was so cute! What a good puppy

As a violinist I'm very offended🙄

you're a madman rob! I am now inspired again to practice even though I practice everyday haha

This is simply amazing, love how you are always bring something new to us ❤️

Having this done on a Yamaha YEV-105 by a British luthier soon, crazy to see you do that now! Definitely helps in seeing the process. Filing the frets down should help a lot with shifting and vibrato. Great video, thank you Rob!

This kind of reminds me of my 4 string mandolin with the frets, although the mandolin doesn't have that curve in the fingerboard that he ran into when the frets popped out. Great video! Thanks for the quality content.

Turned out great! I love doing experiments like that! You really knocked it out of the park!

Two of my favourite instruments together and it's sponsored by lord of the rings, best vid ever

This is pretty sick

In your hands, it sounds amazing as always 👍👍💗

I use one of the fingerboard stickers with frets that you showed at the beginning of your video on one of my violins. I think it helps with my practice. I’m placing my fingers right on top of the frets rather than just behind them - except for my fourth finger which I will admit tends to get a little bit lazy and starts being placed behind the fret. I’ve been trying to learn Bach’s prelude #1 for cello and the frets on my violin have been very helpful.

That final performance was

Its a really nice video. But i think, that wooden frets would be better, because now it sounds a littlebit metallic. With wooden frets or with some, comparable to median age lutes, it could be more "Natural".