Here I am eagerly waiting for the next video, to learn what I should do if something happens to my non existing violin 😂 I don't know why it's so interesting to learn about these things, but it is 😁
Not a string player, played baritone horn and in a marching band half time show at an American football game, my second and third valves froze! Yes, it was that cold with the wind chill! Got the second valve free by go time but the third valve didn't free up till the second number! Luckily there are alternate fingerings for many notes and the others, well the band was short one horn.
I was at the Brisbane concert ❤ the drama before the concert was *chefs kiss* The night was spectacular and Brett, Eddie and their pianist Sophie gave an amazing performance. Thank you Olaf for your expertise on the night! Nothing beats a happy ending!
Thank you again for the varies and extremely interesting backgrounds of your work area while you’re explaining everything! And of course, great job helping out twoset!!
This is very cool and glad to see you’re still helping out “the boys”! I am a bowyer making Native American equipment. I have made my own hide glue from scratch. It is a remarkable and VERY useful substance!👍
As a stage manager/technician I've dispatched various string players to the local luthier here in Birmingham (UK) mere hours before a concert or show, usually with bridge or soundpost issues, but also had a loose fingerboard and one with an odd buzz. Only once have they needed a backup instrument.
Eddie must have freaked out! LOL and had the jitters. But those guys had to have had a backup instrument just in case. But Olaf the Violin ER Doctor stepped up and got the patient fixed in a jiffy. The show must go on Yay!
What a close shave! 😮I was thinking, maybe it could be good to make up some clamps with chinrest hardware so it can stay on, but for something like that it wouldn't be good. Oh the fingerboard coming off would not be a good one either. I've had one player use cellotape to get through 'their gig'. I remember (a couple of decades ago) prior to our local orchestral concert when the double bassist was lifting his d'bass out of his little hatchback (why do bassists drive little cars?) & with the body mostly out it slipped & fell a very short distance catching the neck/scroll on the back of the car & sadly the neck broke out (mostly because of the previous dodgy repair). He didn't get to play that concert! That was no easy fix, needing a grafted backbutton etc as it wasn't done the first time it happened (just glue & paint to cover up).
Can't imagine the pressure guys were on. And the timing...Not much time for glue to usually dry up either, i guess the heat helped to reduce moisture in the glue so it solidified quicker, but still... Well this is why you are professional. Great job 👍
One is expensive enough as it is. Violins aren’t “take two, they’re small”. Only one person in my band has a backup instrument, and she doesn’t bring it to shows.
@annagreets I don't think it's only about money. It takes months to adjust to a new violin. If you practiced for hundreds of hours on an instrument and have to switch suddenly to another just before a concert, chances are that your performance will be sub-par compared to how you usually play. Even the best soloists who own several violins usually choose a specific one to prepare for a concert.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Yes, but if you didn’t manage to get your violin repaired at once, you’ll end up with a hastily rented or borrowed one you’re not prepared to play at all and your performance will be even more sub-par.
I wonder if you correct the spelling of Eddy's name (you spelled: Eddies) in your title if more people will find your video? Thank you for using your amazing expertise to save the day!
Every musician needs to Know A Guy. I play the melodeon (a kind of English button accordion) and I had a dreaded buzzing sound meaning some of my valves were loose and My Guy That I Go To fixed that right up. Just… find out from players near you who your local Person In Shed is that fixes that instrument. Never know when you’ll need them.
These higher end wooden instruments are fragile, capricious and high-maintenance. Luckily, for beginners/amateurs there are carbon fiber and composite violins you can take where violin makers can't be found and crack nuts with them.
Hahaha... I know! It's like it has no soul! Everyone is doing it at the moment. It was just what TwoSet had posted and I needed it to tell the full story.
It may be a matter of unintentional manifesting. "At least Olaf is right nearby when something goes wrong with the violins". Those kinds of thoughts may seem reassuring, but you might want to correct yourself when it comes to you.
My bow broke in dress rehearsal a couple seasons ago and our local luthier just happened to be playing in the symphony that season. He took it home with him and brought it back the next day to the concert for me. Thank goodness! I have backups, but they're not my best concert bow.
gods, being a choral singer, i can imagine the stress. performing on stage, there's sooo many things that can go wrong. the worst is when it's concerning the main star of the show - the instrument itself.😂
How fortuitous they were playing in Brisbane (of all places) and not somewhere in America! Glad you saved the day/night, Olaf. Bet Eddy was stressing out with this one!! I missed their first UK concert (London) thanks to having surgery on a fractured wrist on the day but they're coming back to the UK so now have a ticket for Manchester instead! Yay.
3:20 "pop!" Yes. I think for once we have a genuine reaction to a startling thing. I think there are many violinists who don't know *all that much* about how their instrument works/functions. It's essentially a box *made* to project sound ... and so anything that happens to it physically is "naturally amplified". Sometimes bridges are at such a large angle that they eventually get pushed suddenly to the belly of the violin and then fly off somewhere. It sounds like a cartoon gun-shot when it happens but in most cases the violin is actually perfectly alright. Literally: perfectly alright! In the bridge scenario - it's just that one small bit of tonewood hit a musical box made of tonewood and so it created a much louder sound than wanted. Many (younger) violinists think that their violin has snapped or split or broken, but really none of these things has happened and the violin will be perfectly playable in no time (and more than 95% of the time won't need any follow-up repairs). Perhaps just a bit of touch-up varnish if the bridge made a dent in the belly.... but that's just part of a violin ageing anyway. All those Strads, 300 odd years later, of course there will be many many many marks on the belly and perhaps one of those dents is caused by a bridge flying off! We won't quite know.....
Hello Olaf, I have been watching quite a few of your videos and really enjoying them. Do you think a video on varnish would be something you might make in the future? I’d love an overview on the process you do for matching existing varnish on instruments and what your polishing process is. I really liked your recent video on instrument levels/values/repair worthiness as it pertained to my day-to-day as a luthier for a music store. Thanks for all you post/make!
That was my first concern upon viewing this video, that you would not have enough glue up clamping time by the time of the concert. I think the trick was the heat gun assist. saved your butt on that one Olaf.!. that and good glue! and having it warmed up and ready to go when they arrived helped also. I would presume. great video loved it. thanks for sharing. ECF.
I'm not a violin player but I watch Olaf so often...haha I"m tempted to go learn violin, just so I have a reason to bring my violin in to see him..hahahahah But thank you for sharing and the time you take to film and educate the internet world about violin making!
Last year, I was on tour with the Jimmy Kelly Band (as a video filmer!), when suddenly Jimmys guitar quit working on stage, in the middle the show. So he grabbed the guitar of the other guitarplayer of this band, and I instantly took the guitar for an emergency check. Luckily we had a very professional monitor guy, who instantly prepared a DI-box for doing a quick check and localizing the problem (which was a broken endpin-jack). As the build-in pickup was a LR Baggs, that uses (as I knew) a small 3,5mm plug at the pickup, I run to the tour-bus, heated up my battery powered soldering iron and built an adapter cable that plugged straight into the pickup. Then, the monitor guy and I attatched this construction to the instrument temporary, using Gaffa tape - and after not even two songs, the instrument was back on stage, performing perfectly. Of course, the next day, before the show, I went to a local music shop, bought the needed spare parts and did a proper repair of this guitar.
Having people you can rely on (especially in an emergency like that) is paramount. Kudos to you for being one of those people. Thanks for the vid. Big fan.
Suppose there was even less time. Would he have been able to play just with the clamps in place closing the gap or would it interfere with the vibration of the plates? Apart from the obvious weight and balance being off, of course.
You all have provided an open view into the workings of the musical world. From all the instruments that pass through your hands Olaf , to Two Set and their exposure into other professional instruments of all sorts. Collectively you all have made music more open to see and to feel at home with. I think that’s as good as I can describe it. Thankyou to you all…. 🤓 J
Is that still his violin he commissioned in Europe? Those weren't crazy expensive for a title performing artist. Perhaps they should both order spares to the same specifications for reasonable consistency?
@@auricia201 Yeah, they gave them back after the concert in November, a little bit over a year ago, so you were not that far off. Don't worry, despite the fact that's it's already February, I think a lot of us still struggle with the idea that we're in 2024... 😄
