That's so interesting! I wasn't aware that this existed. Since the body of the cello is purposely bigger to accommodate for the low resonance, wouldn't the small body of the chin cello affect the low frequencies?
Yeah - they don't really bring the thunder until you plug them in. Then they sound WAY bigger than a cello. A cello body has limitations, too. But a piezo pickup can reproduce frequencies lower than the human ear can hear.
i mean that’s why viola isn’t the best instrument for sound because it’s harder to carry that low c. this instrument would not sound great, especially in person
@@SkullPrince8 yea but i’m just trying to explain the origin of the viola not being considered the best. i also play viola and i love it. still so much freedom and a very wonderful range. the instrument is just not set up correctly to cary those notes
And if you just go with a regular 5 string electric and put an octave pedal on it you can even play it in the right range. Hell you can go down 2 octaves as well if you're feeling a bit crazy.
Me too. I'm playing it next week. It's my first song. I love how it sounds and I love playing it because it's pretty challenging to me. I'm a beginner so I don't hate it like everyone else.
@@lonnisplace1459 i hope you don't start to hate it, it's beautiful but it's extremely overplayed which is one of the biggest reasons classical musicians avoid it. This also happens to fur elise, everyone knows the first 9 notes, but doesn't know the angry and difficult part.
@@ElectricViolinShop I bought a couple 1/8 scale cello C strings to try but they are still too long and I’ve balked at drilling out the pegs for the thicker strings.
As an answer to the actual question - about switching from viola to cello - I found it ok but definitely a bit weird with the clefs. I started on violin before adding viola and then becoming predominantly a viola player. So I had already switched from treble clef to alto clef which was sweet. Then as a viola player I found myself playing a lot of accompaniments by reading the bass clef of piano or choral music so I was pretty happy converting from bass clef music to finger patterns on the viola. When I went to cello though it was obviously an octave away from what I was reading on viola! That sometimes tripped me up when I wasn't paying attention! I'd say though that switching between string instruments is not too difficult as you have a lot of the core techniques down. Things to watch are - the lower the instrument, the longer and slower the vibrato you use. And the bow feels so different when playing cello! (Oh and make sure to buy cello rosin as it's a lot thicker) Should probably say I'm not a professional musician but have played strings since being a kid so a 20yr hobby
I'm not a violinist nor a chellist, so I don't understand anything people in the comments are talking about. All I know is that the violin sounds in tune and the chin chello is on my to-learn list.
That's amazing! My mother plays the double bass and I played the violin so I thought I knew all the instruments of that family (obviously with the viola and cello, I've even heard of the octobass), but I think this is the first time I've heard of hybrids and in-betweens.
Look up the Violoncello here on YT. You'll want the one by the Netherlands Bach Society. One of my favorite pieces on that instrument, and one of my favs in general that the channel has put out. :)
Not that I’m into this sort of video, so no idea why it turned up, but that was actually interesting, and it blew my mind how powerful those low notes were coming out of that small instrument.
I've heard it suggested that that's what Bach was playing when he wrote the cello suites. Only they call it violoncello dalla spalla, because there were no chinrests in the 18th century.
It's true. Bach never saw a modern acoustic violin. They weren't invented until after he died. He played a baroque violin (different neck, strings, and tuning).
I'm a violinist who played in the second violins section of my highschool string orchestra for years and Canon In D Major is ingrained in my mind. My OCD kills me hearing any part of the piece played out of tune whether on violin, viola, cello, bass, and even this chin-cello. Funny enough, now I can't get the image of chinchillas as celli (
I want that so bad!! I've always wanted a cello bc of the sound, and I got 1 for Xmas a couple years ago but learning to play it on my own I never truly got used to the position you play it in(since I'm a violinist). I bought a 6 string violin recently so I could play songs fully that require notes on the c string. But if you're telling me there's an instrument out there that can be played like a violin while sounding like a cello, SIGN ME UP!!!
You can select an option in your phone's camera for reverse video output, so you that things will look as they should, unless you only have left handed instruments.
As a trumpet player, this reminds me of the bass trumpet; it's a trumpet, but an octave lower. The only real difference between it and a euphonium is the tibre. It obviously wasn't used much for that reason but still interesting nonetheless.
As a cello player, I don't know what's more terrifying about this, the fact that this "violin" sounds like a cello or the fact that you forgot to flip the video! 😉
I play a tenor 5 string tuning G2 D A E B4 it lets me play tenor sax solos. Instead of octave strings I use full length viola strings for the top 4 and a super flexible octave G
i've never seen a viola violin hybrid but it's also the same octave as a cello .... WHO MADE THIS AND WHY IS IT SO COMPLICATED YET SO COOL btw i play viola 🎻
Crazy. I started playing the violin when I was eight. I thought I had seen or heard of every stringed instrument there was. Then you shove this broom handle in my front spokes.
