Theorbo (The enormous 14 string lute) 

They just replie, "What gage?".

@@OrangeColt nyl-gut

Nah he actually uses human gut cuz he's a vampire

@@christopherstube9473 goat gut

Then all of a sudden they have the brightly colored Ernie Ball package with strings made for that lol.

Robert yeah he like unbelievably good looking

He definitely has freakishly long hand and fingers...might be a vampire.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he slept in a coffin in the basement

He probably survived the great London fire

A.d. 1580

Got riff?

"My lord, thou shall listen to that sick riff I just wrote"

"checketh thy shit yo!"

Yeah, between groupie story’s.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_SBue1DuCyc.html Duelling sitars Bill Bailey Coral Electric Sitare.

They both are.

He do be pretty sexy no homo

I guessing he gets asked about this ALL OF THE TIME. It’s pretty slick.

And he's got his own channel, too!

Guy has 400k subs rn

Gosh, so the rumours of him inventing the theorbo itself may very well be true!

You just wish you did.

I have one that your mom painted

This is the most underrated comment I'm dead

@@JordyMarincic i got one of him making that flute they consider the first instrument

:D hahaha!

If your my bass you can't call the cops when I slap you

@@herpderp4078 HAHAHAHA 😂

Yes !

The moon is beautiful tonight

@@zeta970 Ouí ouí!

God, why do I have such a crush on him

Chezsit zubDANCE then what level is Rob?

Chezsit zubDANCE most underrated comment of all time

Chezsit zubDANCE He destroys all the kobolds in a room with a single strum of his giant lute

Instrument of the Bards: Theorbo Wondrous Item, Legendary Once per day, you can expend a 9th Level Spell Slot and for 24 hours you become the biggest chad in a 64 mile radius.

More like level 80

I think you have to be enthused to Play this intatrument

The repertoire is amazing. It drove me to play early instruments too, so yeah. Didn't get to find an affordable theorbo builder though, so it's just lute, recorder, vihuela, viol da gamba, hurdy gurdy, crumhorn, cornett and tambourine for me sadly. I'm not obsessed I swear.

Thats a shame that you didnt get to play this insane thing

Passionate people get other people passionate too. Never ignore a passionate person. You'll learn so much, and they'll feel so loved when you listen.

@@nextlifeonearth The solo repertoire is good but there's nearly none of it out there. You could feasibly learn nearly every single piece ever written for the instrument in a pretty short period of time =/ The instrument is just so damn unwieldy and because of the re-etrant tuning it makes it difficult to write good melodic parts.

Anything is interesting if the guy talking about it is interesting, and interested in the subject at hand. An interested, interesting guy can make anyone interested in their interest. (Mostly anyone, some people are lame)

CurlyWurly77 ikr!! It’s so awesome to see people find others to just enjoy their passion with others. I’d bet it had been a long time since he got to teach another person and just jam and it’s amazing seeing the joy it brings

CurlyWurly77 I’ll call you CurlyWhorely77

🤣

That statement was comic genius. ~J.

add some serious flair and bust out the spoons and knee cymbals...there will be some leg flingin of a different kind

He luted the p*ssuy away

😂

I was going to write that

I am sure he is a Vampire!

pushes glasses up

😂🤣OMFG you nailed it!

He's gotta maintain the authenticity man.

All bout da lute

Sounds like a call to action to me. Will you answer the call?

@@kingadalou I love that Google thinks this needs to be translated into English.

@@chriswedemann8599 lol same

Don't forget the long fingers

We're all a lil gay, I don't blame you he is cute

U gay

@@siddharthbirdi u gay

Yall gae

“Fairly” straight what the hell Hahahaha

Seems so

lmao

Hunny should I wear the blue power sweater? Ya def

He's cute tho

@@averycompany7343 I laughed way too hard at that 🤣

Flight of the Conchords reference. :-)

Nice, nice and it was a joke because CHI probably has ter...tha....terob fuck whatever clubs. Lots of old universities and churchy shit going on, symphony and orchestra communities that are fairly elite...I think they could find even more rad shit to expose himself to. Do a djent on weird old instruments tour it's been at least a month since Someone Else did lol

Omfg he actually does what a legend

Time to do djent 1619.

Jared, if you don't metal-fy this instrument with him then what is life?

go make reaction videos

@@Josh-it6uy ouch

Thanks, Jared! I'm a fan of yours as well. Keep up the great videos.

aM i a jOkE tO YoU

Long guitar: Hold my beer

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@@diegotorres1214 xD

It came back

I'm buying the first album :)

We need an update

It's a medieval metal band but you can only use lutes, viols, and hand drums.

Sorry for being that guy, but I don't consider Djent to be Metal...it's literally it's own thing. More than 6 strings are not needed in metal and most metalheads I know despise Djent and the few Djent fans I know only like Djent. Metal to me is the perfect blend between art and brutality. US metal already tends to put *much* more emphasis on the brutality aspect than European Metal but Djent isn't even compareable to that. I know it sounds like an insult but Djent where I live is treated like Rap music...and I mean literally. They are two groups that rarely interacts with each other, metalheads hate the music, usually can't find anything likeable even if they try and vice versa. My fav genre is Melodic Deathmetal (finnish style) but I listen to pretty much every other subgenre and I have at least a few songs that I really like within most genres I can think of...I'm very tolerant when it comes to different tastes. The only exeptions where I was truely appaled by what I listened to where screamo, some of the -core genres and most of them all Djent. Core genres I just didn't like at all, they felt like the most basic and generic kind of metal I've heard. But in Djent there's literally nothing metal I could find.(it fits the word, but not the music) They may use the same instruments, but the way *how* they use them is so fundamentally different But I guess the US definition of metal is so different that Djent seems more metal there than let's say symphonic metal or 90s power metal

@@AgeofJP haha. amusing. djent sucks. the only djent i can stand is when metal bands are influenced by djent. like meshuggah. but even then. it can be.. hard to fully appreciate.

i guess i mean... the only correct "djent" is meshuggah. anything "djent" that isnt meshuggah. is a ripoff. in a way.

lol your username...guess I never was "that guy" to begin with

They amment's metal. It ams a grandspas guitars.

back to the future......!

I love reading comments from people that don't play instruments on Robs Channel cuz it's sooooooooo wrong yet so flattering lol

cale you came in hot with the backhanded compliment there

Or well, I guess it is for opera too, which is much later.

I'm super gay for him

Yeah this is the comment

D-dio?

I mean it's a common thing from his channel

i feel straight

What, Harry potter? xD

Me

Just think of the most intellectual man you can possibly think of=Brandon

hot? yeah

Oh really? Not to be rude, but I pictured Cicero from Skyrim. lol

Jesus it’s got 5 mil views and EVERYONE is raving about it. How cool something so obscure now is getting seen. Internets cool sometimes man

So true 😂

Size is not everything!

You just have to embrace it ;)

@@Dicen_Delirio Lol yeah

Man ur all gae as hell hahaha

Run down the fence you can jump either way at any time !!

Can't agree more brother.

I wonder if that could be incorporated into other instruments to make them more compact.

Most lutenists are pretty passionate as the lute family are not easy to play, very expensive, and pretty obscure so it takes a certain passion to build a career out of it.

Yeah, I want a guitar that folds up.

Nick Urban underrated comment lmao

Noting on the internet makes me laugh out loud. I never really comment either. However, this "bro" play has killed me. Too funny!

nice

This has been the comment that has finally made me laugh out loud

😂😂😂😂😂

You'd all better duck, because I'm about to turn left.

They're gonna put you to the stairway itself i heard.

@@defaultset Gotta use it to tune the bass strings if it ain't a folding model

When is the hold my beer thing going to die off? Wasn't funny the first time.

@@proveitbytch8379 Hold my beer=MEME MEME's live forever

Bass: size matters Therobo: hold my beer Octo bass: hold my whiskey

@@akosslive03 ... Memes live forever... I don't like it. Not one bit.

Bass: size matters Therobo: hold my beer Octo bass: hold my whiskey Plucking the wires on a suspension bridge: **laughs inaudibly**

Jack Sales right!

for real, i really want that tone

it feels like an 8 string’s F# at longbass tension, so punchy and nasally

Same!

It's all about scale length!

appreciate you

Top notch

get out

Doesn't work with English pronunciation 😪

Clever girl

Snoo Lee Imma give you an L on this, you’re just straight poor m8

Same, those little moments are what make being around other musicians fun

Yeah, I also saw a similarity to Metallica's music, for all we know a lute player could've been performing 15th century Metallica to a crowd of people and never even knew it.

I was thinking the same thing, add some volts to that rift and you got a beautiful solo

That's a really fun thought. I wonder if any huge modern songs accidentally got played in the past, but never recorded.

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 That's because Metallica is not metal :) They are versatile but currently basically country, due to tone used during and after black album

Battery

The shoes and everything. It has to be intentional, right?

@OptimisticGreg a really hot one for sure

Honestly and it's really distracting. Especially the way the hair just sits on the glasses.

i just burst out laughing at this comment. thank you

He likes Leon in RE2

😂😂😂😂😂🤢🤮

Of course, he must fold his wallet closed!

I ugly laughed on that one 😂

i feel dense cuz i dont get it

It’s probably a dick joke but how tf you fold a dick I’m dense af

gold xD

XD

Nice profile picture

boorisko u ayyy

That’s The Godfather of guitars!!! There will be NO other !!!!! Yeahhhhh. Hahahaha

The name of a theorbo-based metal band.

How old are you?

Ancient MEMORIES??

@@georgepapad5272 I was falling over this too 😅

@Anjo Liwanag, are you asking me?

He kinda reminds me of Eagle McMahon, with a similar kind of enthusiasm mixed with mastery. facebook.com/Eagle-McMahon-827952767308488/

Seems like a pretty good reason to check out his channel linked at the end of the video. I agree he seems really interesting, mainly for me, because of how passionate he appears to be about what he's into. Definitely somebody that I could listen to talk about their hobbies for quite a while.

he also plays lots of instruments: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, banjo, ukulele, lute, theorbo, classical guitar.... a master

@@mal2kscI guess I'm not the only person who loves weird instruments and disc golf.

True. At this point it's kind off become a meme that Rob can play anything he touches

it isn't like he hasn't played a lute before

It's not that impressive for a decent guitarist, such as Rob, to be able to play other plucked instruments.

Мариос Христодулу I thought it was pretty impressive how he’s great at other instruments too - bass, drums, etc. And how quickly he adapts to non-string instruments as well (I.e playing For Whom The Bell Tolls on a Carillon).

@@DLBBALL Percussion is an entirely different animal, but I count all plucked strings as essentially one instrument - and I say that from personal experience.

I thought it was a long neck stylar, I stand corrected

Can't tell if you're serious or not?

@@fabianclair-woods8169 Deathly serious. Long neck stylars and giraffitars aren't anything to joke about

@@boyfromzambia hahaha lmao

Hahaha that’s Hilarious!

@Dr. Krieger nah ... .kill the lute too, my liege.

@@machinenkanone9358 *Wind blows ominously*

The harp also uses gut strings.

Next: Phoetus guts for Medieval Djent.

The first condoms were made of sheep intestine

@@kebm1388 I think the first ones were from crocodile skin in Egypt.

Ironically, using metal strings is less metal

He seems like a great teacher.

@@cranki6316 he legit looks like a teacher that would have you playing the instrument with a pasion after he's done teaching you how to play

@@chelcyndo1759 Except me. I can only play the radio. It's fascinating seeing how they make it look so easy. It seems like rocket science to me.

at first glance i thought that said touches

@@cranki6316 i can relate, i've got a Bass Guitar for 2 years now and all i can play is Seven Nation Army

thank you I was having a panic attack

It's a modern manufacture theorbo.

it "sounds" like 1/2 step down because they tuned in 415 ish hertz while we tune usually around 440

Correct. Modern widely accepted tuning for baroque music and period instruments is A=415 Hz, which is close enough to ½ lower than 440. (Or the new European symphonic standard of 442-444.)

And all of that is totally pointless now because of equal temperament.

he's a Cullen. (twilight)

That's for sure.

He is a distant cousin of Keanu Reeves, another vampire.

@@paulbissonnette3650 don't be an ass, it's an innocent joke. The guy is awesome, he's obviously very young and yet at the same time you can't help but feel like he has hundreds of years of knowledge. There's nothing wrong with talking about that.

@@paulbissonnette3650 Yeah, you kind of are being an ass. Ignorant, at the least.

yeah he made a 13000$ theorbo sound like a pawnshop banjo...congratu-fg-lations

@@rickdeckard1075 We are all waiting for your video with your surely amazing performance. Please notify us when it's uploaded. Have a nice day ;-)

@@WeeFreeMan78 lol sry your feefees are hurt dude, facts matter

@@rickdeckard1075 No worries buddy, no feelings hurt by a kid's comment on youtube. But as you stated, facts matter. Prove yourself

@@WeeFreeMan78 did you even watch the vid? i'm not yr buddy, pal.

😆🤣

That's that college play.

I almost spit my coffee out of my nose there

I almost spit my nose out of my coffee there

I almost coffee my nose out of my spit there

Spit my coffee nose I almost there out of my

I almost nose my coffee out of my spit there

Perfect pitch!!!

Yes I was wondering this too! When he was explaining the tuning at 3:00 everything just sounds half step lower

Oh man, it was driving me crazy. He started naming off the open strings when talking about the tuning and I was like, “Ummm… What?”

I'm guessing he's in A=432. Many players of historical instruments use it. I don't have a tuner handy to check.

Nice humble brag there: not only perfect pitch but also bass singer.

...but if you have a voice you can sing!