What Countries are These World Instruments From? 

I wonder if Bret’s flashlight is still on to this day

I love how Brett is making names up for things he doesn't know because he knows there's no way he would get it right, and Eddy's trying his best to get his answer as close as possible. 😆 You guys crack me up!

I loved the part when you said “when manga gives you more education than the actual education itself” lol 😂😂

in brett's defense, i think big guitar for "guitarron" would be pretty accurate as a translation since the suffix "-on" generally is used as a way to describe something as being big

Music, laughter and cross-cultural communication are extraordinarily important in today's climate. Thanks twoset

Fun fact: In spanish "Guitarron" is another way to say "Guitarra grande" which means Big Guitar

For the time stamp 5:00. In Turkey, Saz is sometimes used as a generic name for musical instruments. And this instrument is generally called "Bağlama".

6:03 she is Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar's daughter and Norah Jones sister.

The weird thing about world instruments is how so many cultures invented effectively the same instruments in different shapes and configurations - sometimes completely independently of each other.

Popular opinion: You guys should do another video like this. It’s super fascinating 😊

Brett’s flashlight: Hi!

10:01 I loved playing this with my brother when i was little 🇳🇵🇳🇵

When I saw the Kulintang, I hesitated to guess it was from the Philippines because I remembered that there are similar instruments with the gongs that went by other names in Indonesia and Malaysia (like caklempong and talempong) there's also the khong wong yai and khong wong lek from Thailand, but that one has a circular frame with it and is a little different.. What gave it away for me was the name Tboli Museum on the bottom. The T'boli people are one of the indigenous groups from Mindanao, Philippines in South Cotabato. We had influences from Indonesia, Brunei and other Southeast Asian cultures prior to the Spanish colonizing. Those influences are more apparent in the South. There are many other instrument names too and types of gongs that are suspended while playing- like the agung and gandingan??, but I admit that I don't know that much about the instruments. I have family living near the region (in Davao) but I live far from them now.

"Is Scotland part of United Kingdom?" Let's put this to a referendum!

5:20 all applauses from Türkiye for you Brett Good job 🎉👏❤🇹🇷

I like how brett says sitar is from Greece

Why aren’t I surprised that brett has his flashlight during the whole video

You instantly summoned all Filipino LingLing wannabes with that thumbnail

Really enjoyed this video. Had fun playing along. Learned a few new instruments. :)

Thank you so much for this video! :) My music students are going to LOVE trying this challenge with you!!

Some of Brett's masterworks: 0:42 clickaflicka 2:40 hamoninano 3:34 taka 4:37 ukuletriangle 5:02 papapira 5:34 jinchuriki 6:37 stringadoo 7:26 big guitar 8:33 awesome 9:42 The big boss 10:35 violinini 11:08 the circular sixth

To be fair, "guitarrón" translates as "big guitar", although in a Mariachi ensemble it works as a bass and provides rhythm.

I'm from Madagascar and I'm so proud of our valiha!

10:45 I think this is first time seeing Brett without his glasses...

“Guitarrón” literally means “big guitar”, so you should have given yourselves that point haha

Hey Eddy, I'm from Jamaica. I'm not offended by the "is Jamaica in Africa" question I'm just surprised, and a bit amazed, that the question could asked.

Great selection. The musicians were not just talented but visually stunning.

This was a wonderful way to learn about other very exotic instruments. It's fascinating to see what other countries use as instruments. It's just to show you that music is in everything no matter in what form it is drawn out of.

Gamelan is the whole group, not just one particular instrument. And the one you watched was Balinese gamelan which has more loud, fast, and festive characteristics than the Javanese gamelan and Sundanese gamelan.

9:55 props to editor San for putting hungarian dance playing while the globe points to jamaica when eddy asked if it’s in Africa 😃

When I was in Phoenix, Arizona last year I visited the Musical Instrument Museum. It had these instruments on display along with video similar to these of them being played. A must see for any music lover!

As a Scot, Eddy accurately represented my reaction when Bret said United Kingdom for the bagpipes!

0:21 Castanets, Spain 0:57 Bandoneón, Argentina 1:38 Bouzouki, Greece 2:18 Sheng, China 2:51 Bagpipes, Scotland 3:18 Shamisen, Japan 3:53 Balalaika, Russia 4:45 Bağlama, Turkey 5:25 Gamelan, Indonesia 5:58 Sitar, India 6:25 Nyckelharpa, Sweden 7:06 Guitarrón, Mexico 7:36 Kulintang, Philippines 8:05 Didgeridoo, Australia 8:18 Berimbau, Brazil 8:49 Kantele, Finland 9:23 Nyatiti, Kenya 10:01 Madal, Nepal 10:22 Hardingfele, Norway 10:49 Valiha, Madagascar

You guys need to listen to Brazil’s most famous composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos. His main work is “Bachianas Brasileiras”, mixing Bach and Brazilian folklore and sounds

Another great video!! Thank you guys! 💕

Debussy was influenced by Javanese gamelan using the slendro scale via siah pitu in his piece, Pagodes from Estampes. What we have here is a Balinese gamelan that’s using the pelog scale via siah pitu. Good for Eddy for trying to explain it, he was close. Hate to be all nerdy and stuff but I majored in world music at CalArts before I became a piano technician.

An episode of Brett naming intruments whatever he wants to name them, lmao so adorable

Talking about Brett's flashlight, I think we also agree that his greeny-lizard-like phonecase is adorable too 🦎

4:15 Doritos guitar

These instruments, the performers, and the traditions behind them are significant cultural treasures, in danger of being lost and forgotten. Thank you, TwoSetViolin, for highlighting this music, which flies under the radar in the algorithm-based streaming era. Music students: Excellent examples of traditional world music abound on RU-vid. Start with the names of instruments and countries, surf around, you won't be disappointed.

Twoset: Guessing with the help of music Me: Guessing the country looking at the musicians' faces and trying to see if I can guess their nationality

In indonesia, we also have kulintang. It is written Kolintang. Percussion like xylophone made from wood. The instrument similar to Kulintang from Philippines is called Talempong from West Sumatra, Indonesia.

I knew very few of these (gamelan and sitar were the easiest ones for me) but I'm actually very proud that I knew the Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele). I was lucky enough to visit Norway a few years ago and the group I was with was able to get a presentation about the instrument and it was pretty cool.

I really enjoyed learning about all the entries. Some of them I knew right away, but some of them were completely new to me!

“When manga gives you more education that the whole education system” cells at work helped me through med school, sooo sounds about right

Brett: *Implies that the sitar is from Greece* Eddy: *Calls an instrument a vindaloo* Me: *laughs in Indian* (P.S. The sitar is Indian and the vindaloo is a dish)

Wow, there is a sitar in Greece too!

Very educational, thanks guys. Loved the Valiha.

Correct, Eddy. But the Gamelan orchestra that Debussy saw at the oriental festival was the central Javanese style of gamelan playing. While the one shown in this video is the Balinese gamelan. The instruments are the same, but the styles are distinctly different. In fact, many cultures in Indonesia have the gamelan orchestra. But they make different styles that varies from culture to culture.

7:27 Guitarrón means big guitar in Spanish so Brett is kinda right

Thanks ! Great video!!

Love how you guys had to completely make up the most random names for the instruments when you didn’t know. So funny and such a good vid.

6:56 brett i am so sorry but your pronunciation made my family laugh for a solid few minutes 😭

Eastern regional of Indonesia also has Kulintang. Recently I found out Philippines also had Gulok, the blade, which is similar to Golok, Indonesian blade. It's amazing how cultures were so widely spread in the past. Maybe Malaysia has it too.

9:48 as a carribean im dying

More of this series please!

1:56 man really said sitar 😂😂he HAS to be trolling

x'D Luckily Brett isn't a luthier. If he's a luthier, I'm afraid he'll give every violin he made a weird name. He had a knack for coming up with "magical" names out of nowhere.

I was so hoping you'd include the balalaika - and the child playing it was stellar!

I love these vids--it's hilarious AND educational.

This entire video was hilarious xD Eddy's "bull-dog", Brett's flashlight, the editing, everything got me rolling on the floor xD I love TwoSet

Brett naming castanets as “ClickaFlicka” is adorable

Editorsans little inputs always make me smile

At 10:27 I should have knewn that it was the hardingfele, I'm from Norway and only knew it's from here because of the national clothes she's wearing

brett’s flashlight on for the whole time is just too funny

As an Indian, I burst out laughing when Brett first associated Sitar with Greece xD. But I love the fact they they got it right in the other round and also the fact that they had the Hindi writing of Sitar as well!! Really proud TwoSet!

This was fun! Thanks!

nobody: brett’s phone: 📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸

I’m from Turkey! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Did you know that musicians from Turkey do not like to call that instrument “Saz”? Saz is actually a general name for Turkish musical instruments. It’s name is actually “Baglama”. ( btw thanks for honoring us Brett😁) And where is Eddy’s local Turk restaurant? I’m really curious😅

as a Greek person, the second i saw the bouzouki i was like "come on, they HAVE to find it", but it's fine that they didn't. also, the way Eddy pronounced "bouzouki" lmao😭

This was really cool!

Guitarrón literally means "Big Guitar" so Brett should have had one more point

Brett & Eddy: worrying about their wrong guesses Me: worrying about Brett's phone battery

Brett's very good at coming up with names. Also, i like the idea of prodigies around the world

That is a gorgeous bouzouki! I love when instruments are decorated like that!

Fun fact: the Nickelharpa was inspired by the hurdy gurdy. They tried to recreate its sound after coming back from battles on the continent

The Turkish instrument is actually called ‘Bağlama’ not ‘Saz’. ‘Saz’ means instrument in Turkish. It is a common mistake in Turkey too.

9:12 the sign says “karelia” which is a place

I’d love to see you guys continuing to learn more about musical styles and cultures you are unfamiliar with, and sharing that knowledge with your community! You could do some research on your own, and then where possible make a video with an expert or specialist. I think it could be a meaningful opportunity for growth, for both you and your fans, and would give you another type/series of episodes to build on while also doing a valuable service for spreading the knowledge about how cool and beautiful so many musics outside Western hegemonic boundaries are. 💜🌏🎶

5:40 "I almost say Malaysia" Me: you almost start a war between Indo & malay

*Sees Filipino flag* Filipinos: **Let's invade the comment section!!!**

Yo, I'm really glad you guys introduced to me the Hardanger Fiddle! I was really stoked to find out what kind of violin Lord of The Rings used for Rohan Theme music.

What a beautiful video. Music is a universal language indeed!

when brett's flashlight is on for at least half the vid😳

Filipinos: see Philippine flag This comment section is now the property of the Republic of the Philippines. Mabuhay!

Great video guys

Wow, good guess on the berimbau! And thanks for showing us other instruments from so many countries.

this is one of the rare times were i have seen my country Nepal finally being included. btw it's pronounced as 'maadal'

i like how Brett didn't even react that much when Eddy just casually called one of the instruments thiccbooty69 he's just so used to and good at dealing with his bullshit, that's what i call a true friendship, i love it

Hardanger fiddle owner here! Four of the strings aren't even played, they just reverberate to the tune of the played strings, they sit underneath the strings. There's a ton of different tunings for it (but I'm boring and just use standard violin) It's also the instrument that played the Rohan theme in LOTR *flies away*

I learned from a musical instrument museum that many countries had their own variant of bagpipe. And, to my ears at least, they sound similar enough.

5:32 yeah it is gamelan Indonesia traditional musical instrument, which is famous in Java and Bali islands Thanks for adding it to your video-! ^^

As someone who plays the saz, I literally screamed when the saz (baglama) came. Thank you soooo much to the Twoset team, for introducing us to all these InTrEsTiNg instruments. Fun fact: I were literally playing the saz while watching this video. What a coincidence!

This was fun! I learned quite a lot too!

I’m very happy the Philippines’ kulintang was featured haha. There was a small version of it in the music room of my high school so I have fond memories of looking at it 😆

I am from Greece. Your comment about the scale is spot on! The Turkish instrument you confused it with is named Saz.

I love how they are like "it looks like he's cooking meals and seeing if they are raw or not" and it turns out it's the Philippines 🤣🤣🤣 (though as half filipino I'm ashamed to say I didn't know that instrument existed 😅)

In Indonesia, Kulintang is similar with "Caklempong/ Talempong Minangkabau from Sumatera. This Caklempong also can be found In Malay Peninsula especially in Negeri Sembilan, Selangor and Perak cause Minang people already migrated to Malaysia thousand years ago. But, we also have "Kolintang" which is made from wood not Iron and it came from Northern Sulawesi (near Mindanao island)

I didn‘t expect there to be a Nyckelharpa 🙈 super interesting video you guys!

The more you know, didn't know we indonesians share kulintang with the Philippines and other regions too 😲