Which instrument is better? [DEBATE] Flute vs Violin 

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Who’s with me on violin gang? 🎻

As someone who plays both instruments it's hard to pick one side! It's so cool that my favourite flautist and my favourite violinist are such good friends!

Team flute! 🪈 🎵 I tried the violin and I agree with Jasmine that the flute was easier to learn. I still have my poor violin tucked in a closet for years 🎻 😢

Team Flute! 🪈 ❤

@Ray and @Jasmine, please make a video about Ray learning the flute in one hour or Ray teaching Jasmine because she has played before. Would be very interesting to see what both of you find challenging about the other instrument. 🤔

I think if you look beyond the type of flute that Jasmine plays and go into drone flutes and bamboo flutes and the many other types of flutes I believe the recognizability and repertoire increase exponentially.

Im on violin gang!!!❤

Trust me, beginner flutes sound waayyy worse than Jasmine made it sound lol.

Flute gang for ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Regarding career opportunities, I definitely think it's more difficult for flutists. Even my flute teacher told me NOT to study flute and choose flute as a career and she ended up losing her job as a flute teacher because there were too little students. She studied in Paris and spend her whole life playing the flute, so it's really sad she struggled.

What a great convo between two wonderful individuals!

Really cool episode! 😎😎 Thank you both, Jasmine & Ray! 🤩🤩 This was fun & informative too. 👍🏽👍🏽 Please stay healthy and take care. 🫂💕💯

What an amazing video! Thank you! I’d totally love to hear you duetting to showing the strengths of the two instruments (that kind of represent the (bowed) string instruments and the wind instruments) ❤

What an amazing video thank you so much!!!😅

thanks so much, love both of you who make playing instruments with so much fun~ look forward to next episode about virtuosity~

Violinist and flutis arguing about portability Cellists meanwhile: 😭

Beatbox flute and violin is sendingggggg me Also Jasmine looks so beautiful here as per usual!! 언니 오늘도 너무 아름다우시네요~~❤

Really nice collaboration~ Thank you for this video, it’s so useful! And I’d love to hear Ray Chen playing “Chant de Linos”😅, I’m very interested how it will sound))

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So much fun watching this video of two very gifted, hard working and beautiful people.

I will be waiting for the another video❤

I play both! I lean towards violin though. So glad someone made a comparison video!

I was a music major. And this was soooo fun to watch!!! Great episode!! Can we see more videos with different instruments?

I play both flute and violin in our community orchestra, and love them both!

Violin can sound like a flute with harmonics.

You are so good together. It is very entertaining and I was suprised to learn that dobbelstops are a thing on the flute too. I hope I can find out which ones are doable.

You two are a riot. :) I am a classically-trained reasonably competent amateur flutist (I never played a flaut in my life, thankyouverymuch). My grandfather, my uncle, my cousin and my sister all played violin, and I took it up in the 4th grade (for about 5 minutes). I wasn't interested in continuing. I had always wanted to try flute because I liked that it came in a small case. My sister's violin teacher actually sent a flute home with me once; I might have been 7 or 8 years old. I figured out how to put it together, blew on it like it was a bottle, and discovered that the only keys I could use to change the note were the trill keys. Fast forward to when I was 12. My grandmother offered to pay for lessons and of course I picked the flute. High school and college concert bands followed. In college I decided I was not going to pursue a professional career. So I just play here and there for fun.

Casually dropping a video for the first time in over a year and I’m here for it 🎻

Compare also: Ergonomics: Flute wins. Violinists shove the thing into their necks, often scarring their chins and necks. On a violin, most of the skill and hard work is on the left (poorer) hand,. Violinists strain their left wrists and finger joints, and can cut their skin with the nasty e-string. The violin is the second most uncomfortable instrument. Violas are of course the very worst. Discomfort of listeners hearing a typical player: Flute wins. A flautist who plays for an hour per day can be in a respectable orchestra after a year. A typical violinist after 3 years of 2 hours per day still causes real pain to the listener Adaptability to instruments in the same family: A flautist can pick up a piccolo and start playing. A violinist is a total beginner on a 'cello. Flute wins. Natural connection to the body: Flautists use breath rather like a singer. That makes way for a much more natural ability to express phrasing and feelings. Again flute wins. So, 4 more points for the flute. Having said that, there is no doubt that the violin is the most musical of all instruments.

I like this idea of comparing instruments! I want to hear the comparison of Prokofiev D Major sonata and Franck Sonata by both instruments.

This one is tough! Ray motivated me to play violin again after 13 years (apparently with his Tonic app) but now I want to learn the flute because of Jasmine!😂

Would love to hear Ray play Voliere or the last movement of Liebermann Concerto 😎

Really great meeting you all. Such a lovely experience sharing. But I think one the tone color or quality of sound flute would be more recognizable than violin. Violin most the time sound like many other instruments when played as a single instrument, yh. My opinion tho

Waiting for the challenge 👍👍👍

I love this!!! Great content and video-we play both!!! Educational and entertaining!!

Fun video. I play both and can't decide which instrument I like better😊

lololol some of the graphics are so funny! thanks for the video

How about Jasmine and Ray doing side-by-side comparisons of something flashy from The Four Seasons (Moe Koffman did a wicked jazz flute recording of the sonatas back in the 80s), then side-by-sides of Debussy's Syrinx, originally written for solo flute.

I am learning both....I like both....Each are uniquely beautiful

Waiting here🎉🎻❤

First time I hear from Jasmine Choi. She sounds like such a great person!

Both instruments sound great and beautifully complement each other!🎻🪈❤

I would love to hear Ray play great train race on violin

I love them both! My band teacher in 6th grade made mention that flute and violin can read the same sheet music. So i always saw them as besties. 😅

When I was in highschool a decade ago we had exactly 0 violins. Flutes however, we had two full rows of them, probably 20-26 flutists. Still to this day I don't think I've even seen a violin in person and I enjoy visiting music shops

Violins get more colour changes and can reasonably play 2 notes at once which is nice. Easy to start, portable, affordable though are really big categories.

I really enjoyed this viedo. Played both instruments.

Fun contest between two superb musicians

I play the flute coz I find strings instrument difficult but I prefer to listen to violin music. Which team should I be on? 😅

이렇게 훌륭하신 연주자분들을 만나뵐수 있어 영광입니다~^^😍

Let's do the battle!!!

Sorry I'm a bass guitar beginner but I try trumpet next and I'm excited 😊

Flute technique is easy to begin with but really, really hard to master. If you want perfect tone you need to practice hundreds of hours. The low notes are easier, but the highest notes are impossible, and to maintain perfect tone fluidly throughout the registers is like learning to play the instrument while walking blindfolded on a tightrope. You see even this highly trained womam doesn't sound good at D4. But it can actually sound beautiful and sweet. And there's also breath-control, which overlaps with tone as you play.

I just love both it's really good to hear both violin and flute so I in both ❤

This is always an interesting debate :D

I want to learn one of these instruments but I have to choose the one that makes the least ulnar deviation movement on the fist 🤔 I played songs with acoustic guitar for some time and I wanted to take classical guitar lessons but I have a problem with my hand that is not compatible with me continuing to playing guitar. so now I will choose the instrument that doesn't make my problem worse

*_I would like to see a video devoted to playing one instrument in the style of a different instrument._* That was done a couple of times in this video, and it was wonderful. I can play, for example, a handpan, or a kinnor, or a shakuhachi, or a 5-strng banjo. Then when I get back to my concert flute, I have a plethora of fresh ideas. I find that the best way to develop flute expression is to listen to tenor saxophonists. I do not have the experience to say what it would take to make a classical violinist into a really good fiddler.

This video was pretty funny to me since I play the flute and my sibling plays violin!😁

Wow Tonic finally uploaded

This was fun 😄

would love to hear Ray try a flute piece on the violin! maybe Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck?

I just downloaded the app, thanks for putting this out :)

Help i play both and LOVE THEM EQUALLY

I started playing violin and flute because my music preferences progressed so much that I could only enjoy jazz & bossa nova and more progressive music, which I couldn't play like I wanted to on the Piano. So I was so glad to play violin and flute where we only have to play one note at a time xD and let others do the hard work xD. Learning the proper techniques was actually fun & challenging a bit. But I felt that was more motorics rather than difficulty in a knowledge sense. Piano is definitely more difficult (for me).

What about bansuri on the app? Is it exclusive to western classical flutes?

Storytime: in the 3rd grade, my best friend and I were both signed up to play an instrument by our families. I got stuck playing the flute and she got stuck with the violin. I hated playing the flute and she hated playing the violin. Fast forward to 7th grade, we had both dropped playing our respective instruments at this point. I brought up how I always wanted to play violin and she laughed and said "I wanted to play the flute!" Somehow the communication between my grandma who raised me and her mom got fumbled because we ended up playing each other's instruments!

for the flute gang: Jethro Tull a rock blues/jazz fusion band

I just wish that the orchestral world would remember there is a whole world of bands, marching bands, and military bands that have no violins whatsoever.

I'm neither. I have got both. When I was at my first lesson on the flute my teacher asked me how many years have you played it and I replied "what do you mean? I only got given it last week." She asked me how did you get a sound out of it? I replied if you can get a sound out of a narrow neck bottle you can get a sound out of a flute. I would experiment with bottles and pitches by putting water in the bottles.

LOL I‘m playing both 😊 love them!

Jajaja para esto es que pago internet! Quiero agregar que este tipo de videos aunque son muy divertidos, lo cierto es que cada instrumento tiene su luz propia, su belleza, su singularidad, empezando por las diferencias sonoras. Sin embargo gracias por este tipo de contenido🎉 es muy divertido.

I play both flute(since 11 years old) and violin (9 years old) love this video!

I loveeeeer violin. Hoping one day I will learn to play it😌🤞💗🫀

13:55 isn't that made with alternate fingering? Afai you can't consistently blow air between two harmonics with normal fingering.

I LOVE YOU BOTH~!

i’m a fluteist and now i’m learning violin!!

Like. The sound of flute 🪈 is more beautiful like a fairy tale here. I'd love too ❤. Greetings from Paris 🎉

I'm learning Flute. Though, I do have my sister's old Violin. ❤

Oh yay, both my favourite instruments.

At 10:17 what melody she was playing. If anyone know please reply.

wn ray chen said : Only u win this one 😆 😆

flute 🩷🪷 & Jasmine 💅🏻 I wanna hear Ray trying to play The Great Train Race by Ian Clarke (the piece she was playing while demonstrating multiphonics as a chord alternative)

I love both.

Im a flutist and a violinist and its really hard to debate which one is better because i love both my instruments.

How long does it take to learn violin?

In my opinion these two are the most versatile musical instruments ever which can be used for awesome melody, and as heartmelting tune and as terrific theme music and as horror music

Hey there btw in versatility the Chinese version of flute is dizi

TEAM VIOLIN!❤️❤️

“I see my ancestors” -Ray Chen

Amazing flute sure instantly change the atmosfer😮😮

Como clarinetista, devo dizer que o melhor instrumento é o piano

These are the two best instruments.

do the Prokofiev flute/violin sonata

I played violin for a few years and it was much harder to start then flute. I'm still sticking with my flute ❤

Daaamn shi soo beautiful..... 😍😍

I like both flute and violin, I've only played flute for 2 years but I'm also hoping to learn vilolin

im a futist!! and saxophonist, and cellist, and guitarist, and violist, and violinist, and french hornist too!! yes im a multi instrumentalist.

Im really impressed on the beat box flute tho ❤

what is the song in 10:10？ it sounds good😊