This 330 Year Old Cello’s Incredible Story! Johannes Moser explains!

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Johannes Moser plays a 330 year old Andrea Guarneri cello. Johannes is a Vienna based German/Canadian cellist who performs as a soloist all across the globe. Let's find out why he loves this instrument and then hear what it sounds like.
0:00 Intro & Greetings
0:54 This is an Andrea Guarneri from 1694
1:36 Strads, strings, and setting the cello up
2:36 "I'm only using 3 pegs"
3:03 The fascinating recent history of this cello
4:46 It was Julius Klengel's cello
5:27 Holes are cut into the back to carry it while playing
6:17 "Was it cut down in size and built back??"
6:53 I have a wonderful modern instrument too
7:43 "How would you describe the sound of this instrument?"
9:28 I like to go to instrument museums to learn
10:45 How long will you have it?
12:18 Johannes plays Bach outdoors
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@magorzatakortmann8703 3 ай бұрын

Danke Johannes, thank you Masumi. That was very interesting!❤

@JihoonKcello Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if this video is after Johannes’ hospital time, but i’m hoping he’s doing a lot better!

@FrankBell 6 ай бұрын

Excellent channel!

@lindabarcelo5952 11 ай бұрын

Love the tone and how the Bach was played! ❤

@starkeymorgan4142 2 ай бұрын

Speaks immediately. Thank you for sharing. I had both G and C pegs done this way. I was close to giving up the cello from pain, within a week the pain was gone. 4 years ago.

@masumirostad 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous!

@WoodaPeople Жыл бұрын

Beautiful sound --- the cello seems to speak so easily. But anyone else freaked out over having this conversation -- with a 330-year-old cello i hand -- outside, street-side? (Cue car zipping past at 0.28 and gulls squawking at 4.40 ...)

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Ha! No cellos were harmed during the filming of this video!

@charlesming7875 10 ай бұрын

Go visit Guy Johnston’s videos about his Tecchler cello. He’s commissioned a whole concerto for its tricentenary.

@jenvogue5005 Жыл бұрын

I'll take a "budget" Guarneri any day!

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Haha! Yep, me too!

@deltasquared7777 Жыл бұрын

the instrument has a beautiful voice

@disqusrubbish5467 3 ай бұрын

Oh nice - the sound surprised me after your description.

@masumirostad 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Do you mean my written description or our discussion in the video?

@disqusrubbish5467 3 ай бұрын

@@masumirostad The discussion in the video. At 7:43 my take on what he was saying was that it would be a "smaller" sound, and maybe not as rich, but when he played it it sounded huge and rich to me.

@masumirostad 3 ай бұрын

That’s great! Yes…

@jmsiqueiros499 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@AlamoCityCello Жыл бұрын

Moser plays Bach beautifully! Nice ax too

@marichristian1072 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad that Mr Moser played a little of a Bach suite. I wanted to hear the tone without vibrato- which by definition is distorting. Loved your interview. Thank you.

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@nigelhaywood9753 Жыл бұрын

So do you have to insert a key in order to tune the C string? I don't really understand how that works.

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Yep! This is what the tool looks like. You can keep in on your key ring or in your cello case. www.cellostrap.com/shop/p/stringvison-replacement-key-one-key

@nigelhaywood9753 Жыл бұрын

@@masumirostad Thanks. That’s a pretty cool invention.

@fergspotato162 Жыл бұрын

Is that an akusticus tailpiece?

@jrnumex9286 Жыл бұрын

diff in strings 1694 to now? calf gut, nylon?

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Check this video out…gut string Vs. synthetic with metal exterior windings… Sheep gut strings on a 350 year old viola?! Brian Chen’s got an authentic vintage sound! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecWheLiIlqq0eHU.html

@aleksandarstojceski3139 Жыл бұрын

The muzak in the beginning?

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

That’s Johannes playing the Walton Cello Concerto. I think he was feeling sympathetic to violists…

@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan Жыл бұрын

Aaah,.

@guidosc3470 Жыл бұрын

How could you frame a Video about a Cello so that we can't see more than the upper half of exactly that cello for almost all of the video ?! 😂

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Haha! It’s all about the suspense, right??

@RockStarOscarStern634 8 ай бұрын

Flatwound Strings

@MsCellobass Жыл бұрын

METAL PEGS?! Who would be so careless to a cello that was made centuries ago and have the audacity to put put untraditional parts on it ?

@ericoschmitt 5 ай бұрын

They did lots of experimentation back then, and there were plenty of metal gears on 18th century cellos. Many players nowadays are switching to planetary gear pegs, that look like old wooden pegs but have gears inside. I'm one of them. I'm heavily considering ordering a new cello in the near future with electric guitar pegs on it, because why not. Cheaper than Knilling planetary pegs, same result.

@argi0774 Жыл бұрын

The one and only thing that makes this cello great is that it is 330 years old. Otherwise, every master built instrument can keep up or outperform it.

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Ah, do you feel that age makes an instrument better? Also, how would you define a ‘master’?

@argi0774 Жыл бұрын

@@masumirostad A master builder is someone who makes high quality instruments. That's not "my" definition, that's common sense. And of course, age does not make an instrument better. But maybe your relation to your instrument.

@masumirostad Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I hope we can also agree on Andrea Guarneri’s status as a uniquely outstanding and important luthier and also consider that, from 1690, his son Giuseppe (yes, del Gèsu!) was starting to do much of his work.

@argi0774 Жыл бұрын

@@masumirostad Yes of course we can. Just keeping out the Voodoo.

@violinmaker4271 Жыл бұрын

Lots of psychology at work when people hold an old instrument.