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Team Flute! 🪈 ❤

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!

@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. 🤔

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 🎻 😢

Who’s with me on violin gang? 🎻

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.

Flute gang for ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Im on violin gang!!!❤

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 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 a great convo between two wonderful individuals!

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~

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

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))

I will be waiting for the another video❤

I play both! I lean towards violin though. So glad someone made a comparison 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 play both flute and violin in our community orchestra, and love them both!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Waiting for the challenge 👍👍👍

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

Violinist and flutis arguing about portability Cellists meanwhile: 😭

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

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

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

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!😂

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.

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

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

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

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 here🎉🎻❤

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

Violin can sound like a flute with harmonics.

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

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

Let's do the battle!!!

Wow Tonic finally uploaded

I really enjoyed this viedo. Played both instruments.

This is always an interesting debate :D

*_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.

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

Fun contest between two superb musicians

This was fun 😄

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

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?

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

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!

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

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

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 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.

Help i play both and LOVE THEM EQUALLY

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

Topic: Portability Me being a pianist: 😑😓

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

Jasmine is amazing on the flute; as to which instrument is better it is totally subjective , it depends whose hands they’re in. Ray made the violin sound amazing too!

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

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

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

이렇게 훌륭하신 연주자분들을 만나뵐수 있어 영광입니다~^^😍

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

I LOVE YOU BOTH~!

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.

These are the two best instruments.

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

LOL I‘m playing both 😊 love them!

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

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

Ray is right about cats scratching. As a boy, I had a

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.

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

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

Oh yay, both my favourite instruments.

As a professional musician who has played every instrument and taught every instrument, I can easily say violin is the better of two by a long shot, especially when it comes to emotion. There is only so much a person can do on a wind instrument. The instrument is limited by its ergonomics and construction. The violin however has more opportunities to sculpt the sound with texture and glissandos and more very similar to the human voice.

Are we talking classocal flute only or all flutes? I play Native American flute and there is so much that is not mentioned here. 1 example is there are double and triple flutes. Mostly drone flutes, but there are things that can be done on drone and double flutes that arent even considered here. With that said, they have to be tuned to 440hz. to play with western instruments

10:08 tell me why this sounded like Kokarico village in legend of zelda breath of the wild 😅 ( ik i didnt spell that right 👍🏼 )

It's crazy how you see Ray and Jasmine get along in a debate so chill while you see Twoset and Davie 504 beefing their heads off.

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

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

How long does it take to learn violin?

I love Jasmine and I'm a flute/wind player myself, but she really swindled you here Ray. She passed off things that are only used in practice exercises (harmonics) or things that only 1% of players can actually do (circular breathing, multiphonics, super high notes) to counter you presenting aspects of the violin that are standard. Flute sounds beautiful, but violin has better range, dynamics and sustain and an awesome endless repertoire that was written by people who actually played the instrument at a high level. Violin wins.

Ray should learn the 3rd movement of the Ibert Flute Concerto on violin 😭

I love both.

String players have to sometimes go crazy and make pact with you know who LOL and face so many tragedies in life and even end in tragedy to be remembered and known. While flautist are remembered by virtuosity but forgotten by name and time except the most beautiful melody they wrote.

Daaamn shi soo beautiful..... 😍😍

Amazing flute sure instantly change the atmosfer😮😮

do the Prokofiev flute/violin sonata