Brett Learns to Play the Hackbrett

[@sabrinai]

If you can hack Brett slowly, you can hack Brett quickly.

[@Felirobloxing]

Good point 😂😂

[@deschua]

I saw this comment before watching the video and was wondering why Brett was being hacked… 😂

[@Turtlpwr]

Bullseye. Niiiiice.

[@e2pii213]

@@deschuasame for me:-)

[@That.One.Editorz]

Ay, even TwoSet noticed

[@JamesBond_006.9]

As a German, „it sounded not so bad“ is probably the highest compliment you could receive 😂

[@heitron81]

That is exactly what I thought. 😊

[@mille_fiori]

We Swabians say: "Not scolded is praised enough."

[@gatesurfer]

@@mille_fioriI spent two months in Stuttgart when I was in college! The Swabians and their sayings were quite amusing. The one I learned was “Schaffe, spare, hausle baue, starbe.” (Work, save, build a little house, die.)

[@MennoTabbernal]

Hahaha genau

[@Jenairaslebol27merde]

@@mille_fiori die übersetzung von dem artikel aus dem schwäbischen grundgesetz han i no gar net kennt. muss i mer merke! geil :D

[@Schalaster]

Funnily enough, there is a similar Chinese instrument that's called the Yang qin, so it's still related to Brett's name

[@toramenor]

Omg, what a cool coincidence

[@zyx2942]

Omg at first sight I thought they looked so similar to yang qin too! Glad I'm not the only one :D

[@klyay4914]

haha I was looking for this comment

[@williewillus]

IIRC all of these instruments descend from a Persian instrument that spread both west and east, they all retain this trapezoidal shape

[@ExhaustedOwl]

When I first saw the video, I thought they had Chinese dulcimers (yangqin) and was so excited because they've learned Erhu before and I thought they might be planning to do a Chinese instrument ensemble. Oh well, I can keep dreaming! :)

[@legion_sqd]

even to someone who speaks German, its funny how blunt German naming conventions can be. Hackbrett... Chop-Board

[@guikentaro]

So Brett is a human board... Fairly interesting 🤔

[@kyihsin2917]

If I had heard the word out of context, I would have assumed a Hackbrett was like a charcuterie board for ground meat.

[@legion_sqd]

@@kyihsin2917 right?! that was my first thought as well!

[@pentasquare]

And people say German is harsh. I mean its like if Russian sounded like English. Slightly heavy words for us but its not "angry"

[@katam6471]

It's the same in Swedish, "hackbräde".

[@Ellaurphant]

When you actually practiced today and you can rightfully watch the new twoset video:

[@mariavidineeva2524]

Good job!

[@Ellaurphant]

@@mariavidineeva2524Thank you 😊

[@alive_at_midnight]

But did you practice for 40 hours??

[@Ellaurphant]

@@alive_at_midnight Unfortunately, i am not LingLing nor am I Chloe Chua, But i will try my best to reach atleast 39 hours and 59 minutes a day

[@Ellaurphant]

@@adora_pearl Yes the minute i noticed it i was full on fangirling

[@NatalieHoegger]

Tuning this thing must be a nightmare. But at least it looks like its mother was a piano and its father a stealth bomber.

[@scythecurie3963]

It really is a nightmare for tuning. Because every note has multiple strings (my hackbrett has 4) and you have to tune every one of them the same for 32 notes or more. Yeah that can take about an hour or so:,)

[@InstrumentalistElle]

This is the best comment I've ever seen

[@soheilsakipour4642]

It comes from a persian instrument called santoor which is quite older 1600-900 B.C.

[@laurabunn2993]

At least their mother didn't smell of elderberries?

[@MarieBra]

I play a string instrument called six chord zither (Akkordzither). Every time I tune it I am scared of strings may break. Which happens almost every time. Every chord has six strings to tune and every melody string is a double string. Is hellish to tune every time 😄.

[@Bizo-Net]

When eddy and Brett make jokes, I’m forced to remember how they are over thirty

[@genesiso7578]

I was literally just thinking about that

[@petert1595]

Of course

[@Chris_the_Muso]

Once a college student, always a collage student.

[@clementbr5216]

There's an age to make jokes

[@sankalp_gupta]

Final scores: Eddy: +3 blind +1 confused old man Brett: +2 blind +4 confused old man

[@makytondr8607]

Thanks, I was looking for something like this 😂

[@aminemcova8005]

As a Czech person - hackbrett is great instrument in czech folk music. Little storytime here: my uncle, bored stiff with the piano, decides to throw in the towel during a lesson. Without a second thought, he blurts out 'hackbrett' when asked what instrument he'd rather play. Lo and behold, his piano teacher takes him seriously!😂 Fast forward a couple of weeks, and there he is, sitting in a hackbrett lessin. Flash forward again, he's graduated from music school as a pro hackbrett player. Talk about stumbling into your passion, right? The hackbrett chose him!😂❤

🇨🇿

[@magkal8690]

Not only...it's a great instrument for Hungarian and Romanian folk music also...

Search for Ferenc Liszt...

[@DarthLenaPlant]

Yeah, it absolutely choses you. I have been captived by its sound from a small age already, and it took me 20 years to actually be able to get lessons (because in my city the Zither rules, not the Hackbrett (it's seen more as a rural instrument))

[@WeilunP]

I can already imagine, after n months/yrs later, they will do another guess the instrument charade, and either Brett will be like "what the hell is this" or Eddy will be like, "the instrument with your name in it, hellobrett or sth" 😂

[@HanaMangaka]

Ah yes I see it now

[@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia]

Absolutely sounds like them. 😅

[@WeilunP]

Someone got ignored by Twoset lol It looks to me that this comment is squeezed between the two comments that Twoset liked lol

[@TheNeptunianGamer]

LMAO they would 😂

[@chaotic_violist]

Loving the return of the older style videos! Roasting movies, learning _____ in an hour…now we just need violin charades again!

[@janach1305]

I love violin charades.

[@jmp2114]

And sightreading!

[@sabrinai]

Hackbrett, my long lost cousin 🤣🤣 that killed me! 💀

[@sabrinai]

Toni explaining how to hold the hammer. Meanwhile Brett: If you want to flip someone off.

[@dudabritto2866]

Was I the only one that loved Toni's voice? He has such soft and light tone, his German accent it's so charming and the volume is so pleasant, I could hear him talk all day long, does he has a podcast or something like that? Please talk more 😍

[@joshualangworthy2195]

No matter the instrument, Brett never fails to create cursed music 😂

[@tfrowlett8752]

I love the hackbrett, or the hammer dulcimer as it’s also known. I watched Everybody Wants to Rule The World performed by Ted Yoder and it was beautiful.

[@fionamackenzie5444]

Hammer Dulcimer I like that, better name than Hackbrett

[@tfrowlett8752]

@@fionamackenzie5444 yes I agree

[@oxoelfoxo]

wow, Ted Yoder's great! thanks for telling us about him

[@e2pii213]

@@fionamackenzie5444but then you lose the "hacking Brett" joke:-)

[@katam6471]

I was looking for this comment. The version with Ted Yoder playing and Curt Smith singing is one of my favourite YT clips, even though the sound quality isn't the best.

[@TheLadyVictoria]

Amazing! I live the Celtic version of this instrument called the Hammered Dulcimer! It has such a dreamy sound but is tuned a little different. They are both the grandfather tto the piano. 😂

[@coders5708]

There is an old Iranian instrument called santoor. I think they call it (Dulcimer) in English. It is very similar to this instrument that you are already playing. (سنتور) is written like this in Persian language

[@Samriddha_Chatterjee]

Toni is so soft spoken. His voice is really soothing.

[@QueenMonny]

He's also absolutely gorgeous. But that's not really relevant to his musical talent. 😅

[@Ijistwanttobelingling]

I’m so happy that TwoSet made this type of content again ! Thank you so much for introducing other instrument!

[@claudvigilante]

Eddy looking like a Neapolitan ice cream.

[@aflatminor-40]

help why is this so true

[@millianarakuzen]

Now I want ice cream

[@soheilsakipour4642]

It comes from santoor which is an old persian (1600-900 B.C.) instrument,

[@BarristerCat]

Refreshing to see a return of the twoset coverage on different instruments. ✨

[@georgetourloukis7194]

I can't believe you guys did this, I play santouri (a greek version of hackbrett) and I've been inspired by your videos to start practicing classical pieces. The recognition is amazing.

[@user-Lauriionss]

Hey Twoset!! This isnt really related to the video but I just wanna say thank you for introducing me to classical music! I was appointed as assistant section leader in my section, and to think that I wouldn't even have joined if I didnt watch your videos :') And it's really interesting to learn about other instruments from different cultures. The sound of the hackbrett sorta sounds like a guzheng, which is really cool

[@wangxiaolei]

The "Hammered dulcimer" page on Wikipedia says this instrument has many variations in different countries all over the world. e.g. Yangqin (扬琴) in China.

[@annaairahala9462]

Yes, it's Iranian Persian in origin, but spread all over the world and was adopted/altered by many cultures! It's not a "German instrument" either though

[@NateDulcimer]

Persian Santoor/santur, hungarian cimbalom, chinese Yang Quin, belarusian tsymbaly, italian/spanish Salterio, the Thai khim, and the American Hammered Dulcimer. A surprising number of cultures have included the Hammered Dulcimer in their folk tradition and some even in their classical tradition!

[@Weeping-Angel]

HackBrett Yang qin 😏

[@TheLarkResending]

Yes, his claim that this was invented in the 1930s is slightly misleading - this particular design was, but very similar instruments have existed for centuries.

[@Zurvanox]

@@TheLarkResendingwell he said it when he explained that it was chromatic

[@DarthLenaPlant]

I play the Hackbrett too, I was NOT expecting content on this instrument on this channel, NGL XD I should definitely practice more tho XDDDD Grettings from Vienna, I hope you'll get to play here too someday!

[@londongael414]

I love these videos where they learn a new instrument. It's fascinating to see the newbie clumsiness combined with the years of experience and musicality, quickly producing a result that is "not so bad" at all. I hope they do some more soon.

[@edgarforteamoles3173]

It'd be amazing if you guys did something with flamenco and Spanish guitar in general. It's such an unknown and underrated style out of Spain and it's a shame, especially given that the history and evolution of the guitar in Spain had such a huge influence in all styles of modern music. Also in classical: Santiago de Murcia, Gaspar Sanz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Isaac Albéniz...

[@Chris_the_Muso]

Spanish guitar history is very interesting. It took what was a baroque instrument and modernised it and which then went on to influence many styles of modern music.

[@bookwitch6791]

I really hope they'll do this video, it would be awesome.

[@edgarforteamoles3173]

@@Chris_the_Muso baroque guitar also developed in Spain. Most accepted theory is that it developed from the Arab lute. Already in 1200 there were already a guitarra latina and guitarra morisca

[@MrWhat-ot4ri]

i‘m from switzerland and playing the hackbrett for 13 years, so cool to see you guys🙌

[@goody3shoes543]

Anyone else think that Eddy's Flight of the bumble was actually really good? 8:46

[@angelicachenny]

I reckon he played 15 notes a second :)

[@chai__tea]

As a German who is not from Bavaria, I was taken by surprise how the tunes they played immediately transported me to that southern region of Germany. Folk tunes have such a power on your subconscious mind, the associations just pop up...

[@Mondkreischer]

Haha exactly what I was thinking. Oh yeah, I can hear him being from bavaria😅

[@chaitanyakaul8226]

The hackbrett looks so wildly similar (not the same), to the Santoor in India, which is also a string instrument that uses handles like this to play it and sounds eerily similar to the santoor as well.

[@kj62431]

Similar hammer dulcimers are used in many other European folk music. Love it, guys! I have several friends who play here in the US.

[@KMARW]

it s called cymbalum.

[@lindajohnson273]

Evart Michigan the largest dulcimer festival in the world. Fantastic.

[@lazychickenugget]

Guys I was today years old when I found out Viola in French is L’alto whereas violin is just violon and cello is violoncelle 😂😂 just a subtle reference to alto clef lolll we were completely roasting them in class today

[@ТададаТада]

In Russian too, the viola is called al't, also as a reference to the alto clef

[@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia]

Just a precision. Viola is just "alto", the " l' " is the article (like "the" in English"). the viola = l'alto viola = alto And the double bass is called "contrebasse". Glad you learned some French. ;-)

[@lazychickenugget]

@@MissTwoSetEncyclopediaoh oops, yeah that makes more sense

[@louiseadrien5641]

I'm not sure if this is a reference to the alto clef, because in French this clef is not called clef alto but "clé d'ut 3" (because it is on the 3rd line). I think calling this instrument alto is a kind of abbreviation of "violon alto", just as you have also "saxophone alto", in reference to the register ("les altos" can also mean the female singers who sing in a low register). So to me it is more a reference to the register (but the alto clef is called like this because of the register too).

[@FunCuber89]

Whaaat, you were in Munich and didn't hop over to Mittenwald to see its violin making school? I hope you come the next time you're in the area :)

[@e.k.9982]

I noticed small changes in editing.I hope Editor San is still there

[@meow-barkbark]

thank you for making your videos they always make me happy

[@Feifei-y4j]

Yepppp

[@blairwu]

Indeed!

[@MarieBra]

Suggestion for some next instruments to learn: Nyckelharpa, Hardangerfiddle, Concertina, Bassoon. Ps: My mom plays Hackbrett. And when we were in Bavaria she saw at a music school we passed that they were offering Hackbrett lessons she said we live in the wrong region😄.

[@friesian-h8p]

am i the only one who realised these type of instruments all have part of brett inside? The hackbrett, and the yangqin (If u dk what that is, its a chinese orchestra instrument)

[@PEN-LiYin]

I am just gonna say, It really looks like Yangqin.

[@phineas1117]

As a violist also play the yangqin in junior secondary school, I can tell both the heckbrett and the yangqin shared the same concept of playing

[@souldancersbyjennifer]

​@@phineas1117 many instruments evolved from other older instruments brought over from a different country/culture. Yangqin itself was created out of santoor from Persia (Iran)

[@1003willy]

fun fact, more people play yangqin in the world compared to hackbrett 😂

[@Geodesine]

One of my favourite instruments finally being featured. 😍

[@sabrinai]

Another one to add to the twoset learning instruments series🎉🎉🎉🎉!

[@duolaetus]

Awesome to see, that you tried the Hackbrett! As an Austrian, i will forgive you for calling it a german instrument. 😂 It´s quite common in contemporary and early music too! But you can play all kinds of genres - just check out our channel!

[@Michela_Zzz]

I came to see you in Munich from Italy and the atmosphere was so warm and exciting! I loved you guys and Sophie SO SO much, your show was amazing - it made up for the countless hours of train ride back and forth a million times over ❤

[@WeilunP]

Brett should improvise on the hackbrett and together the cousins create a music world that can be replicated by no others.

[@YasinMalekipour]

The way it sounds reminds me of santoor(سنتور)which is the Iranian version and a bit more traditional than hammer dulcimer

[@lordneeko]

These are some of my favorite types of videos!

[@faithfrancisco9829]

I’m so glad Brett found his long lost cousin 🥰 the family reunion was great 😂😆

[@goofy5607]

its like a German version of a Santoor (also written as Santur)

[@debadritaghosh1531]

Yes. I think Santoor has evolved from this instrument, most probably.

[@goofy5607]

@@debadritaghosh1531 santoor is way older than this, so no the santoor hasnt evolved from this

[@s.h.4679]

Another cousin!!

[@souldancersbyjennifer]

Santoor is way older. Even the Chinese version, yangqin evolved from it, being brought over via the silk road during the Tang Dynasty

[@jgodin312]

This probably evolved from the santoor or Chinese instruments which spread through the Silk Road. It’s also very similar to the Hungarian cimbalom, or tsimbl in Yiddish

[@kimlindseyOH]

So it's kind of like hammered dulcimer? Sweet! YT has videos of hammered dulcimer versions of music from video games, movie soundtracks, etc. It takes a lot of skill (and practice!) to play these instruments well. Brett & Eddy, if you learned this well in just an hour, Bravo!!

[@Casutama]

Guys, speaking of being surrounded by classical music history and culture: when are you coming to Vienna? (The Hackbrett also has an important role in Austrian - and Slovenian and Swiss - folk music, so you can hone your skills here 😉)

[@2LUV3VIOLin28]

Please do violin charades again! We need more charades!

[@L-rc8hh]

I love to see this kind of videos again! What a beatiful sound! Love this instrument. 🥰

[@narayans3364]

Thanks 4 introducing me to this awesome new instrument twoset ❤❤🎉🎉

[@erikhiltunen4697]

As a hammered dulcimer player it’s great to see representation of these wonderful instruments! Can definitely relate to the blurry eyes

[@melanezoe]

That was really fun. I’ve never heard of that instrument; it has a lovely sound.

[@BaeSueweetie]

Professional vs Beginner of this wouldve been epic!!

[@ZiaElohka]

Yay, you're trying folk instuments now. I would like to know more about the history of the hackbrett. To me it looks like just another version in the hammered dulicimer/ cymbalon/ santour family. When and how did it come to Germany? Maybe next time you are in Skandinavia you can try the Nyckelharpa and the tagelharpa, both bowed instruments. There are so many interesting musical instument to discover :) I know you tried to play some Chinese traditoinal intruments already, but not yet the guqin. I would love to see you try that.

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

Hey, Toni there, the Hackbrett player from the video. You are right, it’s a part from the Santur cimbalom hammered dulcimer family. Originally all these instruments came from the Middle East. We now medieval paintings from all over middle and southern Europe with similar instruments. In baroque era there was an instrument called Salterio used by composers like Antonio Vivaldi. The Salterio spread at many noble courts all over Europe cause of Italian and Spanish musicians who worked there. And of course less elaborate instruments were used in folk music as well.

[@ZiaElohka]

@@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758 Thank you for answering my question! When you say middle ages, do you mean late or early middle ages? Do the crusades have something to do with it? I always thought it was the Ottoman influence in south eastern Europe. (sorry I’m a history nerd)

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

@@ZiaElohka to be more precise: one of the first iconographic sources is the Byzantine so called Melisende Psalter fr 1140 - most of the other iconography is in churches from the 14th/15th century. I’m sorry we do not know more about the spreading over Europe.

[@ZiaElohka]

@@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758 So it was the Late middle ages and indeed the crusades had something to do with it. Wikipedia about the Melisende psalter" "The Melisende Psalter is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem" Nice little fact to know :)

[@Nia_von_L]

You're in my hometown!! Next strange German instrument you should learn is the "Maultrommel" 😁💙

[@heitron81]

0:55 Where are all the Austrians complaining about Hackbrett to be a German instrument… being introduced by „Salzburger Hackbrett“ ❤

[@crystalgaming12]

2:40

[@Casutama]

HERE! (but Toni did clarify in the video, so it's fine. And also, Hackbrett is used in folk music in the entire "Alpenland" - it's used in Slovenia and Czechia too for example, and in Switzerland. So I think it's wrong to "claim" it too much. Introducing it as a _German_ instrument *is* sacrilegious though)

[@harpfully]

We have almost the exact same thing in Appalachian America and call it a hammered dulcimer

[@Darth_Tyvian]

Except for a difference in hammer, it is identical, keen eye my friend

[@DeliciousPigeonCheez]

I fell in love with the sound of the hammered dulcimer when I first heard L'Arpeggiata many years ago. Beautiful instrument.

[@txbooklvr]

I’ll love to learn this one day, I love the sound! I play percussion, and when they learned how to play scales it reminded me some when I learned double second steel drums, learning patterns and sharing the melody and accompaniment between the right and left hand. They did awesome !

[@schwindsichtigaderechte5293]

I've seen plenty of excellent Hackbrett-plaers in upper Austria and Styria and got to try it too. You got it, the challenge is knowing and seeing which strings are which as they are tensed in a diagonal criss-cross pattern and correctly alternating your hands with each note. This also makes it very tough to keep the tempo as you're prone to hesitate before hitting the next note, but everyone will know instantly if you miss a beat.

[@That.One.Editorz]

The second I saw who knew hacking Brett could be fun, I knew I was in for a great TwoSet video (guys I didn’t practice my 40 BUT i wrote 40 hours on the wall.)

[@demoige7948]

The English name for it is hammered dulcimer. Heard once Carol of the bells on it and it was great :)

[@Darth_Tyvian]

And it’s used a lot in the dishonored OST

[@Silverbirchleaf]

I was confused for a moment, assuming I was wrong for thinking it was a dulcimer... 😅. Thanks for clarifying!

[@andreistoriei2050]

In romania is called țambalul, is very wonderful instrument. Sound is more in comparison to german.

[@Casutama]

Dear Editor-san, the visual editing is amazing as always! Thank you so much for the great work. May I just say, though: The sound editing has been a bit overwhelming for me recently. Like between 04:50 and 05:01 - there's background music, Eddy and Brett playing, talking, more background music, a sound effect, and Bumblebee. Or around 04:20 (and many times after) when Eddy starts "hacking" and the background music remains. For me, it creates a bit of a sensory overload. Oh, and thank you for choosing some Hackbrett-music as the background music, I think that's really cool!

[@chickenosaurus_rex]

I also think the random images and text are a little distracting at times! I like the humour but I feel like the editing is a bit excessive

[@kaylanoel2011]

Yayyyy more twosettt ❤❤❤ also petition for you to play flight of the bumblebee all the way through on it

[@mynameisjeff869]

It's pretty much a Central European instrument. Hackbrett is the German variant but you will find a very similar instrument in Czechia where I'm from. It's called cimbál and it is the core instrument of our Czech folk music.

[@jf208]

We visited your great concert in Munich. I think it s great, that You have lernt a traditional Instrument in my homecity .

[@norenemorrow6362]

If you ever go to Switzerland try learning the Alphorn. (They might be in Germany, too. Not sure.) Those instruments are so cool and huge!

[@stephaniebach6126]

yes we have Alphorns in Bavaria too :)

[@Dirk-Ulowetz]

There are a few more instruments, you could try. The Quetschn (or also called Ziach or Steirische (Harmonika)), the Zither (known from the theme if the movie "Der dritte Mann" ("the third man:)). You could also try Akkordeon. This are typical instruments from the region of the alps. So there are included the south of Germany i.e. Bavaria, Switzerland, Austria, the north of Italy i.e. Südtirol, and the Bohemian Forrest.

[@blueeeeeXD]

me before school when checking youtube: sees twoset video Late for school

[@TrumpetBogeyMan]

Also me: WhY aM aLwAys LatE

[@sabrinai]

At least the posture for playing the Hackbrett won't destroy their bodies.

[@podoke]

eddy lookin very huggable in that sweater

[@lisajackson9568]

As a hackbrett-player finding this video just made me very happy😅

[@That.One.Editorz]

Hey, in Munich, y’all met Fifi! That’s so cool :)))

[@eonadoragon]

That’s my boss 🥳 nice to see him in a two set video

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

😂😂😂

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

Go Practice !

[@eonadoragon]

Always 😉

[@e2pii213]

@@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758Toni, somewhere people asked about the title of the pieces you played at the start of the video, then the one you played with the Brett and Eddy. Can you share? Thanks. And you ARE a very nice man, and an excellent (patient) teacher!!!

[@e2pii213]

@@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758(40 hours a day!!)

[@deafscribbler]

Finally! Real captions have returned! Now I have a whole bunch of videos to catch up on :D

[@hogishim.]

Wow, I almost thought this was Santoor! Hackbrett is so similar to it.

[@Johnathan-oq7fl]

Ich liebe euch zwei set! Machen Sie Weiterhin tolle videos!

[@dominusalicorn3684]

Oh nice! I've always loved the hammered dulcimer. I grew up around bluegrass music, which came out of the American Appalachians, which were settled by the Scotch-Irish and Germans, which explains the prominence of jigs and reels from the Irish, and rhythmic stress on the upbeat and also instruments like dulcimer and accordion from Germany.

[@NateDulcimer]

Yay! My instrument’s cousin!!!! If you want to see bumblebee, look for the Hungarian version, known as the cimbalom. There is a video called Ion Miu Godfather of the cimbalom where he plays bumblebee (and due to the nature of the instrument, the notes are clearly articulated despite playing at a speed at which the hammers almost disappear)

[@OneSetPiano]

So sad I couldn’t go to the Munich concert, hopefully there will be another one in a few years on the next World Tour😭

[@sampolinad]

Wow what a beautiful sound! 🪐 Lovely instrument! 🤩

[@everything_purple]

omg new video also that's the most polite German person I've ever heard speaking

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

Thank you 😊

[@everything_purple]

@@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758 oh gosh I hope this didn't come off as rude, but I've met a lot of people there and the straightforwardness felt a bit harsh sometimes, that's why I said this cause you were being so sweet 😅 also, you play beautifully!

[@franzantonpeter-hackbretth9758]

@@everything_purple no worries about that 🤣

[@Xanthe_Cat]

Well, it’s not strange and not purely German. You can find similar instruments to the Hackbrett all over the world.

[@e2pii213]

They did not say this is purely German, and strange is subjective. They are familiar with other similar intruments - they even learned to play the Chinese version. The title "We learned to play the German version of an instrument with Iranian (+...) roots, that has many versions around the world but not typical in Western classical music repertoir" would have been too long?

[@StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC]

​@@e2pii213also there's the Hungarian Cymbalom...

[@m.katharinaa8553]

OMG THEY DID IT HACKBRETT REPRESENTATION!!!!!!

[@redmom666]

Eddy...always a flex. Brett...always silly😅 ❤

[@aashikavikasvaishclassiv8099]

Please bring back violin charadess! 😢

[@djantisocial6827]

My aunt has one of these, I loved messing around with it when I was younger.

[@alisapogoreltseva5217]

I didn't know I needed flight of the bumblebee on the hackbrett until this moment

[@nancyjfs]

I still didn't need it. Ha-ha!

[@BearBettermentSchool]

Come to Marietta, GA, so I can teach ya’ll the HackEddy!

[@katam6471]

One of my favourite instruments. Heard it for the first time in a small restaurant in Vienna on a trip to Austria in the 80s. Since then I've been dreaming of a chance to try to play it at least once in my life. Must admit l'm a bit jealous at Brett and Eddy.

[@cloudyskies5497]

I love the sound of a hammered dulcimer and so now I am very happy to have learned about the hackbrett!

[@sara.reyyyy]

New video of two set, cellist be happy :)

[@juliegill6278]

Until I saw this video, I'd never heard of a hackbrett before, but I REALLY LIKE it and would LOVE to have a go at learning how to play it!!!!!! Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.

[@eezzoo0]

Cimbalom or "tambal" is very wide known in Romania, it's a splendid string instrument

[@parhamreza7177]

Interesting, actually that's so similar to some kind of an ancient instrument from persia called "santoor". The oldest remnants are about 500 bc

[@guccideltaco]

I'm sure others have commented this, but it seems like a version of a hammered dulcimer, which has been a folk instrument for a long time in different cultures.