History Hijinks: Was Antonio Stradivari wasting his time?

[@sammyfrogg]

So the moral of the story is that the formula for coming up with academic research topics is "I made a joke" + "I forgot it was a joke"

[@starsgears9200]

As an academic, it is shocking how accurate this is

[@alexandrub8786]

It is either that or "This should be easy" -> "This is very hard now that i look back."

[@ShinyHappyGoth]

+ "I was forcibly reminded that it was a joke"

[@anerwyn9803]

I mean, there is also the classic "I wonder..." =^_^=

[@me0101001000]

@@starsgears9200 no, same. One of my research papers started out with me being like, "Pshh, if graphene can do anything, can it prevent photodegradation?" ... "Holy crap, it can prevent photodegradation!" That was only the side story of the paper, but still, pretty cool

[@klaske1]

I love non-war history. So often historical discussions are overwhelmed by war, generals and kings. I like these everyday-life kind of discussions. I've never thought much about musical instruments, but I'm glad I know more now!

[@Xylophytae]

I used to hate history classes because they always only involved WW2, and never anything else, it was like all my history teachers had all wacked their heads and forgotten that anything other than WW2 ever happened

[@Tolstoy111]

@@XylophytaeI kept waiting for this video to talk about the invasion of Poland.

[@kalef2]

Yeah, there's a lot of interesting stuff to be had. I once looked up hammock history (tragically hard to find much before Europe got involved, due to the perishable materials and general lack of written history in the Americas). Those were a full-on symbol of the American continents at one point and then they got properly popular in Europe (you know you've made it big when a random racist guy tries to convince people that Europe Did It, Actually) and they were even part of the Apollo missions so astronauts weren't sleeping on the floor.

[@stefschouwenaars9562]

In my case violin history is something I've heard a lot about, as my sister is in her last year of violin college and she complains about having to study this history a lot.

[@gabrielrussell5531]

"As a tourist, there were too many tourists seeing David." "There's too much traffic when I drive!"

[@Hallows4]

I visited Florence only once as a teenager, but I have memories of that gallery being virtually empty.

[@jackwriter1908]

​@@Hallows4 I mean that can be because of lot of different reasons, in which season, which time what weather was it. All of that influences how many people are there, heck we looked up local events as well as national events in the surrounding areas to find out if we need to worry that there are even more people. If you don't have kids stay away from dates in which many countries have holidays, put it on dates in which other countries have national events, like July 4, stuff like that you know. ...sorry for the tangent. I've had one too many times in which touristing didn't give me the joys of a tourist, so I tend to look for vacation dates in which there would be less traffic, so to speak.

[@Okada_Caelun]

My weird takeaway frrom this is that since the violin started as a "lower-class, dancing instrument" that the Charlie Daniels Fiddle is something of a "true heir" now that the violin itself is seen as an ellegant, upper-class, orchestral instrument.

[@Chordata7]

Violin got gentrified lol

[@afellowlinglingworshipper]

And we still have dancing violinists like Lindsey Stirling and Karolina Protsenko. Check them out if you haven't yet.

[@LiamBar2010]

My Dad lived below JRR Tolkien at Oxford in the '60s, and it was asked by his fellow dons, 'why is such a talented linguist wasting his time writing fairy stories'.

[@jackwriter1908]

While Arthur Canon Doyle got scammed with fake fairy pictures, because he deeply believed in their existence, despite the fact that his own creation would call him a complete fool.

[@shadowldrago]

Not 30 seconds in and we have an Emperor's New Groove reference. Proud of you, Blue.

[@SuchDarkness]

If there isn't pop culture references it isn't an OSP video

[@crocowithaglocko5876]

Pull the lever Kronk

[@crazyman8472]

@@crocowithaglocko5876WRONG LEVEEEEERRR!!! 😱

[@shadowldrago]

@ Why do we even HAVE that lever?

[@michaelscott6022]

Not surprising violinists took offense to Blue's offhanded comments, they're always so _high-strung._

[@jeremygilbert7989]

Wa-hey!

[@CMelon-xe1qc-j1b]

hell yeah

[@ChristianNeihart]

That joke is *tone deaf.*

[@amadeus5889]

As a lifelong lover of classical music, it’s been my experience that the skill of the performer is what matters most. The quality of the instrument itself yields increasingly diminishing returns. True, you can hear a difference if you compare the sound of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata on a $5,000 upright piano and a $229,000 Steinway, but the difference is subtle if the same pianist is playing both, and is sufficiently skilled. Same with string instruments. Stradivarius violins, violas, and cellos are gorgeous to look at, and sound rich and resonant, but if you hand Hilary Hahn a Stradivarius and a $100 student violin and ask her to play Bach’s Chaconne on both, her skill is going to make the difference, not the instrument.

[@notacloud]

As someone who has played the violin for the majority of my life, I think you're mostly correct about the musician being the key to a good sound. However a higher quality instrument can be "pushed" further, allowing for a much greater quality of experience. A better instrument is also a lot more lenient, permitting one to focus more on the music rather than fighting the instrument. Obviously skill is still the factor that determines whether or not one can capitalize off of these benefits. A 100$ violin is gonna feel and sound significantly worse, as well as squeak a lot more than a 5000$ one. The difference between a 5000$ violin and a Stradivari are gonna be a lot more subtle.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Or as rock guitarists like to say, "Tone is in the fingers." (But a good compression pedal and a guitar with action that isn't awful doesn't hurt!)

[@CalliopePony]

I don't know much about music, but I've found the same considerations hold true with visual art supplies. A skilled painter can make a better picture with cheap paints than a rookie could make with high quality paints. However, the better paints can be "pushed" further to blend better and get richer hues if the artist knows what they're doing with them.

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

Curious, is Vivaldi's "Summer" as hard to play as it sounds? To my ears, it sounds like the violin version of "Crazy Train".

[@amadeus5889]

@ I don’t play violin, but from what I understand, “Summer” is not that hard compared to, say, Paganini’s Caprices. It’s a fast and intense piece of music, but if you can get the speed nailed down, the melody is fairly linear.

[@kambrieearl5583]

Super random, but I’ve been watching yours and red’s videos since high school. You inspired me toward research, and I just got my first position as a research assistant to a very accomplished professor. So…you basically inspired my entire career. Props and many thank yous!

[@leonardorivelorivelo9253]

Me not knowing who even is Antonio Stradivari: hmm yeah I think he shouldn't be wasting his time like that

[@Nazuiko]

Me knowing Stradivari because of Finnish metal band, Stratovarius

[@CMelon-xe1qc-j1b]

me knowing stradivari only because of my two month reading way too much sherlock holmes for my own good

[@jackwriter1908]

I only knew of him from one of the many _The three Investigators_ episodes, I got to listen to on the mp3 player of my brother (who definetly got them legally from a friend, who also definetly got them legally...) Though to be fair I also had a friend of was a huge David Garett fan, so that's probably why I know his first name was Tony... well I was close enough to it as a child anyway 😂

[@alyssafitzgerald83]

I know him from the case closed manga where the violin was used as bait to do a murder, as you do in Case Closed.

[@abucket14]

Blue's topics and presentations are like catnip for my ADHD. He introduces something, and then every fiber of my being needs to know more.

[@raininglogic]

I love the variety Blue is bringing to history. Yeah the battles, kings, commanders, historians/writers/propagandists, and nations are a huge part of history, but the part that often gets missed is that history is made by everyone. It is the melding and conflict of a confluence of cultures, ideas, and people that influence each other to create the most interesting things and events. Never forget the craftsmen who participated in our own world building.

[@andreivulpescu503]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I’ve been looking forward to this video since you mentioned it.

[@crishleo2043]

7:25 Goddang, does this group looketh to be dropping the sickest of tones

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

In sooth, they doth be about to drop yon absolute banger

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Those rabbit holes are always a treat to listen to blue! 💙💙💙💙

[@_jpg]

Interestingly, while violins in German are called, well, violins (Violinen), the viola is called "Bratsche", which sounds suspiciously similar to lira da braccio

[@alexs5814]

Makes me think that the same type of connection is also present within the Job name "luthier" and the German word "Laute" or "Lute" in english.

[@iang0th]

@@alexs5814 That's exactly right!

[@jinxcat90]

Blue: "I made a joke" Audience is scandalized Blue: "Oh no, the consequences of my words"

[@AegixDrakan]

Then a video is made about the joke and Blue goes "Behold! The Surprise Tool! It's helping us later!" XD

[@saraa3418]

As a person with a degree in music who dabbled with performance practice and musicology, the thing that sets Stradivarius instruments apart today is the wood. While Antonio Stradivari was a master craftsman, the wood that he used to make the violins was exceptionally hard and fine-grained due to years of drought. This allows them to conduct sound in a very even way. Nowadays, we have a Ship of Theseus question with these instruments because originally they were created to work with gut strings and then when string instruments switched to metal toward the end of the 19th Century they were converted to use the new strings. This begs the question how much of the original violin needs to be there to count as a Stradivarius?

[@runningthemeta5570]

“Why was Antonio Stradivari wasting his time making Violins?” Well someone has to create the instrument so eventually Lindsey Stirling can make some godlike music.

[@OwenPetersen-x1d]

4:05 IT ALWAYS GOES BACK TO THE POPE 😟

[@galaxa13]

I learned a thing about viols today! Of course I had grown up hearing about violins and at some point learned about violas, but I thought that was the end of similarly named instruments. Then I played a D&D campaign where one of the NPCs was a bard who played a viol and I just never got around to asking the DM what the instrument was (too busy roleplaying grief and found family). So now I have a better appreciation of that character because I now know he was playing the original hoity-toity instrument.

[@spartanhawk7637]

Just saying, a History Hijinks on Ben Franklin and his habit of LARPing as a D&D Bard across France would be amazing.

[@Toonrick12]

The problem with Benjamin Franklin is that most people only know about him as an inventor and being the Bernie Sanders of the Constitutional Congress. I want to hear how his adventures in France helped led the Bourbons to theow money and men to the Americans other than annoying Britain again.

[@ashleightompkins3200]

No joke, I'd love to see Blue do a whole series on the history of instruments and composers

[@annekeener4119]

Blue shows how smart he is by recognizing when he is being an idiot and trying to rectify that. True idiots double-down on their lack of knowledge.

[@Raven-um2wf]

The first step towards knowledge is knowing that we are idiots and being curious about things after all

[@grayrook8637]

I know your pain. I once had to right museum text and do attribution on an African kora (lap harp) that had no prior info to link it to anything. Here is the piece now figure it out. My breakthrough was finally having a light bulb about the Brazilian slave trade, and I finally got somewhere

[@thomaswrightson2230]

Anglo-Welsh person here, and would like to present the crwth, an instrument that you alternately/simultaneously play like a guitar and a violin. Crazy, but with a beautiful sound.

[@FuzzyStripetail]

Instead of making violins, Antonio Stradivari should have pulled some strings and joined any number of the available 80s big hair bands since he clearly had the salad for it.

[@ΣτελιοςΠεππας]

Fun fact. There was a study once to see whether or not Stradivari violins were as good/distinctive as people said. Turns out they aren't, it's mostly placebo.

[@Moar9]

As a dutchman i have only ever heard the name viool amd had always assumed its just a translation. Apparently we never got the memo that they were different instruments😂

[@melstormnobles]

Eminem said it best "Music is like magic/ there's a certain feeling you get/ when you real and you spit/ and people are feeling your shit" From John Denver singing about the back roads of his mountain home to SpongeBob AI rap beef, from Cher singing about being born in a traveling show to a cartoon sloth bear singing about how to pick a prickly pear to Bob Marley singing about the three little birds he met on his doorstep one morning... and yes even to the classical orchestra absolutely shredding face in billowing clouds of rosin. Music can make you feel stuff.

[@richeybaumann1755]

On one hand, I like being here 1 minute after the video dropped. On the other hand, I'm only here so early because I have not slept since Wednesday. Edit: Thank you everyone for wishing well. I don't sleep some nights because I don't have enough melatonin to start the sleep cycle. If it's just one night, I just stay up and take some Temazepam the next night.

[@raininglogic]

Oof! Hope you can catch some z’s soon!

[@SharkieTheDork]

I hope you can get some rest soon

[@izzypanda9517]

Are you okay? I hope you get some rest soon! (And hope the notification u get doesn't wake u if resting)

[@SleepyWinter03]

It’s Friday. Please sleep

[@richeybaumann1755]

@@SleepyWinter03 It's Friday morning for me, so it's only just been 28 hours since I last woke up. Not all that bad compared to the past.

[@shinraset]

2:42 when I heard what you said at this point I couldn't help but remember a cute little thing that I had seen before. The toot and the whistle and the plunk and the boom are very instrumental!

[@Jane_8319]

Oh thank god, finally my violinist heart can be untraumatized

[@timotheysan3605]

My two worlds of history and music colliding? Oh how fun this'll be

[@saraa3418]

oh honey, there's a whole field of study that will blow your mind, the only problem is finding fun presentations.

[@Floorthirteen13]

I love instrument history (being a musician by trade) and if you'd like a wonderfully convoluted rabbit hole I HIGHLY recommend looking into the history of the double bass (contrabass, upright bass, standup bass, its got a million names). Back in college I wrote what I thought would be a very easy essay for music history on the instrument I've been playing for 15+ years only to find out that bass historians REALLY DISAGREE on whether or not its even part of the violin family at all! The rival theory? That it was the bass instrument of the Viol family. (Seriously I really recommend it the research had some very fun passive aggressive citing and rebuking and also bass is such a strange instrument)

[@seeleunit2000]

This was very informative and I think it's wonderful that you're also donating money due to the L.A. fires. I hope you reach your goal

[@TrueRomancer04]

OSP DOING MUSIC HISTORY?! 🤩🤩🤩 It must be Friday.

[@lessonslearned2569]

And a French king imported a violin dance band, along side a disco ball, twin turntables and a sick bass. 😅

[@ShinyHappyGoth]

1:12 - Hurdy-gurdy! 💖

[@Bluecho4]

Oh wow, new inspiration for that Fantasy Venice D&D campaign I want to run at some point.

[@skeletonpatch]

This video made me realize that I’d never actually seen a viol before. My current bard plays the viol and now I am so glad that I never described her as carrying it around casually on her back. That she is royalty and has attendants who lug the thing around for her is an unexpected bit of historical accuracy.

[@chs9999]

We talkin violins now? HELL YEAH!

[@FunnyLittleFella]

It is always confusing to me to keep track of viols vs violins vs violas

[@elvinlight7853]

Beautiful Blue! Thank you for the orchestral musical history!

[@elvinlight7853]

My take on the moral; no instrument is lower class, what truly matters is how we cared for the instrument and how beautiful the music it can make is.

[@vittoriocalvi3171]

I never thought that one day Blue would make a video where he would mention my home city.

[@danlindholm7556]

The history of lutherie and stringed instruments is remarkably fascinating! And just because we have solidly defined instruments today DOESN'T MEAN THEIR EVOLUTION HAS ENDED. If anything, experimentation is still ongoing, and for all of Strativari's fame in the field - that workshop isn't the only master of the craft in history.

[@basvriese1934]

As a Dutchie this sounds so confusing, a violin in Dutch is a viool, pronounced just as viol, but a viol in dutch is a viola

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

This channel was what really hammered home for me how a lot of important assets of history have extremely questionable people to thank. Like the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, which is thanks to the Ptolemies. You know, the family pretzel that broke Blue's brain. Also, I'm not a big expert on classical music, but even I know Vivaldi. "Summer" is like "Crazy Train" for violins. You hear it and wonder how people first reacted to seeing that sheet music that looked more like someone spilled a bottle of ink on the page.

[@kl-1447]

As a present day violist, I agree with 4:45

[@afellowlinglingworshipper]

You know which instrument plays out of time.... a viola. For reasons, it's a joke.

[@samfisher6606]

The next OSPod has to have a violin cover of the theme.

[@Kleptocow]

I can hear Blue going "waitaminute." as he looks at the comments and remembers he forgot he was making a joke. Seriously though, loved the framing on this one. Teaching us about learning out here!

[@PaulGAckerman]

It's pope fights all the way down. Also, can we combine pope fights and dance time to make pope dance fights?

[@vali6717]

This sounds like a variation of the Celebrity Deathmatch concept and I love it.

[@AegixDrakan]

Only if we get to combine dance fights and a story about Robespierre, so we can have DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION!

[@cash_us]

I am about to spend 3 months in florence for a study abroad program. Thought I couldn't be more excited.

[@boooksareamazing]

Antonio boys and carrying the violin industry on their backs, name a more iconic duo. The third prophesied video has finally come into existence. HALLELUJAH!

[@sarahhowell6781]

Always appreciate when a mistake turns into an opportunity for more history

[@mikeyplays9677]

Do a history of chocolate. It's both brutal and whimsically funny

[@paulbadenhorst7726]

What I'm hearing is that a Violin is to the Viola, as a Ukulele is to a Guitar

[@sannekimenai639]

i died laughing when "Antinio Vivaldi shows up"

[@williamknudson8414]

It was really fun hearing the music sneaking in behind Blue's oration.

[@BadWolfAndTimelords]

3:19 Definitely the unintended effect, but this video for some reason violently reminded me of Red trying to say Bolge, much to Blue’s dismay and horror. XD

[@Splicer-lb5xb]

So the violin is the jeans of stringed instruments? Meant for the working class, adopted by the ruling class.

[@theromanorder]

Please do a video on the government of Venice

[@mobgabriel1767]

If i got a nickel for every Topic in blue's vídeo about italian linguistics that BLUE was made an idiot off i would have 2 nickels, wich isnt a Lot but its weird that It happened twice

[@jessicajayes8326]

Violins may have started as low class, but they became popular and low class again at the same time? Tune your fiddles, guys!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Will Blue do a video about the "special sound" of the Stradivarius and the theory about the local lumber?

[@laurenbastin8849]

an interesting example of the violin being viewed as a low-class instrument can be found in Early Modern (Highland) Scotland and Ireland, where the fiddle was an integral part of Gaelic folk music and culture, but was generally disregarded by Gaelic cultural elites of the time in favour of the Clàrsach/Cláirseach/Celtic Harp, which served as a poetic instrument where the fiddle was more of a dance instrument. At one point Ruairí Dall O’Cahan, an Irish poet who became one of the most famous poets in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands, proclaimed that “If fiddling be music, then we have had enough of it”. However, the violin/fiddle grew in prominence as the ruling classes of each area diminished in influence/were anglicised, and subsequently folk culture became the dominant expression of Gaelic culture in both countries, whilst the Clàrsach was reduced to a position of extreme obscurity due to how technically complex and expensive it was to play and how reliant it was on a powerful Celtic ruling class to patronise it.

[@danieldubinsky95]

Banger episode. Love that he and red admit when they got something wrong. Also the charities they support

[@williwiebe]

I think many people know about Adolphe Sax and all the times he didn’t die when he should have, but it would be nonetheless fun to have a video on him and/or other music related historical figures.

[@tomlodge611]

Apparently the best violins ever made were made from wood grown in the little ice age, because the climate was stable it made the growth rings extremely regular making them great for instruments🤔

[@SpectrumAnalysis]

Ah yes, Antonio Stella Bottom Tile, the best creator of The Queen Of Instruments, the violin. Working tirelessly in Italian Craig Mona. If anyone else has seen that Ashens video, you're a legend.

[@ieasy12]

5:06 For a moment there, I thought you said Gretchet and thought: " wait this isn't a Castlevania vid".

[@AegixDrakan]

I had the same reaction lol.

[@alex_kenrick]

DMA guitarist with early music specialties here - how can you NOT talk about Claudio Monteverdi, the birth of opera as a rebirth of Greek tragedy, the use of violins and their consort companions in his opera L’Orfeo in VENICE, and the interplay of lutes/ouds as cross-cultural exchange from both sides of the Maghreb into European music and luthier culture. So many overlapping themes from your channel, there’s a series right there in front of you. I’ll even develop it for you. Call it “reflections of renaissance in music: we’re MORTAL ENEMIES (unless there’s a sick jam happening in Corinth Friday night)”

[@fallingstar9643]

I'd love for you and Red to do a thing where you detail your sources and methods. Like, how does one do this research? Do they go to a library and say "gimme everything you got on Stradivari" and you just spend the next month reading biography after biography and never understanding the contemporary bowed stringed instrument scene in greater Renaissance Italy? I know Red has the thumbtacks and string thing, and that's great for creating an argument and (literally) tying ideas together, but if you have an obscure question, where do you go to find the answer? How do you find and vet primary sources? Is there some Ancient Greek tablet translation search engine that I'm woefully missing out on? A geek needs answers!

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

Wonder no longer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZrKe6qlmrpphassi=r2P1mqfBF5g3RWWv -B

[@GrimAxel]

Video on my boy Vivaldi when

[@sydhenderson6753]

The violin is one of a family of instruments that include the viola and cello. However, the double bass is part of the viol family and is the only one that made it into the symphony orchestra (although the octobass has been used by people who want a really huge instrument that can hit notes too low for people to hear--though you can hear the overtones).

[@sydhenderson6753]

Viols and their relatives tend to be strung in fourths while violins are strung in fifths. Viols also have more strings.

[@dracone4370]

This video got me wondering about the Stradivarius violin, which is becoming an increasingly rare kind of violin. While music lovers are probably familiar with the name Stradivarius due to it also being the name of a rock band from the 1980s, which made some pretty good music, I'm sure someone from OSP would/will get a kick out of their song Elements. The thing about the Stradivarius is that it technically was only really possible thanks to an event known as the Little Ice Age, a period of a few decades in the medieval period where our world experienced conditions closer to what they were like at our last glacial maximum. Funny thing about the Little Ice Age, it was better for some industries for some European powers than others at this time. For example, and this isn't a joke, I heard England's wine production business was actually so good during the Little Ice Age that they were actually making better wine than the Italians during this time, and Italy was likely a bit salty about the fact that England somehow had grapes better suited for making wine than Italy. This probably could send Blue down a rabbit hold of European paradigms during this time, and I take full responsibility if that is what happens. If not, then I just added something new to Blue's list of historical stuff to look into for future videos.

[@tuckerbird7514]

A delicious video! Enjoyed it a lot!

[@2009mouser]

My random takeaway from this: The Fiddle is like the purest form of the violin, taking it back to its original low-class folks roots.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

"Stratavari make violin from nothing, and he still had time to practice 40 hours a day!" -TwoSet

[@PyrotechNick77]

And somehow tutored LingLing during the other 40 hours of the day.

[@rockincradilyyyy8489]

6:09 best use of the song I’ve heard

[@Stejers]

Blue can you do a video on the origins of carnaval Im from brazil and carnaval is in about a month (plenty of time for making a video and stuff) and not only would you be able to talk about venice again but also talk about how such different carnavals like the brazilian and the venitian ones and stuff

[@megcreelman1050]

Bowed instruments were common in Anglo-Saxon England as well.

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

I am EXTREMELY here for the history of musical instraments as far back as you care to chase them. The only one I've heard is Pan inventing the Panpipes, and he's so old as to Be the fog that obscures all forgotten folklore. Anywhoozit I have a series I'm writing and the goddess of Wind is also the goddess of travel and musical practice outside of song ( goddess of Death is venerated through singing, and her most well known hymn is sung both at her annual festival and laying the dead to rest ) so yall covering it pours gasoline on my enthusiasm for my own research process. Also gives me ideas for leads to dive deeper into ❤❤❤

[@SirAroace]

I think the Viola fell out of favor because it sits between the Violin (small and light) and Cello (big and heavy)

[@BlakeTheDrake]

Dang, now I've got Vivaldi stuck in my head... ...actually, I can live with that.

[@evankajikawa1277]

finally osp branches out into the world of classical music

[@leakingamps2050]

Assuming that the Viol is now the Viola in bands and orchestras, it seems to still be around! Though it is less prominent than violins now.

[@Grimmtoof]

Interesting hearing the history of violins , that explains a lot about fiddle music.

[@tyrant-den884]

I actually heard once that Lyres were like played with bows as well.

[@Madlancaster2660]

Stradivari might have found it strange that he replaced a fretted instrument with a purely microtonal one, at a similar time when 12 tone equal temperament was becoming standard. Throughout his life he would have likely given orchestras more note choices, and heard them use less notes than before. That's not to say the music was simpler, just standardized; as stringed instruments became louder and more expressive at this time, the music would have felt much bigger and more exciting than it ever had. Truly, western music theory invented its calculus before taking a step back and learning its own arithmetic. Structurally, music is an endless doom spiral, with no real answers other than the wiggly air fallacy. Thanks Blue!

[@GGrimmmm]

So you could say… Stradivari made the fiddle of gold? I like the idea that violins, while high class to our sensibilities, were to the Italians of the time basically exactly what fiddles are to us now. Respectable but favored by working class

[@michaelkaiser1758]

Henlo fellow history and storytelling nerds

[@MausOfTheHouse]

Make a History Hijink about Georgia

[@meltingmug]

… Like, the whole state?

[@eikebehrmann3493]

@meltingmugthe nation?

[@averageexistenceenjoyer3950]

​@meltingmug probably the country

[@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095]

GEORGIA MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🔥🔥🔥 WHAT THE FUCK IS A SAFE BORDER❓⁉️⁉️

[@WYKlaure]

​@meltingmug Probably the country

[@louvegouroute]

… trying to listen to Blue AND vivaldi's Winter at the same time is HARD. torture, i tell ya.

[@demonicbunny3po]

Nice to have a story where the only deaths were from plague. Usually there is a murder, assassination, or battle in there as a major reason for changes. Here: just music tastes with a side of plague necessitating fresh apprentices.

[@mathieuleader8601]

I can see Principal Nero from A Series of Unfortunate Events being a big fan of Stradivari

[@themightytuffles]

I'm curious to see if that time frame is Blue's official definition of classical music, or if it's just meant to indicate what he meant in the context of the video.

[@Smurfomancer]

As a violinist, I thought the Viol thing was hilarious. No shade.

[@audreychilders2577]

Tell red I want her to make a myth video about savatri cheating death to save her love and a legend of anaporna feeding the world video, please

[@Emperor_Oshron]

separately from your humor train of thought that started all this, i as an allohistory enthusiast am instead wondering what music in general could be like if Stradivari _didn't_ do what he did in actual history (off the top of my head, what would the Devil be gambling in exchange for Johnny's soul that time he went down to Georgia if it wasn't a golden fiddle as an offshoot of the violin?)

[@grobanlover292]

This only ignited my interest. Did the viol evolve into the Cello and bass after vivaldi or alongside the violin? When was the viola developed? Were there any other offshoots that died out? I must go hunting

[@PolishRichrd]

I'm gonna be honest, I don't think he cares whether we think he was wasting his time but pop off king