ABC Breakfast News with Ray Chen

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Ray Chen talks about the history of his Stradivarius, social media, and his take on modern music and composers.
Interview with ABC Breakfast News broadcast on 9th March, 2016

[@RayChenViolinist]

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[@BetaTheSurgeon]

Ray what techniques are the best for getting rid of arm tension

[@orhbo0]

Just realized … your quick adjustment to the local “accent” is because of your good ear. It’s like “relative pitch” 😁.

[@electropinata2020]

99% of comments - Ray's accent change 1% His Strad

[@kerry00]

Love how your accent changes!

[@rydermoran3724]

does his violin change to an australian accent also?

[@threesidedtriangle1798]

yes

[@csieweng]

You mean from Italian to Hungarian to Australian to American?

[@cyndeeapran9656]

I was thinking of bowing accents till I see the other comments😂

[@ryanprijic1343]

This guy looks a lot like the American violinist, Ray Chen.

[@captainswegaman6436]

Ryan Prijic yea I think they are related

[@simon0yeung]

Maybe long lost twins not sure...

[@mikeoxmaul45]

Gonna deposit an r/woooosh here. Anyone wake me up when it is needed.

[@Chris-zd8cs]

@@ludwiggalaxy4277 woosh.. right over your head

[@samuelcorsie7866]

Ludwig Galaxy what if they anticipated this and it became a double reverse r/woooosh

[@ryanwillis2513]

accent change is so strong

[@neddardc3468]

Wow dude... you sound so much more Australian all of a sudden... it's like your accent has completely changed in your trip back. Cheers from New Zealand.

[@DareDevil0748]

First i thought, wow, his voice is much lower than usual... but when he started playing, i noticed the violin isnt tuned normally, meaning 440Hz, i think the audio of the video is slightly lower than it was naturally.

[@henrykszeryng5900]

Radu Herte Perfect Pitch Gang

[@outgoingblur]

I see your flexing your perfect pitch.

[@irisce2799]

@@outgoingblur would be nice, but you don’t need perfect pitch to tell the audio is flat xD. Any experienced violinist who tunes his strings would be able to tell.

[@Fidi987]

It's not the playing speed, though, is it? If you speed it up to 1.25, it sounds much weirder. The male interviewer, though, seems to have an unusually deep voice in the video.

[@jaydendcosta277]

​@@irisce2799 Agreed! i'm a bass player and I certainly don't have perfect pitch and its still obvious lol

[@guerrero4982]

I'm crying. Your accent changed.

[@evanpyne4426]

The Boofar it switches back and forth lol

[@furiozcruzado6751]

this guy looks like hank chang

[@kev41586]

Just came home from the mind-blowing performance of his. Such a wonderful musical effusion I have seen with his daring interpretation of Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D.

[@ninoding]

Zhao Tianyi isn’t it waltzing Matilda?

[@hersheyprajapati9082]

Is no one going to talk about how Ray was invited to play at the OLYMPICS when he was 8? Im 13 and I can barely play in tempo, much less play in tune.

[@oxoelfoxo]

Suzuki sponsored with around 500 kids

[@bennguyen2974]

Love how professional and cool he is

[@user-dg8ik9qd4t]

Really noice to hear him speak with real Aussie accent

[@inezspuijman5815]

I love how you can hear in your videos when you're back home!!

[@dong-hotsai5386]

The music touches my heart so much .... I love Waltzing Matilda and Ray Chen ....

[@csmihaly]

This is moving... Holding something held by great people long gone. Chilling. Their spirit lives in that instrument...

[@ruthwagstaff8495]

Welcome back Ray!

[@XpertPilotFSX]

ray why yo accent always changing like here its full on Australian and then sometimes its just full on american like damn where are you from make up your mind LMAO

[@lollycopter]

Heaps of Americans have a really hard time understanding Australians even when we don't speak "ocker" - I think they were about as surprised as I was about how incomprehensible I was when I visited. Then on thinking about it, I realised by sheer numbers that Australians are a lot more familiar with American accents than Americans are of Australians.

[@TooLittleInfo]

@@lollycopter I'm Malaysian and learned British English so I have a weird accent that many people have never heard, and I had so many communication issues the first time I visited the US lol. I didn't have any problems understanding them though because we're so used to hearing the American accent in the media. I eventually picked up an American accent to the point where people didn't realise that I didn't grow up in the US until I mentioned it. But when I'm at home my accent switches back.

[@blondiesque_8237]

Hahaha

[@user-nx4pq1ly5l]

When Ray hang out with TwoSets, he sounds less Aussie, speaking with a bit of Taiwanese accents here, there and in between!😅

[@min_yoona_1624]

Amazing!!!!! Thank u, Ray!!!

[@brian777999]

That is a great version of Waltzing Matilda. I have never heard it played like that before.

[@TheDORO1234]

Great interview !

[@helencosgrove3711]

he is such a lovely guy and an awesome violinist.

[@MariaRamos-jm8bf]

Hay magia en ti, tu violín y tus interpretaciones...me encantas🎉

[@Aki-tu2pu]

twoset army where are you!?

[@linglingwannabe4548]

Lol let’s go twosetters 🎻

[@mellissadalby1402]

Ray Chen ROCKS! Nice version of Waltzing Matilda

[@lindseygray9205]

We are all proud of Ray :) :) :)

[@chrisk8187]

All so civil, refined, intelligent and well-spoken. Not common on American local tv...... Of course, it could just be accent "aura"......... Thanks!

[@eprjct]

This is so uplifting. It makes me dream of one day to also become a Reporter. I'm more realistic even in my dreams.

[@MattB90]

hahahaha good one

[@antoniovivaldirv5319]

Perfect Ray 👏👏👏

[@narutoo6215]

Great interview and playing Ray! That tuning though... A4=410 hz

[@eriknystrom5839]

Are you sure about the tuning? I can't hear any open stings as a reference. Or is he playing the tune in a stange key, Db major? My ear is not that perfect.

[@narutoo6215]

I don't know the precise tuning of the instrument. It was kind of a joke lol. However, around 4:37 he plays an open A and it is certainly not a 440 hz A.

[@eriknystrom5839]

+José Domingo Hernández Chacón Just because it was fun, I carefully looked at his fingering and checked with my own violin and a tuning app. This song is usually played in D major, and looking at his fingering, it should be D major. However his tuning is definitely low, but not quite as low as you suggested. His tuning is approx 1/4 tone lower than standard 440. Anyhow I liked the song with all ornamitations added.

[@murilloman9130]

Maybe it’s in baroque tuning

[@apap4997]

Viola player: sounds perfect!

[@lifeplan4720]

That accent is so classy if I may say

[@Jescide]

Inspirational.

[@ngfamily6764]

You show youself that you are an international citizen.From yours talking you are not only a 臺灣帥哥。

[@neoniahazelwood9263]

Great!

[@laurawillits176]

Yay Ray!

[@JamesLee-yn4wj]

Just casually playing for the Winter Olympics at the ripe age of 8

[@tmgee4367]

Ray Chen sounds really sexy in Aussie accent. It’s somehow deeper. But he rocks American accent too. ❤️

[@user-gp4jn6hs6r]

Love you

[@ricochet4674]

That violin is older than my country

[@AlexRiversMusic]

Yasss

[@alejandronarvaez9806]

Ohhh hell yas, he's gonna be a violinist!

[@thicccbrown8849]

His voice got deeper for this

[@piano.is.a.language]

The lady was fangirling so much xD

[@richardli8668]

Is that Australian accent?

[@parkinfurkmaz2877]

Yeah, you can tell because he sounds the same as the hosts. I'm surprised he can turn it on and off/still has it because usually you have people like Nicole Kidman talking like a yanks

[@jamiemiles9945]

Yeah he’s Australian so that’s his actual voice - outside social media. He probably changes his voice because a lot of people (especially if English isn’t their first language), the Australian accent is hard to understand. However, everyone can understand an American accent so he changes it.

[@CaptEirikr]

So weird hearing Waltzing Matilda played like it's a classical piece; fun though.

[@lotusbuds2000]

Ray!!!! your Aussie accent here...but now you are going with "American" -- all good!

[@naylaputeranda7062]

Owh his accent is change love it😁

[@chrisdudedurian1305]

Ray Chen's voice suddenly got deeper when he is talking in this interview lmao

[@helenaren]

I think the entire might have been pitch shifted down a semitone for some reason, cause all his strings are a semitone flat too

[@chrisdudedurian1305]

U have a good ear

[@sshep86]

This guy would make a brilliant violinist. He should think about making it his profession.

[@-L.S]

@@JiwonAstrid r/wooosh

[@Brenglezote]

how did the shoulder rest stayed on the violin

[@ivyssauro123]

This is the most Australian thing I've ever seen

[@Y3llow_Submarin3]

You make magic happens with your music ! Please stay with your Australian accent. lol

[@constanzaaltamirano9269]

I'm just thinking that this same prodigy guy is the one I'm gonna see play smash Bros in a live stream in two days... ITS THE GREATEST THING EVER

[@harlinable]

Fuxiao7844 said I don't eat breakfast but this program is good/

[@OiishiNoAnko]

That strads developed an Aussie twang now

[@flightrisk23]

Those eyebrows, Rey. They're like wriggly worms.

[@dustintsai1839]

That's what gave him confidence :D. Wonder if someone shaved them one day...

[@virtuosomwiti]

What piece was that? 😃

[@ms.cheese3855]

Waltzing Matilda.

[@depressedbutwelldressed1034]

lmao id die if he was putting on the accent

[@NO-ql5bl]

COLORS

[@KhoaNguyen-ou8xg]

Why you low your voice? :D ??

[@catitse2]

I'm not a native English speaker, can someone explain to me where I can spot this accent you're all talking about?

[@emloise]

here he’s talking with a thick australian accent and while he studied and lives in ths us now he often speaks with an american accent

[@theharry801]

I always think strads and other amazing violins are like valyrian steel, newer versions exist, but none as good

[@mochibbyibro4886]

Cool strad, but why the accent change?

[@jamiemiles9945]

Coz he’s Australian and that’s how he speaks in Australia. I went to a concert of his in Melbourne (Australian city) and he spoke in this voice. He puts the American accent because it’s easier to understand. In Australia he can speak normally...

[@es-gf1rd]

he sounds like a completely different person

[@joaleo6318]

Is your Violin named Joachim ?

[@melyt2054]

Yes Ray’s strad is named Joachim. He said so in the interview.

[@il1200]

I like how humble Ray was during the interview. Completely different to the crappy Vov Dylan (fastest violinist??) interview done by Channel 7 few years ago. Ray is a real talent, the other one is a fraud.

[@furiozcruzado6751]

Pretty Australian mat888

[@haru8482]

all three of them are tuned in baroque

[@WilliamVyvyanMurray]

Is that your arrangement of Matilda?

[@melyt2054]

Yes Ray did the arrangement himself.

[@WilliamVyvyanMurray]

@@melyt2054 Thanks... It is such a great arrangement...

[@melyt2054]

William Vyvyan Murray there are other KZbin videos of Ray playing Waltzing Matilda and each is somewhat differently arranged. Ray’s The Golden Age album has Waltzing Matilda as the last number. I listen to this album a lot 😅

[@aprilvscott4787]

He’s cute

[@chasesutherland1168]

I feel like strads are just a placebo

[@radamstep]

They definitely are not. It's just that a strad or guarneri isn't going to make you sound better. You have to have the skill to make it sound better. Like Ray said, a strad is like driving in a ferrari, and modern violins are like a normal everyday car. Sitting in a ferrari, or a F1 car, won't make you drive amazingly like Lewis Hamilton, but Lewis Hamilton will definitely race MUCH better in a ferrari or F1 than in an everyday car. In other words, strads offer you the ability to bring out much better performance than any other instrument, but only if you're skilled enough.

[@cnboy14]

So this is how he really sound like 😂😂😂

[@tiffany3254]

Dem eyebrows tho

[@alexch1409]

Waltzing Matilda!

[@jason101other]

The superiority of the "strad sound" is a myth, plain and simple.

[@dianeconrardy3924]

His instrument does not look the way that I expected that it would...

[@adrianderroni4043]

The 12 ppl who disliked didnt click the like button

[@naylaputeranda7062]

Waltzing matilda

[@huiduoxu3411]

U...Sounds somehow baroque ...

[@user-ic3kt1eq1p]

LMAO, Your accent when in Australia lol. Just go's fulk Oz

[@deadoralivecowboy1401]

I can not own a toyota !! Jesus

[@irisce2799]

Lol all of Ray’s strings were flat xD Guess he didn’t have time to tune

[@no1chopperstan]

Tanhlei his voice is also really deep, so I think something happened to the audio

[@irisce2799]

@@no1chopperstan good point

[@miwakey6291]

Ray, 你的頭髮後面亂亂的

[@user-nx4pq1ly5l]

English translation: Ray, the back of your head is a bit messy!😜😫

[@greggoryrice7046]

He's like a chameleon with the accents.

[@GiGiWellness28]

Well this was 3 years ago, so your Aussie accent was still there... wonder if your accent changed wherever you locate 🙄🤔

[@phoenixxena8194]

Yes, it is. As someone who moved and lived in different places for few years, my accent changes depending on the place and who I'm talking to. Not only accents, even the slang words also. As long as you stay for few years, your languages definitely got effected, you don't even realize it.

[@small_lama3309]

Why does his voice sound so weird

[@tfh5575]

Use your Aussie accent more often 💦

[@ngfamily6764]

You show youself that you are a international citizen.From yours talking you are not only a 臺灣帥哥。