Which instrument is better? [DEBATE] Flute vs Violin

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So who do you think won between Jasmine Choi and Ray Chen? We may have to continue the battle in another video on @JasmineChoi's channel!
Thank you @RayChenViolinist for dropping in as our guest!
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Round 1 "Price"
1:11 - Round 2 "Range"

[@tonicapp]

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[@ncard00]

Neither instrument, the organ has both sound in one instrument, and many others as well.

[@joycelew5622]

0:11 0:11 😊😊

[@StevoskyMusic]

Thank you, I just got it

[@kollegin.schnuerschuh]

Team Flute! 🪈 ❤

[@tomato_297]

Nooooooo violin is better

[@A_440Hz]

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!

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

i bet they have the same video editor and they definitely have been in touch with each other for a while

[@AmandaViolinGirl]

I have also got both so won't pick a side either.

[@bobatealover14]

yay flute and violin team!!!!!

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

@@bobatealover14 yay english horn and vibraphone team!!!!!

[@gokceaydin3324]

As someone who cannot play any of them, it is still hard to pick one side :)

[@momot3488]

@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. 🤔

[@chergaoprss8805]

lols agreed idle

[@ViktoriousFlutes]

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 🎻 😢

[@sonja4186]

I agree with you that flute is easier to learn at least in the beginning. But some music you can only make on the violin, so for me I can't decide which instrument😊

[@Riceking422]

I play flute that’s why I’m on this side

[@payforgun3d537]

Don’t waste it, practice bro

[@raspberry9313]

As an oboist, I will lose to violin 100% no one writes for me ;v;…My range is only like 2 and a half octaves 😂 at most and it isn’t accessible either it was so hard to find the model I wanted XD (Oh and since I am the only oboist ofc I’m supporting my flute besties on this side)

[@LoveMore-vi1vy]

That’s sad. Violin is ridiculously hard but I think it helps to develop a deeper love for the instrument. The flute is beautiful, and bach badinerie is like my fave song, but I love my violin and wish more people could experience playing it. ❤️

[@RayChenViolinist]

Who’s with me on violin gang? 🎻

[@ud-]

I love both❤

[@taradalton7849]

I'm in the violin gang!! And also on Tonic! 🎉 🎻

[@user-ih5ly7dw4e]

I play violin and flute

[@user-ih5ly7dw4e]

So I’m both

[@owenmcneill7746]

Let's go violin gang!

[@Die.Trying]

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.

[@chia_s_ee_d]

Im on violin gang!!!❤

[@RapidBlaster]

Same 💪

[@PaperMache898]

Let's gooo!🎻🎻

[@AcidSpitter783]

Sup

[@Pandaz_Arts]

Well I play viola but orchestra gang 🙃

[@emuvsaustrailia765]

I play oboe but im on small cello side 😈

[@cesarfarfan3213]

Flute gang for ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@doctorfashion2734]

What an amazing video thank you so much!!!😅

[@pradagio_]

What a great convo between two wonderful individuals!

[@Love-Is-Kind]

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

[@heitron81]

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) ❤

[@YLIU]

thanks so much, love both of you who make playing instruments with so much fun~ look forward to next episode about virtuosity~

[@blessakim]

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

[@JasmineChoi]

❤❤❤

[@ShivamGPlays]

I will be waiting for the another video❤

[@zman2577]

I play both! I lean towards violin though. So glad someone made a comparison video!

[@azharfox]

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))

[@RudieVissenberg]

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

[@auntiesusansdolls5624]

I play both flute and violin in our community orchestra, and love them both!

[@sabrinai]

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.

[@reipfvn]

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

[@itsaaronliu]

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

[@Black-Sesame-]

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

[@AngelTing]

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!😂

[@limbuddhini]

Waiting for the challenge 👍👍👍

[@DBogie]

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

[@AldeasophiaGalvez-hp1uu]

Waiting here🎉🎻❤

[@PearlgraceandCoMusic]

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

[@PearlgraceandCoMusic]

And I love the section about group playing and lessons-we offer that to our students too and find it so valiant!

[@PearlgraceandCoMusic]

(I meant to say valuable, not valiant! 😊 but maybe that too)

[@sonja4186]

Fun video. I play both and can't decide which instrument I like better😊

[@eriks2962]

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

[@JanetSalter65]

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

[@rochelleromano3551]

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

[@nithyasri9472]

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

[@peterschaffter826]

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.

[@CrankyBeach]

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.

[@sampsonaborah1190]

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

[@amandacollecutt2491]

lololol some of the graphics are so funny! thanks for the video

[@user-xi5do1bf4o]

이렇게 훌륭하신 연주자분들을 만나뵐수 있어 영광입니다~^^😍

[@priscillakumar6527]

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

[@piano.is.a.language]

This is always an interesting debate :D

[@shannonmoro401]

I really enjoyed this viedo. Played both instruments.

[@Goblin3rd]

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

[@agmaiocplayer3]

Wow Tonic finally uploaded

[@Idiomatick]

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.

[@daviddiamond2415]

*_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.

[@graceful1537]

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

[@user-ci9bl8ri7l]

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

[@willistaylor4077]

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

[@kylekim1004]

I LOVE YOU BOTH~!

[@joshharris3282]

This was fun 😄

[@nbgrooms]

Fun contest between two superb musicians

[@J.a.k.o.b.]

Violinist and flutis arguing about portability Cellists meanwhile: 😭

[@elliotarundella7581]

Help i play both and LOVE THEM EQUALLY

[@tracyeire8861]

Let's do the battle!!!

[@Apoz]

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).

[@StevoskyMusic]

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

[@JasmineChoi]

💜💜💜

[@CheukTheGreatestOfEverything]

The legend has arrived

[@thyelaine]

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

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

Strings instruments r tricky but u play Flute. Real tricky question you got. Whichever instrument is ur favorite u choose do pros and cons of the flute and violin that's how I decide

[@TheBabyInYellow-xo6fp]

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

[@selamabraham7117]

Lol I know right especially with the higher notes

[@AmandaViolinGirl]

Violin can sound like a flute with harmonics.

[@whocares_bear]

Yep. Also, a flute can't play more than two notes at once. A violin can do double, triple and quadruple stops

[@tscole12]

@@whocares_bearflute and other instruments can it’s just the notes are super flat so it’s not common.

[@Rip_Bluefd]

​@@whocares_bear multiphonics are a thing? Lol

[@zgart]

@@whocares_bearflute can play more than two notes at once

[@whocares_bear]

@@zgart Yeah, and they sound like 💩 when they do that. Can't compare that to the triple stop at the beginning of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

[@ocd3262]

LOL I‘m playing both 😊 love them!

[@LeviPranoto]

Im really impressed on the beat box flute tho ❤

[@eloisenguyendinhmusic3351]

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

[@mid9moth]

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)

[@ashleyrose3812]

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

[@NelielSugiura]

Oh yay, both my favourite instruments.

[@aravindsai538]

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

[@adriannefontaine1918]

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

[@loveearth262]

Amazing flute sure instantly change the atmosfer😮😮

[@Msmcarlos]

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

[@helenmoran6689]

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

[@asthasubba792]

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

[@tocandoconenma3556]

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.

[@dante_only_one]

Daaamn shi soo beautiful..... 😍😍

[@Wanttolearnsomethingnewgo]

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

[@tonyarussell8419]

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!

[@_bbie]

I love both.

[@erinmurray6957]

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!

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

LOL

[@Eun_jeanz.95]

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

[@nicrady]

These are the two best instruments.

[@curiouslyme524]

Both are equally beautiful.

[@AmandaViolinGirl]

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.

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

Sweet

[@epalegmail]

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

[@germanhayles9194]

YOU DEFENDED OUR HONOR, JASMINE!!!!

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

Flutes forever

[@Mystic_Alien]

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

[@tradfluteman]

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.

[@IgnitedFlamesArt]

What about bansuri on the app? Is it exclusive to western classical flutes?

[@jchomedog2887]

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.

[@matiascazon1798]

Bravo

[@SleepingTurtle1]

do the Prokofiev flute/violin sonata

[@matei_woold_wewu]

Impossible to choose but I choose both

[@peterkossits4794]

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.

[@thomasjoyce7870]

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

[@niniramirez4717]

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

[@coralsum]

Play violin I am young ( not even a teen). Violin best!!! And I would love the second part

[@rafaeldaniellucas6385]

Topic: Portability Me being a pianist: 😑😓

[@joshua3398]

Violin and flute are the best! They sound so beautiful together!

[@BroReactions.]

My 2 favorites i cant pick

[@pikachewyourfood3750]

Both