Which instrument is better? [DEBATE] Flute vs Violin

[@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

[@twostarz_frthistime]

Ray chen ik its u :)

[@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

[@izora_chan]

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. ❤️

[@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

[@RayChenViolinist]

Who’s with me on violin gang? 🎻

[@ud-]

I love both❤

[@taradalton7849]

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

[@Verna-r5v]

I play violin and flute

[@Verna-r5v]

So I’m both

[@owenmcneill7746]

Let's go violin gang!

[@kollegin.schnuerschuh]

Team Flute! 🪈 ❤

[@tomato_airsoft]

Nooooooo violin is better

[@valeskadiaz3585]

Fluteee 🪈

[@melinasoriano2024]

Flute forever ❤

[@hli3385]

No

[@omniyx7837]

as a flute player, flute sucks

[@auntiesusansdolls5624]

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

[@pradagio_]

What a great convo between two wonderful individuals!

[@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.

[@redbullrobert]

sad, but i kind of agree, regarding flute and career opportunities. Not to also mention the saxophonists and Clarinetists also doubling flutes in jazz scene, taking job security away from flautists. I play both, but will choose violin.

[@omniyx7837]

@@redbullrobert to be fair, flute was never a viable jazz instrument. Its cool in some pieces, but it was never popular enough for anybody in their right mind to take seriously

[@zman2577]

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

[@blessakim]

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

[@JasmineChoi]

❤❤❤

[@DBogie]

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

[@cesarfarfan3213]

Flute gang for ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@RudieVissenberg]

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

[@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.

[@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))

[@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.

[@J3rs3y_G1rl]

I love them both! My band teacher in 6th grade made mention that flute and violin can read the same sheet music. So i always saw them as besties. 😅

[@doctorfashion2734]

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

[@aaron.anchored.in.christ]

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

[@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 😈

[@JasmineChoi]

💜💜💜

[@CheukTheGreatestOfEverything]

The legend has arrived

[@Moonlight12890]

Hiiii team flute!

[@rochelleromano3551]

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

[@gentlespirit4]

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

[@gabzsy4924]

Expressiveness is defenitley a point for the violin, if anything due to the much bigger range alone.

[@The_Eccentric_Piper]

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

[@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.

[@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)

[@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) ❤

[@ShivamGPlays]

I will be waiting for the another video❤

[@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!😂

[@omniyx7837]

as a flute, pls learn violin lol

[@JanetSalter65]

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

[@AlexisChoquette]

I agree ☝️

[@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.

[@omniyx7837]

it is NOT easy to start

[@Idiomatick]

@@omniyx7837 the later things were for flutes. Flute is def easier to start than violin.

[@nithyasri9472]

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

[@eriks2962]

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

[@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

[@jacks5kids]

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.

[@noshititskrae]

I experience more pain playing the flute than the violin to be honest... But maybe that's just my body.

[@jeannedarc8580]

And the flute being a wind instrument it has more transferable skills even in brass because you already know how to control your air

[@omniyx7837]

@@jeannedarc8580 flute takes the most air, so switching to other wind instruments makes it easier. I picked up saxophone and I was fantastic because it takes a lot less air so I had good tone automatically, and i already had fingerings. I'm able to comfortably play in my school jazz band where people have been playing for years because of that

[@jeannedarc8580]

@@omniyx7837 I tried saxophone to and yes is was very confortable. But right now I'm trying the trumpet and it takes more air thand the flute, but it's still easier for me than for someone who never played wind bc I already know how to make my air stronger if needed

[@omniyx7837]

@@jeannedarc8580 yeah trumpet takes a lot of air for some notes too, flutes just finicky because unlike other instruments most of your air doesnt actually go into the flute and it gets wasted, thats why when you play other instruments its easier because all of your air goes into the instrument.

[@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

[@Black-Sesame-]

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

[@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

[@YH-gp9hd]

You both are so talented. Thanks for sharing. Yes, please ask Ray to play the flute.🙏🏻👍👏

[@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

[@sonja4186]

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

[@SophieZeng-t4x]

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

[@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

[@YLIU]

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

[@HenningMogensen-fx3mw]

You are so good together. It is very entertaining and I was suprised to learn that dobbelstops are a thing on the flute too. I hope I can find out which ones are doable.

[@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.

[@MuhammedAbu-bakar]

I joined both of ur groups in tonic!

[@HugoLall-q9v]

I love this, because i'm one of the few people who play flute and violin...

[@amandacollecutt2491]

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

[@SavvySaxy]

I play flute and violin and I am not good at either but I love them equally so I wanted to learn both. I main saxophone and I’m good at it but I think violin and flute sound prettier. I think I personally sound better at violin but that’s a skill issue

[@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

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

Violinist and flutis arguing about portability Cellists meanwhile: 😭

[@Himari444]

Piano: *no commentary*

[@KrivitskyM]

@@Himari444 Hey, we don't have to carry anything :) Makes life easy. Although I am jealous of other musicians being recognized as such while carrying their instruments. No one will recognize a pianist in public, you know...

[@Msmcarlos]

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

[@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.

[@limbuddhini]

Waiting for the challenge 👍👍👍

[@tracy-eire]

Let's do the battle!!!

[@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.

[@nbgrooms]

Fun contest between two superb musicians

[@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.

[@germanhayles9194]

YOU DEFENDED OUR HONOR, JASMINE!!!!

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

Flutes forever

[@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!

[@_fabiolaborges]

I want to learn one of these instruments but I have to choose the one that makes the least ulnar deviation movement on the fist 🤔 I played songs with acoustic guitar for some time and I wanted to take classical guitar lessons but I have a problem with my hand that is not compatible with me continuing to playing guitar. so now I will choose the instrument that doesn't make my problem worse

[@joshharris3282]

This was fun 😄

[@Sandy32545]

Well obviously flute is better not because she is girl(i mean) I am Indian And our lord Krishna is flute god (he plays very good flute) ❤❤❤ Hare Krishna

[@willistaylor4077]

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

[@JaronTadiosa]

Sorry I'm a bass guitar beginner but I try trumpet next and I'm excited 😊

[@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).

[@shannonmoro401]

I really enjoyed this viedo. Played both instruments.

[@eloisenguyendinhmusic3351]

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

[@AldeasophiaGalvez-hp1uu]

Waiting here🎉🎻❤

[@mally6563]

I am learning the flute I learned violin for 1 year

[@lenaflute571]

You should make a video where Jasmine teaches Ray the flute.

[@dominicktravis6119]

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

[@JasmineChoi]

😂

[@ashleyrose3812]

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

[@joshua3398]

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

[@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

[@StevoskyMusic]

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

[@Jinnie.thepooh]

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

[@elliotarundella7581]

Help i play both and LOVE THEM EQUALLY

[@helenmoran6689]

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

[@graceful1537]

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

[@nicrady]

These are the two best instruments.

[@UlissesFerreiraBarte]

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

[@AlexisChoquette]

1.Violin 🎻 2.Flute 🪈 They both sound beautiful together Violin is more versatile than flute 🪈

[@CraftyDawn]

Being a flute player for well over 40 years, I have to say flute is best. But a well played violin sounds amazing too.

[@themaddesigner]

This woman's voice is just too convincing for me. I hope she only talks about flute cuz anything she says I'll definitely believe with my heart!

[@Sky-Akatsuki]

I am a violinist myself but flute has a big place in my heart especially "bansuri" which is a type of flute made out of wood it has a much better sound!

[@midnightmoth1]

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)

[@BethanyBenson-mm8eg]

A quick little story.... In 6th grade I had to decide between band and choir. I couldnt decide and my friend convinced me to go to band and I chose flute which is my dream instrument which she played. Ofc My band teacher didnt start showing us the instruments in 5th grade so my friend taught md how to make a sound and taught me other things about the flute. Shoet story short... There were 5 flutes including me in 6th grade... 7th grade 1 left for choir which Im glad she did. My bestie ditched me for art and 2 moved to a different school leaving me the only flute in my grade.

[@aravindsai538]

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

[@Ekmev_Sanatani]

Flute Like here.❤

[@agmaiocplayer3]

Wow Tonic finally uploaded

[@문박사-l5y]

이렇게 훌륭하신 연주자분들을 만나뵐수 있어 영광입니다~^^😍

[@solarpanel29]

TEAM VIOLIN!❤️❤️

[@gelvax69]

13:49 Can anyone tell me what she was doing that was so surprising? I am new to music, it sounded normal to me 😅

[@lunareclipse2121]

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

[@NelielSugiura]

Oh yay, both my favourite instruments.

[@SleepingTurtle1]

do the Prokofiev flute/violin sonata