Greetings to the most talented subreddit of the internet!

Even though I have not yet got the chance to learn music, I love TwoSet videos (you guys are my comfort channel lol, thx for everything :) ) and I really like indirectly learning a bit of music theory, instrument terminology and music "inside jokes" through your videos, and I'm very grateful to you for that!

Having said that, the reason I am posting to the subreddit with the most talented musicians is this:

I took this photo a while ago, and last week while organizing the files in my computer I fell upon it again and noticed there are 5 wires, resembling a pentagram, with the birds resembling the music notes.

From this day on I have been wondering, could this random birds-on-wires arrangement actually be a small melody? This post is a desperate call to any musician with free time (i doubt those exist, but anyways) to solve my query and see if this photo can be turned into music.

(For inspiration purposes the birds in the photo are swallows)

Thanks to anyone who read all this!! :))

Guys I think I bagged a baddie (steel endpin 😳).

Someone doesn’t look too happy...

I was wondering if any of the people here that play two or more instruments ever feel a little guilty ( T∀T)

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Hitke San (aka san the violin dude), a violinist from myanmar, is known for tackling hyper-polyphonic and extremely difficult violin pieces, sight-reading very hard soloist-grade pieces and concertos, often by composers like Paganini, Wieniawski, Ernst etc. and making arrangements of full orechstra works like Beethoven's 7th and 3rd sypmphonies, Mozart's Requiem (La crimosa and confutatis), Ravel bloéro, Mahler's 5th sypmphony and many more, all for solo violin with 4 strings and a bow, using ground-breaking techniques by Roman Kim.

This is Roman Kim's Beethoven 5th symphony arrangement for solo violin, which was previously considered impossible. Here, San pulls it off after 1.5 years of practising this piece (40 hours a day of course ;) but still makes some mistakes. He would surely blow the minds of everyone, including TwoSetViolin. If Roman Kim were the next Paganini, San the violin dude would be the next Ernst.

Hello Wannabes! I don't know if this is too close to self-promotion, but I just put Brett and Eddy in my latest picture book and I thought you'd all like to see it. 😁

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photo 1: cartoon illustration of a conductor standing at a podium with her eyes closed and a raised baton in her left hand. In front of her are seated two violinists holding their instruments. Text at the top of the page reads: "Solemnly, the conductor raised her baton and..."

photo 2: close-up of the two violinists

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In my high school there’s 5 orchestras, concert sinfonia philharmonic chamber and symphony, and there’s 4 levels of auditions,

The way chamber works is if you audition for and make symphony you get put in symphony and chamber is just an optional double block class for any kid in symphony who wants to be in chamber

Symphonies music is generally harder than chambers music and after school rehearsals are only for symphony and the director generally focuses less on chamber, and also symphony orchestra is the like flagship musical ensemble of my school, and chamber is kind of just seen as a more boring version of symphony with less instruments, and symphony has won way way way more awards than chamber, including some state titles

Chamber and symphony are both varsity orchestras.

Is this a bit unusual compared to how most high schools would go about having chamber? We didn’t even have a chamber orchestra until like 2018-2019 and orchestra was started here in 1976

For context my school has 2,670 kids and 200 are in orchestra, 43 are in symphony and 13 of symphony kids are in chamber

Questions

1. Will chamber likely ever be as popular as symphony
   
2. Should chamber get the same amount of attention as symphony
   
3. Should chamber even be a thing anymore

Previously I saw someone wrote in this channel that they use Sacrilegious Games in Brisbane for their speech. For my context, I am using Sacrilegious Games in Singapore for my written assignment that is 40% of my whole grade for this module. (A little context, I am a university student larping this core module)

To Brett and Eddy, if you are reading this, please bless my assignment with an A!!

I will come back here to update at the end of the year the results when it is released!

We went to see TwoSet Violin’s SACRILEGIOUS Games concert in Bangkok over the weekend, and it was honestly one of the most enjoyable classical concerts we’ve ever been to!

It was hilarious, creative, incredibly well put together, and, most importantly, really inspiring. ❤️🎻

After the concert, we had the chance to meet Brett and Eddy at the Meet & Greet. They were both very adorable and sincere in person.

And my daughter — if any of you guys remember who she is 😆 — brought something very special for them to sign:

her very first violin! 🎻

That little violin was where her whole violin journey began, so having Brett and Eddy’s signatures on it now makes it an even more special keepsake for her. ❤️

Thank you Brett & Eddy for the unforgettable concert and for continuing to inspire young musicians! 🎻

Reposting from Made Me Smile sub, original credits to Instagram account Billy.The.Talking.Puppy. Billy is a rescue dog known to ask for classical music through speech buttons (that’s why I chose “music appreciation” flair!)

His owner brought him to a music school and he was SO EXCITED hearing the assortment of instruments behind every room door! He chose cello for the day and settled into the live music practice.

Practice makes perfect… and also makes a good boi a happy boi! The post did make me smile and I hope it’ll bring one to anyone who love animals and music too.

Watching BaE build a violin with Olaf had reminded me of a childhood dream that is sort of an unfulfillable bucket list item: building my own violin or viola.

And another one: conducting an orchestra.

Both completely silly because I'm far from ever getting a chance at any of them, let alone do them well.

And a more realistic one: playing classical string quartet repertoire. My childhood dream is Dvorak's American quartet, but it doesn't have to be that one. I do actually occasionally play in a quartet, but the others don't want to attempt any classical repertoire. So this dream has also started unfulfilled so far.

Who else has related bucket list items (silly or not)?

So I just noticed that Twoset’s subscribers went from 4.38 mil to 4.37. If you can help with this please do something, we need to get the 5 mil Brahms

I know that Twoset haven’t really been posting much of old-style content which made them famous and plus they are on tour, but let’s try this

If you know someone who would subscribe and get in the fandom, please help here

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Made this sign for the TwoSet concert in Bangkok today. I was hoping to find a violist nearby, and I actually did — one of the TPO violists even asked to take a photo with it after the concert.

I tried again after the show.
They’re gone.

These are screenshots from the tour organizer's Instagram account. I'm not sure how good Instagram's translation function is, but only the Taipei concerts are still on.

I hope Brett & Eddy can go back to the other Taiwan cities and hold a concert later on. Kinda like what they did for Vancouver show when the VSO went on strike, and what they will be doing for the USA because Brett's visa was initially denied.

Although Los Angeles is no longer listed on their world tour site, and Taichung and Kaohsiung still are. ... Looks like TSV team just needs to update their website to remove the other Taiwan listing because MNA ticket site doesn't list them anymore.

Took it last week with 3 1/2 years experience in playing violin, kinda happy because I did pretty well but also disappointed because it’s so close to distinction lol

Does anyone have fingerings for Milsteins Paganininana? I can't seem to find them anywhere...
It would help a TON!!!
I am having trouble especially with the second and the last variation and it would mean so much if a fellow violinist could help me out!
Thank you :D

Came across this Peanuts comic strip from January 7, 1987.... almost like a moment straight out of TwoSet 😂

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