i love how when he starts playing smoke on the water he looks surprised with himself as if he's like "well shit I guess I'm doing this now aren't I"

@insay1909

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@laurentdubois2268

2 жыл бұрын

at 3:58

@ado4224

2 жыл бұрын

You kinda look like a rock star while playing it though

@neon_Nomad

11 ай бұрын

Actually the instrument is playing him at that point. Newtons second note

@cmcapps1963

6 ай бұрын

Didn't he start with the "Thunderstruck" solo?

His playing of Nyckelharpa sort of like a violin reminds me of gamers who love playing videogames on the hardest difficulty mode possible, but with additional, self-imposed, restrictions to make everything even harder. Extremely talented indeed.

@jamesaron1967

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it should be that difficult as far as bowed instruments are concerned. The unfretted bowed instruments like the violin, viola, etc are hard because the strings are short, and due to there being no frets difficult for the beginner to position fingers. The Nyckelharpa has buttons, so no need to know the specific spot to find the right note providing the instrument is tuned properly. I could be wrong having no experience in Western bowed instruments and would like to try the Nyckelharpa one day.

@TheMarshmallowMushroom

Жыл бұрын

cough cough astralspiff

@kunibertrandolf1886

10 ай бұрын

Saying that a buttoned string instrument is the "hard mode" of the violin is absolute musical blasphemy. Literally one of the hardest to learn classical instruments simply due to it having 0 support for actually hitting a note. Not diminishing Roths abilities of course, the music created doesn't deminish in value by the instrument used.

@KennethHall-tp4hw

8 ай бұрын

Totally agree, staggeringly talented man - BUT after Smoke on the Water, I was hoping for Stairway to Heaven? : )

@topherthe11th23

13 күн бұрын

@@jamesaron1967 I totally agree the pegs must make it easier for the left hand, but the right hand has a possibility of greater difficulty. It depends on how many of the strings are bowed. (I tried to see if some strings don't travel over the TOP of the bridge, which would mean you never bow them.) Greater numbers of strings on the bridge means that the various angles over which the bow is touching only one string are a smaller range of degrees and you have to be more precise. However, the greater number of strings doesn't translate to greater precision in bowing if SETS of strings are bowed simultaneously. (A double-strung violin with eight strings in unison pairs won't be harder to bow than a single-strung violin, as the bow is still confined to only four ranges of angle to touch all the pairs.) But the way this instrument is held makes it harder, no? Not having your eyes LOOK at the bow's angle right in front of your face would make it harder to acquire the precision. I've noticed that the strings are like SETS of strings, making me think that an entire set is bowed at once. There's more than one row of finger-pegs to push. I wonder if some of the pegs in back enable the player to choose which unfretted "drone" strings in each set can be muted and which can ring. This is all supposition and guessing.

It sounds like an entire string ensemble in one instrument.

@ababyc1599

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thought! It's amazing :)

@TheMightySinjo

7 жыл бұрын

It's amazing to play as well.

@aman4peace

6 жыл бұрын

I use to call it elevator music in my days of hearing classical music back ago. I like listening to this instrument what got me on this issue was ancient History it showed a link I went on I applied to this to read. about this instrument, I liked so I turn on KZread which was on the link below the read.

@BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow

5 жыл бұрын

You should search for a hurdy-gurdy if you want an entire orchestra in one instrument :) it even has a rhythm function!

@jarocari_0693

5 жыл бұрын

Why always I see your comments in all videos? Such a coincidence Metal Maestro! OMG😂😂😂

If you have played a hard piece from memory, then his facial expressions will tell you that inside his head is every note flying across a score that demands thought and muscle memory to hit without thinking about what is happening outside of yourself. It's so fun when you nail it! ℗.

@jeffcriton6944

9 жыл бұрын

hes reading the sheet in front of him. or do you think people just stair off into oblivion while playing this instrument?

@MrFair

9 жыл бұрын

Jeff Criton Of course people play music on this instrument without reading sheet music. I'm 99% sure that he does not use sheet music here, because I've seen him play live already and he did not use sheet music. The vast majority of nyckelharpa players do not use sheet music (myself included) for performing. The more traditional players don't even use sheet music to learn the tunes, but learn by ear, because it is an aural tradition. The only nyckelharpa players that I've seen playing with sheet music are those that play in a more "classical" setting and then I very often have the feeling that they don't even need it and just have it there because, apparently, it is more or less required to use sheet music to look serious in those settings.

@shaniakelly5245

9 жыл бұрын

Jeff Criton I've seen MANY musicians stare off into space while playing a difficult piece by heart. Folk musicians usually don't use any sheet music at all and everything is by memory - Irish fiddlers with thousands of memorized songs. The human brain is amazing.

@jeffcriton6944

9 жыл бұрын

I don't give a flying fuck. But I know he's reading it his eyes are fixed and moving side to side.

@toveschatvet-riisager4215

5 жыл бұрын

Some persons do not need to have any attention, they need to be freezed out, basic chineese upbringing method. Surely have they never ever even tried to play nor sing eiter instruments nor voice....This person: Thomas, is just a very,v ery good and - yeah unbeleiveably good nyckelharpemusician...envious persons can do their own thng, for themselves, right? I do admire all persons playing this well - always will admire :-)

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to ROCK."

@LillyKoppMusic

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, yes!

@1cleandude

7 жыл бұрын

To play that thing I think he must be the Six Fingered Man!!

@PaulTheSkeptic

5 жыл бұрын

A guitar duel with a 6 fingered man? Who, incidentally, was the lead guitar player of Spinal Tap? I'd watch that movie.

@bobosims1848

4 жыл бұрын

As Lily Aldrin would've said: My name is Rodrigo de Goya. You've killed someone I loved. Prepare to play a complicated instrument!

@KevinCWall-ct5sm

4 жыл бұрын

Wow.

It's like a violin and a viola and a chela and a guitar at the same time.WHY ISNT THIS SUPER POPULAR ALREADY!

@evanmartin873

5 жыл бұрын

Because it was already popular a couple thousand years ago, its called the Nyckelharpa

@anhthiensaigon

4 жыл бұрын

@@evanmartin873 100 is called hundred, not thousand

@xanthopoulos1825

4 жыл бұрын

@@anhthiensaigon well there are historical depictions of such an instrument in Sweden dating to the 12th century. So its a mere 700-800 year old instrument if not older

@anhthiensaigon

4 жыл бұрын

@@xanthopoulos1825 so "couple hundred" it is, not "couple thousand". That's why I replied.

@nathanbedfordforrest9546

Жыл бұрын

@@anhthiensaigon It’s about 700 years old.

This is just simply incredible!!! Toccatta & Smoke on the Water!! What a great instrument!!

@LillyKoppMusic

7 жыл бұрын

I was looking for the song that went with that riff (Smoke on the Water") Thanks, lol!

Toccata and Fugue in D minor...now I know how a nyckelharpa works. Brilliant.

How many times do you think he poked himself in the eye with the bow while learning to play this thing?

@jonvalbonne

10 жыл бұрын

That's when he stopped playing it under his chin lik a violin! :) Like others here, I am in awe of this guy's talent. My first introduction to this fine instrument which I only heard about by chance today!

@user-gp6pv5gh9i

5 жыл бұрын

0.

@Peggysmusic

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

@lukichan1083

4 жыл бұрын

Too many times 😂

@elisabattaglia9009

4 жыл бұрын

that's why he looks in a different direction with a worried expression while playing.

Amazing music. His facial expressions are so interesting as well.

@willieboy8798

3 жыл бұрын

looks like he was raised in the eastern block...they look distant allot!

@animeknowledge5048

3 жыл бұрын

never thought that I would see you here lol

@phoenixtalon100

Жыл бұрын

Good lord, it really is unexpected to have seen you here a full nine years ago... a quote comes to mind. Think you might appreciate it, considering who you are now and who you must have been way back then... _"We all change, when you think about it, we're all different people; all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you've gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be."_

@AiAngel

Жыл бұрын

@@phoenixtalon100 Thank-you for this!

The fact that his moustache is a perfect rhombus adds to the whole "18th century dandy from a different dimension" vibe he puts out.

@PriscillaLange

3 жыл бұрын

A/s/l?

Wow, he really looks like Sirius Black.

@TheOgruffydd

8 жыл бұрын

You're siriusly right

@anderspersson7084

5 жыл бұрын

He is the the inspiration and raw model for Sirius Black not the other way arround.

That's amazing! Just the way he plays... With fingers fast as lightning, with fire in his heart... and with the facial expression of a stroke victim...

@frankzaffuto3670

6 ай бұрын

that's called concentration. There is some level of improvisation in choosing which pieces to transition to next, and how much complexity to play said pieces at

The Nyckelharpa is a new discovery for me. This was incredible. Loved it

Was für ein schönes Instrument und wie virtuos er es spielt . einfach toll.

This is one of the most beautiful displays of musicianship I've ever seen

I totally heard a little smoke on the water in there!! XD holy goodness that was great to hear

Super talented and a brilliant tribute to the greats, I'm sure Ritchie Blackmore will be delighted to have been included.

There are so many great musical instruments, but this one is phenomenal. This musician has reached a very high level.

Holy crap! This guy is freaking amazing! And I thought violin was difficult to master.

@jamesaron1967

Жыл бұрын

I think the violin is more difficult.

Quel magnifique instrument et quel artiste ! Un orchestre à lui tout seul. Bravo !

That guy looks like the Albert Einstein of music.

@jgvtc559

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking more Francis bacon

@yergui87

7 жыл бұрын

He reminds me to a young Billy Connolly or Gary Oldman.

@bryanwilson8130

7 жыл бұрын

And yet, this goofy collage lends more to an air of Gallagher...

@emanueljohansson6284

7 жыл бұрын

And sounds like the Albert Einstein of music! :D

@WilliamFord972

6 жыл бұрын

Albert Einstein played the violin quite often.

¡Alucinante! No comprendo cómo un instrumento tan rico y tan versátil puede haber quedado en el olvido. Gracias a músicos como Thomas Roth que nos regalan su esfuerzo por mantenerlo vivo. Amazing! I don't understand how such a rich and versatile instrument could have been forgotten. Thanks to musicians like Thomas Roth who give us their effort to keep it alive.

@newperspective5918

Жыл бұрын

It is not forgotten in Sweden. You see it quite often during Midsummer celebrations or old-timey inspired events.

sounds like someone is jamming along with a guitar hero controller, really cool instrument.

@coreybillingsley169

7 жыл бұрын

lmao it does

@hellothere921

7 жыл бұрын

k

@FrancoBarista

7 жыл бұрын

how does it "modernise" the song by pointing out that the haptic background noise sounds like a guitar hero controller? Don't be such an elitist prick

@coreybillingsley169

7 жыл бұрын

Big Boss grow up man

@hellothere921

7 жыл бұрын

k

Damn! This really shows off the capabilities of this instrument. Fantastic! Just fantastic! Best performance on this instrument I've seen. Bravissimo!

Er spielt ein fantastisches ganzes Orchester ! Herrlich wunderbar anzuhören - bravissimo

You are a virtuoso You memorized an entire Bach suite

discovered this magical instrument tonight. Wow! Beatific! ^_^

I didn't realize this was actually an instrument until I watched a few more videos from the sidebar and then Googled it. Very interesting, and a beautiful instrument it is too!

@coloharpare

7 жыл бұрын

It's been around since the Middle Ages---1300s at least. Just not terribly well-known outside of Sweden.

@bveracka

7 жыл бұрын

Sheila Morris It's amazing that in the Middle Ages they had such an intricately designed instrument. It's a beautiful instrument in both design and sound; I love it! Also, there are some truly great musicians in throughout Europe--especially in the north--who are keeping older instruments like this alive. Hats off to them!

A violin and a clavichord had a baby!

@natsariat430

8 жыл бұрын

hell yea!!!

@bveracka

7 жыл бұрын

Or a violin and an accordion, lol. Clavichord is more accurate though because of how the instrument works though; you're smart guy!

@jonnda

7 жыл бұрын

Kevin Hosford I was thinking cross between a hurdy-gurdy and a hardanger fiddle.

@patriciaduenas9489

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

Some of these comments sound like coming from ignorant children not even knowing, appreciating nor understanding the knowledge or the classic principles of sonority of Amati or Stradivarius design, but the capability to master the playing of a unique and self designed instrument, to interprete challenging áreas of the masters of music without even stering once the string setting. The merit is multiple and this artist deserves an special mention of respect for outstanding effort and success.

@crihsagnlel

9 жыл бұрын

hell yeah.

@diogopaschoalplatania4974

5 жыл бұрын

Great words!

@elouise5593

4 жыл бұрын

We can well appreciate good music. No need for the snotty superior tone in you comments! We ALL know it takes an outstanding instument, and superior skill and training to play it well. That is why most of us do not play it.

@michaelborders4674

4 жыл бұрын

Dude sucked he should have played disco stick or something kool

@tungavidyavijaya8960

3 жыл бұрын

@@elouise5593 The guy wasn't snotty , he just showed losers like you the mirror....

looks like a sonic assault rifle and yet it makes such beautiful music

Imagine the pain in the ass this thing would be to maintain. I don't even like doing basic guitar maintenance!

@capeheartriz

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Kuyt ...how would tune it!....

@Ucceah

8 жыл бұрын

strings last for a very long time when you dont touch them with your fingers all the time. guitar strings dont decay so quickly due to aging or corrosion, but because the gaps of the winding gunk up with grease and dead skin particles, muffling the tone. coated polyweb strings last for years.

@ursafan40

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think my Snark would fit over the head stock.

@grandmakida6591

7 жыл бұрын

I have one but my mama broke it when she was doing maintenance and now it's unfixable ;(

@StarshipTrooper4231

6 жыл бұрын

I bought one a few days back. It's not that difficult and advance as you might think.

I feel the Baroque composers woul have loved being able to compose for this instrument.

beautiful reminds me of those old eastern european cartoons and animations from the 50s i would see now and then as a kid.....fantastic.

Thomas Roth? More like Thomas Rocks!

@AClassOldie

4 ай бұрын

Same thing to Mike Tyson

this man loves the music he's playin' and so do I.

WOW!! What a challenging instrument to play. Beautiful music

Absolutely brilliant!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Nevermind playing or maintaining one of these instruments....can you imagine the artist that had to make this thing? His beard must be huge!

Fascinating instrument beautiful music by a very talented musician loved it...

Lol this guy looks like he could pull a gun out at any moment. Hilarious (and awesome)

My hats off to this virtuoso.

Always wonderful to witness the playing of a maestro of his instrument, thanks for posting this. Never does any harm to feel one's jaw dropping open in astonishment at the great heights achievable by incredibly talented, dedicated people who love what they do and share it with us.

Lovely! Another instrument I can admire. Thomas does a great job as well. It takes a lot of gut to get on stage and perform a solo as challenging as that one.

This is well worth watching in its entirety if one is possessed of any musical appreciation at all.

Fantastisch!!!!

greetings to sweden from turkey

Esbjorn Hogmark made this Nyckelharpa....a Swedish instrument in use since the middle ages.....much more that a guitar and violin blend it is an instrument unto itself....nyckelharpa means key fiddle in swedish....the sympathetic resonating strings sustain their notes...

@Plankensen

6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't harpa be harp? a key harp?

@TextiX887

6 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@TextiX887

6 жыл бұрын

Esbjörn? My mother was thought to make nyckelharpor from a course that he instructed.

@Darkurge666

3 жыл бұрын

@@TextiX887 Taught

Its carried like a AK47

@MrMikijava

8 жыл бұрын

+Luis Camero Vazquez Fuck, i dont know why but i laughed like a guy on drugs with your comment

@Corchopaning

8 жыл бұрын

That's good hahahah

@garfiangantara6273

8 жыл бұрын

+Mecroneith same HAHAHAHAHA LOL

@garfiangantara6273

8 жыл бұрын

+Luis Camero Vazquez it just got me..1st comment show

@mikagami69

7 жыл бұрын

Cypress Hill is going to make a new song, Hand on the Nyckelharpa

Just bought one, and I'm wondering how long it's gonna be before I look like him. My guess is a couple of months.

@HeyItsPM

8 жыл бұрын

+JOJ so, do you look like him yet?

@vespasian1566

8 жыл бұрын

How is it so far?

@Liliphant_

8 жыл бұрын

lmao

@JoButterwick

8 жыл бұрын

A little bit longer maybe - depends how fast your hair grows

@darkardsoul

7 жыл бұрын

PROFF

what a wonderful looking instrument!

Splendid performance

0o0 That was my face the whole time. How is this instrument not more popular?

so cool

I thought playing my electric fiddle was hard , THIS IS AWESOME !!!!! - FLOYD

@floydsuke

10 жыл бұрын

philsskills Phil have you tried one of these ? - FLOYD

xD it looks like a viola on steroids :D love it :D; amazing performance 10/10

Jag har aldrig sett någon spela som bättre

Smoke on the water.. Yeah.. He had a moment & went there *_* Cool! It happens to all of us musicians at one time or another.. Have Fun.. Life IS but a Dream ;) ~*~ XOX

Thanks for posting! I hadn't heard (or heard of) a nyckelharpa before this.

Loved every sec of it especially the Deep Purple part!👍🤘

Bloody amazing !!! What a Gorgeous instrument that is, especially in his hands !!

This is so unique to watch, listen to. I am impressed with anyone that play a instrument, such as this quality. It is not an everyday instrument,that you just pickup.

Imagine mixing modern guitar solos, and classical music. That's this

Massive respect, sir!

Das ist der erste Nyckelharpaspieler der mich richtig beeindruckt! Hochachtung und meine Anerkennung zu dieser einmaligen Nyckelharpa-Performance!

Just heavenly. Thank you!

What an art! Very expressive and musical!

Amazing! I loved this! Thank you for posting it.

Amazing!!

Incredible talent! Thanks!

wonderful !!! I can't imagine playing such a complicated instrument, I only wish I had your talent.

Sounds amazing! Like a cello and a violin in one instrument!

Amazing !

Brilliant! Pure love and resonance! I feel the vibrations! I love this and I want to thank you for sharing! More please, an encore at least?

OUTSTANDING!!! I put the nyckelharpa on my list of "things I wish I could play" awhile back. I think I'll have to settle for playing the video instead of the instrument! Wonderful!

Awesome!!

J'apprécie beaucoup votre talent et votre virtuosité.

Wonderful! I've been discovering all kinds of instrument I didn't know exist today.

wonderful !

Amazing instrument, and even more amazing musician...

Very cool! Thank you Thomas.

That thing's a whole ass violen trio in one instrument! He went from classical to rock to Tibetan throat music in one performance!

Einzig,Wunderfull

Omg this is SO AWESOME!! I think that's my new favorite instrument! :o

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Amazing! I didn't even know this instrument existed.

How long was his recovery period after this...?

So much yes!

I want one of these now!!!

Amazing performance! Thanks for sharing!

👏👏👏👌👍✌😎 ... nie gesehen ... nie gehört ... ich bin ... sprachlos 👏👏👏!!!

Divine! Thankyou Thomas⭐

absolutely brilliant

Such a beautiful sound...

Qu'il est passionnant de découvrir de si belles musiques et un instrument inconnu de moi . Félicitations. Merci pour le partage.

Beautiful instrument !

awesome!

Amazing!! :D

OH MY GOD !!!!! WOW !!!