Entertaining Children

  Chapter 451 Long Qin

  Fang still booked Cross’s hotel room as a suite. After the three people went upstairs and entered the room, they sat down on the sofa in the living room together.

"Our company's Huaxia agent has prepared the production room for me locally, and the raw materials and production tools have been prepared." As soon as Cross sat down, he went straight to the introduction of the theme, "As long as we agree on what to make tonight I can start making such a guitar tomorrow. There is no limit to the types of guitars that can be made for you. Acoustic guitars and electric guitars are fine, even four-string bass and ukulele or five-string banjo. I can make guitars similar to guitars, you have the final say."

   "Of course it is still a six-string guitar." Xiao Yao said. Although I can play other pianos myself, most of them are just for playing casually, and the guitar is the most used one.

   "No problem," Cross nodded, "Electric guitar or acoustic guitar? Are there any requirements for appearance and materials? You can ask for colors, shapes, sizes, materials, or I can design them for you."

  "Can the shape be made as required?" Xiao Yao said.

   "Of course, otherwise how to call a tailor-made exclusive guitar." Cross laughed, "And I will only make one such violin, and I won't make the same violin for others."

"So cool?" Xiao Yao moved in his heart, thinking of Wang Leehom's cool dragon piano in his previous life, and said to Cross, "I want an electric guitar. I have designed the shape myself. It is very special. I can Now draw it for you, please wait a moment.” As he said, Xiao Yao got up and went to the desk in the room, picked up the pencil and blank letter paper provided by the hotel, and returned to the sofa to start drawing.

  It didn’t take long for Xiao Yao to pass a painted appearance of the guitar to Cross and said, "Mr. Cross, can such a piano be made?"

   "God, what is this?" After receiving the picture from Xiao Yao, Cross immediately stared in surprise.

  "This is a dragon." Xiao Yao said, "Chinese dragon."

"I remember," Cross smiled, "Like the ones in the Yanjing Palace? I heard from the tour guide that the dragon was a symbol of the Chinese emperor in ancient times. It seems that your heart is not small." He remembered that he was in the past. When visiting the Yanjing Palace, I have seen reliefs of this animal on the walls and pillars.

   "Uh... the dragon is not only a symbol of the emperor, it is the totem of our Chinese nation, and we Chinese people all call themselves the descendants of the dragon." Xiao Yao sweated.

   "That's it." Cross nodded.

   "Can it be done?" Xiao Yao asked again.

   "It's not easy, but this piano looks so cool, I will definitely make it." Cross said, "What about the color and material?"

   "Silver, I want to use carbon fiber as the material, so that it won't be too heavy to carry." Xiao Yao said.

   "No problem," Cross nodded, "It's just that this production cycle will not be short, I guess it will take about a month, and I can't make this shape by myself. I still need help."

   "Is there anything I can help?" Xiao Yao asked actively.

"No, our company has specialists in this area." Cross shook his head, "I will ask the company to send someone from the United States to help me. The only thing you need to do is to wait for the violin to be made and take him to take pictures. A photo, let’s post the photo on the company’s official website, okay?"

   "No problem." Xiao Yao nodded immediately, and then asked, "Can I visit during the production? I am also very interested in how to make a guitar."

   "Of course." Cross smiled and nodded, "This piano will spend a lot of time on making this dragon. I will have a lot of free time in the early stage. If you want, I can teach you how to make a guitar."

   "Thank you, of course I want to learn." Xiao Yao said happily.

"This piano is very creative. It provides me with a new idea for making guitars in the future." Cross praised, "I heard that "Daydream" was written by you, "Sugar", in that MV. The idea of ​​raiding a real wedding scene also came from you. It seems that you are not only a great musician, but also a guy full of imagination. I like you and I am very happy to teach you how to make guitars. So, you are welcome."

  After agreeing on the guitar to be made, Xiao Yao and Cross talked for about half an hour. Although Xiao Yao doesn't know how to make guitars, he still has a comprehensive understanding of musical instruments. As a master of musical instruments, Cross is naturally proficient in music, so the two of them chatted very speculatively. In the end, when Xiao Yao took Fang still to leave, he had already changed his name and called him "Nick" directly at the request of Cross.

  Although it is already night in China, due to the time difference, it is time for work in the United States during the day. After Xiao Yao and Fang still left, Cross also immediately contacted the company headquarters in the United States and asked to send special personnel to help. Even if Cross told the person in charge of the company that the production cost of Xiao Yao’s guitar may reach about 100,000 U.S. dollars, the people at the company headquarters saw the appearance of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao that Cross passed by. He still agreed without hesitation, saying that he would immediately arrange for the company's experts who are proficient in carbon fiber and special shape production to fly to China to help.

  Since Xiao Yao is studying in Shenxi, Xiao Yao’s personal team also moved to Shencheng from Yanjing. Xiao Yao’s personal team now consists of two people, one is the agent and assistant Fang Dian, and the other is makeup artist and assistant Pei Minyi. Both of them are young girls in their early twenties. It fits well. After moving to Shencheng, the two simply rented an apartment not far from Shenxi and lived together.

Xiao Yao went to the United States alone during the summer vacation, saying that he was going to visit friends. After returning, he made a video and caused an uproar in the United States, causing an airline to apologize publicly, and then exposed it to American rock bands. Writing songs and helping them come up with ideas to shoot MVs has made another wave in the United States. Naturally, Xiao Yao's team paid attention to these things. Looking at these news, Pei Minyi felt that Xiao Yao had a proper international profile. As Xiao Yao's makeup artist and assistant, she will definitely have the opportunity to follow Xiao Yao to travel abroad. While excited, she also began to worry about her English.

As for the brokerage, Fang was still in charge. It was not within her scope of work. Taking advantage of Xiao Yao’s military training, she had nothing to do with her. So after she came to Shencheng to settle down, she immediately found an English training class to supplement her English. went.

Making guitars is not a performance. Pei Minyi, the makeup artist, is not needed. The assistant Youfang is still with him. Now he won’t be able to use it for the time being, so Xiao Yao and Fang still didn’t bother her English learning at all, and they were still together. action.

  The next day, Xiao Yao and Fang still drove to the hotel to pick up Cross, and Cross led the way to the guitar studio that the agent had prepared for him. After choosing the materials for the strings, fingerboards and other parts of Longqin, Xiao Yao, who was fine, followed Cross to learn how to make guitars.

  One day later, Cross’s helper also arrived in Shencheng. The newly arrived instrument producer is named Ake Robinson, who is in his thirties and is almost ten years younger than Cross, but his identity is Cross’s helper, not an assistant.

Strictly speaking, Ake Robinson can be regarded as a musical instrument maker, but not a guitar maker, because he is an expert in material modeling, and he is good at using various materials to create certain special requirements. The appearance design and production of musical instruments. Compared with the luthier Nicholas Cross, who is good at hand-making, he is more like a modern sculpture artist who is good at using instruments and equipment, but he understands music better than ordinary sculpture artists. His mission in Shanghai this time is to help Cross make the winding dragon on the piano.

  This dragon piano was all designed by Xiao Yao, and the exterior picture was also hand-drawn by Xiao Yao. As an American, Ake Robinson didn't know much about Huaxia’s dragons, so Ake Robinson could only discuss with Xiao Yao, the designer of China. Xiao Yao took this opportunity to give Ake Robinson a good introduction to what a Chinese dragon looks like.

"Dragon is a legendary animal, there is no in reality, but it is not imagined out of thin air, every part of its body comes from animals that exist in reality." In addition to giving Ake, Robinson found a bunch of various In addition to the close-up pictures of Huaxia dragons at the angle for reference, Xiao Yao also pointed to each part of the picture and explained to him in detail, so that he had an intuitive impression of each part of the dragon. "The Chinese dragon has its head like a camel, its horns are antlers, its eyes are rabbit eyes, its ears are cow ears, its neck is like a snake, its belly is like a large oyster, its scales are carp, its claws are eagle claws, and its feet are from Yuhuo. This is the dragon of China!" There are many descriptions of dragons in ancient China. In summary, they are "nine in shape". Xiao Yao tried his best to explain in a language that Ak Robinson could understand.

  "Do you mean that the Chinese dragon is a complex of nine different animals?" Ake Robinson seemed to understand.

   "You can say so." Xiao Yao nodded.

"You ancient Chinese people really have ideas." Ake Robinson looked at the design drawing of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao, then looked at the pictures of dragons that Xiao Yao helped him find. He felt that he had caught it. The details of each part of the dragon suddenly felt like a spectrum, "Okay, I think I know how to do it."

  After Ake Robinson started working, Xiao Yao changed from one person to two. While learning about material modeling with Ake Robinson, he learned how to make a normal-looking guitar with Cross.

   During the entire National Day holiday, Xiao Yao did almost nothing and spent all of it in the guitar studio. Even after the holidays ended and the school started classes, Xiao Yao often took the break to run here to learn from the two masters of musical instrument making. Xiao Yao's learning ability is very strong, and he knows enough about the guitar, so he soon learned how to make guitars with Nicholas Cross. As for Ake Robinson, after seeing how he made the dragon on the piano body, Xiao Yao simply completed the production of the smaller dragon head on the piano head under the guidance of Ake Robinson.

  Many materials are readily available in the guitar studio. In the process of learning how to make guitars, Xiao Yao had no choice but to use the sufficient raw materials in the studio to practice his hands and try to make some guitars by himself. At the beginning, Xiao Yao and Nicholas Cross made a few regular-shaped acoustic guitars in a proper manner.

  The guitar made by Xiao Yao himself must be taken away. The raw materials in this guitar making room are indeed sufficient, but it is not my place after all. Even if the two producers taught him how to make it for free, the raw materials used to make the guitar were bought back by the Huaxia agent. In theory, apart from the fact that someone promised to help him make the dragon piano for free, Xiao Yao should still pay for the raw materials consumed in the process of learning the guitar.

After learning a lot of special materials to make a unique shape of the piano body with Ake, on the one hand, for fun, on the other hand, to save money, Xiao Yao opened his mind and began to use various waste materials and materials in the production room. Tools were used as the raw material for guitar production, and as a result, a few strange-looking "non-mainstream" guitars were really made, which made the two musical instrument masters who had been shocked by the "Longqin" designed by Xiao Yao once again amazed. It started Xiao Yao's "Whimsical".

  (End of this chapter)