Entertaining Children

  Chapter 463 New Musical Instruments

   "Okay," Li Hai shrugged helplessly and continued, "Next, please allow me to introduce you to the performers of the next show."

   "I believe everyone must have guessed it too," Li Hai pointed at Xiao Yao who was still standing on the stage with a single palm. "That is Xiao Yao who is still standing on the stage now."

  Following Li Hai’s introduction, Xiao Yao finally pulled down the black elastic mask covering his face, and piled it directly on his neck into a collar, but he did not put down the hat. Not only that, Xiao Yao just waved to the audience. He said hello, but he still didn't speak.

   "What's wrong with Xiao Yao's voice, right?" Seeing Xiao Yao still cherish his words, Li Hai seemed to have no intention of handing over an extra microphone in his hand to Xiao Yao's hand. Some audience whispered.

"How is it possible? Now that Gong Chen has left, and no other singer is on stage. The next show is Xiao Yao. He can't continue to accompany people, he can only sing. If there is a problem with his voice, how can he act? ?" Some people retorted.

"Not necessarily, who said Xiao Yao can only sing. Didn't you know that Xiao Yao also taught Gong Chen how to make magic and Xu Yuan how to mix wine? Maybe he made everyone a magic trick or something? Take Xiao Yao It’s not that this kind of thing is impossible to do.” said an audience who was familiar with the three singers just now.

   "That's right, even if he can't sing, he can still perform musical instruments."

"If I can accept magic or something, I'll forget about playing the instrument. I've heard him play the piano, the guitar, the erhu, and the xun. The level is indeed very good, but if I just play the instrument and don't sing, I will still It almost means. He is not a professional instrumentalist."

  As soon as the audience’s voice fell, Li Hai on the stage had already introduced: "The program Xiao Yao brought us is a solo instrument."

  "I really don't sing, just play a musical instrument, or play solo?" Many audiences were stunned.

  Following Li Hai’s introduction, two staff members also came up on the stage. One was holding a chair in one hand and a microphone stand in the other, while the other was holding something strange in both hands.

   Xiao Yao saw him, and immediately walked a few steps to meet the staff member behind, took the things in his hand, and returned to Li Hai's side.

  Many viewers were immediately attracted by what Xiao Yao held in his hands.

   "What the **** is this?"

  "Is this brought up a pot with a lid? There is no food in it, right?

   "I look like UFOs and flying saucers in the movie."

   Hearing the discussion from the audience, Li Hai continued: "Do you see that this thing in Xiao Yao's hand looks like a flying saucer?" The large screen on the scene also gave a close-up picture of the thing in Xiao Yao's hand. The audience at the scene can clearly see that the metal product with the disc structure is indeed very much like a flying saucer.

   "This thing is called a "hand disc", which is a percussion instrument that is hit with hands." Li Hai pointed to the thing in Xiao Yao's hand and said, "Everyone hasn't seen it before, right?"

   "Hand disc? What is that? Not only I haven't seen it, I haven't heard it before?" the audience thought.

"I haven't seen it before." Li Hai smiled, "This instrument was invented by Xiao Yao himself. It was just made more than a month ago. There are currently only two in the world. This is also this new instrument. It’s the first public appearance. So everyone is blessed today. You will be the first audience in the world to see and hear this new instrument."

   "Xiao Yao invented it himself? Will he invent new musical instruments?!"

   "I'm going, it's too **** good, is there anything he can't do?!"

   "Oh~" After listening to Li Hai's introduction, the audience immediately became excited, and cheers and screams filled the scene.

  At this time, no one felt that Xiao Yao almost played an instrument alone anymore. I invented a brand new musical instrument, which made the audience feel Xiao Yao's bunker. As the first audience in the world to see and hear this new instrument playing live, what are they dissatisfied with?

  The hand-disc is a musical instrument invented by two Swiss people in the previous life in 2000. Naturally, there is no such instrument in this world. Xiao Yao has seen and heard of this musical instrument in his previous life, and he has not thought about making it, but Xiao Yao knows its shape, material, and sounding principle, but he does not know much about its production process, so he has not been able to make it. As wished.

   But the arrival of Ake Robinson some time ago gave Xiao Yao a chance to realize this idea. Ake Robinson came to help Nicholas Cross make the part of the dragon on Xiao Yao's dragon piano. Xiao Yao himself also participated in the whole process of making the dragon piano. As an expert who understands music and is good at using various materials to create the appearance of musical instruments, after Xiao Yao saw the skills of Ake Robinson, the idea of ​​making hand discs reappeared in his mind.

   Xiao Yao's performance, Ak Robinson is also in the eyes.

Not only did I quickly learn to make guitars with Nicholas Cross, but after he and Ake Robinson made the dragon on the Long Qin Qin, the smaller dragon head on the head of the piano, Xiao Yao They were all made by themselves under the guidance of Ake Robinson. In addition, the dragon piano they made was designed by Xiao Yao himself, so whether it is for Xiao Yao’s creativity, or for Xiao Yao’s learning ability and practical ability in the production process, Ak Robinson is very good. appreciated.

  Naturally, it is not surprising that Ake Robinson likes Xiao Yao, a Chinese teenager. Therefore, after the completion of the Longqin, Xiao Yao proposed to Ake Robinson the idea of ​​trying to make a new musical instrument. Ake Robinson, who should return to China after completing the task, did not hesitate to postpone his plan to return to the United States. Agreed.

  With Ake Robinson, a very professional master-level figure, promised to help, Xiao Yao also immediately shaken out the shape, size, and material of the hand-dish. In terms of production methods, Xiao Yao knew that there were two kinds of manual hammering and CNC machine tools in the previous life. This world does not even have hand-made discs, and naturally there is no CNC machine tool made, so Xiao Yao and Ake Robinson also only have pure hand hammers. System and then heat treatment hardening is a way to go. As for how to hammer, how to strike, how to strike out that shape and more important pronunciation area, Xiao Yao had no idea. This is where Ake Robinson, a professional, plays a role.

  After looking at the musical instrument drawings Xiao Yao drew for him and the performance method described and the timbre effect that the instrument wanted to achieve, Ake Robinson was also fascinated by this novel instrument that Xiao Yao came up with. In terms of his attitude, he changed from simply helping Xiao Yao to that he must make this musical instrument. Even if the patent right for this new musical instrument was finally made by Xiao Yao, as a technician who participated in the production and was the first in the world to make this musical instrument, he felt proud enough.

The   hand disc is a deformed body made of steel drums. Xiao Yao could not and had not made steel drums, but Ake Robinson did. Therefore, Ake Robinson is much more experienced than Xiao Yao in terms of the relationship between the shape of the steel plate and the sound it makes. Xiao Yao still goes to school during the day, and only at night will he have time to come over to study and try with Ake Robinson. Ake Robinson can spend the whole day beating and beating without distraction. Therefore, in the production process, Ake Robinson is also the main operator.

  After nearly a month of constant experimentation, the two finally succeeded in making this instrument. After Xiao Yao played a piece of music in front of Ake Robinson with the first hand-disc produced by the two successfully, Ake Robinson also felt that all the hard work and hard work he had done this month was worth it.

  With the experience of successfully producing the first hand disc, Ake Robinson also made persistent efforts to make the second one. Because it was not far from the traditional Western Christmas at that time, Ake Robinson wanted to rush back to the United States to spend Christmas with his family, so he left the two hand-made discs to Xiao Yao and returned to the United States.

In Ake Robinson’s view, the hand disc is a very cool musical instrument, and it will definitely be liked by many instrument lovers. Therefore, before returning to the United States, Ake Robinson also made a suggestion with Xiao Yao, that is, two They established a company in partnership to produce and sell this new musical instrument, hand-disc. According to Ake Robinson's idea, Xiao Yao, as the inventor of the design, will definitely apply for a patent for this new musical instrument. And the reason why he proposed that the two partners start a company instead of doing it alone, is that he hopes that Xiao Yao will use his patent right to buy shares.

  Of course, Xiao Yao is very interested in Ake Robinson’s proposal. It's just that if he is only issuing patents, Ake Robinson will share half of his equity with him when he pays and contributes. The advantage that he has taken seems to be too great. Xiao Yao feels a little embarrassed. However, Xiao Yao felt a little unwilling to take up too little equity.

Not to mention that Ake Robinson plans to open the company and factory in the United States. Even if it is opened in China, Xiao Yao probably has no time to participate in company management and specific production. At the same time, the proportion of hand-made dishes that require purely handmade production is quite large. Gao, the business model of Ake Robinson’s plan is to provide customized services rather than mass production, and the capital required is not a lot. Therefore, Xiao Yao discussed with Ake Robinson, and finally decided that the two of them would spend half of the funds. Xiao Yao issued the patent, and Ake Robinson contributed his staff to be responsible for the management of the company and the specific production and sales. Each holds half of the equity.

Xiao Yao’s patent application has been issued, but it has not yet come down. All of these are still plans of the two and are under preparation. Therefore, in addition to Ake Robinson and Xiao Yao and his assistant Fang, there are still a limited number of people, No one else knows yet.

  But now that he had this plan, Xiao Yao naturally began to think about the promotion of the new musical instrument, the hand disc, so at the New Year's Eve party of Donghai TV, Xiao Yao decided to take out the hand disc and make an official appearance.

  Just as Li Hai introduced, preparations were already made on the stage.

   Xiao Yao sat down on the chair that the staff brought up, and put the hand saucer on his legs. The staff took the extra microphone in Li Hai's hand, installed it on the microphone stand he had brought up, adjusted the height and angle, and pointed the microphone at the hand plate on Xiao Yao's leg.

"Next, Xiao Yao will bring you his hand-disc performance." Seeing that Xiao Yao is ready, Li Hai introduced, "The piece he played has a very poetic name, called "Amidst the Rain". "Indigo Naturalis", please enjoy!"

As Li Hai left the stage after the introduction, all the lights on the stage were turned off. Only Xiao Yao, who was sitting on a chair with a hand dish on his legs, lit up with a white spotlight shining vertically downward on the stage. A cone-shaped beam of light was formed, and Xiao Yao was wrapped in it.

  (End of this chapter)