Entertaining Children

  Chapter 464 Buying

As soon as the lights on the stage dimmed, the audience knew that Xiao Yao’s performance was about to begin, and the scene soon became quiet. They wanted to see and hear how Xiao Yao’s newly invented musical instrument plays and how it is played. What will the sound of music be like.

The director team at the scene also seemed to understand the audience’s thoughts, so a rocker arm with a camera on the scene also slowly stretched over Xiao Yao’s side, and aimed the camera at the instrument on Xiao Yao’s leg and Xiao Yao. Yao Qing put his hands on it. At the same time, the close-up shot of this camera was cut out on the big screen on the scene, so that everyone can see clearly.

  Before Xiao Yao started playing, the close-up shot on the big screen also let everyone see the specific appearance of this instrument...at least the upper part. The disc shape has an upward arc, and at first glance it really looks like a metal pot lid. There is a dot convex outward in the center, and seven smaller dots concave inward are more evenly distributed on a circle of the outer slope.

   "Ding~" Xiao Yao moved his right hand and lightly patted the instrument on the instrument. As expected, a voice rang at the scene. At first it sounds a bit like the sound of a harp or a bell, but when you think about it, it feels like the sound of water droplets. It may be because the instrument is obviously hollow, the sound resonates in the instrument, and it is tapped directly with the palm of the hand, so the sound not only sounds ethereal, but also soft and warm. The audience at the scene was attracted by this first sound alone.

"Ding, dong, ding ding~ ding, ding~ ding dong ding dong..." As Xiao Yao's hands kept tapping at different positions on the instrument, the sounds of different tones rang in turn, and when Xiao Yao's hands After the percussion took the rhythm, the audience really heard the melody of the music from the pronunciation of this instrument.

  As the melody of the melody being played speeds up, Xiao Yao's percussion moves become more brisk. A slightly sharp-eyed audience can find that although Xiao Yao uses his hands to tap, the parts he uses when he touches the instrument are different. Sometimes he uses the palm of his hand, sometimes he uses his fingers, and some others. At that time, it was just passing by the edge of the palm. It seems that Xiao Yao's hands are fluttering on the instrument, and his movements look smooth and unrestrained. With his freehand expression, the whole person also reveals an indescribable elegance.

"It's really a new instrument that can be played! Not only does the instrument look beautiful, but the performance also looks handsome, and the music played is also very comfortable to listen to." Many audiences began to admire in their hearts, "This Xiao Yao It’s really a musical genius to invent such a new musical instrument! It’s so good at playing!"

  The song played by Xiao Yao is called "Yin Yu Qing Dai", which naturally comes from a previous life. The passage that Sun Honglei played at the end of the TV series "Mr. Good" in the previous life came from this piece. Of course, the section that Sun Honglei played in the TV series was only a part of the whole piece. It only took more than one minute. It was definitely not enough for the length of the stage performance. So Xiao Yao played a full version that was close to four minutes.

  However, although Xiao Yao’s four-minute full version is equivalent to the length of an ordinary song, for the audience who heard the performance of this instrument for the first time, four minutes felt completely insufficient. When Xiao Yao's performance was over, the lights on the stage came on, and Xiao Yao stood up with a hand-held disc. After listening to Xiao Yao's performance in silence, the audience immediately burst into fierce applause and cheers. And among these applause and cheers, there were also mixed shouts of "one more song", "one more time" and "encore" from the audience.

This is a New Year’s Eve party, not a concert. All programs are scheduled and rehearsed in advance. It is definitely impossible to add performances because of the audience’s demands. Therefore, Xiao Yao also does not respond to these shouts in the audience. Moved. Xiao Yao, who stood up, only bowed politely to express his gratitude to the audience. He took his hand disc and left the stage amidst the applause and shouts of the audience. At this New Year's Eve party, he really never spoke from beginning to end.

   Xiao Yao, who has no singing program, can deliberately not speak on the stage, but after going off the stage and returning to the backstage lounge dressing room, Xiao Yao is unnecessary and unlikely to be dumb all the time.

  Because it was the first appearance of a new musical instrument, Xiao Yao did not participate in the public rehearsal before the New Year's Eve party for the sake of confidentiality. He only performed once for the program group when reviewing the program. As it was a solo show, and Xiao Yao's entire performance was just a white spotlight on him, besides, almost no other stage effects were needed to cooperate, so the program team agreed to his request not to participate in the rehearsal for this show. Therefore, apart from Gong Chen who has been with Xiao Yao during the preparation of the show, he has seen Xiao Yao's new musical instrument, and other celebrities who participated in the New Year's Eve party have never seen this new musical instrument.

  Xiao Yao’s performance of new musical instruments on the stage was not only amazed by the live audience under the stage, but also many other celebrities who watched the live broadcast in the backstage lounge of the performance were extremely curious and surprised. So when Xiao Yao returned to the backstage lounge to remove makeup after Xiao Yao’s performance, other celebrities who were very interested in Xiao Yao’s new musical instrument knocked on the door of Xiao Yao’s lounge, wanting to see Xiao Yao’s new musical instrument "a quick glance" or I played it by myself.

  Xiao Yao’s two shows, one is a masked performance, the other is wearing a hat even though the mask is pulled down, and there are not many faces exposed in front of the camera lens. Nevertheless, Pei Minyi, who worked as Xiao Yao’s personal make-up artist for the first time, carefully designed Xiao Yao’s performance makeup, and when Xiao Yao returned to the backstage lounge after Xiao Yao’s performance, Pei Minyi was also the first time to work with enthusiasm. He pressed Xiao Yao in front of the dressing table and immediately began to remove his makeup.

  Here Pei Minyi just started to do it, when the door of Xiao Yao's lounge was knocked.

  Because Pei Minyi was removing makeup from Xiao Yao, Fang, who was sitting on the sofa in the lounge with nothing to do, still got up and opened the door. Fang is still acting as a broker and assistant, and this New Year's Eve party is also accompanied by Xiao Yao. This is the first time Xiao Yao has brought two people to participate in the show, and it seems that he finally has a "team".

   "Xu Yuan? Come in." After Fang still opened the door of the lounge, he found that standing outside the door was Xu Yuan, whose performance had ended. Although Shi Fang still did not go to the scene of "Masked Singing General", when Xiao Yao helped them design masks and costumes and rehearse songs, and later the official version of the recording, Fang still stayed together for a long time. I was already familiar with it, so he generously let Xu Yuan in, "Is there anything wrong?"

   "Nothing special, just curious about Xiao Yao's instrument just now, so come and take a look." Xu Yuan smiled. Xu Yuan has also played in a band before. Although she is the lead singer in the band and rarely plays musical instruments in performances, she herself can play musical instruments. Seeing Xiao Yao invented a new musical instrument, she immediately couldn’t help running away. Come here.

   "Things are on the sofa, you can just play with them. I'm removing makeup, so I won't greet you." Xiao Yao, who knew Xu Yuan's temperament, greeted with a generous smile.

"Okay, thank you." Looking at the hand dish on the sofa, Xu Yuan sat down on the sofa in the lounge unceremoniously, and placed the hand dish on his leg like Xiao Yao just now. Up, reached out and patted it gently.

Xu Yuan is worthy of playing an instrument. After trying for a while, she quickly found a few notes represented by different parts of the instrument, and played a piece she knew at will, but she played it for the first time after all. The technique is far less proficient than Xiao Yao, and the music he plays does not sound very smooth.

  "Would you like to guide you on the technique?" Xiao Yao, who had finished removing his makeup, sat on the sofa next to Xu Yuan and looked at Xu Yuandao who was having fun.

   "Okay," Xu Yuan nodded subconsciously, then raised his head and asked a question that he cares more about, "Is this instrument really invented by you?"

   "Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "Li Hai introduced on the stage just now, is this still fake?"

   "How did you come up with it?" Xu Yuan then asked.

  "When the light flashed, I just thought of it," Xiao Yao smiled, "Why don't you ask me how I write a song?"

   "Cut, can writing songs be the same as inventing musical instruments?" Xu Yuan pouted.

"Well, I actually thought of knocking on gasoline drums." Xiao Yao said, "Once I saw someone using waste gasoline drums as drums on the street. Same, I have such an inspiration."

   "By the way, what is the hole below?" Xu Yuan turned the hand disc over and pointed to a hole in the center of the bottom.

  "This is called "Gu". Its structure is designed on the principle of Helmholtz resonator and can be used for tuning." Xiao Yao introduced.

  "What is a Helmholtz resonator?" Xu Yuan continued to ask.

"It is a basic acoustic resonance system and a device that uses resonance to make acoustic measurements. Helmholtz was a German scientist in the nineteenth century. He was the first to use this type of resonator to perform frequency components of sound. Analyzed, so use his surname to name this type of resonator." Xiao Yao asked with a smile, "Do you need me to introduce you to the working principle of this type of resonator?"

   "Stop it!" Xu Yuan hurriedly held his forehead with one hand and stretched his hand forward, blocking Xiao Yao's words, "Knowing that you are a master of study, but I have a headache when I hear the word science."

   "Actually, what I care about is not the principle," Xu Yuan continued, "I want to know that there are really only two pieces of this musical instrument in the world? Are they all in your hands?"

"There are only two pieces, and they are all mine." Xiao Yao nodded, "Although I know the principle, I don't have the skill to do it. This is because I met an American musical instrument making and material modeling by chance. After his expert, he helped me make them. Now he is back to the United States. Before leaving, he made two of them in total and left them to me."

   "What about the other one? Can you sell it to me?" Xu Yuan said immediately.

   "Do you like it so much?" Xiao Yao said.

   "I like it very much." Xu Yuan said, "But I know someone would like it better. My teacher is about to have his birthday. I want to give him this new musical instrument as a birthday gift. He will be very happy."

   "Ms. Chen Huan?" Xiao Yao said.

"Yes, I don't have any other teachers now." Xu Yuan nodded, "How about? You keep one to play and sell the other one to me. Just ask how much you want, since you are also looking for someone to help with this instrument. If you make it, let’s say nothing else, there must be costs for materials, labor and other things. It’s up to as much money as it should be. I have absolutely nothing to say."

   "The price is not a problem." Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "It's just these two hand-discs. I kept one by myself, and the other one has been given to my dad. You know, my dad is also a musical instrument fan."

"Given it to my dad, I naturally can't want to come back. I know that the American musical instrument maker who helped me make this instrument has other things to do in the near future. I'm afraid I won't be able to start work in the short term and help me make it again. Let me take this?" Xiao Yao said.

   "Oh~" Xu Yuan sighed with disappointment, then waved his hand, "Forget it, gentlemen don't take advantage of others. Teacher's gift, I will think of another way."

   "Well, at most half a year, after half a year, I will give you one." Xiao Yao said to Xu Yuan who was disappointed. In half a year, the company that partnered with Ake Robinson should have started to operate normally. It's a big deal to place an order for Ake by yourself.

   "So generous? Can you give me one too?" With a voice, another person opened the door and entered Xiao Yao's lounge.

   "Teacher Shazhou!" Xu Yuan and Xiao Yao stood up and said hello.

  Fang still opened the door to let Xu Yuan in, but just closed the door without closing it. When Shazhou came, the door was not closed, and he happened to hear Xiao Yao's words to Xu Yuan, so he pushed the door directly in.

  "You are talking about this, right?" Sha Zhou smiled and pointed to the hand disc that Xu Yuan put aside, "I'm also very interested. Help me make a fun too."

"Yes." Xiao Yao smiled, and then said, "But I can't make this thing, I have to find someone to order it. The master who made this instrument is an American, and I can help you place an order at that time. The price of this item is about three thousand dollars. For the sake of our friendship, I may not charge your deposit."

  "So expensive?" Shazhou and Xu Yuan were a little surprised.

   "This thing is almost entirely made by hand, and currently there is no machine that can do it." Xiao Yao said.

   "But why did Xu Yuan deliver it? When you get to me, you start to charge?" Shazhou smiled and pointed to Xiao Yao, "Your difference is too obvious, right."

   "Who made you not a beauty?" Fang still interjected with a smile suddenly.

  "Patient color and despise friends!" Shazhou stared at Xiao Yao.

   "Do you know that?" Fang still smiled, "We Xiao Yao have always been like this."

   "Hey, you are my agent." Xiao Yao's dissatisfied opponent still said, "Have you ruined your image as an artist?"

   "But you seem to be such an image." Sha Zhou nodded, touching his chin, "Apart from Chen Chen, have you written songs for other male singers?"

  "Isn't my dad a man?" Xiao Yao retorted.

  (End of this chapter)