Entertaining Children

  Chapter 50 The Original Scenery of Hometown

  This Wu Le is not a star. He doesn't have such a strong sense of variety and experience in dealing with this situation. A little teasing is almost enough, and he can't really embarrass others.

  Wang Yuan turned the topic to the musical instrument in Wu Le's hand and said: "Tell us about the musical instrument in your hand."

Speaking of the guy in his hands, Wu Le finally became happy and introduced with a smile: "This instrument is called Ukulele, which is the most popular instrument in Hawaii. It belongs to the guitar instrument family according to its classification. , So some people call it Hawaiian Little Guitar..."

Wu Lechui introduced the origin, classification, popular regions, timbre characteristics, playing skills and other characteristics of Ukulele. Basically, he gave a comprehensive explanation of this instrument, and finally left it to Wu Le’s dazzling performance. Skill time. Xiao Yao had to admit that in terms of proficiency and skill, Wu Le could fully explode his current self.

After   Wu Le, Chen Wen, who was holding the banjo, also introduced the banjo according to the aspects of Wu Le’s introduction to Ukulele. Of course, live performances are also indispensable. Without playing Banjo, Xiao Yao would not be able to judge his skill level, but since he can be found by the show crew, he must be one of the best in this area.

  After the introduction of Western musical instruments, here are the two girls holding traditional Chinese musical instruments. The time spent by the two girls was longer than that of the two young men. The interesting coincidence that Miss Liu held Ruan and Miss Ruan held Liu~qin was enough for the host to tease for a while.

  After the introduction and performance of the four people on stage, Wang Yuan hit his idea again on Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao and his son on the side of the stage. At the two people said: "You father and son will also play musical instruments, do you want to come up and try it?"

   Xiao Yao shook his head, and whispered to Xiao Siqi: "Ukulele is not necessary. The other three are still too big for me, dad, go and try."

   "Okay." Xiao Siqi smiled and nodded, and walked to the center of the stage.

   Coming to the center of the stage, Xiao Siqi said to everyone: "Apart from the ukulele, Bayi said that these three are still too big for him, and it is difficult for him to reach, so I will try it alone."

  Thinking about it, everyone did not force Xiao Yao. Several people took turns and talked with Xiao Siqi in a low voice. They probably talked about some playing skills and the corresponding tastes of the various scales on the neck of the piano. Xiao Siqi all played a short piece of music each. Ukulele and banjo belong to the same guitar category. It’s better. Xiao Siqi, a big man playing the lute-like Liuqin and Ruan, is just enough to make people laugh. The guitar difference is also quite big, Xiao Siqi is very awkward to play, but everyone sees it with a sense of joy.

  Several hosts made fun of Xiao Siqi's funny manners of playing Liuqin and Ruan, and put Xiao Siqi back to Xiao Yao. Thank you for the performance of four people. After the four people returned to the backstage, the five hosts began to invite the next group of guests.

  Wang Yuan said: "These musical instruments just need to be hands-on only, but there are some musical instruments that need to be spoken in addition to hands-on."

  As the second host, Andy immediately answered: "Is that what you said?" Then, Andy changed to holding the microphone in both hands and covering the microphone to his mouth, and came to an impromptu B-box.

   "Although your mouth can also be used as a musical instrument, you only need to use your mouth, why do you need to use your hands? This is definitely not what Yuan Ge said." Liu Yang was the first to stand up and retort.

Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Of course. What we showed just now are all plucked string instruments, which are only hands-on and not-mouthed. What I said is both hands-on and mouth-watering. I was talking about wind instruments." Then he turned his head and asked. Several companions around said: "When it comes to wind instruments, what do you think of?"

   "Harmonica." Li Xian, who has not spoken much, replied first this time.

   "Well, this is." Wang Yuan nodded.

  "Small horn, trombone, French horn." Andy said three things in one breath.

   "Saxophone, clarinet." Liu Yang connected.

   "Why are they all from abroad, our country also has them, speakers, and suona." Xu Bo despised the other three.

"Well, what you said is good, all." Wang Yuan said, "but the instrument we are going to invite below is also a wind instrument, but none of you mentioned it. Below, we invite our guests to appear. "

  Amidst the sound of music, a middle-aged man in his forties walked up from the backstage. The middle-aged man with his hands empty, wearing a headset on his head, walked straight to the center of the stage, bowed slightly and introduced himself: "Hello everyone, this is Cao Zhongyun."

  "This is over?" The music stopped, and Wang Yuan came up first and asked Cao Zhongyun: "Mr. Cao, where is your instrument?"

Cao Zhongyun smiled and pointed to the side of the stage and said, "Here, here, here." Accompanied by Cao Zhongyun's voice, a staff member pushed up a small cart on which there were many ceramic musical instruments. .

   "Wow, so many." Liu Yang and others were surprised.

"It looks so many, but there are only two types." Cao Zhongyun smiled and pointed to the musical instrument on the cart: "The ones on this side are all ocarina, and the others on the other side are all xuns. It's just that there are some differences in specifications and shapes ."

  Wang Yuan introduced: "Introduction, Mr. Cao is a pottery wind instrument maker, performer, and music creator of this kind of instrument, so I can say that he is an expert in this field."

  Cao Zhongyun smiled and arched his hands and said, "I have won the prize."

  Wait for everyone below to marvel, Wang Yuan continued to ask Cao Zhongyun: "Are you making these by yourself?"

"Uh...most of them." Cao Zhongyun paused slightly, and pointed to a few of them. "I didn't make these, just because their appearance is more interesting. I collected them and brought them for everyone to see. It’s fresh. What I do myself are those with a more traditional look."

  "Then please introduce us one by one." Wang Yuan left the center of the stage to Cao Zhongyun.

"Here is the Ocarina, which is a Western instrument, which was passed from abroad. This is also called Ocarina, which is a literal translation of the English name Ocarina. The more common ones are six-hole and twelve-hole. . In addition, there are seven holes, eight holes, nine holes and other holes, but they are relatively few. From the shape of the six-hole ocarina is mainly spherical or drop-shaped, and the twelve-hole ocarina mainly looks like this. It’s a submarine. And the other gun-shaped, animal-shaped, and plant-shaped ones that you see are all alternative and fun.” Cao Zhongyun slowly introduced, and in conjunction with his introduction, it will also correspond. Pick up the ocarina one by one and show them to everyone.

"After introducing the ocarina, here is our traditional Chinese instrument-Xun. The history of this instrument is very old, much longer than the history of the ocarina. It is one of the oldest wind instruments in China, according to research. It has a history of seven thousand years." Cao Zhongyun picked up the other side of the xun and said to everyone: "The ancient xun was mainly six-hole, now it is mainly eight-hole, and there are also some nine-hole and ten-hole. Its appearance Generally, there are more oval shapes, but there are also many other special shapes. For example, this kind of gourd xun is shaped like a gourd, this kind of hand-shaped one is called holding xun, this kind of lady xun, according to ancient times The lady in the painting is made of a lady in the picture. In addition to the appearance, there is a conjoined xun that connects two xuns. This two same-sized xun is called Yuanyang xun, and the one big and the small is called son-mother. Xun..."

  It took a long time for Cao Zhongyun to introduce the pile of ocarina and xun on the cart. According to the procedure, the following should be a live performance. Just as Wang Yuan was about to ask Cao Zhongyun for a live demonstration, Xiao Siqi next to him suddenly interrupted, "Brother Yuan, can you let Bayi try the ocarina?"

   "August 1st will blow this?" Wang Yuan asked Xiao Siqi with a smile, "How many musical instruments did you teach him?"

"It's only three or four." Xiao Siqi replied, "but I don't know the ocarina. Bayi’s ocarina is self-taught. I didn’t know that he would do it the last time I filmed the show. Because there is no teacher, it’s pure self-study. So I don’t know what his level is. It happens that Mr. Cao is an expert in this area, so I want to take this opportunity to let Mr. Cao give some guidance."

   "It turns out that this is the case. Of course I can try it on August 1st. But when it comes to guidance..." Wang Yuan turned to Cao Zhongyun and said, "Mr. Cao, look at..."

  Cao Zhongyun came to participate in the recording of this episode, and naturally he would not be ignorant of the celebrity guests on the same stage. When I was learning about the celebrity guest information, I was already impressed by the father and son in the recent fire, especially Xiao Yao, who is called the evildoer. Originally, he was as suspicious as some people on the Internet, thinking that it was made by the program group. But just now in the background, I saw the language interaction between him and the host and the performance of the live ukulele. He had already admitted in his heart that this was a real evildoer. Now I heard that he can still play the ocarina, and he is still more self-taught without a teacher, so he is even more curious, so naturally he needs to see it.

   Seeing Cao Zhongyun nodded, Xiao Yao did not twitch, immediately stood up and walked over. Xiao Siqi watched his son play, and naturally followed him.

   Xiao Yao picked up a six-hole ocarina and said, "Uncle Cao, my hands are still too small. I can't control the twelve-hole ocarina. I only know six-hole."

   "It's okay, which one will you play is better." Cao Zhongyun smiled.

   Xiao Yao nodded, put the ocarina to his mouth and blew. Speaking of the formal ocarina music, Xiao Yao is most familiar with the song "The Original Scenery of Hometown". In front of the expert Cao Zhongyun, Xiao Yao is not easy to fool with other songs, so this is what he played this time.

  With the melodious voice, the scene gradually became quiet. This is a song that easily calms down the impetuous emotions and is immersed in it. The last time Xiao Yao played this tune was on the open grassland, where many inevitable noises were mixed, which could calm the cows. This time in the room with excellent acoustics, the audience was extremely quiet, and Andy held the microphone to the ocarina and amplified the sound of the ocarina. The emotional appeal was even more intense.

  After Xiao Yao finished playing the song, some audience members were infected with wet eyes.

  Wang Yuan is a particularly emotional person, and his eyes are also a little red at this time. In order to cover up his gaffe, he deliberately asked Cao Zhongyun: "Mr. Cao, what is the name of this piece, who are the authors and performers? I have to find out and collect it."

   Cao Zhongyun’s surprise turned into embarrassment, and he said embarrassedly: “This...I’m ignorant. It’s the first time I have listened to this song.”

   "No way? Such a nice piece hasn't been released yet, right? Where did you learn Bayi from?" Wang Yuan was surprised.

   "Cough." Xiao Siqi coughed from the side.

   "You wrote it?" Wang Yuan was even more surprised, "Aren't you a pop singer? You still write pure music? No, don't you say that you don't know how to do Ocarina? This is obviously a special Ocarina song."

"No, no," Xiao Siqi hurriedly said, "Of course it was not written by me, but by someone I know. You know the XY who collaborated with me on the two songs on my new album, he wrote it. That guy didn't want to. When he showed up, he often threw some things he wrote to me. This piece was mixed in a pile of music scores given to me by XY, and was accidentally discovered by Bayi. At that time, he taught himself the ocarina and saw this ocarina. Qu, just learn it."

   "This dad's lie is getting smoother and smoother." Xiao Yao glanced at Xiao Siqi and said in his heart. But there is no way, he was forced by himself.

Xiao Siqi continued: "After Bayi learned this tune, I played it twice in front of the camera. Except this time, it was in the program "Where is Dad?" and it hasn't been broadcast yet, so Mr. Cao It’s normal to have never heard of it."

   "Oh, we turned out to be the second batch of listeners, but what I want to know is who played this song for the first time on Bayi?" Liu Yang curiously asked.

   "Is this... a spoiler? Director Wu knows that, isn't it good?" Xiao Siqi glanced at the camera in embarrassment.

   "It's okay. When this episode of our program is broadcast, your two episodes on the grassland have already been broadcast. Now there is no spoiler at all. It really can't work. We can cut out the ones that are not broadcast in the later stage." Andy said.

   "Well, Bayi played this song for the first time, mainly for a group of cows." Xiao Siqi smiled.

   "This... you might as well not spoiler!" Andy said bitterly.

  (End of this chapter)