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The hotel room Fang still booked for Cross was also a suite. After the three went upstairs and entered the room, they sat down together on the sofa in the living room. Bayi Chinese?? Chinese Network W≤W≠W≥. ≈81ZW. COM

"Our company's Huaxia agent has already prepared a production room for me locally, and the raw materials and production tools are ready." Cross introduced the topic directly as soon as he sat down, "As long as we agree on what to produce tonight I can start making that kind of guitar tomorrow. There is no limit to the types of guitars you can make, including acoustic guitars, electric guitars, even four-string basses and ukuleles or five-string banjos. I can also make something similar to a guitar, you have the final say."

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

"No problem," Cross nodded. "Electric guitar or acoustic guitar? Are there any requirements on appearance and materials? You can ask for color, shape, size, material, etc., or I can design it for you."

"The appearance can also be as required?" Xiao Yao said.

"Of course, otherwise, how can you call it a tailor-made exclusive guitar." Cross laughed, "And I will only make one such guitar, and I will not help other people make the same guitar."

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

Not long after, Xiao Yao handed a drawing of the appearance of the guitar to Cross and said, "Mr. Cross, can such a piano be made?"

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

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

"I remembered," Cross said with a smile, "Like those in the Forbidden City in Yanjing? I heard from the tour guide that the dragon was the symbol of the Chinese emperor in ancient times. It seems that you are very angry." When visiting the Forbidden City in Yanjing, there are many reliefs of this animal on the walls and pillars.

"Uh... the dragon is not just a symbol of the emperor, it is the totem of our Chinese nation. We Chinese people call ourselves the descendants of the dragon." Xiao Yao sweated.

"I see." Cross nodded.

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

"It's not easy, but this violin 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 the production cycle will not be short, I estimate it will take about a month anyway, and I can't make this shape by myself, I still need help."

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Xiao Yao asked proactively.

"No, our company has professionals in this area." Cross shook his head and said, "I'll let the company send someone from the United States to help me. The only thing you need to do is wait for this violin to be made, take it and take a picture of it. A photo, let's put 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'm also very interested in how to make guitars."

"Of course." Cross nodded with a smile, "This piano will spend a lot of time on the production of 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.

"The idea of ​​this violin is very good. It provides me with a new way of thinking about making guitars in the future." Cross praised, "I heard that you wrote "Sugar" in "Daydream", and the raid in the mV The idea of ​​the real wedding scene also comes 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 a guitar. So, you are welcome."

After agreeing on the guitar to be made, Xiao Yao and Cross chatted 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 musical instrument maker, Cross is naturally proficient in music, so the two chatted very speculatively. In the end, when Xiao Yao took Fang Yiran to leave, he changed his name and called him "Nick" at the request of Cross.

Although it was already night in Huaxia, due to the time difference, it happened to be daytime work time in the United States. After Xiao Yao and Fang Yiran left, Cross also immediately contacted the company headquarters in the United States and asked to send another special staff to help. Even though Cross told the person in charge of the company that the production cost of Xiao Yao's guitar is expected to reach about 100,000 US dollars, when the people at the company headquarters saw the exterior drawing of the guitar painted by Xiao Yao passed by Cross, He 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 was studying in Shenxi, Xiao Yao's personal team also moved from Yanjing to Shencheng. Xiao Yao's personal team now only has two people, one is manager and assistant Fang Yiran, 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 Opera and lived together.

Xiao Yao went to the United States alone during the summer vacation, saying he was visiting a friend, but when he came back, he made a whole video that caused an uproar in the United States, causing an airline company to apologize publicly, and then exposed it to an American rock band Writing songs and helping them come up with ideas to make an MV, became popular again in the United States. Xiao Yao's team naturally paid attention to these things. Looking at these news, Pei Minyi felt that Xiao Yao had a proper international style. As Xiao Yao's makeup artist and assistant, she will definitely have the opportunity to travel abroad with Xiao Yao in the future. While excited, she also began to worry about her English.

Fang is still in charge of the brokerage, and it is not within her scope of work. Taking advantage of Xiao Yao's military training, there is nothing that needs her, so after she came to Shencheng and settled down, she immediately found an English training class to supplement her English skills. went.

Guitar making is not a performance, and the make-up artist Pei Minyi is not needed, and the assistant Fang is still with her, and she can't use it for the time being, so Xiao Yao and Fang still don't bother her English study at all, and they are 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 production room that the agent had prepared for him. After selecting the materials for the strings, fingerboard and other parts of the Longqin, Xiao Yao, who was fine, followed Cross to learn how to make guitars.

A day later, Cross's helper also arrived in Shencheng. The newly arrived instrument maker is named Ake Robinson. He is in his thirties and is almost ten years younger than Cross, but his identity is Cross's helper, not his assistant.

Strictly speaking, Ake Robinson can be regarded as a musical instrument producer, but not a guitar producer, 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 Nicholas Cross, a luthier who is good at hand-made, 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 designed by Xiao Yao, and the exterior drawing was also drawn by Xiao Yao. As an American, Ake Robinson doesn't know much about China's dragons, so Ake Robinson can only discuss some details with Xiao Yao, the designer of China. Xiao Yao took this opportunity to introduce to Ake Robinson what Chinese dragons look like.

"Dragon is a legendary animal, it does not exist 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 Ake, Robinson found a bunch of various In addition to the close-up picture of Huaxia's dragon as a reference, Xiao Yao also pointed to each part of the picture and explained it to him in detail, so that he had an intuitive impression of each component of the dragon. "The Chinese dragon has a camel's head, deer antlers, rabbit eyes, cow ears, snake neck, oyster belly, carp scales, eagle claws, and eagle claws. Yuhu. This is the dragon of China!" There are many descriptions of dragons in ancient China, and they can be summed up as "their shapes are similar." Xiao Yao also tried to explain in a language that Ake Robinson could understand.

"You mean that the Chinese dragon is a composite of nine different animals?" Ake Robinson seemed to understand.

"You can say that." Xiao Yao nodded.

"You Chinese ancients really have ideas," Ake Robinson looked at the design drawing of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao, and then at the pictures of a bunch of dragons that Xiao Yao helped him find, and felt that he had grasped it. The details of the various parts of the dragon immediately made sense in my heart, "Okay, I think I know what to do."

After Ake Robinson started working, Xiao Yao's learning objects changed from one person to two. While learning the production of materials and shapes with Ake Robinson, he learned how to make ordinary-looking guitars with Cross.

During the entire National Day holiday, Xiao Yao did almost nothing, and spent all of it in that guitar production room. Even after the holidays ended and the school started, Xiao Yao often went here during the break time to learn from the two master musical instrument makers. Xiao Yao's learning ability is very strong, and he knows enough about guitars, so soon after, Xiao Yao learned how to make guitars from Nicolas Cross. As for Ake Robinson, after seeing how he made the dragon on the piano body, Xiao Yao directly completed the production of the smaller dragon head on the head of the piano under the guidance of Ake Robinson.

Many materials are readily available in the guitar workshop. In the process of learning guitar making, Xiao Yao had to practice with sufficient raw materials in the studio, and tried to make some guitars by himself. At the beginning, Xiao Yao and Nicholas Cross made a few regular-shaped acoustic guitars.

The guitar that Xiao Yao made himself must be taken away. The raw materials in this guitar making room are indeed sufficient, but it is not my own place after all. Even if the two producers taught him to make it for free, the raw materials consumed to make the guitar were bought back by their Huaxia agent. Logically speaking, except that the dragon piano was promised to be made for him for free, Xiao Yao should still pay for the raw materials consumed in the process of learning guitar making.

After learning a lot of methods from Ake to use special materials to make the unique shape of the piano body, on the one hand, for fun, and on the other hand, to save money, Xiao Yao began to use various discarded materials and The tools are used as raw materials for guitar making, and as a result, several "non-mainstream" guitars that look strange and weird have been made, which amazed the two masters who have been shocked by the "Dragon Qin" designed by Xiao Yao once again. Think of Xiao Yao's "whimsical".