Entertaining Children

As soon as the lights on the stage dimmed, the audience knew that Xiao Yao's performance was about to start, and the scene quickly quieted down. They wanted to see and hear how Xiao Yao's new instrument played and what it was What will the music sound like. Bayi Chinese? Chinese Network ? W≈W≤W. 81 ZW. COM

The director team at the scene also seemed to understand the audience's thoughts very well, so a crane arm with a camera on the scene also slowly extended to Xiao Yao's side, and pointed the camera at the musical instrument on Xiao Yao's leg and Xiao Yao's hand. Lightly put his hands on top. At the same time, a close-up shot of the camera was also cut out on the big screen at the scene, so that everyone can see clearly.

And before Xiao Yao started playing, the close-up shots on the big screen also let everyone see the specific appearance of this instrument...at least the appearance of the upper part. The disc shape has an upward arc, and at first glance it really looks like a metal pot lid. There is an outwardly protruding dot at the very center, and seven smaller dots that are sunken inward are evenly distributed on a circle of the outer slope.

"Ding~" Xiao Yao moved his right hand and patted the instrument lightly, and a voice sounded at the scene. At first glance, it sounds like a harp or a bell, but when you think about it carefully, it sounds like 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, so the sound is not only ethereal, but also soft and warm. Just the first sound alone, the audience at the scene were all attracted.

"Ding, dong, ding ding ~ ding, ding ~ ding dong ding dong..." As Xiao Yao kept hitting different positions on the instrument with his hands, the sounds of different tones rang out one by one, and when Xiao Yao's hands After the percussion brought the rhythm, the audience really heard the melody of the music from the sound of this instrument.

As the rhythm of the melody accelerated, Xiao Yao's percussion movements also became more brisk. Audiences with a little sharper eyes can find that although Xiao Yao is always using his hands to knock, the parts he uses when touching the musical instrument with his hands are different. Sometimes he uses the palm of his hand, sometimes he uses his fingers, and some Most of the time, they just pass by the edge of the palm. It seems that Xiao Yao's hands are fluttering and dancing on the musical instrument, and his movements look smooth and unrestrained. Coupled with his freehand expression, the whole person also reveals an indescribable elegance.

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

The piece played by Xiao Yao is called "Misty Rain Qingdai", which naturally comes from the previous life. The piece played by Sun Honglei at the end of the TV series "Mr. Good" in the previous life comes from this piece. Of course, the section played by Sun Honglei in the TV series is only a part of the whole piece, only a minute or so, which is definitely not enough for the duration of the stage performance, so Xiao Yao played the complete version which is close to four minutes.

However, although the four-minute full version played by Xiao Yao is already equivalent to the duration of an ordinary song,

But for the audience who heard this instrument playing for the first time, four minutes is not enough. When Xiao Yao's performance ended, the lights on the stage came on, and Xiao Yao also stood up holding the hand disc. The audience who listened to Xiao Yao's performance quietly throughout the whole process immediately burst into intense applause and cheers. Among the applause and cheers, there were also many audiences' chaotic shouts of "one more", "one more", and "encore".

This is a New Year's Eve party, not a concert. All the programs have been arranged and rehearsed in advance. It is definitely impossible to add performances because of the audience's request, so Xiao Yao is also very dissatisfied with these shouts from the audience. Impressed. Xiao Yao, who stood up, just bowed politely to express his gratitude to the audience, then took his hand plate and left the stage amidst the applause and shouts of the audience. At this New Year's Eve party, he really didn't speak from the beginning to the end.

Xiao Yao, who does not have a singing program, can deliberately keep silent on stage, but after getting off the stage and returning to the dressing room in the lounge backstage, Xiao Yao is unnecessary and unlikely to be dumb all the time.

Because it was the first appearance of a new musical instrument, in order to keep it secret, Xiao Yao did not participate in the public rehearsal before the New Year's Eve party. He only performed it once for the program group when reviewing the program. Since it was a solo show, and Xiao Yao's whole performance was just a white spotlight hitting him, and 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, has seen Xiao Yao's new musical instrument, the other star artists who participated in the New Year's Eve party have never seen this new musical instrument.

Xiao Yao's new instrument performance on the stage not only amazed the audience off the stage, but even many other celebrity artists who watched the live broadcast in the backstage lounge of the performance were extremely curious and surprised. Therefore, when Xiao Yao returned to the backstage lounge to take off his make-up after the performance, there were also other celebrity artists who were very interested in Xiao Yao's new instrument knocked on the door of Xiao Yao's lounge, wanting to "see" Xiao Yao's new instrument or Try playing it yourself.

In Xiao Yao's two shows, one performed with a mask on, and the other wore a hat even though the mask was pulled off, and there were not many faces exposed in front of the live camera lens. Despite this, Pei Minyi, who was working as Xiao Yao's personal makeup artist for the first time, carefully designed Xiao Yao's performance makeup, and when Xiao Yao returned to the backstage lounge after the performance, Pei Minyi, who was enthusiastic about work, was also the first time He pressed Xiao Yao in front of the dressing table, and immediately began to remove his makeup.

Here, Pei Minyi had just started to do something when there was a knock on the door of Xiao Yao's lounge.

Because Pei Minyi was removing Xiao Yao's makeup, Fang Yiran, who was sitting on the sofa in the lounge doing nothing, got up and went to open the door. Fang is still acting as a manager and assistant, and this New Year's Eve party also came with Xiao Yao. This is the first time that Xiao Yao has brought two people to participate in the show together, and it finally looks like he has a "team".

"Xu Yuan? Come in." After Fang still opened the door of the lounge, he found Xu Yuan who had finished the performance standing outside the door. Although Fang still didn't go to the scene during "The Masked Singer", Fang still stayed together for a long time when Xiao Yao helped them design mask costumes, rehearse songs and later record the official version. They were already familiar with each other, so they generously let Xu Yuan in, "Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing special, just curious about Xiao Yao's musical instrument just now, so I came here to take a look." Xu Yuan said with a smile. Xu Yuan also played in a band before. Although she was the lead singer in the band and seldom played musical instruments in performances, she herself knew how to play musical instruments. When she saw Xiao Yaoming play a new musical instrument, she couldn't help but ran over immediately .

"Things are on the sand, you can play with them as you like. 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 plate on the sofa, Xu Yuan unceremoniously sat down on the sofa in the lounge, imitating what Xiao Yao did just now, and placed the hand plate on her lap On it, reached out and patted it lightly.

As expected, Xu Yuan knows how to play musical instruments. After trying for a while, she quickly found several notes represented by different parts on the musical instrument, and played a tune she knew at will, but it was her first time playing. He is far less proficient than Xiao Yao in technique, and the music he plays does not sound very smooth.

"Would you like to guide you in the technique?" Xiao Yao sat down on the sofa next to Xu Yuan after taking off his makeup, and said, looking at Xu Yuan who was having a great time.

"Okay," Xu Yuan nodded subconsciously first, then raised his head and asked a question he was more concerned about, "Is this instrument really your idea?"

"That's right," Xiao Yao nodded, "Just now Li Hai introduced it on stage, is it still fake?"

"How did you come up with it?" Xu Yuan continued to ask.

"I just had a flash of inspiration, so I came up with that," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Why don't you ask me how I wrote the song?"

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

"Well, I actually came up with the idea of ​​beating gasoline drums." Xiao Yao said, "I once saw someone on the street using a waste gasoline drum as a drum. Same, I have such an inspiration.”

"By the way, what is the hole at the bottom for?" Xu Yuan turned the plate over and pointed to a hole in the center of the bottom.

"This is called "gu", and its structure is designed based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator, which 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 phenomena for acoustic measurements. Helmholtz was a German scientist in the nineteenth century. He was the first to use this resonator to measure the frequency components of sound. Analytical, so I named this resonator with his surname." Xiao Yao asked with a smile, "Need me to introduce you to the working principle of this resonator?"

"Stop!" Xu Yuan hurriedly put one hand on his forehead and stretched forward with the other, stopping Xiao Yao from saying, "I know you are a top student, but I get a headache when I hear the word science."

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

"There are only two pieces, and they are both mine." Xiao Yao nodded and said, "Although I know the principle, I don't have the skills to actually make it. This is when I met an American musical instrument maker and material modeler by chance." He made it for me after visiting an expert. Now he has returned to the United States. Before leaving, he made a total of two pieces and left them for me.”

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

"You like it so much?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I really like it." Xu Yuan said, "But I know someone would like it more. My teacher's birthday is coming soon. I want to give him this new musical instrument as a birthday present. He will be very happy."

"Teacher Chen Huan?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Yeah, I don't have any other teacher now." Xu Yuan nodded and said, "How about it? You keep one to play with yourself, and sell the other one to me. Feel free to tell me how much it is, since you also ask others to help you with this instrument. You made it, not to mention anything else, there must be costs for materials and labor, as much as it should be, I have absolutely nothing to say."

"The price is not a problem." Xiao Yao smiled wryly, "It's just that I keep one of these two hand discs for myself, and the other has already been given to my dad. You know, my dad is also a fan of musical instruments."

"Give it to my dad, of course I can't take it back. I know that the American instrument maker who helped me make this instrument has other things to do recently, and I'm afraid he won't be able to start work in the short term and help me make it again. I take this?" Xiao Yao said.

"Ah~" Xu Yuan sighed in disappointment, then waved his hands and said, "Forget it, a gentleman doesn't take what others like. Teacher's gift, I'll think of another way."

"Well, half a year at most, after half a year, I'll give you one." Xiao Yao said to the disappointed Xu Yuan. In half a year, the company partnered with Ake Robinson should start to operate normally. At worst, just place an order for Ake by yourself.

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

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

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

"Is this what you're talking about?" Shazhou smiled and pointed to Xu Yuan's hand plate, "I'm also very interested, help me get one for fun."

"Yes." Xiao Yao smiled, and continued, "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 when the time comes. The price of this thing is about three thousand dollars, for the sake of our friendship, I don't need to charge your deposit."

"So expensive?" Both Sha Zhou and Xu Yuan were a little surprised.

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

"But why did Xu Yuan give it away, and you start charging when you get to my place?" Shazhou smiled angrily and pointed at Xiao Yao, "Your difference is too obvious."

"Who told you that you are not a beauty?" Fang Yiran suddenly interjected with a smile.

"Focus on sex and despise friends!" Shazhou stared at Xiao Yao and said.

"You just know?" Fang still said with a smile, "Our Xiao Yao has always been like this."

"Hey, you are my manager." Xiao Yao's dissatisfied counterpart still said, "Is there anyone who ruins your artist's image like this?"

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

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