Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 943 203. Front Desk Xiao Li, Take Orders Online

In the following half hour, Mu Xin showed his talkative side.

From abroad to China, from exams to academic environment, it’s nothing new to hear about Li Ang, it’s just the same thing.

The academic environment abroad is relatively much better, but foreign teachers are also human beings.

Ang Lee recalled a joke told by Qin Yong, saying that a class with the professor originally cost 35 euros, which was definitely much cheaper than the price in China.

As a result, one of the students wanted to please the professor and told him that it would be reasonable to charge 70 euros per class. The professor was stunned when he heard this.

The student said, "Professor, don't worry about it. I will help you with this."

Is this something that needs to be done? After class, tell your classmates that the professor has increased the class fee to 70 Euros.

Is 70 euros too much?
Qin Yong's classmates who were unaware of the situation thought that it was not much at all. According to the exchange rate at that time, it was still much cheaper than studying in China.

So the professor doubled the tuition for teaching Chinese students without thinking.

The professor was confused, but not only did he not raise the tuition fee for the student who helped him, he also helped the student get admitted to the school.

"Too classic." Old Tang sighed.

Mu Xin: "Not so good. The tuition fees in Hamburg have been raised to 200 Euros by our own people."

Li An: "But then again, considering the current prices in our country, is 200 euros expensive?"

Lao Tang: "Well, it can be said that a rising tide lifts all boats."

Mu Xin: "Who is the water and who is the boat?"

Li Anle: "Alright, alright, this doesn't make sense, you two should practice quickly."

Lao Tang: “What about you?”

Li An: "Practice the piano. There are so many piano rooms. One hour of practice in one room is enough for me."

Lao Tang: "Enough to wait until Chen Xuan finishes her exams."

Li An: "If you insist on saying that, I can accept it. Let's go."

Mu Xin: “Hahaha!”

After Li An left, Mu Xin whispered, "It seems that An Ge and his girlfriend have a very good relationship."

Lao Tang: "Oh, it's really enviable."

Mu Xin: "I noticed that you like to sigh so much."

Lao Tang: "Is there anything wrong with sighing?"

Mu Xin: "Of course there is a problem. Frequent sighing indicates that one is in a bad mood, which is unhealthy."

Lao Tang: “Huh?”

Mu Xin: "Not only that, over time the body will tacitly accept the existence of this negative mentality, which can lead to the risk of depression."

Lao Tang: "No way, how could I be depressed?"

Mu Xin: “Who would think they would be depressed before they become depressed?”

Lao Tang: “Yes.”

Mu Xin: "So in the future, you should sigh less and smile more."

Lao Tang: "Won't laughing all the time give you wrinkles?"

Mu Xin: "You are just arguing."

Lao Tang Le: "Okay, okay, smile more, come on, let's try to finish 80% before lunch."

Mu Xin: “Yeah!”

Sitting back in front of the piano, Lao Tang was indeed in a happier mood than before. This colleague was so easy to get along with. If he had had a colleague like Mu Xin before, perhaps he would have been able to get through it.

"Prepare."

"when!"
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The two continued to explore K521. Ang Lee found Bach's three-part Invention at the front desk downstairs and started playing them directly in the piano exhibition area.

Now that it is open for business as usual, the downstairs is no longer always empty like before.

The piece that Ang Lee is playing at the moment is Bach's Three-Part Inventions in B-flat major, which is also Xiaoche's own piece of music.

On the one hand, Xiaoche can't wait to practice, and on the other hand, it's time for the children to practice.

Different from the teaching of elementary Bach works, the Three Inventions are already intermediate and advanced level polyphonic works of Bach.

According to the usual order, the car should start with the two-part invention, practicing 1, 4, 8, and 13 first, and then pick a few complex ones, and then transition to the three-part invention.

三部创意曲的难度要比二部创意难得多，也得从1、2、6、7这几条曲目开始，给小车安排的这首14在三部创意曲里绝对算的是难度排名靠前的。

It’s not a technical difficulty. Ang Lee believes that there is no problem with the technology of the car.

But whether or not one can play this piece smoothly, apart from other things, the smoothness alone is not enough for just technique.

You must first find a point that can get to the core to guide the car into this work.

It would be reasonable enough for Xiaoche to practice this piece from the inside out, given Xiaoche's current situation.

Two hours passed in a flash, during which time Ang Lee sometimes played, sometimes thought, and sometimes wrote and drew on the score.

He was so focused that he didn't even notice that Lao Tang came down half an hour ago.

“That should be about right.”

Finally, he marked a small crescendo on the score, then Ang Lee capped his pen, stood up and stretched.

Just then, three faint knocks on the door were heard.

When Li An looked over, he saw an old man outside the door, leaning against the glass door and looking inside.

He hurried over and opened the door, "Hello, sir, the door is open."

The old man responded with an "oh" and glanced left and right inside, as if the scenery and decorations inside the door were more attractive than the man in front of him.

"Sir, please come in." Li An didn't know what this old man was here for, but his clothes and behavior made him look like a cultured person.

"Oh oh." The old man waved his hand. "I'm not going in. I'm just taking a look. For several days in a row, there's no one here every morning. I was wondering why there's no one here."

"As long as the store is open, there must be people in it," Li An saw this and pulled the old man inside without saying anything, "Please come in and sit down, come in and sit down."

The old man walked into the store, looked around, and nodded unconsciously, as if he was very satisfied with the decoration here.

"This was a printing shop before," said the old man.

Li An: "Yes, the printing shop is closed. We have just finished the renovation and haven't officially opened yet."

"I know, I live across the street, and I pass by here every day when I buy groceries," the old man said with a grin, and continued cheerfully, "I thought there was going to be a restaurant here, but when I came here on New Year's Day, I found a sign for a piano studio."

Li An followed with a smile: "Yes, the piano classroom. We teach piano here. Please sit anywhere. I'll make you some tea."

The old man hurriedly stopped him and said, "No trouble, I'm not thirsty, I just want to take a look. I used to play the harmonica, so I like these things. But look around here, there are galleries, art classes, and people doing pottery and flower arrangement, but no one doing music. That's good, very good."

Li An: "Wow, you are amazing. I don't know much about harmonica, but I know it's very difficult to play."

Uncle: "Well, it's very simple. Are you from here?"

Li An: "My name is Li An, and I am on duty on the first floor today."

The old man understood: "Front desk."

Li An: "Yes, you can just call me Xiao Li. If you have nothing else to do, don't leave in a hurry. I'll make a pot of tea and we can sit down and talk."

Uncle: "Hey Xiao Li, Xiao Li, it's really no trouble, can I take a look at these pianos?"

Li An: "That's great. You can come over and play whenever you have time. You can try any piano you want." The old man followed Li An to a black piano and said, "I don't know much about piano, but this is the note of do in the key of C."

The old man pointed to the white keys behind the two black keys in the middle range.

"Great," Li An immediately gave a thumbs up.

The old man showed a happy expression: "There is a small band in our community. When I observed them playing the electronic keyboard, I found that the key of C do is behind these two black keys."

Li An: “Please try.”

"Try it." The old man carefully stretched out his finger and pressed it, followed by a crisp "ding" sound.

"This is a good sound, really nice," the old man asked again, "How much is this piano?"

Li An: "This guitar should be around 12,000 yuan. I think it was. Anyway, it's about this price. The tone and touch are both good."

The old man laughed and said, "You can't even remember the price. Be careful or your boss will punish you."

Li An laughed and said, "Uncle, you have to keep it a secret for me in the future. To be honest, today is also my first day at work."

The old man looked like he knew it: "You are inexperienced as soon as you get in the door."

Li An: "You are right. I will pay attention to it next time."

"No, no, no, I was just kidding you, the young man is pretty good," the old man said and looked around again, ""Your boss has a good eye, the place is well chosen, and the decoration is also good. The business will be good in the future. There are many schools nearby."

Li An: "Are you a grandson or a granddaughter?"

Grandpa: "My grandson is in fourth grade, and my granddaughter is two years old."

Li An: "Then you will enjoy your life."

Grandpa: "What a blessing! I finally raised a child, and it was like a relay. I told my son to ask his grandparents to take care of her. We won't let you take care of her. But there's nothing I can do. My little granddaughter is willing to follow me."

Li An: "Hahahahahaha, otherwise how can you say you are enjoying happiness? This kind of blessing is not something that ordinary people can cultivate."

The old man laughed and sighed. He liked talking to the young man in front of him. "Is there someone playing the piano up there?"

Li An: "Yes, the above is our two professional teachers rehearsing the music for the concert."

Uncle: “You play very well.”

Li An: "Would you like to go up and listen?"

Uncle: "Is it convenient? Don't disturb the teacher's rehearsal."

Li An: "It doesn't matter. Please come this way."

The two people upstairs were just wondering who was coming downstairs, and then they saw Li An coming up with an old man.

Li An rushed in front of the two and said, "Teacher Tang and Teacher Mu, just play your own songs. This is, hey, uncle, what's your name?"

The old man thought he had interrupted the two teachers' performance and said, "I'm sorry, teachers. My last name is Gao, Gao Wenchang."

Li An took over the conversation: "Grandpa Gao lives across the street and passes by our place every day. He said that every time he comes to the first floor, there is no one there."

Lao Tang: "Hey, blame me, blame me."

Grandpa Gao waved his hand and said, "Teacher, please take a seat. I am just curious, so Xiao Li brought me up to have a look. You guys rehearse your own stuff, don't worry about me."

Xiao Li?

Old Tang and Mu Xin looked at each other. Wouldn't they be Little Tang and Little Mu?

K521 rose again, and Li An took Grandpa Gao to the second floor.

"It's so big." Grandpa Gao never thought that the second floor would be so big that it could accommodate a stage.

Moreover, the stage looked very professional and was completely incomparable to the stage in their community cultural center.

"That's great," Grandpa Gao walked past a row of glass piano rooms, looked through the glass at the neatly arranged pianos and piano benches, sighed, and whispered, "I've always wanted my grandson to learn piano, but he won't learn no matter what I say. He just likes playing table tennis."

Li An: "Each has its own advantages. As long as it can motivate children and make them put down their mobile phones and tablets and walk out of their bedrooms on weekends after school, that's enough."

This really touched Mr. Gao's heart, "Hey, Xiao Li, do you have a child?"

Li An: "You see, I look like I have a child."

Grandpa Gao looked at it carefully again and said, "It looks like it, but it doesn't look like it either."

Li An smiled: "I'm not married yet."

Uncle Gao: “Is it almost time?”

Li An: "It's almost time. Come sit over here and let's sit down and listen."

Grandpa Gao: "Is it okay if there is no one downstairs?"

Li An: "Sure, I have surveillance cameras everywhere. Please sit down."

Li An went downstairs and brought up two cups of tea. "This is our parent lounge upstairs. These large screens are not turned on now. When they are turned on, they will be real-time monitoring of each classroom, so that parents can keep up with our classroom dynamics at any time."

Uncle Gao: "It's not cheap to take classes here."

Li An: "A single class lasts 321 hours, 60 minutes."

Grandpa Gao nodded: "It's not cheap."

Li An smiled and said, "How do we define cheap and expensive? I'll analyze it and you can tell me if it makes sense."

"I think most training schools set their course prices based on a set of standards. No one can set prices arbitrarily, don't you think?"

Uncle Gao: “Yes.”

Li An: "Of course, there is one situation that is not included in this category. Let me ask you, if your grandson is taking one-on-one math tutoring, would you still think 320 yuan per hour is expensive?"

Uncle Gao: “That’s what happened.”

Li An laughed: "Comparatively speaking, studying music really doesn't have any advantages in further studies. Parents know this, and we know it even better. In addition, the market competition is so fierce now. Who dares to set random prices?"

Uncle Gao: “That makes sense.”

Li An: "As I just told you, every institution has a set of pricing references. From the teachers to the teaching equipment, from the children's course planning to the after-school services, we have fully considered every link for children to learn piano. It can be clearly said that from the moment a child walks into Piano Classroom No. 4, there is not only a piano teacher behind him, but also our entire Dream Sailing Team of Piano Classroom No. 4."

“I believe that every child who walks into Piano Classroom No. 4 is curious about piano and music, and what we need to do is to do our best to protect and help every child and realize their aspirations.”

Grandpa Gao suddenly felt an impulse in his heart. If his granddaughter wasn't too young, he really wanted to bring her here tomorrow.

Li An smiled and said, "Do you think three hundred and twenty yuan is really expensive for a class like this?"

Uncle Gao sighed.

Li An looked at Lao Tang and the other two and introduced them, "What do you think of their playing?"

Grandpa Gao praised: "You play well, really well, I have never seen anyone play so well in real life, and I am not just being polite."

Li An: "First of all, thank you for your affirmation, but I still have to tell you."

"The male teacher's name is Tang Shaochong. He graduated from the piano department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a master's degree, majoring in performance. The female teacher has a double degree in education and performance, and she just came back from Vienna less than two years ago."

"You said they play well, of course, they are not very old, but before that, it can be said that they spent all their time and energy on piano learning, which led to the movement you heard today. So I also hope that every child who leaves Piano Classroom No. 4 in the future can surpass our teacher."

Grandpa Gao was convinced. He was not convinced because he learned about the academic qualifications of the two teachers. He was convinced because the two teachers played the piano well. What was also convincing was that, looking at the unit price of the lessons now, he could not think that it was expensive.

“The two teachers are young and promising.”

Grandpa Gao paused, "Hey Xiao Li, I want to ask, do we have any courses for middle-aged and elderly people?"

Mu Xin: ~
Lao Tang standing by almost played the wrong note.

Lao Tang was also really impressed.

It's such a pity that Ang Lee is involved in music.