Piano

After hearing Lan Xue's voice, Feng Xi remained silent for a long time, and after a long time, she said in a half-hoarse voice: "This matter...is hard to explain in one word."

"Generally speaking, everything originated from the conflicts caused by differences in thinking among my grandpa, the old man, and the three generations of my grandparents."

"Xiao Fengfeng, if you know my grandfather, you should know that he is a kind-hearted but old-fashioned stubborn old man."

"Although the Lan family is not a well-known and famous family that has been famous since ancient times, it is also a qin family that has lasted for more than ten generations. He has received an old and strict traditional education that is similar to a private school since he was a child—"

"The process of playing the piano, the way of playing the piano, the rules of dealing with people...these are all ancient methods summed up by the previous dozen generations after hundreds of years, and they are engraved into the bones of grandpa like a brand, so he has always been an extreme person. guardians of the

"He can't accept any improvement that he can't approve." Lan Xuesheng's eyes were dark, "Including man-made synthetic lacquer, including modern stringers, including using machines instead of manual labor to rough out the groove belly."

"He has always supported the purest hand-made piano-from wood selection to body opening, then from body opening to digging the groove belly, plywood wrapping cloth and gray tires three times... What he pursues is the ultimate in handwork, the pursuit of The ultimate unity of man and piano.”

"Every guqin that comes out of his hands is his painstaking effort, one can't be finished, and he will never make the next one, because he has been in the industry for 60 years, and the guqin he made is less than four years old. Ten."

"Of the forty or so guqins he has made in his life, there are two of them that are the most perfect." Lan Xuesheng said, pointing out two fingers, "One is the one I'm using now." Listen to loose'."

"This is the first violin that my grandfather made for himself when he was just learning the art. He hadn't crowned this violin when he cut it, and he still had a youthful spirit all over him. Therefore, the skills displayed on this violin, Although not as proficient as the pianos he made in the future, the charm and meaning are unique."

"The other one is called 'Thousand Mountains Hidden Sound', the empty mountain style, and it is in the hands of the old man now, and it is a treasure that cannot be seen in his town."

"That's the last piano that my grandfather made before his death." Lan Xuesheng pursed her lips slightly, "I've studied the art for ten years, and I've joined the practice for more than sixty years. This is the masterpiece of my grandfather's piano making skills. , the shape is exquisite, and the sound is like an empty mountain when it is played, it is unforgettable—"

Hearing this, Feng Xi lowered her head and looked at her fingertips, and gently recited the Tang poem:

"There is no turbid atmosphere in a quiet environment, clear rain and zero green clouds.

"Thousands of mountains do not hide their sounds, even a single leaf moves.

"That is to say, those who are good and lofty, those who are subtle will be grouped together.

"If you want to know the chapters and sentences of Chu, you should have the orchids in your sleeves." (Tang Mengjiao "Gift to Li Ming's Mansion in Tonglu Mountain")
"This is Meng Jiao's poem." Feng Xi closed her eyes, "Xue Sheng, I think this piano was originally given to your father by your grandfather."

"Yes, this is indeed the piano he made for him." Lan Xuesheng frowned and let out a wry smile, "Xiao Fengfeng, I have been thinking about it since you told me that the old man hurt his wrist when he was young. It's over."

"I'll think about it... In fact, Grandpa may have known that Lao Lan would no longer be able to pick up that piano knife."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have made that 'Hidden Sound of Thousand Mountains' for him when he was almost 80 years old."

"...Only I don't know." Lan Xuesheng's expression was sluggish for a while, and then returned to normal in the blink of an eye, "In short, my grandpa is an out-and-out old-fashioned old man."

"As for my father, he is an old rebel who has been rebellious since he was a teenager and has been rebellious until now. He is the ultimate radical who is only one line away from the extreme."

"He and my mother are both college students, college students in the 80s." Speaking of Lan Chuzhang, Lan Xuesheng would still gnash her teeth uncontrollably, "A college student of that era, Xiao Fengfeng, you lived much longer than me, you should I can understand the gold content of this thing at the time.”

"—What they accepted was the most advanced technology and ideas at that time. They were bold, had many ideas, and dared to do anything."

"When he just graduated, the situation in the piano world was very bad. My grandfather felt that this job might not be suitable for supporting the family for a while, so he asked him to find a job to practice and experience, and then came back to take over after the industry recovered. It’s fine if you don’t come back, anyway, as long as you don’t lose the Lan family’s craft of making pianos.”

"In the end, the old man took my mother to start a business because of the 90s craze of 'going into business'." Lan Xuesheng curled her fingertips, and for some reason she suddenly felt itchy.

"In the beginning, he was just doing some normal, high-profile business. After he had accumulated enough basic funds, he turned around and created the 'Empty Valley Relic', and began to study the price of Guqin."

"Yes, the asking price is the asking price. To put it bluntly, it is the low-end market - but you know the production process of the guqin. The materials are expensive, the production cycle is long, the labor consumption is high, and the natural cost is there. At that time At the technical level, it simply cannot make a real offer.”

"But the old man's brain is obviously weaker than before after studying for a few years."

"If he insists on making an opening price line and taking the lead in seizing the low-end market—then he can only compress the production cycle, reduce material costs as much as possible, and save labor consumption."

"So he began to think about what kind of wood can replace the century-old paulownia and fir, which can be used for beginners to practice, and not just a qualified practice piano that is too expensive."

The corners of Lan Xuesheng's lips twitched: "After pondering the wood, he pondered the lacquer, and after pondering the lacquer, he began to ponder the strings. Later, he also found a way to replace the strings. He turned his attention to fully automatic and semi-automatic ones. Woodworking machines—”

"Of course, the details of the grooved belly of the guqin still have to be dealt with manually a little bit, but this does not prevent him from tossing an unknown number of qin embryos, and abruptly groping out different styles of qin. The best value for the part of the groove belly that is directly dug out."

"But this time, his actions are completely contrary to the education my grandfather received since childhood."

"So the two of them quarreled, completely, almost as if the world was falling apart." Lan Xuesheng raised her hand and wiped her face, "My grandpa scolded me for forgetting my ancestors, saying that he has done anything wrong, and the thing he made is not a piano. Called a pile of garbage that can't be put on the table."

"The old man said that my grandfather is a remnant of the previous dynasty and a remnant of feudalism. The people have stood up and become the masters of the country. He is still holding on to the old stuff of the last century and will not let go. .”

"Both of them feel that their own way of thinking is the most correct, and no one can convince the other. Sometimes they even want to ask my mother to come over to comment, but my mother doesn't know how to play the piano. One type of thing is that the seven orifices are connected to the six orifices, and one is not understood."

"So, most of the girls' beds in those days were various novels written by Zhang Ailing and 〇 Yao, and her physics masterpieces only had various Sinicizations and no Sinicizations."

"If she hadn't been abducted by my dad when she was in college, there is a high probability that she would have continued her studies and turned her head into a research institute to become a scientific researcher."

"So she can't judge whether these two people are right or wrong, she can only be a biscuit sandwich that automatically says 'Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes'. Occasionally, she is so forced that she can't stand it anymore, so she just takes out this professional book and turns a random page to start. Read it until the two of them get a headache and then stop."

"This kind of life continued until my mother was pregnant with me."

I'm so sleepy, I'm going to punch the earth