Moment.

"It's a congratulatory thing. ”

Closing the mail, Qin Jian sighed and looked out the window.

It can be seen that he is in a good mood at the moment, and he is not sleepy at all when he just woke up, just like the bright sunshine outside the window.

"This is also a ticket to the preliminary round. ”

Stretching, Qin Jian picked up the phone again.

At this time, the group belonging to the six small branches of Huayun had already exploded.

Several people in various countries seem to have adjusted the jet lag to a time zone this morning.

The information jumped and jumped.

Feng Ziyan: Qi Feng, you wait for Lao Tzu

Qi Feng: Come on, fat brother, I need you now

Two people, you and I are talking about it.

Occasionally, Fang Zongyao and Zhao Yinuo can be seen discussing the content of Chopin's preliminary round.

Qin Jian probably flipped it up, and three hours ago, Duan Ran said in the group: Congratulations to everyone.

Then I flipped up, and sure enough, several people received the email.

Qin Jian is still a little pleased about this, and the email is very clear that only 160 players in the world who submit DV videos can receive this email.

In this way, the six of them can reunite in the arena.

It's just that this time the arena has changed from Yanjing to Warsaw, and the opponents are no longer limited to China, but the top pianists around the world.

Qin Jian sighed, not knowing how many hidden demons and monsters would be blown up this time.

After all, every Chopin competition is like this, there are always one or two unknown people who come out of nowhere.

Qin Jian didn't speak in the group, and cut out to send a message back to Duan Ran first.

Let it go: Congratulations to Miss Duan for good morning

Then I sent a screenshot of my email to the other party.

Duan Ran really didn't sleep.

quickly replied: Mr. Tongxi Qin was sleepy

In order to wait for Qin Jian to get up, Duan Ran hadn't stayed up all night for a long, long time, and when she received the email, Qin Jian was sleeping.

Duan Duan Duan Duan: So what number of tickets are you going to book?

Qin Jian thought about it, the registration date for the preliminary round on the email was March 9th, he should be in Yanjing at that time, and after thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing to do before and after, Figaro's Yanjing performance season is in April.

Let it go: March 2nd, go early and adjust to the jet lag in advance, you say

Duan Duan Duan Duan: Well, I'll book a ticket now

Qin Jian looked at the information, something unconsciously appeared in his mind, and his body and mind moved.

Let it go: OK

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Let it go: what

Duan Duan Duan Duan: I'm fat

Let it go: No, I have lost 4 pounds this month, have you not practiced well

Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph: ... You, I haven't practiced the piano one day, you say!

Duan Duan Duan Duan: You say!!

Let it go: uh

Qin Jian just said so casually just now, Duan Ran would take pictures of him before and after practicing every day and tell him things like 'I'm starting' and 'I'm finishing', so he knew very well that Duan Ran's daily practice time was no worse than his.

Let it go: Is it because you've been too tired lately and you've eaten too much?

Duan Duan Duan Duan: I don't know anyway, the electronic scale says I'm fat

Let it go: it's nothing to be fat anyway, you're tall

Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph: ... Get out of your bed, I'm sleeping!!

Let it go: Wait, didn't you just want to book a ticket?

Paragraph paragraph: the !! is booked

Let it go: you haven't told me what time you'll be there

Moment.

Duan Duan Duan sent a smiling expression: Guess what~

After the rippling small waves, there was no movement on Duan Ran's side.

Qin Jian's follow-up information was also like a stone in the sea.

"How do you guess that?"

Qin Jian muttered and opened the booking software, and was flipping through the ticket information, when he had an idea, he searched for the flight from Paris to Warsaw on March 2.

The results came out at once.

Looking at the search results, Qin Jian was happy.

Under the search bar, there is only one flight number.

"Hehe~"

Stuck at the arrival time of about the same time as the other party, Qin Jian also booked his own ticket.

Then in the group of Huayun Six Small Branches, he was in a group with a few people for a while, and he got up.

It's a new day.

It still starts with practice.

Today, Qin Jian received a lot of phone calls.

At noon, I received a call from He Jing, and in addition to congratulations, there was naturally some advice on the phone.

In the afternoon, when he and Fang Xiaoyu were rehearsing the show, they received a congratulatory call from Shen Qingci and Liao Linjun, and the two were on their way to Norway for a vacation, and Old Bert was there. U9 eBook

On the way home in the afternoon, he received a congratulatory call from Xia Shu, in which Qin Jian also congratulated the other party on passing the audition.

In the evening, when he was busy with translation work, Qin Jian received a congratulatory email from Vaughn again.

Judging from the content of the DG boss's email, in addition to simple congratulations, Qin Jian also saw a trace of other "things:.

For example, at the end of the email, "Mr. Baudelaire of Steinway & Sons would like to know what you think of Rainer's mahogany hammers." ”

Mr. Baudelaire was no ordinary manufacturing shop worker, but he was now at the helm of Steinway & Sons.

The Rena mahogany hammer is even more interesting, and it's almost well-known in the circle.

The world's well-known piano production companies such as Steinway, Bösendorfer, Fazioli, YMAH and so on, and so on, almost all of their pianos use German Rainer mahogany hammers.

It is also rumored that Rena was originally a workshop of Steinway & Sons.

When such information is combined, and then looking at the last sentence in the email, it has to make people think about it.

Another olive branch?

"The bigwigs are really not slow. ”

...

Regarding this matter, Qin Jian thought that he had seen it more thoroughly.

In every edition of the Chopin Competition, the contestants are in the frontal battlefield, and behind the unknown competition, there is another battlefield.

That's the instrument at the fingertips of the players.

The player is a warrior, and the piano is a gun.

The rules of the competition are that the contestants can designate the piano used for each round.

This has given rise to a new word - the champion piano.

There is only one champion in each edition, and it is not only the players themselves who are talked about by the mass media after the competition.

And also which factory they used to produce which instrument won the championship.

You know, the Chopin Competition is unlike any other competition in the world.

It is the Olympics of classical music.

The contestant won the championship, which means that he has won the supreme honor.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

'Champion designated brand' has become hot.

Whoever wins this title will have the opportunity to grow the market in the next five years.

Therefore, in order to win the four-character title of "champion piano" every five years, major manufacturers will launch the layout in advance before each competition.

And this email is like an outpost for Steinway & Sons to announce that it has joined the battle this year.

Qin Jian did not suspect at all that there were already many well-known players who also heard the whistle at this time.

But this kind of thing.

He felt that with his current situation, it was still to be seen.

He'll need to get a feel for the venue through next month's preliminary round before he can make a decision

But.

As the old saying goes, come and don't be rude.

"Thank you very much for your congratulations, Mr. Vaughan. ”

"Could you please take me back to Mr. Baudelaire, the mahogany hammer made by the Rainer Company is indeed very well made, and its feel has solved my insomnia problem for a while. ”

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude for this. ”

"By the way, I've been using Kawa's SK series recently, and it's pretty easy to use. ”

After replying to Vaughn's email, Qin Jian went to bed.

...

Coincidentally, Qin Jian's self-analysis can basically be matched with the facts, but there is only one thing he really hasn't figured out.

Although the hammers produced by Rena are used in most of the world's high-end piano production lines.

But there is only one exception, and that is Kawa's SK series pianos.

Also as an international brand.

For the SK series of pianos, Kawa uses the self-developed fourth-generation super-reactive hammer.

It is claimed that it is not inferior to any German production technology.

In fact, this is indeed the case, which is why Qin Jian chose the SK-5 in the grand piano below 50W.

That's where it gets interesting.

In such a situation, Baudelaire must have had a wonderful look on his face when he received the reply.

This is related to another thing that Qin Jian is not clear, Steinway & Sons has changed its strategy in this year's Shaw Race outpost.

This time, out of one hundred and sixty finalists, they focused on only three.

Of the three, there is only one Asian.

Of the 160 players, 49% are from Asia.

Quietly, a competition that belongs to the outside of the arena.

It's already begun.

...

...

"Oh-"

"What an unexpected statistic~"

Warsaw time, 17:56 p.m.

Location, the Chopin Institute at 1 Oconirstrasse in Warsaw.

A small office.

A curly head with glasses.