Gu Xiaobai's program list for the Spring Festival Gala has been decided, but there are still many problems that have not been solved.

The Lyre of Bells and Drums is arguably the most challenging instrument of all time.

How to record, how to live stream are all questions.

Moreover, Gu Xiaobai is facing an even bigger problem.

When he performs on stage, who will play the Lyre?

The Piano of a Thousand Drums can also ask the blind to help.

But what about the Hundred Bells?

Gu Xiaobai prepared a backup plan, which was an automatic playing device.

However, at present, all the automatic playing devices in the world are made for pianos, and the size and power are completely different, and they need to be modified or remanufactured.

And whether it will work perfectly when the time comes, it's hard to say.

This plan can only be used as a backup.

And a better way is to find a suitable musician.

But this one is more troublesome.

As a completely new instrument, no one has been able to master the playing method of the Hundred Bells so far.

In Dongcheng, Qinchuan Musical Instrument Factory, in the huge factory, there were bursts of low and penetrating bells.

More than a dozen professors and students from Dongcheng University of the Arts gathered in front of the keyboard of the Hundred Bell Lyre, frowning one by one.

The bell in the Bell and Drum Tower, in the downtown area of Dongcheng, is not suitable for rehearsals.

So, they came to the factory to rehearse.

"No, it's slow, the rhythm hasn't kept up!"

"Just now, the strength was too weak, and there was no momentum at all!"

"You can't press the left key with your fingers, you have to use your fists!"

"Feet, feet...... Have you forgotten your feet again, and if your arms are too late, use your feet! How many times have you said you?"

Several professors gathered around a student who was playing, a little angry.

The reprimanded student also looked helpless, even a little irritable, and he said helplessly: "Teacher, this piece is really difficult...... Even if it's not good to play on the piano......"

"Stop talking nonsense, practice faster!"

Don't look at these professors shouting one by one and they seem to understand very well, if they really let them sit in front of the keyboard, I'm afraid they won't perform as well as these students.

These students, some from the piano major and some from the organ major, are all masters of keyboard instruments.

But suddenly it was hard for them to change their instruments.

What's more, instead of using keys, the Drum and Drum Harp uses a wooden stick-like excitation key, and the entire keyboard is much wider than a regular piano.

Finally, one of the professors said, "If one really can't react, why don't you try a four-handed combination?"

"That's a good idea!" the others' eyes lit up when they heard the suggestion.

They glanced back and picked out two students: "You two try!"

In the factory, there were bursts of bells.

After a while, there was another roar: "It's messy! it's still messy!"

"Are you guys playing with four hands?

"Keep up with the rhythm!"

With a constant roar, a completely unfamiliar instrument, a completely different power feedback, and a delayed sound, it's really hard to practice a difficult piece well.

At the same time, Wang Mingsuo, a junior majoring in piano at Dongcheng University of the Arts, walked out of the piano room with some trepidation.

Just now, they conducted an internal selection in the piano room, and the outstanding students selected could participate in an international competition.

And he was eliminated with the penultimate result.

Although he has been mentally prepared for a long time, now he still wants to cry.

You can't cry, you have to hold back.

At least, when you go back to the dormitory and cry again, you can't be seen.

After learning the piano for so many years, Wang Mingsuo has suffered a lot and suffered a lot of sins, but Wang Mingsuo has never thought of retreating.

Because he felt that the things he paid were nothing compared to what his family paid to learn the piano for him.

Learning the piano is too expensive.

He was born into an ordinary, if not poor, working-class family.

From as long as he can remember, he remembers that his grandmother always took a lot of medicine and was always bedridden, and his father always came back late and was tired every time.

But he has shown different talents since he was a child, and from the first time he followed his father to the piano room, he was attracted by the little brothers and sisters who practiced the piano in the piano room.

He pestered his father to learn the piano for three months, and when the teacher told his father that he had talent and hoped to cultivate it well, he saw not joy on his father's face, but an unspeakable helplessness.

However, in the end, his father agreed to let him learn piano.

A year later, my father spent seven or eight thousand to help him buy a second-hand upright piano.

Five years later, my father spent more than 200,000 yuan to buy him a small triangle.

Another five years later, he was admitted to the East Park Art Academy.

Although Dongcheng University of the Arts is not the leading art university in China, the piano major is still very good.

Only a few students are recruited in each class, and being able to fight their way out of the encirclement is the result of the efforts of the whole family.

Over the years, the money spent on practicing and learning the piano has exceeded one million.

While the others were changing their big houses one after another, they were still huddled in the cramped dwellings.

Until now, Wang Mingsuo doesn't know whether he still loves the piano or music.

But he can't give up, he has to stick to it.

However, in his sophomore year, Wang Mingsuo found himself in an unexpected situation.

He wasn't very tall anymore, but his hands and feet were still growing.

His shoe size went from 43 to 49, which was like a boat.

And his hands are also two circles larger than ordinary people.

Playing the piano requires long fingers, but longer is not always better.

Not to mention, his fingers are not just getting longer, they're getting thicker.

As his fingers lengthened, his movements became less and less flexible, and many of the techniques that he had been able to do were slowly unable to be done.

A lot of difficult, high-speed tunes, he always gets it wrong.

The teacher once offered to let him give up and move to another major.

But he didn't want to give up.

They have already paid too much for the piano.

He once went to the hospital for examination, and the doctor couldn't say why, but said that the bone sutures of his hands and feet closed late, and advised him to keep observing, if it was too long, he could consider surgery......

But he plays the piano, how can he have surgery?

From his sophomore year to his junior year, his level regressed very much, and he practiced hard, but he was not even as good as the level when he took the art exam.

Now, Wang Mingsuo's teacher has persuaded him to change careers.

What to do?

Wang Mingsuo returned to the bedroom, lay on the bed and cried for a while, feeling at a loss.

I don't know how long later, the door of the dormitory was pushed open, and the other two classmates in the dormitory lay on the bed tiredly: "Alas, I'm tired to death......"

"I really don't want to go, this carillon is too difficult!"

"Why is it so hard!"

"How can you press such a big key!"

Wang Ming snorted and sat up from the bed.