Chapter 106: Grand Piano and Lin Mu'an (1/3)
"Move here, almost this position!" Yang Yi instructed the workers, moving the black lacquered piano to the side of the bar in the store. A few days ago, there was a vacancy here for Xixi's birthday party, and now it just so happened that Yang Yi directly bought a piano to fill this gap.
At the birthday party, Yang Yi showed his hand slightly, and Murphy's reaction was not too intense, which made Yang Yi more confident in his plan.
Now, Yang Yi can finally buy a piano in the store and have a good time secretly!
After all, the guitar is nothing, the piano and the violin are his true love!
The piano in this world is the same as Yang Yi's previous life, but the brand name is different, and Yang Yi can't figure out which one is better. So, he used the stupidest but also the most direct method, to buy the expensive one!
The Theodore grand piano from the banks of the Rhine, worth 860,000 yuan, is already the best small grand piano that Yang Yi can buy in stock at the piano store in Jiangcheng - the concert-level kind is too big to fit.
Of course, there are more expensive grand pianos made in Switzerland, more than one million Swiss pianos, but Yang Yi tried it out, and still felt that the timbre was not as good as Theo!
But with the 860,000 yuan spent, Yang Yi almost emptied his savings, and fortunately it was Chen Yijie's new album that rushed to the sales of platinum records, and Yang Yi made a lot of money, otherwise with his manuscript fee income last month, after paying for the investment in the Sahara online bookstore, there would be no money left.
Of course, Tianxiang did not regret the gambling contract signed by Yang Yi and Tianxiang at the beginning, because of the song "Long Time No See", Chen Yijie's new album has also sold many copies in the mainland, so that his sales not only reached the platinum standard of Cantonese albums, but also far exceeded this number!
More than 800,000 pianos placed in coffee shops are indeed a little expensive, but it's hard to buy a favorite, isn't it?
Xixi was very curious about this behemoth, and when the workers were installing and debugging, she walked around her father, and couldn't help but pull her father's hand, let him lower his head, and muttered in his father's ear: "Baba, I know what this is!"
"What is it?" Yang Yi asked amusedly.
"It's a piano! I've seen it in the place where Ma Ma works! But it's not that big. Xixi tried hard to gesture to her father with her little hands, "It's so long, so big, and then Ma Ma can play! Ma Ma is amazing!"
Yang Yi looked at her daughter's description, and could probably understand what she was talking about, so she smiled and said: "No, your mother's one should be called an electronic piano, and the one that your father bought today is called a piano!"
Xixi looked at her father in confusion and couldn't understand the difference.
"Why is it called the shopkeeper's qin? What is the shopkeeper's qin?" Xixi turned on the "10,000 whys" mode again.
"Well, it's an electronic keyboard. Yang Yi corrected his daughter's pronunciation, and he said, "You can only play the sound with electricity, so it's called an electronic organ!"
Xixi knows about electricity, because her father has repeatedly told her not to touch those sockets, because electricity is terrible, and electricity will eat Xixi!
"Xixi understands!" said the little girl innocently, "Is it because the piano is made of steel that it can play sound?"
Steel has also become a power term like electricity?
Well, Yang Yi was a little confused by his daughter's brain hole, and he didn't know how to answer. He really didn't know why the piano was called a piano! You know, although this thing can be made of steel, most of it is still wood!
Yang Yi had an idea and explained: "No, because the piano is made of wood and steel, but because there is already a xylophone, it is called a piano." (Note 1)
"Oh!" Xixi nodded half-understandingly, and then she asked, "Is that more powerful?"
Xixi's train of thought, I'm afraid Yang Yi can't figure it out even if she wants to break her head, she thinks that the electronic organ uses electricity, and all the things that use electricity are amazing and powerful, such as the TV...... Therefore, the electronic organ should also be very powerful!
Of course, Yang Yi's evaluation criteria are different, and he corrected: "No, the sound quality of the electronic organ is basically impossible to compare with the piano, because the piano is the most original keyboard instrument sound!"
At this time, the tuner sent by the piano shop also helped to tune the tune, and he sat on a leather stool and tried to play a tune, judging the pitch by ear.
Xixi also watched intently, and the clear and soft piano sound fascinated the little girl. Yang Yi also took a rare look at her daughter, she didn't know if she knew how to appreciate it, but it seemed that looking at her intoxicated expression, she liked it very much!
At the end of the song, Xi Xi came back to her senses and agreed with her father's statement: "Okay, it's still Baba's piano!"
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After the piano was set up and adjusted, Yang Yi sent the people from the piano shop out, and at this time, Uncle Lu from the bicycle repair shop next to him said in a loud voice: "Yang Yi, what big things have you bought?"
"Added a piano to the store. Yang Yi smiled.
A tall and thin boy with long shawl hair who was waiting for the bicycle to be repaired at Uncle Lu's raised his head in surprise and looked at Yang Yi thoughtfully.
"Hey, I don't see that there are many customers in your shop, why do you spend so much money on such expensive things?" Uncle Lu chattered, worried about Yang Yi.
These neighbors are very ordinary local people, their mouths are broken, they like to gossip about the long and short families, but in fact, everyone is very good-hearted, and they usually have any need for help, shouting, and no one refuses.
After Yang Yi said a few words to Uncle Lu, he returned to the store, and he cleaned up the footprints and dust left by the piano just now.
Xixi, on the other hand, was full of curiosity, climbed onto the small leather stool, first looked at the black and white keys, and then stretched out a small hand and pressed it.
"Knock knock...... Dododo......"
Different keys have different sounds!
Xixi seemed to have found a brand new good toy, and she couldn't help but explore it.
At this time, a person appeared outside the door, he poked his head into the store, and then called softly: "Hello, boss!"
Yang Yi walked over from behind with a mop and said from afar: "I'm sorry, I got something in the store today, it didn't open, and you didn't see the signboard hanging out!"
But when he got closer, Yang Yi saw that it was the long-haired young man from Uncle Lu's car repair shop just now.
"Boss, sorry, I'm not going to have coffee and bother you for a few minutes. The long-haired young man looked at Yang Yi, who was as tall as a black tower, a little cramped, but he still mustered up the courage to say, "My name is Lin Mu'an, and I am a freelance musician......
Lin Mu'an, well, listening to the very ordinary Mandarin pronunciation, Yang Yi can probably tell that the other party should be from Guangdong Province. Of course, they are not from Hong Kong City, and young people from Hong Kong City will not come to the mainland to make a living.
Yang Yi looked at Lin Mu'an, he felt that the other party was a little embarrassed, not quite like a star, there are many kinds of musicians, tall, star, depressed and unhappy in the bar, and those who sing under the overpass, who like music and regard music as their own life can actually be called musicians!
Lin Mu'an should be the third type, and then in his introduction, he also explained that he is now a resident singer in a bar.
"What do you want?" asked Yang Yi with some puzzlement.
"I'm sorry, I want to ask, do you lack a pianist here? It is specially designed to play music for customers, and coffee shops usually have it, which makes the atmosphere of the store even stronger. I can play the piano and I can sing......" Lin Mu'an worked hard to sell himself.
However, Yang Yi didn't want to recruit a pianist, he bought a piano more to entertain himself.
So, he smiled apologetically and said, "You also heard the owner of the bicycle repair shop just now say that my coffee shop actually has few customers a day, so there is no need to hire another pianist." ”
"Okay then......" Lin Mu'an was disappointed, but he still bowed to Yang Yi gracefully and said, "I'm sorry to disturb you." ”
Looking at the back of Lin Mu'an leaving, Yang Yi was a little stunned.
Seems to have forgotten something?
Oh, by the way, forgot the phrase: "Please tell your story......"
Well, just kidding, Yang Yi really didn't have the idea of hiring a pianist in the store.
(Note 1: Regarding the origin of the name of the piano, Xiao Han checked it, and there are two theories, one is what Yang Yi said, and the other may be that in the Republic of China, the piano was originally called Yangqin, but at that time, the education department wanted to unify a name, and wanted to start with the production materials of the piano, but felt that the xylophone was too earthy, so it was called the piano...... )