Chapter 136: A New Musical Instrument
"Alright," Lehi shrugged helplessly, and continued, "Now, allow me to introduce you to the performers of the next show. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"I believe everyone must have guessed it," Li Hai pointed to Xiao Yao who was still standing on the stage with one palm, "That is Xiao Yao who is still standing on the stage." ā
With Li Hai's introduction, Xiao Yao finally pulled off the black elastic mask covering his face, and piled it directly around his neck to become a scarf, but the hat was not put down. Not only that, Xiao Yao only waved his hand to the audience, which was regarded as a greeting, but still did not speak.
"Xiao Yao doesn't have a problem with his voice, right?" Seeing that Xiao Yao still cherishes words like gold, Li Hai doesn't seem to have any intention of handing over the extra microphone in his hand to Xiao Yao, and some viewers whispered.
Now that Gong Chen has left, and no other singer is on stage, the next show is still Xiao Yao's, he can't continue to accompany people, he can only sing. If he has a problem with his voice, how can he play it?" Others retorted.
"Not necessarily, who said that Xiao Yao can only sing. Don't you know that Xiao Yao also taught Gong Chen magic tricks and Xu Yuan bartending? Maybe he made a magic trick for everyone or something? With Xiao Yao's personality, this kind of thing is not impossible to do. An audience member who is familiar with the three singers just now said.
"yes, even if he can't sing, he can still play an instrument. ā
"If I can do magic or something, I'll still play the instrument. I've heard him play the piano, guitar, erhu, and xun, and the level is indeed very good, but if you just play the instrument and don't sing, I still think it's almost funny. He is not a professional instrumentalist. ā
As soon as the audience's words fell, Li Hai on the stage had already introduced: "The program that Xiao Yao brought us is a solo instrument. ā
"Really don't sing, just play musical instruments, or play solo?" many viewers were stunned.
With Lehi's introduction, two staff members also came up on the stage. One was carrying a chair in one hand, a microphone stand in the other, and the other was holding something that looked a little strange in both hands.
When Xiao Yao saw it, he immediately walked a few steps quickly to meet the staff member behind him, took the things in his hand, and returned to Li Hai's side.
Many viewers were immediately attracted by what Xiao Yao was holding in his hand.
"What is this?"
"Is this a pot with a lid? It can't still contain food, right?
"I look like a UFO or a flying saucer from a movie. ā
Hearing the discussion from the audience, Li Hai continued: "Do you see that this thing in Xiao Yao's hand looks very similar to the shape of a flying saucer?" The big screen at the scene also gave a close-up picture of the thing in Xiao Yao's hand. The audience can clearly see that this disc-like metal product does look like a flying saucer.
This thing is called a "hand disc", and it is a percussion instrument that is struck by hand. Li Hai pointed to the thing in Xiao Yao's hand and said, "Everyone hasn't seen it, right?"
"Hand disc? What is that? It's not just that I've never seen it, I've never heard of it?" thought the audience.
"I haven't seen it. Li Hai smiled, "This instrument was invented by Xiao Yao himself, and it was just made more than a month ago, and there are only two in this world at present, and this is the first public appearance of this new instrument." So blessed are you all today, you will be the first audience in the world to see and hear this new instrument. ā
"Xiao Yao invented it himself? He will also invent a new musical instrument?!"
"I'll go, this is awesome, is there anything else he can't do?!"
"Oh~" After listening to Lehi's introduction, the audience immediately became excited, and cheers and screams filled the entire scene.
At this time, no one thought that Xiao Yao was almost boring playing a musical instrument alone. He invented a brand new musical instrument, which made the audience feel that Xiao Yao was a bunker. As the first audience in the world to see and hear this new instrument live, what else do they have to be dissatisfied with?
The hand disc is a musical instrument invented by two Swiss people in the previous life 2000, and it naturally does not exist in this world. Xiao Yao had seen and heard of this kind of instrument in his previous life, and he didn't want to make it, but Xiao Yao knew its shape, material and sound principle, but he didn't know much about its production process, so he never got his wish.
But the arrival of Ake Robinson some time ago gave Xiao Yao a chance to realize this idea. Ake Robinson came to help Nicholas Cross make the dragon part of Xiao Yao's dragon qin, and Xiao Yao himself participated in the whole process of making the dragon qin. As an expert who understands music and is good at creating the appearance of musical instruments through various materials, Xiao Yao saw Ake Robinson's skills, and the idea of making a hand-disc reappeared in his mind.
Xiao Yao's performance, Ake Robinson is also in the eyes.
Not only did he quickly learn to make guitars with Nicholas Cross, but after working with Ake Robinson to make the dragon on the body of the dragon qin, Xiao Yao made the smaller dragon head on the headstock by himself under the guidance of Ake Robinson. In addition, the dragon qin they made was designed by Xiao Yao himself, so whether it was Xiao Yao's creativity, or Xiao Yao's learning ability and practical ability in the production process, Ake Robinson was very appreciative.
Naturally, it is not surprising that Ake Robinson likes Xiao Yao, a Chinese teenager. Therefore, after the production of the dragon qin was completed, Xiao Yao proposed the idea of trying to make a new instrument to Ake Robinson, and Ake Robinson, who was supposed to return to China after completing the task, did not hesitate to postpone the plan to return to the United States and agreed.
With Ake Robinson, a very professional master, agreeing to help, Xiao Yao also immediately shook off the shape, size, and material of the hand disc. In terms of production methods, Xiao Yao knew that there were two kinds of manual hammering and CNC machine tool production in the previous life, and there were no hand discs in this world, and naturally there were no CNC machine tools to make, so Xiao Yao and Ake Robinson only had to hammer by hand and then heat treat and harden the road. As for how to hammer, how to knock, how to knock out that shape and more important pronunciation area, Xiao Yao has no clue. This is where Ake Robinson comes into play.
After looking at the drawings of the instrument drawn by Xiao Yao, the performance method described and the timbre effect that the instrument wanted to achieve, Ake Robinson was also fascinated by the novel instrument that Xiao Yao came up with. In terms of attitude, it has also changed from simply helping Xiao Yao to making this musical instrument himself. Even if Xiao Yao finally made the patent for this new instrument, he felt proud to be the first technician in the world to make this instrument.
The hand disc is a deformed body of a steel drum, Xiao Yao does not know and has not made a steel drum, but Ake Robinson can. Therefore, Ake Robinson is much more experienced than Xiao Yao in the relationship between the shape of the striking steel plate and the sound it makes. Xiao Yao still has to go to school during the day, and only in the evening does he have time to come and study and try with Ake Robinson. Ake Robinson, on the other hand, could have spent the whole day banging and beating. Therefore, in the production process, Ake Robinson is also the main operator.
After nearly a month of continuous attempts, the two finally succeeded in making this instrument. When Xiao Yao played a piece of music in front of Ake Robinson with the first hand-disc they had successfully made, Ake Robinson also felt that all his hard work and efforts in the past month had been worth it.
Having successfully made the first hand disc, Ake Robinson went on to make the second one. Because it was not far from the traditional Christmas in the West at that time, Ake Robinson wanted to rush back to the United States to spend Christmas with his family, so he left the two hand-made discs to Xiao Yao and returned to the United States.
In Aker Robinson's opinion, the hand disc is a very cool instrument that will definitely be liked by many musical instrument lovers, so before returning to the United States, Ake Robinson also made a suggestion to Xiao Yao, that is, the two of them jointly established a company to specialize in the production and sale of this new instrument. According to Ake Robinson's idea, Xiao Yao, as the inventor of the design, will definitely apply for a patent for this new instrument. And the reason why he proposed that the two of them start a company in partnership instead of doing it alone was that he hoped that Xiao Yao would use its patent right to buy shares.
Xiao Yao was of course very interested in Ake Robinson's proposal. It's just that if he just issues patents, and Ake Robinson contributes money and efforts, he and half of the shares are each owned, and his advantage seems to be too great, Xiao Yao feels a little embarrassed. But the equity is too small, and Xiao Yao feels a little unwilling.
Not to mention that Ake Robinson plans to open the company and factory in the United States, even if it is in China, Xiao Yao may not have time to participate in the company's management and specific production, and because the proportion of handmade discs is quite high, Ake Robinson's business model is to carry out customized services, rather than large-scale production, and the funds required are not very much. Therefore, Xiao Yao discussed with Ake Robinson, and finally decided that in terms of funds, Xiao Yao would contribute half of the patents, and Ake Robinson would contribute to the company's management and specific production and sales, and the two would each have half of the equity.
Xiao Yao's patent application has been issued, but it has not yet come down, and all of them are still plans of the two of them, and they are in preparation, so except for a limited number of people such as Ake Robinson and Xiao Yao and his assistant Fang Zhen, no one else knows about it.
But since he has this plan, Xiao Yao naturally began to consider the promotion of the new musical instrument of the hand disc, so at the New Year's Eve party of Donghai Satellite TV, Xiao Yao decided to take out the hand disc and make an official appearance.
At the time of Lehi's introduction, preparations were already made on the stage.
Xiao Yao sat down on the chair that the staff had brought up, and laid the handplate flat on his lap. The staff took the extra microphone in Li Hai's hand, installed it on the microphone stand he brought up, adjusted the height and angle, and aimed the microphone at the hand disc on Xiao Yao's lap.
Next, Xiao Yao will bring you his hand disc performance. Li Hai saw that Xiao Yao was ready, so he introduced, "The piece he played has a very poetic name, called "Smoke and Rain Qingdai", please enjoy it!"
As Li Hai left the stage after his introduction, all the lights on the stage went out, and only Xiao Yao, who was sitting on a chair and holding a handbag on his legs, lit up a white spotlight and shone vertically downward on the stage, forming a cone-shaped pillar of light that wrapped Xiao Yao in it.