Mignolet frowned after hearing this: "That's not right, right? Now a hand-made violin, no matter how reasonable the design is, no matter how sophisticated the craftsmanship is, as long as it is still a 'new violin', the price can't catch up with a fraction of the 'old piano', this violin from a famous artist sounds more beautiful, doesn't it?"

Yali shook her head, "Mignolet, that's not necessarily true, have you heard of Claudia Fritz?

Everyone shook their heads together, everyone really hadn't heard of this person.

"Claudia is a violin expert from the University of Paris VI. She once did an experiment, just to see if the experimenter could distinguish the difference between the old and new violin when the player and the audience were blind, after all, in this day and age, if there is no 'famous violin', they are embarrassed to say that they are violinists!"

Xiao Peng nodded sympathetically, now with the improvement of living standards in Huaxia, more and more parents are 'looking forward to their sons becoming Chan'. Let their children learn musical instruments, among which the violin is the choice of many parents, but in the end, I found out how important a sky-high price of a famous piano is to violinists.

It is said that a good horse is a good saddle, and those handmade violins produced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have become almost the standard for successful violinists: the famous violinist Yasha Hefetz used a 'Guarelli' made in 1742 that Sarasati used most during his lifetime, David Oisstrach used at least three 'Stradivari', and Yehudi Menuhin played two 'Stradivari', three 'Guarelli' and one 'Busetto' Fritz Chrysler has played at least five 'Stradivari' of different generations, including one used by Hubermann. In addition to his ghostly virtuosity, the 'grandmaster' of violin, Niccolò Paganini, is most talked about for his 'epic' violin, nicknamed 'Cannon'.

And these famous antique pianos, that is really the vast majority of Chinese people who are poor and cannot get it. To give a simple example, Hou Yijia, a famous Chinese beauty violinist in Maple Leaf Country, can be regarded as the world's top violinist. Known as the world's best 'Liang Zhu' player.

Such a top violinist, she used a Guarelli violin called 'Miss Mary', and this violin was borrowed by her, she didn't have her own famous piano at all, and after a few years of using it, she used it emotionally, but in the end she had no choice but to return the violin------ because she couldn't afford it. After playing for half a lifetime, the money earned is not enough to put the piano money.

(There is a Stradivari Collection Society in the world, and this association has a special project to provide fine violinists with valuable violins.) It sounds like Lei Feng, but it's not like that, they lend the violinists who can't afford the piano but have a good development, in order to increase the value of the violin. This 'Guarelli' violin, called 'Miss Marie', turned out to have been used by Fritz Chrysler. When he used it, the piano was worth about 300,000 US dollars, and when he ran out, the piano was worth one million US dollars, and after Hou Yijia used it, the price of this piano rose to 500,000 US dollars. It may not sound like much, but you must know that the Stradivari Society has at least 100 famous instruments in its collection! The annual income is amazing! And those violinists who cannot afford to buy famous pianos know that they are helping others to do propaganda and have to borrow them, for the simple reason that they are not violinists without ----- famous pianos. ）

"Actually, four years ago, Claudia did an experiment in which she had the listener and the player 'double-blind' in a hotel room, and it turned out that people couldn't tell the difference between a 'new' and an 'old'! Playing in a hotel room like this is like comparing a Ferrari and a Ford in a parking lot, there's no comparison. ”

Xiao Peng was happy: "Why are they so excited?"

"It's very simple, it's because of the interests behind these people, there are many people who collect violins like my mother. If her experiment is true, doesn't it mean that the wealth of these people's collections will decline? ”

"What was the result?" asked Yumi, who was on the sidelines.

"Claudia didn't admit defeat and did another experiment, this time she designed a new experiment to solve these problems, and went one step further, while also touching on the correlation between the audience's evaluation of the violin and the acoustic measurements." ”

For this trial, Claudia Fritz and her team brought in top solo violinists, and they gave the violinists more time, increased the sample size of antique violins from three to six, and found a concert hall with a capacity of 300 people for violinists to try out. ”

"This experiment is an improvement that encompasses almost everything that critics from two years ago have made. However, the results of the experiment were almost identical to those of two years ago. Top violinists can't tell the difference between old and new violins. In the eyes of the ten solo violinists invited, the most popular one was a newly made violin, and the least popular was a 'Stradivari'. ”

"The invited violinists and the audience are very convincing, you must know that the only polar bear violinist in the world to win gold medals in three top violin competitions, the Tchaikovsky Competition, the Sibelius Competition and the Paganini Competition, and Hou Yijia, a Chinese violinist from the Maple Leaf Country, are among the invitees to this experiment. ”

"After this experiment, it still has a great positive impact on the world violin community. On the one hand, young violinists are able to shift their attention from 'what kind of instrument they play' to 'how to play a violin', so that these young people can go further on the musical path even if they don't have the financial means to own an antique violin, and on the other hand, people are slowly beginning to recognize the efforts of contemporary violin makers in making violins. ”

Xiao Peng was puzzled when he heard this, and asked Ya Li, "Since this piano is nothing remarkable, why do you still want to buy it?"

"No matter how you say it's a masterpiece, and it's hundreds of years old, it's definitely an antique, even if this kind of news will slow it to increase in value, but in the end it will still increase in value, right? Arye replied.

Xiao Peng raised his thumb, the economic mind of this big family is good.

Yali smiled and asked Mignolet, "Mignolet, you haven't told me if you want to cut your love?"

Mignolet and Carrasco looked at each other: "Of course we do!"

Yali nodded: "In that case, I'll contact the appraisal expert, if everything is okay, we will settle this matter!"

"That's as it should be!" said Mignolet with a smile.

Xiao Peng said with a look of regret: "It's a pity that I let Benteke and them run away today, otherwise I would have to give them a good look, so that they will never dare to trouble you again." ”

Carrasco shook his head and said, "No, Mignolet and I have already discussed, after we sell this harp, we will buy a small farm, go to grow wheat, and build a bread workshop." ”

Mignolet continued: "I don't want to brag to you, Carrasco is very good at baking bread! There is an ancestral secret recipe! You must try it when you have the opportunity in the future!"

Xiao Peng felt that his goosebumps were about to rise, well, he didn't discriminate against GAY, he had been out for so long, what kind of GAY and Lala had never seen? As a pure straight man, he has always thought that as long as they don't GAY on his head, it's okay.

But that's not the case!

It turns out that seeing two men showing affection in front of him is also uncomfortable to watch!

After Mignolet and Carrasco looked at each other affectionately, they suddenly turned their heads and asked Yumi, "Sister, what are your plans next?

Yumi shook her head: "I came back this time mainly to play with my friends." Haven't gone back to see them yet. ”

"Sister, Mom and Dad think you're working. You're going to go back to Belgium and not see them, isn't that too unusual?" said Mignolet.

Carrasco also said on the side: "It just so happens that your brother and I are going to go back to see them, let's go back together? It just so happens that this Yali also needs to find an expert to appraise this instrument, and the expert won't be able to come for a while, so why don't we go back together and wait for the expert to come over at home?"

After hearing this, You Mei's face was obviously a little nervous, and she looked at Xiao Peng and the others to ask for their opinions.

Xiao Peng laughed: "You Mei, what do you think we are doing? How can there be a reason to go through the door and not go back to see? You are not the kind of person like Dayu who passed through the door three times without entering, treated the water outside for a few years, and went home with the children born outside. ”

Yali also smiled: "That's right, no matter what the reason, I can't stop you from going home to see your parents, right? Let's go buy some gifts and go to see your parents together." ”

Jimma Ward, who was on the side, also nodded, but her focus was obviously different from others: "Xiao, who is that Dayu you are talking about?"

Xiao Peng replied to Jima Ward: "A saint who changed the history of China, because because of him, Huaxia has changed from the earliest 'public world' to 'family world'. ”

Jima Ward frowned: "Your Huaxia 'saint' standard is too strange, after listening to your statement, how can you feel like a selfish scumbag?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "It depends on which angle you look at this issue." Regardless of his private life, he 'settled on Kyushu in peace', and he is worthy of the title of 'saint' for this achievement. Yumi, you call your parents to make an appointment, and we can buy some gifts to see your parents. ”