Chapter 336: Famous Wine, Steinway, and Steinway

…… Walk to the innermost part of the restaurant, there is a black wooden door, after opening, it is a rural space, less than three meters down the stairs, there is a storage room with many iron frames, Liu Dong doesn't care about other things, but the wine here is really rare to store.

Since the last time he had Western food with Wang Qiang and Jiang Tingting, he was taught about red wine by the two, and Liu Dongbian has learned about the world's famous wines and their collections.

When I came to this storage room, I quickly identified all the liquor stored here, except for 'Absolut Vodka', 'Hennessy', 'Whisky', 'Chivas Regal' and 'Remy Martin', which only had one or two cases, and the average was only about twenty bottles. Liu Dong also found two boxes here, totaling twenty-four bottles of Moutai from 1932. Of course, there are also the famous Château Lafite, Château Margaux and other five major wineries in the world, with a total of nine cases of red wine, a total of 114 bottles, all of which are in the past few years of 1930~1936.

In the innermost wooden box of the storage room, Liu Dong found only six bottles of Château Lafite 1787 left.

Liu Dong doesn't know much about the specific value of these wines, but he thinks it will cost no less than millions of dollars. However, compared to the value of these wines, Liu Dong prefers to use them as gifts for friends or to drink them himself. These days, there are a lot of things that are so high-grade.

After receiving all the wine inside the mustard seed space, Liu Dong walked out of this underground storage room, and then walked towards the second floor, where there were a lot of good things in the upper room.

"This is the Steinway Triangle?" After Liu Dong entered the door. Look at a black piano in the corner. There was a look of joy on his face. Liu Dong is no stranger to Steinway, the world's top piano, in his rural hometown, he has a Steinway upright piano at home, according to his mother, it was a wedding gift from her father, and it was also the most cherished thing in her life. When Liu Dong and his sister were young, they used that piano. He studied music under his mother's tutelage. But it's a pity that Liu Dong doesn't have his sister's talent in music, and the level of piano playing is just average.

After waving his hand to put the dusty Steinway Triangle into the space, Liu Dong secretly said in his heart: "The gift for my sister to go home this year is finally here!" ”

In addition to this Steinway & Sons triangle, there are also common Western instruments such as cellos and violins next to it. However, after Liu Dong put away the piano, he directly picked up the violin case placed on the shelf next to him, and among all the instruments in this music room, this violin has the strongest aura.

When it comes to violins, one has to mention violin collections, and when it comes to the most valuable pianos in the world, one has to mention three families, namely the Italian violin makers of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri.

These families all came from the city of Cremona in northern Italy. Since the middle of the 16th century, the city of Cremona has been home to a number of virtuoso violin makers, who have been passed down through the Guò family. The founders of the three luthier families mentioned above are known as the "fathers of the modern violin" (Nikolai. Amati), "the god of the violin, the greatest violin master" (Antonio. Stradivari) and "Violin Genius" (Bartholomew. Jiuzepei. Guarneri).

They are active. As a technique and art, violin making zuò spread rapidly from Cremona to the whole of Italy, and had an indelible impact on the creation of music and art in Austria, Germany, France and many other European countries. It also established the violin's status as the central instrument of string music.

The pianos made by the classic luthiers can appreciate by 10%~20% per year, and the appreciation of the famous pianos from these families is even more amazing. In the 90s of the last century, researchers at the University of Cincinnati in the United States conducted a special study comparing the appreciation of three investment instruments, namely US bonds, stocks and antique violins.

The value of the violin is much higher than that of the first two investments, so the violin as an investment object can be described as the best choice in the collector's world. The value of one of the finest Si-style and melon-style pianos is not less than two million US dollars at auction.

However, this is in the West, and the domestic violin collection is still a small niche. However, this is also worthy of the value of such a top-notch collection of melon-style and Si-style instruments.

In Liu Dong's hand, this is the most authentic Si-style piano, and he can clearly see that on the inner panel of the violin there is 'Stradivari, Windsor, 1716!' ’

"I didn't expect this instrument to be from 1716?" Liu Dong said with joy in his heart.

Anyone who collects violins knows that the most popular Si style violins were made during the so-called "golden age", around 1700 to 1725. There are a few special vintages that are particularly exciting for collectors. For example, 1716 is considered to be the year in which some of the best instruments were produced.

The most expensive of the violins, the Messianic one, which is worth more than $20 million, is Stradivari's 1716 work.

"You can't really be so lucky, right?" Liu Dong was afraid that he was wrong, and even rubbed his eyes, and after reading it several times in a row, he clenched his fist excitedly, this looked like a new piano, and the 'Windsor' without any defects on his body was a 1716 Si style piano.

After seeing this, Liu Dongzhen put this 1716 Si-style piano, which is enough to make all violinists in the world crazy, back into the piano case, and then put it into the mustard seed space.

With this incomparably precious Si-style piano and the huge oil painting of Dürer held by Mu Gang downstairs, Liu Dong felt that this trip to Qingdao was really worth it.

In addition to this Si-style piano and the Steinway & Sons triangle just now, the cello next to it is also extraordinary, but it is too far behind the Si-style piano. However, Liu Dong still put away most of the instruments here, which are all top-notch instruments that have experienced more than half a century, and they are worth a lot of money.

Subsequently, Liu Dong went around the second and third floors, and put away some German books and mechanical clocks that could only be collected, as well as some oil paintings, sculptures and other decorations that were some years old. These things are just as valuable as the porcelain products of the late Qing Dynasty in China, but the value is not high.

After turning around and realizing that there was no omission, Liu Dong went downstairs. Although the thin middle-aged man and his companion were a little puzzled that Liu Dong spent 10,000 yuan but only took away an oil painting, but after the money was in hand, the two did not ask much.

After the things were in hand, Liu Dong quickly left with Mu Gang and Xie Zhonglin.

Of course, this time they did not go to the antique street on Changle Road again, but went directly back to the hotel. Liu Dong didn't have time to appreciate such a big harvest just now because of time, and now is the opportunity. And there is too much dust accumulated in these collections for more than half a century, and Liu Dong also needs to clean it up!

Xie Zhonglin didn't ask much about Liu Dong turning around and going back to the hotel, it just so happened that he didn't want to go out too much on a hot day, if it weren't for the reason that he wanted to tie up with Liu Dong, he would just be willing to go to the underground casino here, or other entertainment venues to have a good time.

When Liu Dong and Mu Gang entered the hotel with an oil painting more than four meters long, they were inevitably interrogated, and then went upstairs to experience some twists and turns, and finally got this authentic painting of Dürer back to their presidential suite. Fortunately, it is protected by Liu Dong's relics and yuanguang, otherwise the bumps along the way would have turned the oil paint on this great work upside down.

After that, in the afternoon, Liu Dong stayed in his room and did not go out again. It wasn't until half past six in the evening, after Xie Zhonglin knocked on his door, that Liu Dong took Mu Gang down to eat, and Dürer's paintings had already been put into the mustard seed space. If anyone is confused, Liu Dong has a hundred excuses to explain.

After dinner, Liu Dong returned to his room, took out a piece of jade material of bean seeds from the mustard seed space, and carved a statue of Guanyin, until 10 o'clock in the evening. Sawan Susi flipped his phone.

"Mr. Liu, I've arrived!"

"Well, you wait a minute, we'll get over here!" After a brief chat, Liu Dong took Mu Gang and Xie Zhonglin to drive towards the wharf, there were few cars at night, so their speed was very fast, and they arrived at China's second foreign trade port with a throughput of 100 million tons in about half an hour, and Qingdao Port, one of the important international trade ports and maritime transportation hubs on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.

Although the port is indeed large, there is a phone call, so it is not a hassle to find both sides.

"Mr. Wichai has worked hard all the way to eat and sleep!"

"There, Mr. Liu is too polite!"

"I don't know who this is......?" After shaking hands with Liu Dong, Wichai. Sawan Suxi looked at Xie Zhonglin, who was half a position behind Liu Dong, and wondered.

"Oh, this is Xie Zhonglin, Boss Xie! We cooperated to set up a gambling stone company, this time Mr. Wichai's rough stone, the two of us ate it together! ”

Hearing Liu Dong's words, Wei Chai. Sawan Suxi glanced at Xie Zhonglin in a little surprise, although he didn't know the details of the cooperation between the two, but this time the gambling stones he brought were worth 150 million, which could make Liu Dong say the word cooperation, and it was obvious that the rich Boss Xie must have invested a lot, and it would not be less than 50 million. And this year, those who can invest half a billion yuan into the gambling stone industry are all great big customers, and for such big customers, they have always been Wichai. Rough miners like Sawan Susi are fighting for it.

"Hello Boss Xie! I believe that our cooperation will be very pleasant! "Because both of them are new and don't know each other very well, they are more cautious in their words.

"Then borrow Mr. Wichai's good words!" (To be continued......)