(The content of these two chapters may be a little boring, but it is essential, it is not meaningless watering, but a foreshadowing of Cheng Xiaoyu's character, as a traverser, he does not want to embark on the road of no return to copying songs and selling them for money.) He's making music with a passion for it, not just dreaming of stardom. The new year is coming, and Cheng Xiaoyu's more colorful life is about to unfold, and I wish all the audience good health and all the best. ）

On the day the piano arrived, Cheng Xiaoyu was also very excited for a while, and finally Qiao San bought Bechstein for him to play the piano in the best C.Bechstein D228 large-scale concert worth two million.

Of course, you can't compare this with the Bechstein Louis XV 7-foot Golden Triangle worth more than 20 million. Piano playing with C. Bechstein D228 is already a dream for most piano students.

For Cheng Xiaoyu, who has played the Pearl River for countless days, this is simply the difference between Lamborghini and Chery. Cheng Xiaoyu, who was excited, didn't sleep well all night, and woke up in the morning to wait for the piano to be delivered, of course, today is not only the piano, but also a lot of studio equipment to be installed.

At nine o'clock, the truck with the piano drove into the villa, and Cheng Xiaoyu immediately went downstairs.

Fortunately, Cheng Xiaoyu's piano room is on the first floor, so it can be lifted by crane. After Bechstein's tightly wrapped piano was moved into the piano room by professional piano handlers, and the protective plastic and foam were removed and assembled, the professional piano tuners sent by Bechstein began to work.

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at Bechstein, who was glowing with black light, full of love, and couldn't wait to play a song soon.

Although Cheng Xiaoyu's new piano room is smaller than Su Yuxi's piano room, it is still quite spacious, and there are also three layers of vacuum soundproof glass on the outside, and the inside is not equipped with curtains, but vertical rows of silver metal wide-page electric blinds. All around, including the oak white solid wood floor, are soundproofed by a professional decoration company. The walls and ceilings are covered with dark gray solid wallpaper, presenting a sense of solemnity and technology. The small floor where the piano was placed was covered with a sky-blue Persian carpet and silver patent leather sofa stools, adding an elegant touch of color to the whole piano room.

The drawings of the entire piano room, including the recording studio and music studio next door, were all completed at the request of Cheng Xiaoyu. The color tone, decoration, and furniture were all chosen by Cheng Xiaoyu. The decoration is full of postmodernist dark technology style, which is very consistent with Aunt Zhou's aesthetics, and after the decoration is completed, Cheng Xiaoyu is praised for his taste.

The lawyer sent by Bechstein was a thin middle-aged man wearing a black work apron, and he obviously admired such a beautiful decoration with a personal temperament, and praised Cheng Xiaoyu. Cheng Xiaoyu was talking nonsense with a lawyer called Fan Jianguo, while watching him prepare to tune. Fan Jianguo gave Cheng Xiaoyu a business card, saying that he could call him for piano maintenance and tuning in the future.

Many people think that this kind of work is called "tuner", and most of their impressions come from the novel "Tuner" by American writer Mason. In fact, instead of being called a "tuner", it would be more accurate to call this profession a "tuner".

Fan Jianguo opened the brown suitcase that was larger than the briefcase, a wrench, a screwdriver, and a hammer...... makes Cheng Xiaoyu a little in a trance, and such a delicate and elegant thing as tuning is like a not very noble "body work".

Fan Jianguo seemed to understand Cheng Xiaoyu's question, and said with a smile, "It's really a physical job, this toolbox has to be carried at work, more than ten kilograms." ”

Cheng Xiaoyu also smiled and said, "Playing the piano is also a physical life." ”

Fan Jianguo saw that Cheng Xiaoyu was very interested in tuning, so he opened the conversation box and said to Cheng Xiaoyu, "A piano has more than 8,000 parts, more than 220 strings, and 88 keys. Only according to the 12 equal temperament can the precise sound of each key of the piano be tuned. This middle-aged man, who seemed to be thin, skillfully opened the lid as he spoke, removed the thick "upper panel", and removed the key cover.

"Tuning is a delicate process that begins with tuning A to an international standard pitch with a vibration frequency of 440 Hz. According to a note, a basic group of tones (12 notes is 12 equal temperaments) is divided, and the octave is lowered downwards based on this note, and the bass is adjusted up after it is finished. Finally, use a wrench to adjust the strings for tuning - the piano has three strings for each note, and the pitch of the three strings must be kept the same, otherwise there will be a difficult noise. Fan Jianguo said as he explained to Cheng Xiaoyu, who was very interested next to him.

Cheng Xiaoyu watched it for a while, felt a little bored, and went to the recording studio. In fact, the profession of a tuning lawyer is not as literary and artistic as written in the book, and even reveals a bit of monotony, machinery and boring - the tuning work requires absolute quiet, and during the tuning process of more than 2 hours, Fan Jianguo spent most of his time in silence on the piano, and only when he auditioned, the notes that sounded would let Cheng Xiaoyu know that someone was working in the piano room.

In the studio, three sets of monitors have been installed, including the headphone distributor in the studio, the microphone amplifier, and the five monitor headphones are also in various positions in an orderly manner.

Only the most critical mixers will be delivered in the afternoon.

A mixer is an audio device with multiple inputs (each adjustable equalizer) and multiple outputs. Mainly used in stage performances, bar discotheques, live TV and other places, it is a widely used audio equipment.

For studio mixers, in simple terms, it is mainly about coordinating the volume of each instrument, controlling their output power, and adding some reverb and other timbre effects

If the volume of each instrument is not well controlled, there will be a masking effect, and if the drum is loud, it will drown out the sound of the guitar. If you want to accentuate the sound of the guitar, you have to double the volume of the guitar.

The tuner coordinates the recording volume of each track.

There are conservatories that specialize in this specialty. Relatively speaking, the mixer is very difficult to use, and it is good to play without a good pair of ears.

Cheng Xiaoyu stood in front of the observation window of the recording studio made of large glass, looking at the irregular walls of light gray in the recording studio, and remembered how to install B as a recording studio in his previous life.

First of all, the room should be decorated as irregularly as possible, and the cost is very high for customers to say that it is professional acoustic design.

Secondly, there should be more monitors in the studio, at least two on the workbench, and a few more on the wall.

Finally, there should be many key speakers, both large and low. Regardless of whether it rings or not, it will be labeled with foreign characters and brushed with white paint, and the bluffing effect will be first-class.

Cheng Xiaoyu's recording studio is full of B-style, but relatively speaking, it is also very professional. Of course, it can't be compared with the professional recording studios of large companies, and it is normal for a top recording studio to invest tens of millions. Basically, different musical instruments will have different studios designed according to different acoustic standpoints.

Cheng Xiaoyu sometimes wonders why he continues to walk on the road of music so persistently.

He is now a rich second generation with money and leisure, and he can live a good life without working hard at all. Four or five hours a day of boring piano practice, and time to practice guitar and drums in the afternoon between rehearsals, and pick up music until midnight every day. Walking on a long and rugged road of growth with such hardships and arduous burdens.

This is not his life, he should go to drag racing, go to nightclubs, meet those bewitching girls who worship money, go to sing songs every night, go to drunk gold fans, this is to enjoy life, isn't it?

If you say no, these levels are not enough, these are not enough at all. We have to have ideals and be a big star. To call for wind and rain, to have a lot of fans, to yachts and models, to go in and out of the red carpet, to be a socialite on the left hand and a sexy movie star on the right hand, this should be the life of the protagonist.

But is it difficult for a traverser Cheng Xiaoyu? It's not difficult at all, he has too many resources at hand, and he is afraid of too much.

I'm afraid that I'll forget that heart that loves music.

I remembered that the reason why I loved to play so many musical instruments in my previous life was that I was unwilling to just listen to recordings. The feeling of playing his favorite tunes from his own hands is completely different from listening to the recording, although most of the songs he likes are very difficult to play, although the performance level is completely not up to the level of the master in the recording, but the way of associating with the things he likes is simply addictive.

Communicating with a favorite musical instrument is like being in love.

The notes that evoked Cheng Xiaoyu's countless memories flowed out of his fingers, intertwining the two things he loved.

Maybe that's what moves and resonates.

Because "Hotel California" learned the guitar.

Because of "The Irish Thrush", I learned to play the blues harmonica.

Because of the episode of Canon and Miyazaki's animation, I wanted to learn piano, but in the end I couldn't learn the piano, so I could only learn the keyboard.

Because of "In the Black Dream", I learned to play the drums.

In many cases, playing by yourself has nothing to do with skills and results.

The feeling of being intoxicated in a person's world is worth cherishing and recalling.

If you haven't practiced the piano yourself, you can't really appreciate how fast "Wild Bees Fly";

If you haven't practiced the guitar yourself, you can't really appreciate how amazing the right hand of Oshio San's "Tsubasa-youaretheHERO" is;

If you don't play the snare drum yourself, you don't know how the 32nd note is made;

If you don't blow the trombone yourself, you don't know that this thing doesn't have a button, and the pitch is all controlled by the position;

If you don't play the violin yourself, you can't imagine that being able to play it is not unpleasant, let alone playing;

If you don't play the trumpet yourself, you don't know how hard it is to vomit and how wonderful the arpeggios are;

If you don't be the conductor yourself, you think anyone can stand in front of the orchestra and beat the beat.

Listening to music is a state of mind.

Playing by yourself is more of a feeling.

When those moving notes pour out your feelings, when you dance beautifully in your hands and fingertips.

Those bleeding fingers, sore arms, sprained necks, overdrawn bodies, blurred eyes, dizzy tremors are all worth it.

In music, what we want is not only destruction, but also strength.

A true musician is in the burning of life embracing the notes.

Although in essence, Cheng Xiaoyu is just a humble plagiarist. But he is so crazy about music, and he is so sincere in wanting to come up with these beautiful things and share them with others.

To himself he was a martyr, and he was a little frightened to give his name to what was not his own, and he copied those works he liked in agony and tangles, which was contrary to his noble qualities as a musician.

Those magnificent movements sparkled in his memory, and he couldn't stop the intensity of what he wanted to play.

It was never his intention to seek profit, and it is true that his discipline was not noble enough to have no desires. If it's just to make money, write it out, and sell it. Why torture yourself so hard?

Because of the love of music.