Chapter 24: Carving a "tabula rasa" mask

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Xi Qing sat peacefully in his work chair, and before the phone call, he was making a mask for his trip to the masked singer.

In the masked singer competition, each singer needs to wear a mask for himself.

Last season, Sun Nan wore an alpaca's hood and won the final super singer. And Cao Ge also impressed everyone because he wore the mask of Monkey King.

Although a good mask does not directly determine whether the song is promoted or not, it is indeed somewhat important as a visual substitute for one's own face.

This time, Xi Qing used very light catalpa wood to make the carving of the mask, which is a kind of wood that grows in the northeast, which is moderately soft and hard, light in density, smooth in planing surface, good in processing and coloring;

And the delicacy of this catalpa wood enjoys the reputation of "wood king" and "golden tree", and it is also one of the world's famous woods.

This kind of wood is mostly used to make high-end musical instruments and military supplies, Xi Qing said that carving masks, in fact, is very simple, what he has to do is a blank slate mask, just make the shape of the mask, and he directly dyes the surface of the board with white paint.

Xi Qing made the mask of this tabula rasa, which is to tell the world that when he first entered the music world, he was like a blank sheet of paper, a tabula rasa, he didn't have any achievements, and he was starting from scratch.

And what will be written on this blank piece of paper in the future, and what kind of person I will become, I don't think so much about it now, but as long as I always keep my original intention and love music, I believe that this whiteboard will become colorful in the end.

Xi Qing is a poet, he chose to use a kind of poetry-like feeling for this show, and the design of this whiteboard, Xi Qing also thought that every time he tried a competition, he would add the audience's evaluation of himself or his feelings about the song on the whiteboard.

The tabula rasa always has to grow, and the blank paper can't be static. When Xi Qing finished the mask, the carving knife in his hand did not stop there.

During this time, when Xi Qing was fine, he would go to Teacher Liu Sandao to learn erhu and horse-head qin, but Xi Qing found that Teacher Liu Sandao liked one of the horse-head qin very much.

Later, I learned that Liu Sandao liked this horse-head qin, and it was carved and given to him by a friend of his.

At that moment, Xi Qing had a small thought in his heart, he was a carver, and he had studied with the teacher for so long, and he had never given any gifts. It's better to rely on your own hands to help the teacher carve a horse-head violin, which should be liked by the teacher.

After carving the mask, Xi Qing put out the wood he brought last time, the horse-head qin, which could not be completed by a single piece of wood.

A good horse-head violin also has high requirements for the selection of wood.

The case frame is mostly made of hardwood such as colored wood, elm, rosewood, and mahogany. The headstock and stem are mostly made of a single piece of colored wood, rosewood, mahogany or pine, while the pins are made of boxwood or stem wood.

Xi Qing's wood this time has mahogany, and then there are some boxwood left last time, which is enough to make a horse-head violin.

Xi Qing said that he didn't know about the horse-head qin before, and after this period of control, Xi Qing has a lot of treasures about the structure and function of the horse-head qin.

The trapezoidal sound box, covered with horse skin, the back of the box is thin, only a little petal is carved to attract butterflies, and the through hole and sound hole are opened.

The headstock and stem are inserted into the glue, and the stem and headstock are not done separately, but carved directly on the stem.

Carved along the stem, the head of the piano is shaped by Xi Qing in the shape of a square column, the top is bent forward, and the shape is a horse head.

Although the horse was just a head, he really felt a heroic posture that immediately neighed. The horse's brown fur stood up slightly, just like a horse that had been startled in music, and began to gallop through the grassland.

Xi Qing has carved horses, felt the bones and muscle lines of horses, and carved the horse's head, it is also lifelike.

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It took almost two days to make this horse-head qin.

And this Sunday's broadcast of the Masked Singer also produced the second episode of the Singer.

The Drifter is unmasked after defeating the Dancing Girl and the newly arrived Magic Boy. It was not the same as all the viewers had predicted in advance.

The drifter turned out to be Tao Zhe, which surprised all the audience.

But it is precisely like this, the ratings of the second episode of the masked singer actually broke 3 at half past ten in the evening, and there was a rare good rating.

And the new magic sound boy who came to fill the position was also placed a lot of attention, this magic sound boy's serious snow singing is very good, the emotions are delicate and unique, and the five judges and the audience are full of curiosity about who this magic sound boy is.

Many people think that he is the original Xue Zhiqian of this song, but the taste of this song is different from that sung by Xue Zhiqian.

Moreover, it shouldn't be that the singer is here and sings his own song on the first song, so the mystery will be gone.

But in the Chinese music scene, who is such a young voice?

With many expectations, after the drifter Tao Zhe became the singer, the masked singer of the third issue met everyone in front of the TV as promised.

With the fermentation of the first two issues, the influence of the masked singer should not be underestimated, and with the end of last week's extreme challenge bar, it is even more unique in the world at half past ten on Sunday.

In this issue, six singers, Onion Head, Magic Boy, Little Feet, Dancing Girl, Bai Mei Qianjiao, and Xi Qing, who fills the position, will stage the third singer competition.

Li Hao stepped onto the stage in the spotlight and greeted everyone steadily: Welcome to the stage of Lychee, the masked singer. Tonight, there's once again a musical showdown. Let's review the first two issues of the singer, the night madman, and Aunt Huang's glorious appearance. In the last issue of the drifter, Tao Zhe won the king of singers. After Ji Tao Zhe became the singer of the previous issue, we ushered in a new fill-in singer in this issue.

"Now, let's start with the fill-in singer, the whiteboard. Bring a song "Miss Dong". “

As soon as the host Li Hao's voice fell, the five judges on the judges' bench began to discuss.

Yi Nengjing said first: "Whiteboard." Does this singer love to play mahjong? “

Wu Qixian said: Why is it not called Hongzhong, I guess it must not be because of mahjong. “

Dai Jun said: "I wonder if the whiteboard means that he is relatively blank and a newcomer." ”

"Possibly." Li Xiang nodded.

And the fifth judge, Meng Zhu, didn't speak, but he knew who was coming this time.

The audience was in an uproar when the mask appeared on stage with a white carved wooden plank, and the boy with the guitar awkwardly came onto the stage, the mask only showed his mouth and two eye slits, and it was impossible to tell who it was.

Xi Qing took a deep breath, and then sat down on the chair he had prepared for himself in advance.

Pluck up the guitar.