Chapter 10 Preparation
Buying a piano is different from other musical instruments, it is never a one-time deal, because the piano has to be tuned regularly, and if it is not tuned for a long time, the sound quality of the piano will be reduced, or even out of tune.
The instrument store also sent two years of regular tuning, which was a little discount on this expensive piano.
As for the violin, Zhou Nan was not so particular, and randomly selected a performance level. The violin at home is only at the entry level, and if he wants to become a musician in the future, that violin is too low-grade.
As for the price of the phonograph, it is quite cheap, because the technology of the phonograph is the strongest in Switzerland. Almost all the phonograph factories in the world use movements that are produced by Swiss Dornex.
Of course, it is not enough to have a gramophone alone, so Zhou Nan bought more than 100 vinyl records at the record store at once, and bought a set of all the music in the store.
With the development of vinyl record technology, vinyl records in the future will be played for longer and longer. But the natural shellac used to produce records was only available in India, and it became less and less common. So much so that later record companies simply did not have enough raw materials, and they had to rely on recycling old records to destroy them and later produce new records.
As a result, the records were almost extinct, and the auction prices were higher and higher for generations to come. Zhou Nan now spends money to buy these records, and they will have a high collection value in the future.
In fact, no matter what is now, as long as it is commemorative, its value will not be low for future generations.
For example, all kinds of antique cars, a Ferrari car produced in this era, the most expensive is not more than 4,000 dollars, but later generations can be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars.
In another life, Zhou Nan was very fond of cars, but by the time he could afford to buy a car, he was already seventy or eighty. At that time, he liked Ferrari very much, but unfortunately he could only look at it.
During his days in the barracks, he wondered if he would have all the Ferraris in the future. If they can be put away, by the time they reach the 21st century, these cars will probably be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
He couldn't have collected all the cars of all brands, and he didn't have that much money and not so much place to keep them. But just for Ferrari, he believes he has the ability.
Now he has more than 300,000 Swiss francs in his hand, which is enough to buy thirty or forty Ferraris according to the exchange rate. But now Ferrari has not yet been officially put into production.
Zhou Nan plans to wait until 47 years, after Ferrari is officially put into production, and from then on he will buy a car of all models of Ferrari, which is a good way to maintain value and prestige in the future.
"What a beautiful piano ......" As soon as Audrey returned home, she was fascinated by the piano that Zhou Nangang had just bought. She looked at Zhou Nan with some weakness. "Jonas, this piano is expensive, isn't it?"
When Zhou Nan went to buy a piano, the signboard was not for himself to compose, but deliberately to please Audrey and said that it was for her to practice. Audrey thought that he would buy an ordinary upright piano, but she didn't expect that Zhou Nan would buy such a performance-level grand piano, which was still handmade.
"Do you like it?"
She nodded, but couldn't help but say, "But it's expensive, right?" ”
Zhou Nan smiled and pinched her little face and said, "This is my expression of my affection for you, don't measure it by vulgar money." ”
She was moved again, hugged Zhou Nan's waist, and stuck it into his arms. "Jonas, why are you being so nice to me? I was dying happily, but I felt so ashamed. I'm afraid I've failed you to be good to me, and I'll be even more ashamed if I don't play the piano well. ”
"No, in my heart, you are the best, so only the best is worthy of you."
In return, he was rewarded with Audrey's passionate kiss.
Audrey and Stephanie continue their research and choreography, and each very characteristic movement needs to be choreographed before and after coherent movements, and then express a deep meaning through these movements.
Once you have perfected the meaning you want to express, you need to fill in the content of the dance, so that they complement each other and finally form a complete dance.
In this regard, Zhou Nan really couldn't help much. He has already told them all the movements he knows, and he doesn't have much talent for dancing, and in the future, he can help them at most in music choreography and dance creativity, and the rest has to be done by themselves.
At this time, the gap between the two of them can also be seen.
Although Audrey's basic skills are not much different from Stephanie's, she is not as good as Stephanie in her dance imagination, including in the choreography of the dance.
Stephanie is like a natural dancer, as long as Zhou Nan reminds her a little, she can quickly find a solution to any problem.
chatting with the two girls every night, watching them create a dance from scratch little by little, even Zhou Nan's heart is full of a sense of achievement.
But Audrey only takes up his night time, and the daytime is still his own. Zhou Nan also rode a bicycle around Lake Lucerne during this time.
On the sofa where Wagner once sit, he also lay on it to feel the breath of the master. In front of the piano that Rachmaninov once used, he also tried to play a piece of "Paganini Rhapsody".
Where Goethe once stopped, he gazed out over the mountains, and on the benches by the lake where Tolstoy and Mark Twain sitween, he gazed at the lake.
Lucerne in winter is not suitable for tourism, riding a bicycle and encountering frozen roads can only be walked down. But this still beautiful scenery seems to have been injected into the soul of literature and art by these masters, enjoying this beautiful scenery, and his heart seems to be edified.
Of course, he did not forget his main purpose, taking the Leica camera he had just bought, and photographing the documents signed at the Swiss founding memorial in Rütli.
At the University of Lucerne, he spent a total of 1600 Swiss francs on four sociology students. They were asked to spend two days in four libraries in Lucerne, recording a catalogue of all historical aspects and summarizing their contents.
He plans to do the same in Zurich, so that when he enters the library, he can be targeted, rather than looking for what he is looking for in a sea of books.
Only in this way did he go to major European libraries in two years, or even a year, consult a huge amount of literature, and obtain countless detailed data to make people believe.
However, he plans to wait until Audrey has finished her winter break, because Audrey is already on winter break and they are leaving Switzerland to visit relatives in the Netherlands.
Christmas is just around the corner, Mayor Arnold has left his job, and the town of Megan is temporarily without a mayor. Before leaving, he also helped Zhou Nan a lot, that is, he helped Zhou Nan finally contact a car owner.
After the defeat of Germany, Europe was in ruins, and the happiest was the United States. Almost all of the American conglomerates came to Europe as soon as possible to sell their surplus industrial products, including oil, which was rapidly overproducing due to the reduction in military needs.
Although Switzerland has not benefited for the time being, because the country is conservative, everything has to be slowed down. But now the military supply has decreased, and the world has begun to sell gasoline and diesel.
Before retiring, Zhou Nan included buying a car in his plan. Because he travels around Europe, it is impossible to take a train and rent a car when he arrives at his destination. Having a car saves even more time.
But now that there are no cars for sale in the market, Zhou Nan hit the idea to the people who used to own cars. For the time being, it's okay to buy a second-hand car first, anyway, the car of this era is still like that, no matter how comfortable it is.
Whether it is noise, fuel consumption, or comfort, the cars of this era are too different from later generations. All he needs is a means of transportation, not covetousness.
There are only four or five hundred families in the small town of Megan, more than two thousand people, which is the population of a large village in China. Arnold was the mayor of the town, and he knew the situation of almost every family in the town.
In '39, Sersaberg bought an Alfa Romeo 2900B sedan, which was a civilian model of the 2800 developed by Alfa Romeo under the orders of Mussolini, who loved cars.
Mussolini loved cars like his life, and the standard required was definitely more luxurious than Mercedes-Benz, so he later had his world-best prime minister's car.
This 2900 extended version, because it has to be distinguished from the premier's car, is not a double-row design, and the back seat of this car can either put a luggage bag or only one dog. It was originally a luxury elongated version, but it became a two-seater coupe.
However, it would not be surprising to know who designed the car, as the designer was Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the famous Ferrari.
Because of the "flaw" of this design, when it was first launched, although only 500 units were produced, sales were not very good. There is only a total quota of 20 units in Switzerland, but it took eight months to sell them out.
Of course, there is also a reason for the outbreak of the war, which happened to be the time when Germany launched the Polish War.
Selsabeg loved the car, but the eight-cylinder powerhouse was so gas-guzzling that he spent most of his time in the garage when he bought it. Now that he heard that someone was willing to buy it, and he didn't care too much about the price, he immediately agreed to sell.
Zhou Nan was a little unconvinced, but when he saw this historical car, which sold for more than $20 million in the 21st century, he decided to buy it.
Because the word elongation is pronounced in Italian as wolf dog in Chinese, many later domestic car lovers affectionately called this car a wolf dog.
He wouldn't care about burning a little more oil. Two thousand eight hundred dollars, equivalent to eight thousand Swiss francs, made the wolfdog his own, and the license plate was given free of charge.
It's another 8,000 Swiss francs, but the appreciation of this car is much more than that of a piano. The piano was what he had guessed would be a million dollars, but the car actually sold for $20 million.