Chapter 47 Unplugged

Lehe returned to his residence in Dengzhou City, locked himself in his house and closed his door.

After inspecting the bazaar, he roughly understood that this era was still dominated by agriculture, and the steel industry was not yet developed, let alone the large-scale production of the steam age and the fine processing of the electronic age.

If you want to make your own musical instrument in this era, you can only use the raw materials of this era!

Because there is no electricity, you can only leave it unplugged!

The instrument has been handed over to the musical instrument shop to be manufactured. Needless to say, it's a six-string guitar. Because there are no iron strings and nylon, only strings on the lute can be used. The body music and the designation are pear wood, and the neck is made of rosewood, which has been confirmed with the shopkeeper. The timber resources of the Northern Song Dynasty are still relatively rich. The "fret" of the guitar neck (the raised part of the edge of the lattice area on the neck) is made of bamboo chips, and the "phase" (the symbol used to distinguish the player in the lattice area on the neck) is a buffalo horn. If the shopkeeper can make it strictly according to his own instrument drawings, this guitar should be able to play the melody of the future.

Next is the audio amplification device, because there is no circuit amplifier, so it can only be made into some diffusion device that can amplify the sound wave agitation, like the first phonograph that appeared in the history of music. So Lehe bought a lot of pots and pans and tried to connect them to the soundbox of the instrument to amplify the sound.

As for the pangolin, it was the mythical beast that Lehe had stumbled upon, and its scales could be used as a substitute for the plucked strings for guitars. He gently took a piece of pangolin scales from the pangolin's body, which had aged and was about to fall off, and plucked the strings of the pipa, which was actually quite hard and tough.

The rest of the microphone can only be roared by a simple iron hood. Lehe thought so.

When it was time to get the guitar ordered, Lehe came to the musical instrument shop early in the morning. The shopkeeper handed him a piano wrapped in a red cloth, and he carefully opened it.

A custom guitar that is hard to see even in the future came into his eyes.

The guitar case of yellow rosewood is actually polished with coarse cloth and flannel to make it smooth and reflective, and the neck of rosewood is also upright, and it feels just right in the hand. To Lehe's surprise, the headstock was actually carved with auspicious clouds, making this piano look extraordinary. The position of the string is not bad, and when you close one eye from the headstock and look down, it is almost absolutely parallel to the neck. Even the cooked cowhide shoulder straps that hang the guitar are securely riveted to the sides and tail of the guitar.

Le He stood and looked at him for a long time, the shopkeeper looked at him in a daze, couldn't feel his reaction, and said tentatively: "Le Xiaoyi, are you satisfied with this piano?" ”

Le He muttered in his mouth: "Look at the appearance is impeccable, but you have to listen to the piano." ”

As he spoke, he rotated the bracket of the headstock, adjusted the tightness of the strings, and then when the fingers of his right hand plucked the strings, he was able to play the precise pitch of each tone of EADGBE (the pitch of the time string when the guitar is tuned). He took out a pick from his pocket made of pangolin scales that had been polished into a deformed triangle and played a strumming string, a kind of music and the sound of an instrument that the shopkeeper had never heard before, recalling it in the instrument shop.

Rakuwa's hands even began to tremble with excitement.

He took a deep breath, hung the guitar on his left shoulder, closed his eyes, and played the song "Nirvana of the Main Star" that he didn't know how many times.

Inexplicable imprisonment, incomprehensible interrogations, endless darkness, unbelievable crossings.

All the adventures that have happened to Le He these days have appeared in Le He's mind one by one at this moment, and with the notes turned into a breeze, lightly floating out of his thoughts, and then continued to drift towards the sky, turning into floating clouds in the sky.

Rakuwa played and sang softly.

At some point, two lines of tears flowed out of his eyes.

Although the shopkeeper was not sure what the instrument that Le He asked him to make at first and what kind of performance effect it would produce, at this moment Le He's performance had deeply moved him, and he seemed to see Le He and this new piano become one and merge into one.

Music, no matter where it is in time and space, is universal.

The shopkeeper watched the music and selfless performance, and couldn't help but take two drumsticks, one on the drum and the other on the bronze cymbal, to beat the rhythm of the music and the performance.

The guys from the musical instrument shop heard the sound from the backyard and rushed to the front hall counter, listening intently to the two of them. Even passers-by were attracted by the strange sound and entered the musical instrument shop to listen quietly. Soon the musical instrument shop was crowded with people with their necks stretched to listen to the music.

Lehe still closed his eyes, playing and chanting emotionally. The shopkeeper also focused on beating drums and cymbals, and from time to time also beating other metal percussion instruments, which complemented the harmony of music and harmony.

After playing and singing a song, Le He opened his eyes and was startled to see so many people crowded into the instrument shop. But then he got back to the past (future?) I used the instrument shop as a concert scene and began to play and sing other tracks, including rock classics from a few years ago.

In between plays, he also gestured to his audience in a classic rock gesture with his hands in a fist and only the index and little fingers outstretched, so that gradually, the whole room stretched out the "very six plus one" thumbs up gesture, raised their arms and waved, quite spectacularly.

When the rhythm was strong, Lehe shook his head, and the square scarf with his hair was thrown off. The hair fell over Lehe's shoulders, and Lehe threw his long hair into a waterfall, a bolt of lightning.

Several young people in the audience also shook their heads, forming a surging wave of people.

But the shopkeeper took off his shirt and knocked more vigorously with his bare arms.

Le He tried his best, sometimes putting the guitar behind his back to play blindly, sometimes hanging the guitar and jumping duck steps while jumping and playing, sometimes kneeling on the counter with one leg and strumming the guitar upright on his knees, sometimes putting the guitar to his mouth and biting the strings with his teeth, sometimes lying on the ground with his hip support while playing in circles with his feet. He also came to the side of the shopkeeper, grabbed a drumstick, and helped the shopkeeper beat the drum and beat the cymbals, which ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

Just listen to the music one after another: "Return to the Dark", "Xiaoqiang Rushes Forward", "My Baby Love", "Stairway to Heaven", "California Inn", "Birds of Freedom", "Black and White", "Sweet Hometown", "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Childhood Sweetheart", "Crazy Train", "Hell Highway", "Water Misty", "Goodbye My Love", "I am the Top of the World", "Three-Three-Five Room", "Vertigo Song", "Useless Review in Sorrow", "Body of Steel", "Sea and Sky", "No Land to Shame", "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty"... …

The people in the musical instrument shop seemed to be enchanted, and the atmosphere was warm, singing and harmonizing. From time to time, someone fainted excitedly, and was lifted to the street by countless hands above the crowd for treatment.

……

When Sun Li arrived in a hurry with the soldiers, Le He was standing on the counter with his back to him, about to jump from the counter into the crowd.

Sun Li hurriedly grabbed him and held him up.

When he put Lehe on the ground, he still got on his knees and played a high-pitched trill.

Sun Li patted Lehe's face with his hand.

When Lehe opened his eyes, he saw that his brother-in-law was coming, and his face was angry, so he stopped playing.

The frenzied crowd in the room heard the music and stopped abruptly, and then gradually returned to calm and normalcy, but their eyes were focused on Sun Lisun Tihar.

Sun Li said loudly to the audience in the shop: "Scattered, scattered, scattered for me!" ”

Lehe greeted everyone with a rock gesture and threw the pangolin scales pick in his hand out the door. The audience "buzzed" out of the door and went to coax the pick.

Seeing that the people in the house were almost gone, Sun Li looked at Le He angrily and whispered: "What a good Le and uncle!" Someone reported to the official that there were people gathering near this musical instrument shop to make trouble, and I rushed to see that it was my wife and uncle who were making noise here. You, you, can you save some snacks for your brother-in-law? ”

Lehe took the guitar off his shoulder and carefully placed it on the counter, tied his hair back with a square scarf, gave Sun Li a look at the boss, and said to his brother-in-law: "Let my brother-in-law bother." It's not that the younger brother intends to make trouble, it's just that the shopkeeper's piano is well-made and superb, and I can't help but try the timbre, but I can't stop playing it. At the concert at Governor Zhang's mansion, the younger brother didn't dare to slack off, and wanted to prepare more in advance. ”

Sun Li's face softened a little.

Lehe turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Thank you for the shopkeeper's support, I made this good piano." When I listened to the accompaniment of the shopkeeper, the younger brother felt that the shopkeeper was quite accomplished in percussion. I don't know if the shopkeeper is willing to form a band with his younger brother? ”

The shopkeeper was confused, and then said: "Don't hide it from Le Xiaoyi, I listened to the melody and song played and sung by Le Xiaoyi, which is wonderful, I just felt it, and echoed it a few times at will, and it was difficult to get into the hall of elegance." Besides, I still have this musical instrument shop to take care of, it's not that I'm looking for a truthful excuse, it's really a lack of skills. ”

Le He was worried, thinking that it was difficult to find a suitable drummer, but he refused to form a group. Nowadays, there is only one guitar, and it is difficult to sound alone, how is this good!

Sun Li saw that he was sincere, his face was full of sorrow, and his heart softened. He thought for a moment, and said to his wife's uncle: "Brother Xian, my name is "Sick Wei Chi", I have a brother named Sun Xin, known as "Xiao Wei Chi", married a capable wife, known as "Mother Big Worm" Gu Sister-in-law, opened a hotel in the ten mile archway outside the east gate, and the diners and travelers from the south to the north settled in them, and they often gathered a group of idle people to occasionally play and sing. It's better for the virtuous brother to go to them and ask them, maybe they can get something. ”

Le He's eyes lit up, and he hugged his brother-in-law and said, "Thank you brother-in-law for telling me, I'm going to visit!" ”

So he took his guitar and ran to the east gate without looking back.

Sun Li shook his head helplessly, and settled the money for the ordered musical instrument with the shopkeeper of the musical instrument shop.