In the afternoon, there were a lot of guests in a wine shop in Poyang. Although the guys kept bringing various dishes and fine wine to different private rooms, the guests in the room were not focused on the wine and food.

The pleasant piano sound continues to spread from the piano platform in the middle of the wine shop with a "再" shape.

Therefore, the guests in the "outer contour" of the building with the word "hui" were all listening.

From time to time, I look at the position of the piano stand in the middle.

On the piano stage, there was a beautiful piano, and in front of the piano, a woman in blue sat.

The woman is upright and young, has an outstanding appearance, holding a snake bun and playing the piano intently.

The slender jade fingers kept rising and falling on the black and white piano keys, like dragonflies, causing ripples in the hearts of the listeners.

The sound of the piano is melodious, as if the breeze is blowing, but the wind suddenly blows towards the plum blossoms swaying in the wind.

In a private room, Liu Quan, who was sitting by the window, listened to the wonderful sound of the piano, looked intoxicated, and looked at the song list in his hand from time to time.

Because of his business, he temporarily lives in Poyang. Today he was invited by a friend to come here to see the skills of "Qian Duan Zi Master". Now it sounds extraordinary.

The piano music played now is so nice. Liu Quan carefully reads the introduction of the song.

The title of the song "Three Plum Blossoms" is adapted from the piano piece "Three Plum Blossoms". Of course, the "piano" in the piano piece refers to the traditional piano, not the piano.

This song has a great origin: it is said that it was written by Yi during the Jin Dynasty, but later it was changed to a piano music.

The appearance of the song was also included in "New Words on the World", also known as "Huan Yi San Lan".

On a certain day of a certain year, the famous scholar Wang Huizhi left the capital Jiankang, but the boat he was on was still anchored at the wharf.

It happened that Huan Yi, a senior official of the dynasty, passed by the shore by car. Wang Huizhi did not recognize his car, so a guest on the boat pointed out the identity of the person in the car.

He also pointed out Huan Yi's specialty: Huan Yi is good at playing the flute, and his family contains the Keting flute of Cai Yong of the Han Dynasty, and he often plays it.

Huan Yi's flute-playing skills are very superb and he is known as the number one in Jiangzuo.

Wang Huizhi sent someone to the shore and invited Huan Yi to come over and play a song for himself.

Huan Yi was a high-ranking official and nobleman, but he was not upset when he learned about this request, because he had long heard of Wang Huizhi's name: Wang Huizhi was the son of Wang Xizhi, a master of calligraphy, and was very famous.

So Huan Yi got off the car and got on the boat, sat on the Hu bed, and used a flute to play the plum blossom tune three times.

That is, a piece is played three times in different phonemes, with three tunes.

Huan Yi is indeed very skilled, and the tunes he plays are so wonderful that everyone is fascinated by listening.

After the play was finished, Huan Yi got on the shore and got off.

Before and after, the guest and host did not have a direct conversation, but no one thought it was wrong. The behavior of the famous scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties was wild and unconstrained in etiquette. This shows that.

This matter quickly spread and became a beautiful story, and was later included in "New Words on the World".

The flute song "Three Plum Blossoms" evolved into Xiaoqu and Qinqu.

Now, it has been adapted into a piano piece, and based on the original piece, it has been continuously adjusted and improved according to the characteristics of the piano tone.

At this moment, the "Three Plum Blossoms" played by the pianist in the restaurant is a piano piece that has been set by Yuefu for the "official tune".

When Liu Quan saw this, he put down the song list, squinted his eyes, and continued to listen.

Plum blossoms, noble aspirations, ice skin and jade bones, and fragrance that keeps the cold. They have always been the object of chanting by literati and poets.

Since ancient times, countless music has praised the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms, expressed their feelings through objects, and praised people with noble moral integrity.

Now this song "Three Plum Blossoms" is divided into two parts. The first part shows the bleak scene of thousands of trees withering in the cold winter through the solemn and deep sound of the piano.

Only the plum blossoms stand in a strong and strong manner when they face the cold.

In the second part, the rhythm of the piano begins to switch quickly, the treble and low sounds jump frequently, and the sounds alternately.

Various tones are rising one after another, and the emotions are getting more and more intense, making people feel the momentum of plum blossoms blooming in the wind.

But after "moving", it is gentle "quiet".

The movement and static of the tune vividly show the pride and unyielding plum blossoms in the cold wind and "calmness".

The sound of the piano gradually became long and far, as if the birds were singing in the sky.

The aftertaste is lingering and the aftertaste is endless.

The sound of the piano stopped, but the guests were silent: the audience had not yet come back to their senses, and they were all in the "Red Plum Proud Snow Picture" composed of the sound of the piano, and could not extricate themselves for a long time.

I don’t know how long it took, but someone reacted and cheered loudly.

Then, a tide of cheers sounded, and the guests in each box were impressed by the master's superb piano skills and called out to give rewards.

The bounty of varying numbers was silently handed over to the friend, without a roll call or a singing number.

The amount of the bounty depends on your heart, not on showing off.

Listening to piano music is very elegant, so even if this is a wine shop and the piano player is a "actor" who arranges to play the piano to entertain the music shop, but giving the other party can't be as simple and crude as rewarding the little lady in the romantic scene.

Today, Fu Rong, who is "eye-opening", is here to give him a reward of 10,000 yuan (Ten Guan). Of course, because he is an "old customer" of the restaurant, he has an "account" to facilitate food and accommodation, and the money is directly deducted from the account.

Outside, the piano player saluted to the surrounding private rooms, then left, and prepared the next song.

Liu Quan, who was still unsatisfied, waited for the figure to disappear from his sight, turned to look at Fu Rong, and kept praising:

"It's really good! Today is an eye-opener!"

Fu Rong smiled and stood up to pour wine for Liu Quan: "Of course, Poyang is the imperial town. Poyang will never fall behind when the piano music appears in Xingzihedu."

"In a while, there will be more exciting performances."

"Brother Fu, how much can that little lady get this reward?" Liu Quan asked. Fu Rong looked at the other party after hearing this: "As far as I know, half, why, Brother Liu has an idea?"

"Hi, no, what are you thinking." Liu Quan was naughty, and Fu Rong laughed: "Haha, a lady is a good lady, a gentleman is a good match, this is nothing."

"But for the store, it was difficult to train a pianist and advanced to eighth-stage... There are not many eighth-stage pianist in Poyang."

"This is a money tree. I'm afraid it's not for you to be a treasure. It's not easy for Brother Liu to hold the beautiful woman."

Liu Quan was intrigued: "Is it really so difficult to get promoted to the piano level?"

"It's hard, it's very difficult." Fu Rong was also interested. Today he invited Liu Quan to come here, one to listen to piano music, and the other to chat and get closer.

Just like Go is measured by rank, distinguishing the chess skills of chess players and piano, and now it is also measured by rank, distinguishing the abilities of picnicians.

However, playing the piano is different from playing chess. Playing chess is a game of chess, and playing the piano cannot be "fighting the piano". So, how to measure the level of a piano player's piano skills?

Look at the difficulty of the piano piece being played.

The level of pianist is divided into nine stanzas, nine stanzas are the highest, and the initial stanzas (first stanzas) is the lowest. As the rank increases, the difficulty of piano music that is required to be played smoothly also increases significantly.

Piano music of different difficulties include piano music adapted from traditional piano music and music, as well as piano music that originally appeared as piano music.

This includes a large number of "famous piano songs", most of which were circulated in the palace.

The more difficult the repertoire, the higher the requirements for playing the piano skills. This not only contains the fingering method of playing the piano, but also has considerable requirements for the piano player's personal musical literacy.

The same piano piece is just a script based on the playing of a mediocre pianist, but can be interpreted with a different charm when played by a talented pianist.

"The truth is like a restaurant storyteller reading newspapers. If the tone does not fluctuate from beginning to end, you can understand the stories you read, but you will feel bored."

Fu Rong specially raised the storyteller to read newspapers and tell stories:

"If you can read it with emotion and make it mysterious and arouse the audience's interest, don't you think it's so exciting?"

This example is easy to understand, and Liu Quan became more and more interested: "Brother Fu, then, you have to train eighth sections... No, just seventh sections, seventh sections, isn't it difficult to train a pianist?"

Fu Rong nodded: "Of course, first of all, you have to choose a good seedling, secondly, find a good teacher to teach, and this seedling must be able to endure hardships, practice the piano hard, and have insight. Finally, you have to have a good piano."

He pointed to the piano on the piano stand outside the window.

"This piano is a finished product sold by Shaofu Temple. How much do you think it is valuable?"

Although Liu Quan didn't know much about piano, after listening to the three words "Shaofu Temple", he knew that the quality of this piano must be very close to the imperial objects in the palace. After thinking about it for a while, he said carefully:

"About 10,000 guan?"

"Haha, that's not the case." Fu Rong smiled and shook his head, stretched out his right hand, and opened his five fingers: "About 500 sig, but it's just the piano itself."

For 500 jin, you can buy a medium-sized house in Poyang City where housing prices are rising.

"But this is still the beginning. The piano needs to be maintained, so you need to hire a piano worker to carry out special maintenance. The piano's tone needs to be corrected from time to time, and there must be a special tuner."

Fu Rong continued to explain the knowledge about piano, and Liu Quan listened carefully. After all, this can also be used as a topic of conversation. If you talk to others in the future, you will have to talk about it.

Tuners are not something that anyone can do. To eat this bowl of rice, you must first have a good ear and secondly, you must be sensitive to subtle differences in sound.

If it is a traditional piano, five-string piano, and seven-string piano, is it troublesome to tune?

Trouble, but this is nothing compared to a piano that often has hundreds of strings.

Tuning the piano is not easy, and the difficulty is a world of difference compared to traditional piano tuning.

In the territory of Raozhou, there are no more than five senior tuners who have "certified" in Yuefu.

On weekdays, I am very busy tuning pianos for officials, civilians and merchants.

The highest-end piano (quality is close to the level of imperial piano), only Shaofu Temple and a few piano venues can be made, and piano instruments cannot be made by individuals.

No matter how expensive the high-end piano is, countless people want to buy it, so they have to wait in line.

"So, those high-ranking families now want to show off their piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, at least the piano and chess are not allowed to show off."
To be continued...