Entertaining Children

"Okay," Li Hai shrugged helplessly, and continued, "Next, please allow me to introduce the performers of the next show. Bayi Chinese? Net? ? W≠W=W≥.≠8≈1 ≤Z≈W≤.≠COM”

"I believe everyone must have guessed it," Li Hai pointed to Xiao Yao who was still standing on the stage with one palm, "That is Xiao Yao who is still standing on the stage now."

Following Li Hai's introduction, Xiao Yao finally pulled off the black elastic mask covering his face, and piled it directly on his neck to become a scarf, but he did not put down the hat. Not only that, but Xiao Yao just waved to the audience as a greeting, but still didn't speak.

"Isn't there something wrong with Xiao Yao's voice?" Seeing that Xiao Yao still cherishes words like gold, Li Hai seems to have no intention of handing over the extra microphone in his hand to Xiao Yao, and some audience members whispered.

"How is it possible? Now Gong Chen has left, and there are no other singers on stage. The next show will be Xiao Yao's. It is impossible for him to continue to accompany people, he can only sing. If there is a problem with his voice, how can he perform? ?” Someone else retorted.

"Not necessarily, who said that Xiao Yao can only sing. Didn't you know that Xiao Yao also taught Gong Chen how to do magic tricks and Xu Yuan how to mix wine? Maybe he could do magic tricks for everyone? Take Xiao Yao personality, it’s not impossible to do this kind of thing.” An audience member who is familiar with the three singers just now said.

"That's right, even if he can't sing, he can still play musical instruments."

"If I can do magic tricks, I can accept playing musical instruments. I've heard him play the piano, guitar, erhu, and xun. His level is indeed very good, but if he only plays musical instruments without singing, I still can't do it." It's almost funny. He's not a professional instrumentalist."

As soon as the audience's voice fell, Li Hai on the stage had already continued to introduce: "The program Xiao Yao brought us is a solo instrument."

"Really don't sing, just play musical instruments, or solo?" Many audience members were stunned.

Following Li Hai's introduction, two staff members came up on the stage. One is holding a chair in one hand and a microphone stand in the other, and the other is holding something that looks a little strange in both hands.

Seeing Xiao Yao, he immediately walked a few steps to meet the staff member behind him, took the things in his hand, and returned to Li Hai's side.

Many viewers were immediately attracted by the things Xiao Yao held in his hands.

"What is this stuff?"

"Is this served in a covered pot? Could there be food in it?

"I look like the uFo and the flying saucer in the movie.

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Hearing the discussion from the audience, Li Hai continued: "Everyone, do you think the thing in Xiao Yao's hand looks like a flying saucer?" The big screen at the scene also showed a close-up picture of the thing in Xiao Yao's hand. The audience can clearly see that the disc-shaped metal product really looks like a flying saucer.

"This thing is called a "hand disc", and it is a percussion instrument that is struck with hands." Li Hai pointed to the thing in Xiao Yao's hand and said, "You have never seen it before, right?"

"Hand disc? What is that? Not only have you never seen it, but you've never heard of it?" the audience thought.

"That's right if you haven't seen it before." Li Hai smiled, "Xiao Yao invented this instrument himself, and it was just made more than a month ago. At present, there are only two pieces in this world. This is also a new instrument of this kind. The first public appearance of the instrument. So lucky everyone today, you will be the first audience in the world to see and hear this new instrument."

"Xiao Yao invented it himself? He can also invent new instruments?!"

"I'll go, this is too fucking awesome, is there anything else he can't do?!"

"Oh~" After hearing Li Hai's introduction, the audience immediately became excited, and cheers and screams filled the entire scene.

At this time, no one felt that it was almost interesting for Xiao Yao to play an instrument by himself. He invented a brand-new musical instrument, which made the audience feel that Xiao Yao was formidable. Being the first audience in the world to see and hear the performance of this new musical instrument live, why are they dissatisfied?

The handpan instrument was invented by two Swiss in the previous life 2,000 years ago, and naturally it does not exist in this world. Xiao Yao has seen and heard this kind of musical instrument in his previous life, and it's not that he never thought of making it. However, Xiao Yao knows its shape, material and sound principle, but he doesn't know much about its production process, so he has never been able to produce it. wish.

But the arrival of Ake Robinson some time ago gave Xiao Yao a chance to realize this idea. Ake Robinson came to help Nicholas Cross make the shape of the dragon on Xiao Yao's dragon piano, and Xiao Yao himself participated in the entire production of the dragon piano. As an expert who understands music and is good at using various materials to create the appearance of musical instruments, Xiao Yao saw the ability of Ake Robinson, and the idea of ​​making hand discs reappeared in his mind.

Ake Robinson also noticed Xiao Yao's performance.

Not only did he quickly learn how to make guitars from Nicholas Cross, but after making the dragon on the dragon piano with Ake Robinson, the smaller dragon head on the head, Xiao Yao They were all made by myself under the guidance of Ake Robinson. In addition, the dragon piano they made was designed by Xiao Yao himself, so whether it is Xiao Yao's creativity, or Xiao Yao's learning ability and practical ability in the production process, Ake Robinson is very fond of it. appreciated.

Naturally, it is not surprising that Ake Robinson likes Xiao Yao, a Chinese boy. Therefore, after the production of the Long Qin was completed, when Xiao Yao proposed to Ake Robinson the idea of ​​trying to make a new musical instrument, Ake Robinson, who was supposed to return to China after completing the task, postponed his plan to return to the United States without hesitation. I agreed.

With Ake Robinson, a very professional master, who agreed to help, Xiao Yao immediately shook out the shape, size, and material of the hand plate. In terms of production methods, Xiao Yao knew that in his previous life, there were two kinds of production methods: manual hammering and CNC machine tools. This world does not even have a hand plate, and naturally there is no CNC machine tool for production. Therefore, Xiao Yao and Ake Robinson only have pure hand hammering. The way of making and then hardening by heat treatment is gone. As for how to hammer, how to knock, how to knock out that shape and the more important sound range, Xiao Yao has no idea. This, is where the professional Ake Robinson comes into play.

After reading the musical instrument blueprints Xiao Yao drew for him, the performance method described and the timbre effect that the musical instrument wanted to achieve, Ake Robinson was also fascinated by the novel musical instrument that Xiao Yao had come up with. The attitude has also changed from simply helping Xiao Yao to making this musical instrument himself. Even if the patent right of this new musical instrument is definitely owned by Xiao Yao, as a technician who participated in the production and was the first technician in the world to make this musical instrument, he still feels proud enough.

The hand disc is a deformation of the steel drum. Xiao Yao can't and has never made a steel drum, but Ake Robinson can. Therefore, Ake Robinson is much more experienced than Xiao Yao in terms of the relationship between the shape of the steel plate and the sound it produces. Xiao Yao still has to go to school during the day, and only at night is he free to study and experiment with Ake Robinson. Ake Robinson, on the other hand, can spend the whole day on beating and beating without distraction. Therefore, during the production process, Ake Robinson was also the main operator.

After nearly a month of continuous attempts, the two finally successfully produced this instrument. When Xiao Yao played a piece of music in front of Ake Robinson with the first hand disc they successfully produced, Ake Robinson also felt that all his hard work and efforts in the past month were all worth it.

After having successfully produced the first hand dish, Ake Robinson made persistent efforts to make the second one. Because it was not far from the traditional Western Christmas at that time, Ake Robinson wanted to rush back to the United States to celebrate Christmas with his family, so he left the two hand dishes he had successfully produced to Xiao Yao and returned to the United States.

In Ake Robinson's view, the handpan is a very cool musical instrument, which will definitely be liked by many musical instrument lovers, so before returning to the United States, Ake Robinson also made a suggestion to Xiao Yao, that is, two They partnered together to set up a company specializing in the production and sale of handpan, a new musical instrument. According to Ake Robinson's idea, Xiao Yao, as the inventor of the design, will definitely apply for a patent for this new musical instrument. And the reason why he proposed that the two of them start a company in partnership instead of doing it alone is that he hopes that Xiao Yao will use this patent right to become a shareholder.

Of course, Xiao Yao was very interested in Ake Robinson's proposal. It's just that if he just issued the patent, Ake Robinson and Ake Robinson contributed half of the shares with him. But with too little equity, Xiao Yao felt a little reconciled.

Not to mention that Ake Robinson plans to open the company and factory in the United States, even if it is opened in China, Xiao Yao may not have time to participate in company management and specific production. Gao, Ake Robinson's planned business model is to provide customized services instead of mass production, and the capital required is not very large. Therefore, Xiao Yao discussed with Ake Robinson, and finally decided that the two would each contribute half of the funds. Xiao Yao contributed patents, and Ake Robinson contributed, responsible for the company's management and specific production and sales. Each holds half of the shares.

Xiao Yao's patent application has been issued, but it has not yet come down. All of these are still two people's plans and are under preparation, so except for Ake Robinson, Xiao Yao and his assistant, there are still a limited number of people, No one else knows either.

But now that he had this plan, Xiao Yao naturally began to think about the promotion of the new musical instrument, the hand disc, so at Donghai Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party, Xiao Yao decided to take out the hand disc to make an official debut.

Just when Li Hai introduced, preparations had already been made on the stage.

Xiao Yao sat down on the chair brought up by the staff, and put his hands flat on his legs. The staff took the extra microphone in Li Hai's hand, installed it on the microphone stand that was brought up, adjusted the height and angle, and pointed the microphone at the hand dish on Xiao Yao's lap.

"Next, Xiao Yao will bring you his hand-disc performance." Seeing that Xiao Yao is ready, Li Hai introduced, "The piece he played has a very poetic name, called "Misty Rain Qingdai" ", please enjoy!"

After Li Hai finished his introduction and left the stage, all the lights on the stage were turned off, only a white spotlight lit up above Xiao Yao, who was sitting on a chair with a hand dish on his legs, shining vertically downward on the stage, A cone-shaped beam of light was formed, enveloping Xiao Yao in it.