"That's called suona! It's a wind instrument with a very long history. It's one of the oldest musical instruments in China. Do you understand?"
"But it's ugly."
Edmund said meaningfully: "That's because you haven't heard the sound it makes."
"What happened to the sound?"
"...listen for yourself."
"Well, what is Hamasaki Naohara holding in his arms?"
Edmund glanced up the stage.
"Sanweixian?" Jiang Fuyue raised her eyebrows, "As expected of the king of musical instruments in Country R, it looks pretty good."
Hamasaki Naohara raised his eyes, and his eyes fell directly on her hand, his tone was flat: "Your suona is also very special."
The four eyes met, and they separated with one touch.
The judges announce the start of the "communication".
The two first lowered their heads to check the instruments in their hands.
Hamasaki Naohara plucked the strings to test the sound, while Jiang Fuyue checked the live core of the suona.
The traditional suona consists of five parts: whistle, Qipai, gaizi, rod and bowl, among which the "core" is the most important.
The core of the traditional suona is a single-tube type. In the last century, Mr. Guo Yazhi, a famous wind instrument performer, invented the "living core" device of the suona, which enabled the traditional suona to play the chromatic and twelve-tone system.
Suona's expressive power is thus enriched.
Twenty years ago, a reclusive performer named "Qi Tan Yingyue" invented a "Thousand Hand Bodhi" performance method based on the "living core" device.
Judging from the existing audio data, this playing method can not only temporarily change the semitone or chromatic scale, but also use the suona as a high semitone transposing instrument without changing the fingering.
What's more amazing is that the small deviation in the interval relationship produced by the advancement of the "living core" has been effectively adjusted and corrected by him by controlling the strength of the mouth.
A song played down, it is perfect!
It's a pity that Qi Tan Yingyue has disappeared for 20 years since he left the handed down audio, and no more of his performances have come out during this period.
Judge White looked at the suona in Jiang Fuyue's hands and fell into melancholy for a moment.
He was fortunate enough to listen to that audio, and was deeply shocked at that time. During his stay in China, he always wanted to visit this strange Tan Yingyue.
pity…
"Mr. White?" The person next to him reminded in a low voice.
Only then did he restrain his thoughts, and picked up the microphone: "Next, I invite the two performers to report the repertoire."
Hamasaki Naohara: "My repertoire is "Kanda Matsuri"."
Jiang Fuyue said concisely: ""A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix"."
White: "I announce that the performance has officially begun."
Hamasaki Naohara stared, raised his hand and plucked the strings.
Almost at the same time, Jiang Fuyue sank to her dantian, and uttered the first note...
As soon as the suona rang, the sound wave suddenly rose, without any foreshadowing at all, it was the loudest auditory baptism directly.
Immediately, the sound of Hamasaki Naohara's piano was overshadowed.
"Damn it! What do you mean by taking the lead, this is it!"
"As the saying goes, among all kinds of musical instruments, the suona is the king, either ascending to heaven or worshiping in the hall - I finally saw it today."
"Is it the suona of 'When the song is played, when the cloth is covered, the whole village waits for the food to be served, walking and lifting, followed by a piece of white'?"
"Don't worry, there's more to come - as soon as the coffin is lifted and the soil is buried, relatives and friends cry, firecrackers sound, suona blows, the front is lifted, and the back chases."
"My god, sister Yue is dead!"
"No wonder some people say that the sound of the thousand-year-old pipa and ten-year-old zither and the sound of the suona can change life!"
"It's more than that! I don't know the meaning of the suona when I first hear it, but I'm already in the coffin when I hear it again."
Although suona is often used to play mourning music, "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" is not sad. On the contrary, its melody is warm and cheerful, showing the vibrant scene of nature.
After a melodious melody, Suona began to imitate the calls of various birds, such as cuckoo, turtledove, partridge, swallow, owl, quail and so on.
During this period, the fingering changes are extremely fast, and the variations are gorgeous, and each note seems to be dancing with the breath of spring.
Even those foreigners who don't know what "a hundred birds face the phoenix" are like being on the scene, being brought into the singing of thousands of birds.
Then there was another vibrato showing off skills, the spring became more and more beautiful, and then the melody began to become mellow and beautiful, the tone was flat and slowed down, and a pastoral scene was slowly spread out in front of everyone.
The stage seemed to be Jiang Fuyue's stage alone, and all the people became her audience alone.
In front of Suona, the sound of the king, the Sanweixian, which is mainly graceful and clear, is completely covered up. Occasionally, when it encounters a high note, it will only make people feel harsh and abrupt.
Under the stage, Hu Yongwei smiled and nodded slowly.
The music teacher watching the battle was dumbfounded.
The Huaxia representative's original nervous expression gradually subsided, and he turned to Hu Yongwei and said, "No. 1 Middle School is indeed one of the top three key high schools in Linhuai. It not only has top students with outstanding grades, but also such talented art students."
Although he has never learned suona, he has listened to a lot of concerts, so he can tell the level of this student.
To be honest, it was no different from those famous performers he had heard in the Imperial Theater.
Hu Yongwei laughed wrinkled upon hearing this, "She's not an art student..."
"What? Not an art student? That... what a pity."
"It's not a pity, it's not a pity at all," Hu Yongwei shook his head with a smile, "because her academic performance is better than her performance level."
The representative was stunned.
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Second watch, two thousand words.
The third update is being written, and it will be updated when it is finished. You can read it tomorrow morning.