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Chapter 213 The Most Suitable Piano

He Shen followed Danyi back, instead of going back to the concert hall to listen to the next performance.

What happened in the Chopin Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw later has nothing to do with them.

But He Shen can basically guess what will happen next.

If the guess is correct, there should not be many other things in the future. Basically, the rounds of the competition will be announced, and the time of each performance will be announced.

In other words, tomorrow will be the last day of rest...

No, or should tomorrow be the first day of battle?

Starting tomorrow, the selection of pianos for the Chopin International Piano Competition will begin.

At that time, everyone's first contest will begin.

Piano selection!

A suitable piano can greatly benefit a player.

This kind of gain is not only reflected in the control of the piano, but also some of the additions of the piano to the music.

For example, in some pieces of music, because the whole is in a major key and occasionally enters a minor key, it may be better to use a piano with a brighter tone.

However, some works often change the tone, and the overall mood appears dark, so it may be necessary to use some darker pianos.

In addition, there are other details.

For example, the rebound of a certain piano is relatively soft, which is suitable for certain works.

Rebound hard, but also suitable for some works.

Because in music, it is not allowed to change the piano suddenly, so the choice of piano and the choice of repertoire are very, very important.

If you choose well, you may be one step closer to victory than others.

But these were the piano trials on the second day, and He Shen just went back to the hotel with Danyi to rest.

Soon, the time came to the next morning.

The whole of Warsaw has not recovered from the hustle and bustle yesterday, and the whole city has become extremely quiet.

He Shen didn't go to Danyi's room, and called Danyi to follow him to the Chopin Concert Hall in Warsaw to select pianos.

He directly changed into a lighter dress, got up and left the hotel, followed the bus with "Chopin International Piano Competition" on the sound of the bus, and arrived at the Chopin Concert Hall in Warsaw.

At this moment, there were not many people around the concert hall, and it seemed a little empty compared to yesterday.

After all, today is just an ordinary piano selection day, and there is no competition, so naturally there will not be a particularly large number of spectators.

Without any hesitation, He Shen stepped into it, walked to the yawning staff, took out his game card and identification, and said lightly.

"Hua Guo, He Shen, at 13:9 p.m. on the [-]th, the third place."

"Huh? Hua Guo, He Shen? Wait a minute..."

The staff member raised his head, looked He Shen up and down, nodded slightly, and took out the register that was put aside, put his fingers on it, and counted down one by one.

Finally, at the back of the second page, I found He Shen.

He put the register on the table, took out a pen from his pocket, ticked He Shen's name, nodded slightly to He Shen, and stretched out his hand to signal.

"Okay, I've confirmed your information, Huaguo Heshen, the third one will appear at 13:9 p.m. on the [-]th, please come with me!"

The staff bowed slightly, and stretched out their hands to signal He Shen to follow him.

Just when he was about to take He Shen away, another clear voice came from behind He Shen.

A man who also came from China, no...

He Shen doesn't believe in looks anymore. It can only be said that a man with the same Asian face came quickly thinking of He Shen's side, and handed his ID card to the staff in front of him. speak English.

"Maple Leaf Country, Bruce Liu, the second player to play at 14:9 p.m. on the [-]th."

After all, he also handed the ID card in his hand and the game card to the staff member.

The staff stopped when they were about to leave, glanced at the man named Bruce Liu, turned around silently, returned to the desk, took out the sign-in book that was placed there before, and checked it again.

Bruce Liu looked at the staff member slowly flipping through the register, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless. He Shen, who looked to the side, spread his hands in fluent Chinese.

"Tsk tsk, sure enough, people in Europe and the United States do things slowly, and they are not in a hurry all day long, really! It doesn't matter whether Warsaw or our Maple Leaf Country or the Pretty Country, it's basically the same."

After that, he turned to look at He Shen, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile.

"Liu Yu, Yu who controlled the waters of Dayu, my parents are both from the country of Hua. It is said that they met and fell in love in Paris, and then gave birth to me. But when I was six years old, they moved to Maple Leaf country and officially settled down. Maple Leaf Country."

He Shen looked at Liu Yu's outstretched hand in front of him, thought for a while, reached out to hold it, and said lightly.

"How deep..."

"Haha, I know you. My teacher told me a lot about you, saying that you are a person worthy of attention in this game!"

Liu Yu smiled. The staff in front of him had also found Liu Yu's name at this time. After confirming his presence, he took a special look behind the two of them.

After realizing that there was no one else coming behind the two of them at this time, he nodded slightly.

"OK, okay, gentlemen, if you think it's okay, let's go directly to the big concert hall above to try and choose the piano."

"Of course! Thank you!"

Liu Yu bowed slightly to the staff, waited for the staff to turn their backs, then slowly got up, and smiled at He Shen.

"One thing to say, Europe pays more attention to etiquette than the beautiful country and the Maple Leaf country. Maybe this is the old nobles?"

"People over there think that Europe is like an old-fashioned old aristocrat, observing a lot of etiquette, which is useless..."

"The people on their side think that the people on our side are like nouveau riche, old-fashioned black..."

Liu Yu followed the staff and shook his head helplessly.

"Maybe, this is the generation gap between us and Europe, right? Huaguo often talks about Europe and the United States. In fact, the beautiful countries in Europe basically look down on each other."

Liu Yu was obviously more active, and he talked a lot. Just after complaining about the etiquette of the staff member in front of him, he brought the topic back to He Shen and asked curiously.

"By the way, is your teacher Danyi? How is he? I seem to have often heard my teacher talk about Danyi, saying that Danyi's teaching is quite good, but he is rather old-fashioned or something."

"Your teacher?" He Shen was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Liu Yu, frowned slightly, and said hesitantly, "Your teacher is... Deng Songshan?"

"That's right, my teacher is Deng Songshan! Didn't I say that before?"

Liu Yu nodded as a matter of course, and smiled as he walked.

"My teacher also praised you, saying that although what you played did not conform to his idea of ​​Chopin, and your overall understanding of Chopin was a bit too Chopin, he felt that you lacked a lot of personal things, but , your playing is really good!"

"Talk about your sensitivity to music, the lines of music, light and shade, basically none of them have problems!"

"And the depth in your music is very, very deep, and you think a lot about Chopin. It's not like a work you can play at your age!"

"So, Teacher Deng Songshan thinks that my biggest enemy this year is you!"

When He Shen heard Liu Yu's words, he never expected that Deng Songshan's evaluation of him would be so high.

Those things in front are actually a conflict between the two directions.

In playing at the master level, there are two very distinct factions.

The first faction is like Lang Liangyue, no matter what he plays, it is full of Lang Liangyue's own feeling, even in Chopin, it is Lang Liangyue's own feeling.

This is the ego school, which is self-centered, to interpret a work, to think about how a work should be performed.

And the second faction, like He Shen, separates himself, allowing the composers who think in his self-consciousness to appear in his own music.

No matter which person's work is played, it is full of that person's style.

Play Chopin, that is Chopin!
Play Bach, that's Bach!
This is the difference between He Shen and Deng Songshan.

Two completely different paths.

This kind of road dispute has no level at all, it is a very normal disagreement, so it is very normal for people on two roads to dislike each other.

And Deng Songshan can still say that he is a very good pianist when he doesn't like him so much, which makes He Shen a little surprised...

He Shen asked Liu Yu hesitantly.

"Then, how does your teacher Deng Songshan evaluate, against Tian and Xiaolin?"

"Tanda? Kohei Antida?"

Liu Yu didn't expect that He Shen would ask him about Fantian Gongping. He couldn't help touching his chin, thought for a while, and then shook his head slightly.

"My teacher probably doesn't like Tanda, but it's okay for Kobayashi, he really doesn't like Tanda..."

"I remember that he seemed to have said before that Soda's performance was too sweet and too contrived, and contrived made him feel a little sick!"

"Tanda's works are actually very good. His overall style is sweet. No matter how sad, he always puts a layer of maltose on the outside, so that he can't help but admire it when he tastes the first bite. , I admire why it is so delicious!"

"But soon, you can feel the bitterness in his sweetness again. This treatment is actually very good. Many judges like it very much!"

"pity……"

Before Liu Yu finished speaking, the two of them followed the staff member to the backstage of the contestants.

Even in the daytime, the lights above the head are still on, ensuring the brightness of the entire backstage channel for the contestants.

Everyone walked to the left, the only door, the door with the stage logo engraved nearby, and waited for a while.

On the stage, someone can be heard playing.

It should be the last one who came to try the piano, and the one who hasn't left yet.

The staff member turned around and interrupted Liu Yu's speech, and spoke to He Shen and the two simply and quickly.

"Okay, let's wait here for a while. The last player is trying the piano. He will come down after a while. After you wait for him to come down, He Shen from Huaguo, you go first, followed by Bruce from Maple Leaf !"

"You all have 10 minutes to choose the piano. Please be sure to tell the recorder on the stage within this 10 minutes, and tell him which piano you are going to use later!"

"have you understood?"

The staff glanced at He Shen and Liu Yu behind him, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with them, they turned around and slowly opened the door.

The door was opened, and what was seen was not a stage, but a very short staircase.

A man who just glanced at it and couldn't feel any bad feeling at all walked down the stairs with a smile.

Behind him, followed by a man in a black suit who kept nodding his head.

As he walked, he was still talking in his mouth.

When the man saw He Shen and Liu Yu standing at the door, he was obviously taken aback.

But he just smiled gently at the two of them, bowed slightly, and walked outside.

"Tanda... Kyohei."

He Shen looked at the person who left, his eyes didn't have the slightest turmoil, but were extremely calm.

It never occurred to him that Kohei Soda would be in this place.

What's more, they didn't expect that these few people would meet by chance?

Just when the two of them were discussing him?
interesting……

He Shen watched as Fan Tian Gongping left the backstage of the contestants, glanced at Liu Yu who was standing aside, and nodded slightly.

"Then, I'll go first."

"Okay, I wish you all the best and choose the most suitable piano!"

"Thank you"

He Shen nodded to Liu Yu, stepped up the steps, and walked towards the top of the concert hall.

At this time, in the concert hall, only the lighting engineer on the stage was on, and the surrounding area was extremely dark, without any trace of light.

The whole looks very low.

After He Shen walked up the steps and walked towards the piano, he found that he was facing the audience.

The stairs run along the edge of the concert hall and go upwards until they reach the stage.

The staircase is surrounded by a wooden wall, and it is impossible to see the place from the audience seats.

In this way, the player can have more mood to organize the time.

And let the performers do not need to turn their bodies sideways to signal to all the audience, but let these performers face the audience and walk straight to the front of the stage.

This design...

For a moment, He Shen didn't know whether the design was good or not.

He Shen shook his head, looked in front of him, and couldn't help but become a little short of breath.

On the stage, there are four pitch-black pianos, each of which is extremely beautiful.

It can even be said that it is very sexy?

Every piano is made by major piano companies, all of which are dedicated to this competition. It is impossible for any one of them to fail in quality control!
Steinway from Willland...

Fazioli from Italy...

Kawaii and Yamaha from Japan...

These four pianos were elegantly placed in front of him, waiting for his luck.

I may not feel this special feature at all on the top floor of Haicheng Music Music before, and I think it's just like that...

But now, when four pianos that are more than two meters long and nearly three meters long are placed in front of you one by one.

The price of each piano is several million upwards.

You can probably know how shocking these pianos are.

If it is not obvious with the piano, it can be directly replaced with a car.

I showed you one car and one garage before. It probably didn’t make much sense. Anyway, there is only one car in one room.

And now put Ferrari, Lamborghini and other top car brands directly in front of you, put four together, you can choose whatever you want, this feeling is far greater than the shock of those one car one by one!

Without any hesitation, He Shen walked towards Steinway first.

It's not that he intends to choose Steinway, but that he wants to see how different this Steinway is from the one he touched in the Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

He Shen sat on the piano bench, took a deep breath, put his hand on the piano, and pressed down slowly.

hum...

An extremely clean tone came out of the piano.

Clean and delicate!

This feeling is very good!
He Shen's eyes lit up slightly, but he quickly shook his head.

This Steinway is much, much better than all the Steinways of the Haicheng Conservatory of Music in terms of feel and tone.

but……

After He Shen thought for a moment, he finally shook his head.

If the tone of this piano is brighter, he may choose this Steinway!
Unfortunately, the timbre of this piano is still a little dim.

The other two pianos from Japan are basically the same.

Yamaha's CFX and Kawaii's SK-EX are not quite to He Shen's appetite.

Both pianos are very, very good and feel very, very good to play.

pity……

He Shen was still not satisfied.

The sound of these pianos is not bright enough!

Steinway, warm and delicate.

Yamaha, moderate balance.

Kawaii, slightly muffled.

As for He Shen, all he wants is a particularly bright tone.

Because, he intends to use this brighter timbre to give the piano he chooses something brand new, something that other people seldom notice!

He Shen finally came to Fazioli.

This is a cutting-edge piano from Italy!
It has the perfect quality control of the old generation of Steinway and the top piano with new technology!

He Shen sat on Fazioli's piano bench and put his hands on the piano just like that.

hum...

The weight of the arm makes the keys of the piano sink slowly, sinking into the piano.

An extremely subtle, clear and bright voice slowly came out from the piano.

this sound?

He Shen's eyes lit up slightly.

Sure enough, my choice was not wrong!

The tone of this piano is very suitable for my future performance!

He Shen raised his hand and glanced at the time, there was not much time left.

He still has a few minutes left, and he doesn't have time to choose other pianos.

He Shen looked at Fazioli in front of him, and slammed down his hand without any hesitation.

boom!
An extremely deep voice penetrated the entire piano and came to He Shen's ears.

Penetrating, but not sharp.

Bright, but not harsh.

With this extremely pure feeling, He Shen's eyes lit up instantly.

Sure enough, this is the feeling I want to find!
The feeling of the scale, without any hindrance!
The rebound of the wheel finger is very fast, and it can be accelerated continuously to the limit that one wants to achieve.

Also, the sounding area of ​​the first piano, although the distance of this sounding area is a little bit far from the height of the sounding area I thought.

But I have to say that this height of sound can give me a lot of space to focus on music and do more other processing.

The corners of He Shen's mouth raised slightly.

Now, my hardware has been found, and my software...

He Shen looked at dozens of Lv10 Chopin works in his repertoire, and couldn't help smiling.

Now, I have prepared everything, just waiting for a few days later...

The first round of the race!
(End of this chapter)