Tripod wedding

Chapter 1082 Looking for Azusa ([-])

The Qinba Mountains are the Qinling Mountains and the Bashan Mountains, spanning the six provinces of Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Henan and Hubei. This area is rich in lacquer trees. If you want to find the best raw lacquer, the most suitable place is the Qinba Mountains.

When Mr. Geng said this, Xu Qingru and Gu Yunzhi knew his difficulty.

Gu Yunzhi said: "The roads in the Qinba mountain area are winding and there are many cliffs and steep slopes. Mr. Geng, you don't have to go there yourself. This kind of thing will be done by Yunzhi. After Yunzhi collects some raw lacquer samples, Mr. Geng will decide what to do." It's not working."

Mr. Geng let out a "hmm", his eyes were a little deep.

Gu Yunzhi asked, "Does Mr. Geng have any worries?"

"If you just need to collect raw lacquer, then you don't need to alarm the two heads." Geng Lao said.

Gu Yunzhi fell silent, he couldn't think of what Mr. Geng was worried about.

Xu Qingru thought for a while, and asked Geng Lao: "Geng Lao, this piano is not just about repairing the paint, right?"

Mr. Geng nodded: "It's not difficult to repair the lacquer surface. You two have made an appraisal before. The ancient qin before Tang used deer antler cream for the lacquer body. , I have removed his mistakes, now I just need to make black putty with raw lacquer and antler ash to fill it up, sand off the buds with water sandpaper, and then scrape flat several times, and sand them finely with water sandpaper. Many things have been done, resulting in many problems with this piano."

"What else is wrong with this piano?" Gu Yunzhi asked.

"When the previous person was repairing the piano, the damaged part of the paint layer was filled with chemical glue and smoothed, the cracks in the bottom plate were nailed to the panel, and the worn and low parts of the saddle were covered with bamboo pieces. I have put these wrong The repair method is removed, and now the bottom plate needs to be filled and repaired, and the saddle is smoothed.”

After Mr. Geng explained it, the two of them understood that this piano became more and more fragile due to the mistaken repair of the predecessor, and it needed more meticulous repair and restoration.

Xu Qingru thought for a while and said, "Is Geng always worried about repairing the wood of the floor?"

Mr. Geng gave a "hmm" and sighed: "I have seen and repaired countless qins in my life. This qin is made of phoenix trees and the bottom is catalpa wood. It is not very easy to find the right catalpa wood." easy."

Gu Yunzhi frowned and said, "What Geng Lao means is that the catalpa wood used in this piano is so good that it is difficult for us to find a replacement?"

Mr. Geng nodded, and the worry between his brows became even more serious: "Whether a piano can play its own rhythm depends on the materials used for this piano. If you can only find ordinary catalpa wood, insert it into it to repair the body of the piano, I'm afraid it will greatly affect the sound of the piano."

"A qin without its own sound will have no soul."

Genglai's tone was full of exclamation, and Xu Qingru said: "I heard that in the past, Lei Wei had a unique method of selecting materials for making pianos. He believed that the sound of the piano should come from nature, so he had to use intuition to select materials. He often Go into the deep mountains and old forests, listen to the sound of the trees, so as to choose the materials he thinks are the best."

Gu Yunzhi answered, "Well, so the qin that Lei Gong cut can really play the sounds of nature."

Elder Geng sighed again: "It's just that now, there are people who are willing to go into the deep mountains and old forests to listen to the trees on a snowy day, but not everyone can recognize the name."

"Old Geng." Gu Yunzhi said, "My Gu family has been collecting and reading pianos for generations. I know a lot more about Guqin than Master Xu. Just leave this matter to me. You don't have to let Master Xu do it." Let's worry about it together."

(End of this chapter)