Miss Bach's Crab Canon

The organ craftsmen kept confirming the drawings and telling the workers various marks, and then they were strong and strong and carried the various parts into the church.In the church, designers and architects talked to each other, confirmed the details, and piled up the pipe organ like Lego.

The glass craftsmen are also there, they are demure and free, and they are dealing with the stained glass in the reserved position.But from time to time, they would take a look at the busyness in the church and wonder what kind of sound such a large instrument would make.

And the ghosts from the past, sitting silently on a seat in the church, like believers who come to pray.

Anticipation melted the memory, and joy raised the corners of her mouth. She looked at the organ, not missing every moment of its formation.

It's just that her fingers are gently undulating on her thighs, perhaps playing the wind of the past?Perhaps, it is a preview of who will be dedicated to the first song.

101 Predicting the Future

Inside the church, there is a smell of mixed building materials.

They spread out from wood and metal, and then drill into the building gaps where stone is the main tone, waiting for the wind to take them away.

Gao Yiyu couldn't estimate the size of the interior of the church. Compared with the school gymnasium that is often used for swearing-in meetings, it would be smaller than half the area.

Dozens of wooden chairs have been arranged neatly and lined up on both sides of the road.

——Sitting up is very reassuring, and Ioannis probably thinks so.

Joannis sat in the first row, the closest one, and could watch the workers busy without missing any details.

Gao Yiyu sat behind her and put his hands on the backrest in the front row. As long as Joannis turned slightly back, their faces would be very close to each other, which was very suitable for whispering.

Of course, the goddess of laurel is also here. This sage who is full of curiosity about knowledge can't sit still, but the whole church is running around, using the power of insight into the essence to explore everything about the organ.

Jialina was sitting a little farther away. As Party A, she was here to oversee the construction, which was the benefit of the construction progress.

"—Listen." It was Ioannis's voice.

What are you listening to?

Gao Yiyu was puzzled for a moment, but immediately understood the answer.

It's footsteps.

Several workers came from outside carrying large sound pipes.The weight on their shoulders made each step heavier, two octaves lower than usual.This means that it can transmit a more solid, deep vibration.

Those neat footsteps passed the middle of the road, and every step triggered resonance and reflection in the church.

What a deep bass... Gao Yiyu's eyes widened in surprise.

If you go to a concert and feel the emotional mobilization triggered by the music rushing towards your face, the biggest part is not actually impressed by the beauty of the melody or the singer's exquisite voice, but a very simple one. — from the bass line.

Because they are inconspicuous, low-key and mysterious, you can't hear them if you don't listen carefully.

But they will turn into a kind of vibration that runs through every cell in the body, silently and loudly announcing their existence.

But if the bass player is bad, if the instrument is bad, if the equipment that conveys the sound is bad, or the acoustic design of the venue is bad, or both—then the vibration can't mobilize the emotion, it's doomed It was a shitty live show.

But here...in this church...the bass is so solid.

"It's a good church, and its voice can reach people's hearts." Joannis commented.

"The acoustic design is amazing..." Gao Yiyu commented in a modern way.

Before that, although she often saved money to go to live concerts, it was only "often" compared to those who were not interested. More often, she was only at home with stereos and headphones.

She is very familiar with the theoretical knowledge of the organ, and is even confident that she can play some simple pieces directly.

But it was only at this moment that she understood with her body for the first time why the undisputed king of musical instruments was the king of musical instruments.

Because the whole church—will be its resonance chamber.

Gao Yiyu swallowed, in order to calm down.But it seems that there is no need to do this. An idea that came to her accidentally calmed down her majestic feelings about the organ.

"Joannis."

Gao Yiyu poked her neck, hooked his index finger, and asked her to pass her ear.

Next to her slightly reddened ear, Gao Yiyu asked in a low voice, "Aren't all of you who believe in Jesus Christ deaf..."

"...You, you, you, you...why do you ask that..."

"The resonant cavity is too big, and the pipe organ makes complex sound waves humming all day long. You all have to suffer in it, and you have to go to church to listen to sermons since you were young, right? The children in the choir are especially young. , I have to sing with the accompaniment of the organ in the church, and I have suffered so much during the growth stage... Isn't the ear dying soon?"

"That..." She rubbed her itchy ears for unknown reasons, and explained, "Did you see those little wooden tubes?"

"Sound pipe?"

"No, that's metal...it refers to the dozens of small pipes lying on the ground over there, the kind with small balls on them."

"Oh, stop."

Glad she got the word right, Joannis immediately explained: "We can use the stoppers to control the volume of the pipe organ. In fact, the best kind of pipe organ can produce the same delicate sound as the harpsichord. The sound, the volume can also be very soft.”

"Oh, so when I usually practice the piano, I use the low volume mode..."

"Yes, basically it is like this... But if there are many believers, or when there are festivals, important people visiting, and annoying people in the church, we will use the loudest volume to convey God's words. Majestic! They can only listen obediently if they think it's noisy, hehe."

"...Then don't you suffer the same?"

"That's different, I must have plugged my ears in advance..." Joannis was very proud, "We have heard a lot more about the majesty of God than ordinary people, so we won't be punished for being absent once in a while."

At this time, the sound of lighter footsteps stepped out of many bass bands and spread in the church.

While chatting, they looked around, wanting to see what parts were being shipped.Joannis is very confident, and has played with the organ for decades, and there is no one she doesn't know-err... what is that?

"Huh? Circuit..."

"...Electricity, circuits?"

"And the motor?"

From the looks of it, they were all printed in German, and looked solid, sophisticated, and reliable.

Workers took them to the back of the church, even to the rearmost position.Ioannis can tell where those parts are going to be used, based on the paths workers walk.

"That should be where the... blower is."

"Oh, that's where the electric blower is going to be installed."

This is not surprising.

The principle of a pipe organ is actually similar to something like a pan flute, very simple.When the gas is injected, the pipe body resonates. Even students who have nothing to do in class have basically played with blowing pen caps. It is the same principle.

However, when used as a musical instrument, a small opening is made on the tube body and different tube bodies are used to control the sound.Therefore, injecting gas is the first step of an instrument, but such a large pipe organ must not be blown with the mouth.

"That is to say, now instead of hiring workers to press the blower, but..."

"Yes, electric elves please." Gao Yiyu even learned to answer quickly.

Just chatting in a few words, time passed by little by little.

During this period, Jialina repeatedly wanted to sit next to Gao Yiyu and talk to her about more things, but as the heir of a great family, she was actually very busy.

A mature female secretary with black silk high heels, gold-rimmed glasses, intellectual and strong, holding a folder and an IPAD will always come up with a lot of things that need to be handled and decided by Carina.

Gao Yiyu heard a few words, nothing more than——

"It is necessary to determine the tendency of textbooks in a certain area, and to subtly influence it in order to sell a certain idea in the future."

"Through smart electronic products, the basic health information of a large sample of a certain country is collected to prepare for the next drug development and discontinuation in advance."

"A certain regime they control has become unstable in the region, and public opinion has generated a lot of opposition. So they will create an anti-regime leader and form an organization to concentrate the opposition, and then split the interior and form multiple groups. a faction and keep them busy with internal friction."

If you think about it carefully, these contents that sound likely to be problematic, if you want to be wronged and owed, can actually even be counted on Gao Yiyu's head?Fortunately, except for Deli Dolly, who is the most mysterious and the one behind the scenes, no one can find out about this...

She decided to continue being a pure musician—like Ioannis.

"Look! That sound pipe!"

"what happened?"

"Must have used very good quality lead!"

"lead?"

"Yes, this is the tradition of making pipe organs in ancient Rome. But when the Habsburg bigwigs were in charge, the pipe organists discovered that the paste produced by burning tin and lead together was the best. "

Tin's musical performance is close to that of silver...it should be the part that provides clear, high-pitched, and pleasing sounds.And the lead is used to provide the thick part of the sound, right?The alloy of these two metals has become the two base tones of the pipe organ tone.

There are many things that make Joannis happy.

"Look, the Sesqui altera stop, it can build a very special set of overtone resonance sounds, and its tonality is a very interesting temperament."

After finishing speaking, Joannis raised her final note, hummed that note softly in her throat, and immediately hummed another, as if she was trying to express the chord, but it sounded nothing special... Maybe she didn't hum well.

The workers were so busy that they didn't even have time to pay attention to Gao Yiyu who seemed to be talking to himself.

Daphne, who had been shopping all morning, also returned to the chair and sat beside Gao Yiyu, obviously tired: "What did you two talk about?"

"I'm about to introduce, this pipe organ uses Arp Schnitger's usual style of stoppers, you see, this double-increased two sets of symmetrical pedal stops, and the pipe of Rückpositiv..."

Joannis had endless words and a beautiful smile that couldn't fade away.

"Also, I can see that it fits my requirements, a classic organ with eight octaves! Definitely has three hand keyboards, a pedalboard... I like it. And the 8-foot stops are even more The classic among the classics, I am surprised that this era is still using this system, and..."

It's a pity - there are things that can't be done.

Daphne waved her hand and interrupted Joannis's words, expressing that she didn't want to listen to those words that she didn't understand and were actually meaningless.

Instead, she said so.

"This big project can't be finished today, you'd better calm down as soon as possible."

"Hmm..." In fact, Gao Yiyu felt the same way, but Joannes was always excited before, and he didn't want to pour cold water on it.

Just by estimating, Gao Yiyu saw thousands of sound pipes of different sizes and countless building parts waiting to be spliced.She hadn't dared to investigate how long the organ installation would take, but a few months wouldn't be surprising.

It's brutal.

At the beginning of something, people always put too much enthusiasm into it.But from the next day, when the full sleep resets the heart, the enthusiasm will cool down and become a dull habit.

She knew this, but at least hoped that Joannis could express her enthusiasm on the first day.In this way, when the organ is finally ready to be delivered at some point, I will press the keys flatly, recalling the burnt enthusiasm of today.

"Uh...Even if this is a great Hyundai, there's no way...can we set it up today?"

Joannis seemed to have a cold.

"I... I can... wait until late at night."

"There is nothing great in modern times, the progress of human beings is negligible, and the mind is even regressing. But according to my guess, we should be able to finish it after half a month." Daphne didn't want to coax the children, "This is already very fast, according to me observations."

"—How about, let's go play the piano?" Gao Yiyu wanted to propose this, to comfort the ghost who had lost his expectation.

However, is there really no way to solve it?

She didn't say the proposal, but swallowed it again.She straightened her waist, looked away from the busyness of the whole church, and looked at a higher place.Looking out through the empty window, which has not yet been installed with stained glass, the blue sky is covered with clouds and mist.

Gao Yiyu has also experienced many days when his expectations failed.

For example, when I was a child, a relative who came to visit by chance heard that she liked music, so "the next time I come here, I will bring you a musical instrument as a birthday present", those are just casual words to fool children.

But she took it seriously.

Looking forward to what kind of musical instrument, looking forward to when that relative will arrive, and patiently resisting my curiosity, so as not to appear as a greedy bad boy.

Until that relative came again, empty-handed, completely forgetting the promise he made to the child.Instead, he said it again: "I heard from your parents that you like music? Then next time I will bring you a musical instrument as a gift?"

From that day on, Gao Yiyu understood that he was living in reality, not a utopia that could be controlled by his children's expectations.

——But the reality is not always cruel.

The father, who was still very poor at that time, could see the mood of the child.Although she couldn't afford an instrument, she used coins to teach her how to play the rhythm part, to accompany her own hums and whistles, and just in this way, the sound became rich and interesting...

Gao Yiyu closed his eyes and took out the gold coin.

"--Ding."

Gently tap on his forehead.

At this moment, hundreds of human beings, inside and outside the entire church, all felt something at the same time.An indescribable disgust, horror...like the brightness of the world, who turned it down?Or whose black wings covered the sun?

Only Jialina, who is busy manipulating the exchange rate, can see a little clue.

——The bard walking in history, there is a black mist around her, that is all she can observe, but it has surpassed all her understanding.

When she came back to her senses, Jialina was sweating all over her body, and her head was burning like crazy with the observed magic power. What was that?There is such a thing in this world?This is a church...a church? !

But the person who summoned the devil, and the devil himself, were as usual.

"The demon of history." The bard's call is like poetry, "I want to predict the future."

"—Yes." Shrouded in black mist, the demon made an unexpected response.