The hotel room Fang still reserved for cross was also a suite. After entering the room, they sat down on the sofa in the living room.
"Our company''s Huaxia agent has already prepared the production room for me locally, and the raw materials and production tools are ready." As soon as cross sat down, he went straight to the topic and said, "as long as we agree on what kind of guitar to make tonight, I can start making it tomorrow. There are no restrictions on the types of guitar you make. The wooden guitar and electric guitar can be, even the four string of bass and Jo Kerry Lee or the five string banjo, similar to the guitar, which I can do, you has the final say.
"Six string guitar, of course." Xiao Yaodao. Although other pianos can play by themselves, most of them just play casually, and most of them are guitars.
"No problem," cross nodded. "Electric guitar or wooden guitar? Are there any requirements for appearance and materials? You can ask for colors, shapes, sizes and materials, or I can design them for you. "
"The shape can also be changed according to the requirements?" Xiao Yaodao.
"Of course, otherwise it''s called a custom-made guitar." Cross said with a smile, "and I can only make one piano like this. I won''t make the same one for other people."
"So cool?" Xiao Yao thought of Wang Leehom''s cool dragon zither and said to cross, "I want an electric guitar. I''ve designed the shape myself. It''s very special. I can draw it for you now. Please wait a moment." With that, Xiao Yao got up and went to the desk in his room, picked up the pencil and blank writing paper provided by the hotel, went back to the sofa and began to draw.
Before long, Xiao Yao handed a good picture of the guitar to cross and said, "Mr. cross, can such a guitar be made?"
"My God, what''s this?" After taking the picture from Xiao Yao, cross immediately stares in surprise.
"This is the dragon." Xiao Yao said, "the dragon of China."
"I remember," Cross said with a smile, "like those in the Yanjing Palace Museum? I heard from the tour guide that the dragon was the symbol of the ancient Chinese emperor. It seems that you have a lot of heart He remembered that when he visited the Forbidden City in Yanjing before, he had seen reliefs of this animal on the walls and pillars.
"Er... The dragon is not only the symbol of the emperor, it is the totem of our Chinese nation. We Chinese all call ourselves the descendants of the dragon." Xiao Yao drips sweat way.
"I see." Cross nodded.
"Can you do it?" Xiao Yao asked again.
"It''s not easy, but it looks so cool. I''ll make it." Cross said, "what about color and material?"
"Silver, material, I want to use carbon fiber, so it won''t be too heavy." Xiao Yaodao.
"No problem," cross nodded. "It''s just that the production cycle won''t be short. I guess it''ll take about a month. Besides, I can''t do this shape by myself. I still need help."
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Xiao Yao asked.
"No, our company has professionals in this field." Cross shook his head. "I''ll ask the company to send someone from America to help me. The only thing you need to do is to take a picture of the piano after it is made, and let''s put the picture on the company''s official website, OK? "
"No problem." Xiao Yao immediately nodded, and then asked, "during the production period, can I visit it? I''m also interested in how to make guitars
"Of course." Cross nodded with a smile. "This piano will spend a lot of time on the production of this dragon. In the early stage, I will have a lot of free time. If you want, I can teach you how to make a guitar."
"Thank you. Of course I want to learn." Xiao Yao said happily.
"The idea of this piano is very good. It provides a new idea for me to make guitar in the future." Cross praised, "I heard that you wrote the song" sugar "of" daydream ", and the idea of raiding the real wedding scene in that MV also came from you. It seems that you are not only a great musician, but also a guy full of imagination. I like you. I''m glad to teach you how to make guitar. So you''re welcome. "
After agreeing on the guitar to be made, Xiao Yao and cross talked for about half an hour. Xiao Yao doesn''t know how to make guitar, but he has a comprehensive understanding of musical instruments. As an instrument maker, cross is also very proficient in music, so they have a good conversation. Finally, when Xiao Yao left with Fang, he had changed his name to "Nick" at cross''s request.
Although it''s evening in China, due to the time difference, it''s time to work in the daytime in the United States. After Xiao Yao and Fang still left, cross immediately contacted the headquarters of the company in the United States and asked to send another special person to help. Even though cross told the person in charge of the company that the production cost of Xiao Yao''s guitar is expected to reach about 100000 US dollars, the people in the headquarters of the company did not hesitate to agree when they saw the exterior drawing of Xiao Yao''s guitar passed by cross, saying that they would immediately arrange the company''s experts who are proficient in carbon fiber and special shape production to fly to Huaxia for help.As Xiao Yao studied in Shenxi, his private team moved to Shencheng from Yanjing. Xiao Yao''s personal team now has only two people, one is the agent and assistant Fang still, the other is the make-up artist and assistant Pei Minyi. They are both young girls in their early twenties. After a period of contact, they found that they still get along well with each other. After they moved to Shencheng, they rented an apartment not far from Shenxi and lived together.
In the summer vacation, Xiao Yao went to the United States alone, saying that he was going to visit his friends. But when he came back, the whole video caused an uproar in the United States, which made an airline apologize publicly. Then he revealed that he wrote songs for American rock bands and helped them make ideas for making MVS, which made another wave of fire in the United States. Xiao Yao''s team naturally pays attention to these things. Looking at the news, Pei Minyi thinks Xiao Yao has a proper international style. As Xiao Yao''s makeup artist and assistant, she will definitely have the opportunity to follow Xiao Yao to go abroad. In the excitement at the same time, she also began to worry about their English.
Fang is still in charge of the brokerage business, which is not within her scope of work. Taking advantage of Xiao Yao''s military training, she has nothing to do with her. So after she settled down in Shencheng, she immediately found an English training class to supplement her English.
Making guitars is not a performance. Pei Minyi, the makeup artist, is not needed. You Fang, the assistant, is still with her. Now they are not available. So Xiao Yao and Fang still don''t disturb her English study at all. They still work together.
The next day, Xiao Yao and Fang still drove to the hotel to meet cross, who led the way to the guitar studio that the agent had prepared for him. After choosing the material of strings, fingerboard and other parts for the Dragon Qin, Xiao Yao followed cross to learn how to make a guitar.
A day later, cross''s helper also arrived in Shencheng. The new musical instrument producer, whose name is AK Robinson, is in his thirties. He is almost ten years younger than cross, but his identity is cross''s helper, not his assistant.
In a strict sense, AK Robinson can be regarded as an instrument producer, but not a guitar producer, because he is an expert in material modeling. He is good at using various materials to make musical instrument appearance design and production with special requirements. Compared with Nicolas cross, who is good at making piano by hand, he is more like a modern sculptor who is good at using instruments and equipment, but he knows music better than ordinary sculptors. His mission to Shencheng this time is to help cross make the winding dragon on Qin.
This dragon Qin is designed by Xiao Yao, and the exterior drawing is also drawn by Xiao Yao. As an American, AK Robinson doesn''t know much about Chinese dragon, so he can only discuss some details with Xiao Yao, the designer of Chinese dragon. Xiao Yao took this opportunity to introduce the Chinese dragon to AK Robinson.
"The dragon is a legendary animal, which is not available in reality, but it is not imagined out of thin air. Every part of its body comes from the animals that exist in reality." In addition to finding a pile of close-up pictures of Chinese dragons from different angles for reference, Xiao Yao also pointed to each part of the picture and explained it to him in detail, so that he could have an intuitive impression of each part of the dragon. "The head of the Chinese dragon is like a camel, the horns on the head are antlers, the eyes are rabbit eyes, the ears are cattle ears, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like an oyster, the scales are carp''s, the claws are eagle''s claws, and the soles of the feet are from tigers. This is the dragon of China There are many descriptions of dragons in ancient China, which can be summarized as "nine resemblances in shape", and Xiao Yao tries to explain them in terms that AK Robinson can understand.
"You mean Chinese dragon is a combination of nine different animals?" AK Robinson seems to understand.
"You can say that." Xiao Yao nodded.
"You Chinese ancients really have an idea," said AK Robinson. After looking at the design of the guitar drawn by Xiao Yao and the pictures of dragons that Xiao Yao helped him find, he felt that he had grasped the details of each part of the dragon, and immediately felt that there was something in his heart. "OK, I think I know how to do it."
After Aker Robinson started to work, Xiao Yao''s learning objects changed from one person to two. He followed Aker Robinson to learn how to make materials and modeling, and followed cross to learn how to make guitars with ordinary appearance.
During the whole national day holiday, Xiao Yao did almost nothing and spent all his time in the guitar studio. Even after the end of the holiday and the beginning of school, Xiao Yao often took advantage of his break time to run here and learn from the two musical instrument makers. Xiao Yao''s learning ability is very strong, and he knows enough about guitar, so soon after, Xiao Yao learned how to make guitar with Nicolas cross. As for AK Robinson, after seeing how he made the dragon of the body, Xiao Yao, under the guidance of AK Robinson, personally completed the production of the smaller head on the head.
Many of the materials in the guitar studio are ready-made. In the process of learning how to make guitars, Xiao Yao will practice with enough raw materials in the studio and try to make some guitars by himself. At the beginning, Xiao Yao and Nicolas cross made several regular wooden guitars together.Xiao Yao''s own guitar must be taken away. There are plenty of raw materials in this guitar making room, but it''s not my own place after all. Even if the two producers taught him how to make guitars for free, the raw materials used to make guitars were bought by other people''s Chinese agents. In principle, Xiao Yao should pay for the raw materials he consumed in the process of learning how to make a guitar, except that the Dragon Qin was promised to be made for free.
After learning a lot from Aker about how to use special materials to make the body with unique shape, on the one hand, for fun and on the other hand, in order to save money, Xiao yaonaodong began to use all kinds of waste materials and tools from the studio as raw materials for guitar making. As a result, he really made some strange looking "non mainstream" guitars, Let two instrument makers who have been shocked by Xiao Yao''s "dragon Qin" once again marvel at Xiao Yao''s "fantasy".