don't call me singer

Chapter 1660 The Priceless Treasure
Sea Dragon Palace, backstage.

Yan Xuexin carefully adjusted Earl O'Neill's strings, stood up, and was ready to go on stage.

Beside, Veronica stared at Yan Xuexin with some resentment.

She was supposed to sit in the judging box with teacher Escobar up front to watch the show.

But she really didn't want Yan Xuexin to be alone with Earl O'Neill.

In her opinion, besides the teacher, she is the only one who is qualified to play this piano.

Beside, Gu Xiaobai also came over and stood beside Yan Xuexin.

"Xiaobai, do you still want to come on stage with a beard?" Seeing the black beard around Gu Xiaobai's mouth, Yan Xuexin laughed.

Gu Xiaobai rolled his eyes: "Don't ask, if you ask, it won't wash off!"

Still ask!What to ask!

If it could be washed off, wouldn't I have washed it long ago?

Then Yan Xuexin's eyes fell on Gu Xiaobai's waist:

"Hey, Xiaobai, where did you get another erhu? Or a white erhu?"

Beside, Veronica saw the erhu on Gu Xiaobai's waist, and subconsciously pursed her lips.

Before, she had seen Gu Xiaobai's patchwork erhu, and she had some disdain for Gu Xiaobai's musical instruments.

Now, Gu Xiaobai's musical instruments seem less messy.

It turned white.

This made Veronica especially despise.

Instruments, rarely come in white.

Most musical instruments, in order to sound and resonate, either do not use paint at all, and rely entirely on maintenance.

Or just use primary paint.

The slightly reddish and slightly faded body of the violin "Earl O'Neill" is the result of natural fading and discoloration of the original color paint that has been worn and repaired over the years.

Because of this, "Earl O'Neill" has such a gentle and unique voice.

And white musical instruments are often synonymous with cheap. Thick paint is used to cover up the flaws of the material itself. It looks good, but it is not enough to burn a fire.

In fact, many erhus do not need to be painted.

Many people insist that paint affects the sound of an instrument, degrading its sound quality.

But Yan Xuexin didn't look at the instrument in Qinggu Xiaobai's hand at all.

Because he knows how picky Gu Xiaobai is and how strong Gu Xiaobai's violin-making skills are.

If a person can make an exceptionally good erhu out of pen holders, bedposts, and bags, then he can definitely use better materials to make better ones.

Not to mention, when he looked closely, he knew that this "white" was definitely not cheap!
Although the whole body is white, if you look carefully, all the parts of this erhu are different white!

The whole body of the bow is white, with delicate vertical lines, as if it has been brushed, which is the line of the best bamboo.

The bow hair is also white all over, but each root is crystal clear, as if the crystal has been pulled into silk.

Various other parts, some look like white jade, some look like white glue, and some even look like white hair.

The most striking thing is its white skin and fine scales. Each piece looks like the most skilled craftsman, carved with white crystals, and then inlaid to look like scales.

It's so perfect that it doesn't look like the skin of a living creature.

At first glance, the skin of the piano is the most eye-catching, but with Yan Xuexin's eyesight, it is its barrel that attracts him the most.

"What is this piano barrel made of?" Yan Xuexin asked wonderingly.

"Thousand-year gloomy wood."

"I'll go! Where did you find it?" Yan Xuexin's eyes lit up, "It's such a precious thing!"

But he didn't know that the thousand-year-old gloomy wood might be the least precious of all the materials.

Then he wondered again: "Isn't the gloomy wood heavily carbonized, is it black? Why is yours white...wrong!"

After looking carefully, he found that the surface of the gloomy wood was not white, but more like a layer of crystal frosted, reflecting light, showing a frosted white texture.

And if you look closely, there are extraordinarily beautiful and complex lines on the surface, which become more and more dazzling.

"Well, I did some surface treatment." Gu Xiaobai said.

"What kind of surface treatment is this?" Yan Xuexin is an engineer. Seeing Lie Xinxi, he knelt down and looked at the piano barrel, "It doesn't look like paint... Could it be a metal coating? No..."

"Using a high-energy laser to bombard the surface in a carbon vapor environment, the instantaneous pressure and high temperature change its properties and stress, and then allow the crystal clusters to grow naturally in a specific environment..."

Yan Xuexin: "..."

I heard and understood, but I couldn't believe it!
What the hell, don't tell me, the surface of this thing is actually a layer of diamonds?
"If you have to give it a description, it's more like diamond microcrystals woven with carbon nanotubes." Gu Xiaobai said.

Yan Xuexin: "..."

This is like using an invisible strong rope to forcibly tighten the already dense and hard thousand-year-old gloomy wood, making its structural strength instantly increase to the extreme. While increasing its stress, it also greatly improves its strength. Its ability to resonate...

It's like hitting a gong with a thousand hammers, and it's the final word.

When making a gong, be sure to put a big hammer in the center when it is about to be completed, so that the metals can be squeezed against each other to generate stress, increase its rigidity, and improve its sound quality.

Many people must be wondering why the sound of a gong can be as crisp and melodious as a bell, even with a thin piece of iron.

And the same thickness of iron, knock out the sound is dull and unpleasant, without aftertaste.

The key lies in this last "one hammer".

And Gu Xiaobai's final treatment process is like giving Erhu such a stress treatment.

"Xiaobai, tell me honestly, how much did you spend on this erhu?"

To be honest, Yan Xuexin really wanted Gu Xiaobai to make himself a violin like that!
Earl O'Neill is good, very good.

But it is not his own after all.

"Hmm..." Gu Xiaobai squeezed his chin, thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can't figure it out... I can only say yes, a priceless treasure."

There are two priceless treasures in this world.

One is priceless, because it is unique and rare, it is difficult to estimate a suitable price for it.Or there is a price but no market. Although the price is marked there, you can't buy it if you have money, because others don't sell it.

For example, Earl O'Neill is a priceless treasure in the eyes of many people.

Although it was once clearly priced.

There is another priceless treasure.

That's really... priceless.

Yan Xuexin is very convinced that the piano in Gu Xiaobai's hands is really a priceless treasure.

However, he didn't have time to express his emotions, because the elevator had already come down.

It's time to go on stage.

"No matter how good the piano is, it depends on the ability of the player!" Holding Earl O'Neill's Yan Xuexin in his hand, he thought a little sourly: "I won't lose!"

(End of this chapter)