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April 16th is the first competition day of the Beijing finals of the "Xinghai Cup" National Youth Piano Competition. The competition location is set up in two concert halls according to professional and amateur groups.

At six o'clock in the morning, when the contestants had not yet arrived at the competition venue, the staff of the competition began to get busy. A huge slogan "I wish the 8th Xinghai Cup Piano Competition a complete success" was hung on the huge double-layer rainbow door at the door. Huge hydrogen balloons floated above the campus, colorful slogans were hung below. In front of the main teaching building, dozens of banners given by relevant units and literary groups were hung. There was a festive atmosphere everywhere.

Wu Di sat next to the piano in front of the stage of the concert hall where the professional group competition was performing the last tune of the piano. Although Wu Di is only in his thirties today, he has been engaged in piano tune for more than ten years, and he has used piano tunes for the Xinghai Cup competition. This is the fourth time. He started working at the Xinghai Piano Factory in Beijing in his teens. He has rich experience in piano tunes, especially Xinghai piano, and even so familiar with Xinghai piano. Wu Di knows the position of each of the eight thousand parts on the piano body with his eyes closed. Xinghai Piano is the designated piano for the Xinghai Cup piano competition. Every time Wu Di tuned Xinghai Piano, he has a different feeling in his heart. Although Xinghai is not an international first-class piano brand, Wu Di always believes that as long as he tunes it carefully, Xinghai Piano can also make beautiful sounds.

Wu Di is a big man who is more than 1.9 meters tall, and his ten fingers are also very thick, but even such thick fingers appear very sensitive on the keys. As a pianist, Wu Di can of course play a little piano, but it is not very good. However, if you play semitones, ordinary pianists may not be more skilled than him. Nothing else, Wu Di has to play semitones on four pianos more than 200 times a day to check the pitch of each key, so it is naturally difficult to not understand it.

Open the piano lid. Wu Di's short and thick fingers forcefully started playing upward from the lowest notes of the piano and the two groups of large characters. A series of loud and smooth sounds were heard, and each sound was so uniform, and it was full of graininess while moving forward quickly. Although this was not a world-famous song, it made everyone feel very comfortable when they heard this sound.

"Master Wu, I made it for so long last night, and I still did it today." A staff member who was very familiar with Wu Di next to me greeted with a smile.

"Let's go again and make sure you're sure. Put it all night, what if any string is running?" Wu Di said, playing it several times in a sound area that was a little bit furious. Then he frowned and opened the front panel of the piano, took out a long, strange-shaped hand-moving hand, buckled it on the bolts twisting the steel strings, and twisted it gently.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

"Aren't our pianos all special for competitions? There should be no problem with quality." The man just spoke to him while posing the table cards.

"Then you should also adjust it carefully. You don't know that the ears of these judges are poisonous. Run a little and you will hear it immediately. It's better to adjust it now so that you can save time to get pierced." Wu Di said, no longer continuing to speak, but listened with his ears sideways and focused.

Every piano lawyer has a pair of very sensitive ears, and they can hear extremely subtle pitch differences. This not only depends on long-term training, but also has to have a very attentive attitude. A good piano lawyer can bring the quality of a piano to a higher level. This is not exaggerated at all.

He played each key again and confirmed that there was no problem, Wu Di packed up his pile of things and sat in front of the piano and started playing casually.

Wu Di plays Beethoven's "To Alice", a piano sketch that everyone who knows the piano or not is familiar with. **** Because of his proficiency, Wu Di plays very interesting.

"Okay, I'll shoot it a few more times. I'll listen to the bullet segment in Türkiye?"

"Haha, no." Wu Di said in a somewhat dull voice while playing.

Playing the piano is the last process of Wu Di's tuning the piano, which is used to confirm the overall state of the piano. The piano also has "state", which is deeply understood by every senior tuning lawyer. Sometimes, even if you tune each note very accurately, you will still feel a little awkward because of some completely indescribable reasons, which requires rich experience.

After playing it twice, Wu Di covered the piano cover with satisfaction, turned around and came to the side of the stage, picked up a chair and sat down.

In professional piano competitions, piano tuners need to wait next to the competition venue. Once any situation occurs in the piano, they must be solved as soon as possible.

At 7:30 in the morning, the contestants and accompanying parents began to enter the venue one after another.

When Lu Wei and his parents and Xiaomei came to the Central Conservatory of Music on the A4, Xiaoling and Yu Wenqi and others had already taken a taxi to come first.^^The starter^^When seeing Lu Wei getting off the car, Yu Wenqi stepped forward and smiled, "You are the ones participating in the competition, come later than us audiences."

"That means you are very enthusiastic." Lu Wei smiled and immediately introduced several classmates to his parents.

"How shameful are you? So many people will accompany you in a competition." After Lu Wei introduced, his mother smiled from the side.

"Haha, our school is not strict anyway, so they just come here to travel if they have nothing to do," Lu Wei said with a smile.

Several people were walking towards the competition venue while talking, and suddenly, a graceful figure flashed over.

"Hello, player Lu Wei, do you still remember me?" Liu Jie changed into a white Li Ning casual outfit today, carrying the same white shoulder bag, which looked very clean and refreshing.

When I got home yesterday, somehow, Liu Jie, who had never worn Li Ning, ran to a specialty store to buy such a suit, and I felt it was pretty good after wearing it.

Lu Wei smiled and said, "Of course I remember, why, reporter Liu Da, I will interview me today."

"No, I'm here to watch the game today. ****Wow, what a huge group of relatives and friends." Liu Jie looked at the group of people around Lu Wei and said exaggeratedly.

"Haha, I won't be nervous if there are more people." Lu Wei said casually.

"Interesting." Liu Jie said, looking at Lu Wei's side, smiling at Lu Wei's mother and father. When she saw Xiaoling, Liu Jie's gaze stopped for a short while, but quickly slipped away.

"Let's go, don't stand here, the morning competition is about to begin." Lu Wei said, walking towards the concert hall with the flow of people.

"Wow, brother, it's so lively here." Xiaomei shouted excitedly after entering the door.

"Let's be lively." Lu Wei smiled.

"This is your little sister, she looks so cute. What grade is she in?" Liu Jie touched Xiaomei's braid and asked with a smile.

"It's the third grade." Xiaomei said obediently.

"Come on, I'll give you this." Liu Jie took out a box of fragrant food from her bag and handed it over.

Xiaomei didn't answer, and looked at Lu Wei's mother with big eyes.

"It's okay, your mother won't say you, take it." Liu Jie said, stuffing the chewing gum into Xiaomei's top pocket.

"Don't give it to her." Lu Wei's mother was about to refuse, but seeing that Liu Jie had already put the gum on Xiaomei, she quickly changed her words and said, "Isn't thankful sister yet?"

"Thank you", Xiaomei said a little embarrassedly.

"You're welcome." Liu Jie smiled happily.

Everything was very natural, but Xiaoling, who was standing beside her, felt a little uncomfortable when she looked at it. At the same time, she secretly blamed herself for being rude. Why didn't she think about preparing something for the first time when she met Lu Wei's family?

Several people found a position close to the stage and sat down one after another. Although the competition had not started yet, the seats in the stands were almost done. Fortunately, the concert hall was designed large enough, otherwise the few people would have no place to sit.

Because Lu Wei needed to sign in, he said hello to several people and walked towards the staff in front of the stage.

While walking, he looked at the stage. Lu Wei’s first concern was the use of the piano in the competition. Whether the piano was suitable or not would have a great impact on the performance of the competition.

When Lu Wei saw this nine-foot Xinghai piano, he did not feel surprised. As one of the largest organizers of Xinghai Cup, Beijing Xinghai Piano Factory, of course, it is impossible to choose other brands of pianos in the finals. But from the appearance of the piano, Lu Wei can also see that this is the highest-end piano in the Xinghai series, representing the highest level of Xinghai piano. I think the feel will not be much worse.

Behind the piano is a blue background wall, with the symbol of Xinghai Piano in the center. On both sides are printed with two lines of words "Central Conservatory of Music" and "Beijing Xinghai Piano Factory", which looks simple and atmospheric.

When he arrived at the place where the contestant signed in, Lu Wei saw Li Xiao again and patted her gently. Lu Wei smiled and said, "When did you come?"

Li Xiao turned around and saw Lu Wei, and smiled happily, "You just came. I've been here for a while, and I'll draw lots later."

"Oh, is Teacher Li coming?"

"He didn't come. There were classes in the school and he couldn't leave. But my mother came, and it was there." Li Xiao said and pointed at the audience.

Lu Wei took a look, but didn't see it very clearly, and continued, "Li Xiao, what songs are you playing?"

"They were selected according to the brochure. The etudes were Moshkovsky's, the sonata was Clementi's, and the two of the following were selected from the books of the small sonata. What about you."
Chapter completed!