Over the next few days, Liang Liang and Bi Sheng made guitars.

After several days of continuous experimentation with various materials, it was finally determined that maple, linden, ash, and water elm are all good materials for making mid- to low-end guitars.

Poplar wood can also be used to deal with this.

Besides these types of wood, there are also ash, paulownia, and red pine, which are all common materials for making musical instruments in the north.

The North has no shortage of materials, so the raw materials for making mid- to low-end guitars are not a problem at all.

As for high-end products, the issue is no longer about materials, but rather about craftsmanship, advertising, and the accumulation of time. These factors are indispensable for building a brand, and they are not something they should be considering for the time being.

With the material issue resolved, the next main challenge is to address the manufacturing process.

Bi Sheng's second guitar was still in the exploratory stage, so it was a failure.

Although it was an improvement over the first game, it wasn't much better.

However, the fourth guitar made after Liang Liang joined was not a failure. Although it was not of high quality, it was at least a successful guitar.

From selecting materials to tuning, the two spent three days completing more than 180 steps to make the guitar.

After Liang Liang tested it, the guitar's various values ​​were average, basically reaching the level of an acoustic guitar sold in music stores for around four hundred yuan.

This level of quality is good enough; at least it's a real guitar, and guitars in this price range sell very well.

This guitar was sold within fifteen minutes of being made.

It was bought by a young man who was practicing at a sea freight dance hall when he had nothing else to do.

As Liang Liang was tuning and playing the guitar, a young man who had come to the Haiyun Dance Hall that afternoon casually asked how much the guitar cost.

Liang Liang casually replied, "Take it if you want two hundred."

The young man stopped in his tracks, his eyes darted around for a while, and then he actually bought the guitar.

This guy knows his stuff; he could clearly tell that the guitar was worth far more than two hundred yuan.

The price was 200 yuan, but it only covered the cost price and the labor fee. I didn't even make 30 yuan profit.

To Liang Liang's surprise, the young man came again the next day, asking if Liang Liang had any other guitars like the one he had.

After taking the guitar back, this guy resold it for 260 yuan.

This left Liang Liang somewhat amused and exasperated; he had encountered a middleman.

So he took out the electric guitar he had made himself, which had a cool design but only an average tone.

"How about this one? Take it for 350!"

"Three hundred and fifty!" The young man was taken aback.

This is not like 20 years from now, when you can buy an electric guitar for a little over a hundred yuan on Taobao.

At that time, even the lowest-end electric guitars on the market cost around a thousand yuan.

Even the cheapest, lowest-end electric guitar in the Haiyun Music Store costs 800 yuan.

Therefore, the price filled the young man with doubt, and he thought Liang Liang was teasing him.

"The tone of this guitar is the same as the electric guitars that cost seven or eight hundred yuan in my shop. It's passable, but this is the only one I'll ever get."

The young man took the electric guitar and played a tune.

Just as Liangliang said, the tone is comparable to the electric guitars sold here for 800 yuan.

The young man bought the electric guitar and resold it for 450 yuan.

It didn't take more than three hours in total.

This shows that even the lowest-end guitars still have a market.

The young man got hooked on selling them and then asked Liang Liang for a zither.

Where can I get it?

Liang Liang doesn't want to make electric guitars for the time being; they're much more troublesome than acoustic guitars.

Let him do it when he has time!

After a series of planning steps, Haiyun Music School's enrollment advertisements began to appear in Lianwan City's evening and morning newspapers.

The response was quite positive. Starting from the second day after the advertisement aired, the Ocean Jet Dance Hall kept receiving calls inquiring about music school admissions.

Haiyun Music School offers four courses: guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard.

Taught by experienced teachers.

Each subject is offered in two levels: beginner and advanced. The beginner level lasts for two months, and the tuition fee is 200 yuan per semester.

It includes a beginner's guide; if you don't learn it in one semester, you can learn it again for free in the next semester.

After completing the basic course, students who wish to pursue further studies can enter the advanced class.

Advanced classes have no time limit and are charged per class hour.

This is primarily a condition set up for student trainees.

Students cannot come to the music school every day after the start of the school year; they can only come to study on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays.

Tuition is calculated in half-day increments, with a tuition fee of five yuan per half-day.

The school also provides accommodation and meals. Students from other places can stay at the school, and the cost of meals is only charged at cost, while accommodation is free.

The music school's opening date is tentatively set for July 15th.

At this time, most schools are on summer vacation.

The issue of teachers' salaries has also been addressed.

A teacher can earn at least ten to fifteen yuan a day.

After Liang Liang finalized the rules and regulations, he washed his hands of the matter, leaving the specifics of how many students to recruit and how to allocate them to other students to Mu Shuihua's responsibility.

He is about to set off for Guangzhou.

After receiving the notification, Ban Ya arrived at the Haiyun Dance Hall, and the two of them took a plane to Guangzhou on the 23rd.

Since no one had notified them this time, no one was there to pick them up. He and Ban Ya staggered out of Baiyun Airport, hailed a taxi, and arrived at Pacific Audio-Visual Company.

Liu Wen stared blankly for a full minute as Liang Liang walked into his office.

"Where did you crawl out from?"

"Mr. Liu! That's a rather strange question. If I told you I crawled out from underground, would you believe me?"

"Stop trying to fool me, just tell me where you came from."

"I'm from Lianwan City!"

"Weren't you going to have a concert with Sun Nan? Why did you come from home?"

"After the performance at Shijiazhuang, I went home alone because I had two important things to do, and I couldn't not go back. Now that I've finished them, I've come here because the next stop on this tour is Tianhe Stadium."

"How can the concert be held if you leave?"

"With Su Ennan around, the Blue Shark Band is here too!"

"Nonsense! If you're not in the Blue Shark Band, is it still the Blue Shark Band?"

This tongue twister does indeed illustrate a point: without Liang Liang, is the Blue Shark Band still the Blue Shark Band?

"I've found another band in Beijing called Black Panther! Are you interested in releasing an album for them?"

"Let's talk about releasing albums for others later. Since we're on the topic of albums, let's talk about yours first. The album 'No Place to Hide' has sold... let's say five million copies so far."

"You mean including overseas sales?"

"Domestic sales are almost at five million, and I estimate that we will achieve this goal by the end of the month."

Five million were sold in China alone?

This result was somewhat unexpected for Liang Liang.