Chapter 135: Meeting Guqin Again
"Boss Li, I'm here," Wen Fangfei called out.
Hearing her voice, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked out from the inner room. He was a little skinny and thin, but his eyes shone with the light that only a musician could have.
Liu Lan noticed that he had a pair of slender hands, and thought that Boss Li must also be good at playing musical instruments.
"It's been a long time since I saw you," Boss Li said with a smile, looking at the two girls beside Wen Fangfei, "Did you introduce any new customers to me?" His tone showed that he was very familiar with Wen Fangfei.
"No, they are from the piano department and they came with me to repair the piano," Wen Fangfei said as she put the guzheng on the ground and opened the protective cover.
"Oh, how did the string become like this!" Boss Li squatted down in pain. He picked up the broken string and saw that it was cut by a knife. "The person who did this is so wicked."
Boss Li took out a magnifying glass and began to check the body of the guitar very carefully. He touched it bit by bit and checked every inch of it. "Fortunately, only the strings were cut."
Wen Fangfei was completely relieved, "Please help me change the strings."
"It will take some time to change all 21 strings at the same time," Boss Li said. "Do you want to go back and wait for me to notify you after the repairs are done, or do you want to wait here?"
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Wen Fangfei looked at Liu Lan and Li Xiaoru. Li Xiaoru said, "Just wait here. When we're done, we'll go back to practice the piano."
Wen Fangfei nodded and said to Boss Li, "We are in a hurry to use the piano."
Boss Li understood and said, "I'll fix it as soon as possible."
He placed Wen Fangfei's guzheng on an empty piano table, took out a large toolbox from the inner room, and spread it out. Inside were bunches of guzheng strings of varying thicknesses, as well as special pliers and screwdrivers for various instruments.
"Please sit down for a while. It will probably take about two hours," Boss Li brought three stools to the girls and began to concentrate on repairing the piano.
Liu Lan did not sit down. She first watched for a while how Boss Li repaired the piano and found that his technique was exactly the same as what Madam Xu taught her. After all, ancient musical instruments are ancient musical instruments. Two thousand years have passed, and everything remains the same without any new tricks.
Boss Li felt her inquiring gaze and wondered how a student from the piano department could also repair the guzheng?
Wen Fangfei was also paying attention to Liu Lan's actions.
After watching the zither being repaired, Liu Lan walked towards the guqin next to it.
The biggest difference between the guqin and the guzheng is the number of strings. The guqin has 7 strings, while in the Han Dynasty where Liu Lan lived in her previous life, the guzheng only had 5 strings. The difference between the two was not as big as it is today. If Liu Lan had studied and practiced seriously at that time, she should have been able to learn the guzheng quickly.
However, after two thousand years of evolution, the number of strings of the guzheng has increased, ranging from 13 to 26, while the guqin has always had only 7 strings.
Compared with Wen Fangfei's 21-string guzheng, the guqin looks much smaller, like a mini version of the guzheng.
This zither is very similar to Madam Xu's, with the surface of the zither body painted in black ash and the belly of the zither also having flowing water cracks. Liu Lan never thought that she would see such a zither in the future, which reminded her of Madam Xu in a trance.
Boss Li, who was repairing a guzheng, looked up and saw Liu Lan staring at it in a daze. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Classmate, do you like this guzheng? You know what's good. This guzheng is a one-to-one replica of the famous guzheng 'Luqi'. Although it's a knockoff, it's made of high-quality materials and has fine workmanship. It's worth collecting. After all, the original one was destroyed long ago, and not even a slag is left."
Boss Li saw that Liu Lan was still in a daze and thought that she didn't understand what he said, "Oh, you are a student of the piano department, you should not know 'Luqi', let me explain it to you..."
"'Lvqi' is a zither made by Sima Xiangru of the Western Han Dynasty. The zither is all black with a faint green hue, like green vines entwined on an ancient tree, hence the name 'Lvqi'. Your zither is black but has no green hue, and looks very fake."
Liu Lan's words stunned the three people in the store.
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