Daiyue Songfeng

The production cycle of a good piano takes several years. From material selection to blanking, from groove digging to varnishing, every step is related to the final tone. If any step goes wrong, all previous efforts will be wasted. Fang Mingyuan didn't believe this before. He used a machine to make three instruments a day, which was fast and cheap. Until the Mid-Autumn Festival Qin Festival, the Qin he made was broken in front of everyone - the person who cut the Qin had a wrong heart. The words were like a knife piercing into the seams of his bones. Full of reluctance, he walked into the depths of Laoshan Mountain and found the workshop of the old luthier Gu Huaiyin. Chopping firewood, sharpening knives, drying wood - during his long apprenticeship, Gu Huaiyin never taught him how to make a piano. But Fang Mingyuan learned one thing from the sound of chopping firewood day after day: a tree has stood on the mountain for a hundred years, and if the wood is cut and left to dry for fifty years, the lute cutter is just a midwife. From Mount Laoshan to Qingzhou, from the piano clubs on both sides of the canal to the ancient pines at the top of Mount Tai, an impetuous young man had all his edges smoothed away by the sound of carving wood. He finally made a piano and named it "Daiyue Songfeng". On the day the piano was completed, the master was no longer around. He played the song "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" in front of the tomb.