The perfect match for music and painting
The blend of wood art and color art
A handful of vegan-noodle ukulele
Paint the lines to incorporate emotion and interaction
A beautiful painting of time
It jumped on the body
A happy life requires a little sense of ritual, let an ordinary thing shine, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, make an exclusive musical instrument, happiness is actually as simple as that. At the Second Friendly Neighborhood Community Center in Zhaoxiang Town, residents from the surrounding communities met in the handicraft activity room to experience the fun of handmade ukuleles together in the company of cross talk and magic, and sketched out unique New Year's greetings with whimsical brushes and beautiful music.
"Ukulele means 'the gift of arrival', translated into Chinese we Xi used to call it the ukulele, is a four-string plucked string instrument, similar to a guitar instrument......" explains the origin of the ukulele, production methods and playing skills, relying on the Shanghai public cultural distribution, the event invited the famous craftsman Yan Jun teacher, on-site guidance for the residents, and demonstrated the playing of a number of ukulele songs, fingertips and strings touch the moment, in the scale, Between the rhythms of the note transition, a beautiful sound that hit the heart of the piano won the hearts of the music fans at the scene.
Sun Shilan, a resident of the community, said: "When I was a student, I especially wanted to learn ukulele, and I felt very good when I saw others playing, but today under the leadership of the teacher, we tried to make and color it ourselves, and with our own musical instruments, the teacher also carefully guided the simple introductory skills, and I can officially start learning Xi after I go back, hoping to play my favorite music as soon as possible." ”
Just like the magician of the live performance, conquering the audience with the changeable and dexterous hands, everyone according to the installation steps demonstrated by the teacher, step by step to install the headstock, knobs, fingerboards, strings, panels and other parts, and modulate their favorite colors, each stroke outlines the rich and colorful inner world of the residents, and the smart paintings leap into the body, there are wild and bold schools, there are gentle and graceful schools, as well as delicate realism, adding a different rhythm to the ukulele works.
"It's about to be the 2024 New Year, come to community activities to do handicrafts, and listen to cross talk and watch magic, which is quite exciting. I have seen many friends play this piano, it is always good, and I will give it to my grandson when I go back, so that he can also learn it and become a 'little musician', and now the community life is really happier year by year. "After completing the musical instrument she made, Peng Meiqin, a resident from the Xingfuli community, said happily.
Everyone has a story
Each piece is a romantic encounter
If it just so happens that you also have a story
Love for music, love for life
Then with Xiao Qingguo
For the final hours of 2023
Add a splash of color!