Chapter 586
After listening to this melodious knocking sound several times, I was very curious.
I tried turning the door handle, but it didn't lock.
Push the door open and enter.
The basement is very large, the light bulbs are not very bright, and there is a row of huge wooden shelves placed in the dark space.
Dozens of bronze chimes are hung on wooden frames. These chimes are large, small, fat, and thin.
A long-haired girl about 20 years old was hitting the chimes with a small wooden stick to test the sound. The old man kept shaking his head and pointing at the side.
"Godfather? Godfather?"
Perhaps the two of them were too immersed in it and didn't notice that I had entered.
The girl who was ringing the chime stopped with the hammer in her hand. The godfather turned around and said, "Why are you here?"
"I'm here to give you rice, Baijiami." I raised the half bag of rice in my hand for him to look at.
"Just put it on the ground. Go out first. I know what happened between you and the meeting."
"Master, you're lucky. These clocks are very well made."
I have just noticed that the fifty or sixty bronze chimes hanging on the wooden frame are all imitations. The rust-colored decorations are all very well imitated. To an outsider, they might think they are old. The flaw lies in the bell body. Those golden inscriptions are too new, and the golden light shows no traces of use.
Talking about this, the godfather was not in a hurry to send me away. He said with some pride: "That's right, these clocks are all my own sons. They are exactly like those of Zeng Houyi. There are 8 groups in total, with three floors. , there are 12 long-breasted Yong bells and one Fu bell on the bottom, 33 big bells in the middle, and 19 Jiezhong on the top. I came to Handan many times, and it took me several years to find Master Xiang to make these."
"Ah? Master Xiang?"
Mr. Qian glared at me: "It's not you! It's Master Xiang Guang. He often collects bronze raw materials in Handan, so I asked him to do it."
I was shocked and thought, luckily it's not me. When the hell did I become a master.
After chatting for a while, I learned some things.
You should all know about the chime bell of Marquis Yi of Zeng unearthed in Suizhou, right?
That set of bells was unearthed in Tomb No. 1 of Leigudun in 1978. It has been rung three times since it was unearthed.
The first time was when it was unearthed in 1978, and the archaeological team did a sound test. The second time was when Hubei held a cultural relics exhibition in 1979, and the third time was in 1997 to celebrate the return of Hong Kong Island.
Qian Lao heard Zeng Hou Yi's chimes played once at the Hubei Cultural Exhibition in 1979, and he has never forgotten it since then.
If he still wants to hear that kind of sound, unless he has his own way, he will definitely not be able to get the original. If he wants to get it, he can only copy it.
Since the discovery of this thing, the relevant departments have decided to copy it. It is reported that a total of 5 sets were copied in 40 years. The most perfect set of these five sets was made by Xiang Guang and his team in 2012.
Not many people know that there should be 6 sets of replicas of this thing.
In fact, Master Xiang had already started making replicas for Qian Lao 10 years ago.
A layman watches the excitement, an expert watches the door. According to my understanding, this set of chimes is difficult to make. Master Xiang often lives near Handan because this place was undergoing urban construction at that time, and a large number of bronze arrowheads, weapons, and bronze swords appeared on the market. Wait, and the price is affordable. A bronze arrowhead from the Warring States Period can be bought for only five or six yuan.
At that time, there were three big antique dealers in Handan. One was named Liu in Wu'an, one was named Zhang in Cishan Town, and there was one in a place called Guantao.
Master Xiang collected a lot of cheap bronze fragments from them. After smelting them, he repeatedly studied the materials of the bell body, and finally turned it into the set that Mr. Gan had, a total of 64 pieces, which took 7 years.
Unfortunately this clock set is not perfect.
The last step is to set the tone. Only when each chime chimes twice can it be considered successful. However, one piece of the set is not tuned well, and the two-tone tone is always slightly different.
