China News Service, Fuzhou, February 10 (Reporter Liu Kegeng) "Look, there are a pair of candlesticks on this century-old antique piano, and the music score is placed under the candlesticks. The performer is watching the score and playing the piano... On the 10th, Chen Gong, director of Fujian Yitian Musical Instrument Museum, told the media reporters the details of the structure of the antique piano donated by the century-old German famous brand Alexander Hoffman.
On the same day, Fujian Yitian Musical Instrument Museum donated a century-old German famous brand Alexander Hoffmann antique piano to Fuzhou Shangxiahang Protection and Development Co., Ltd. The ceremony was held in Fuzhou Shangxiahang Historical and Cultural District.
Chen Gong (first from left), director of Fujian Yitian Musical Instrument Museum, introduced to media reporters that this antique piano will be exhibited at Caifeng Villa in Shangxiahang Historical and Cultural District.
Photo by reporter Liu Kegeng
Chen Gong said that the piano donated by the station is a century-old German famous brand Alexander Hoffmann antique piano. It was collected and transported back to China from overseas more than 20 years ago for repair. It has complete ivory white keys and ebony black keys, with a classical shape.
"In the future, this antique piano will be exhibited at the Caifeng Villa in Shangxiahang, telling the legend of Shangxiahang's 'century-old commercial port'."
Fuzhou Shangxiahang Caifeng Villa is the former residence of Yang Hongbin, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader in Malaysia. It was built in 1920 and covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters.
The overall architecture and interior furnishings of Caifeng Villa are of high cultural relic value. It is one of the most well-preserved modern Chinese and Western residential buildings in Fuzhou, and an excellent representative of modern villa architecture in Fuzhou.
Yang Hongbin's youngest son, Yang Zhenxing, used to teach in Fuzhou. During his stay, he often invited students and friends to get together, and the melodious sound of the piano was often heard in the villa.
Chen Gong, director of Fujian Yitian Musical Instrument Museum, played the antique piano on the spot.
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Chen Gong, 77 years old, is a famous musical instrument engineer and sound lawyer in Fujian Province. He founded the Fujian Yitian Musical Instrument Museum.
Chen Gong told reporters that before the relocation of Fuzhou Shangxiahang, he was a frequent visitor to the homes of Shangxiahang literature and art lovers. There were more than 20 pianos in the Shangxiahang block for a long time, and it was a lot of fun to teach piano tuning.
In Chen Gong's view, the "Four Great Inventions" of ancient China also had a great impact on the history of the development of world civilization, while the Chinese people know very little about the history of musical instrument civilization in China.
"As early as 7,000 years ago, Chinese ancestors invented the world's oldest musical instruments—bone flute, xun, and fou; the largest orchestra in the world was the court orchestra of the Tang Dynasty; the world's first musical score was the guqin score " "Jie Shi Pian You Lan" was written by the Chinese; the twelve equal temperaments commonly used in music performance today were also invented by the Chinese first."
"This donation is the second time after donating a century-old piano to the Guling Gardner Exhibition Hall in 2018. It is hoped that this donation will help Fuzhou revive its glory as a music center, and then bring musical instrument manufacturing, history and culture. The knowledge spread out." Chen Gong said.
Shangxiahang Historical and Cultural District is located in Taijiang District, Fuzhou City, covering an area of about 31.73 hectares. It is an important part of Fuzhou's urban historical axis and the historical features of "Three Mountains, Two Towers and One Street", with profound historical and cultural heritage.
In history, commerce and trade were prosperous here, and it once became the concentration of business gangs from all over the world.
Donation site, century-old German famous brand Alexander?
Hoffman's antique pianos are eye-catching.
Photo by reporter Liu Kegeng
According to the records in "Fuzhou Shuanghangzhi", in various periods, fashionable folk literary and artistic activities from various places were also introduced to Shanghanghang through communication and communication. Among them, the most representative of the local characteristics of Shangxiahang is the music of Annan and Jufan.
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