38 Modern Piano Fingering (1/2)

Chapter 38: Modern Piano Fingering

Translator: winniethepooh, Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

Standing up from the couch, Victor clapped his hands delightfully, “All right. Mr. Rhine and Mr. Shavell have finished the improvement of the harpsichord a couple of days ago. Let’s try the new harpsichord today! All of you can come! I even feel that I shouldn’t call it a harpsichord anymore, since its tone, its range, and its volume are completely different now. For me, it’s a revolution in string instruments!”

Seeing the joy on his face, Lucien could tell that Mr.Victor was very satisfied with the improvement.

“Mr. Victor, as the initiator of the harpsichord improvement, you may like to give the new invention an official name.” When they were walking upstairs, Lott talked to his teacher in a flattering way.

“Yes, Rhine, Shavell and I actually talked about the name before. However, none of us could find a proper name for it.” Victor looked at Lucien with a mild smile on his face, “Lucien, what’s your idea?”

“My idea?” Lucien was a bit surprised.

“Of course, you made no small contribution to this. We’d like to hear your suggestion.” said Victor, “Well… Rhine appreciated its mechanical sophistication, so he wanted to name it mechanical harpsichord. I mean…Mr. Rhine is a talent in music, but definitely not good at naming a new musical instrument. Mechanical harpsichord doesn’t sound right to me at all.”

“What’s your idea then, sir?” Lucien asked.

“Um… I prefer to have a new name. This new musical instrument combines both the features of harpsichord and clavichord, and it has a much wider range of tones compared with its predecessors. So I would suggest the name to be… superchord!”

“……” Including Lucien, none of the students present knew what to say toward this name.

“Well, what about the name ‘pianoforte’?” Lucien said with uncertainty.

“Pianoforte? It’s a pretty new name, but it sounds a bit weird.” Victor rubbed his chin with his hand in thoughts.

“The sounds produced by the new instrument were an extension of what the harpsichord could do.” Lucien was trying to make the weird name make sense. Lucien knew, in his world, the first piano made by the Italian harpsichord maker Cristofori was first called “pianoforte”. In Italian, pianoforte meant “soft loud”. Lucien wanted to keep the name, because it would be sweet if he could play an instrument in this world which was almost the same as a piano on Earth.

“Pianoforte… Pianoforte…” Victor found the name was pretty interesting, “What about just ‘piano’?”

Lucien was very surprised that Victor would appreciate the name.

“I like the name, ‘piano’.” Felicia agreed, which was even more beyond Lucien’s expectation. It was the first time Felicia showed her commendation for any of Lucien’s ideas. A faint blush appeared on her beautiful face, “I don’t know why… I just somehow feel like it’s the proper name.”

Mr. Victor nodded with a bit of confusion, “Yes… I feel the same way, Felicia. Piano… It feels like it should be called piano… Weird…”

“Yeah…That’s how I feel as well.” Lucien was a bit nervous. He did not understand why both Mr. Victor and Felicia had a special feeling toward the name. Hurriedly, he changed the topic, “I can hear someone playing music in the practice room upstairs.”

“Yes, Mr. Rhine is here today. Didn’t I mention it?” Victor answered with joy.

Felicia’s face was now as red as a ripe tomato.