My first music lesson of guzheng

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　　 Mar. 31 , 2007
　　
　　 My first music lesson of guzheng
　　
　　 Yesterday just before when I was going to leave my office, I received my guzheng that I ordered last Saturday. I opened the package as soon as I carried it into my office, because other fellows had been expecting to take a look at that guzheng, all ladies in my office were very curious at it. They had never before thought that I would learn to play guzheng, so they saw the guzheng as a freak as me. The guzheng was about 163 centmeters long, there were 9 dragons carved on its body, it looked very beautiful.
　　
　　 I went to my office at 8 o'clock this morning. I wanted my guzheng to be tuned as soon as when my first music lesson was over. When I arrived at the shop where they sold music instruments and also trained novices like me, two girls were practising what they had learned. The teacher and the boss greeted me warmly, but as soon as the teacher unzipped the bag, the boss said that my guzheng looked a little shorter than standard one. He got a tape measure and measured it, then announced my guzheng was only 160 centmeters that was 3 centmeters shorter than a standard one. I sneered inwardly at what the boss said, because I had measured my guzheng, its length was standard, 163 centmeters long. However, I pretended to look very regretful, saying I shouldn't buy guzheng on the Internet.
　　
　　 After the teacher tuned my guzheng for about twenty minutes, he said he couldn't set the pitch of the highest part of register, and he told me that I could only play it in major C, not major D on which all music of guzheng should play. I then had no idea of all conceptions about music major and tune, and the sort of things. Then I took my first lesson of guzheng. I looked very clumsy before the 21 cords of guzheng, and I had no idea of music knowledge, the teacher had to be much more patient . Whatever, I got through my first lesson. When the teacher told me that the first lesson was over, I couldn't almost believed it, I felt it just a matter of ten minutes. The teacher assigned me a song of "Little Swallow" to practise the fingering of playing guzheng.
　　
　　 I walked back to my office, because my guzheng was too long to be fit in a taxi. And I didn't take bus either, for I was afraid that the tuned guzheng would be squeezed into nothing but disordered tune.