Chen Yan was interested in music since he was a child and learned many musical instruments. Since she learned to tune the piano, she has always stayed in front of the piano for thirteen or fourteen hours every day, stroking carefully and memorizing attentively. To learn tuning, you must also be able to repair the piano. Blind people who hammer wood and plane wood are always injured. She didn't have a good piece of meat in her hand while learning tuning.
After four years' study, Chen Yan mastered the most advanced piano tuning technology in Europe and America, but full of confidence, she immediately met the cruel reality. At that time, people in China could not accept the industry of blind Piano tuner. After many twists and turns, the manager of a large musical instrument store agreed to be hired after examination. But the manager said shyly, this job needs to come to the door to tune the piano for customers. It is too difficult for you to come to the door now. Besides, there are many cars on the road, and if there is a traffic accident, the musical instrument store is responsible.
In order to be familiar with the terrain and road conditions, she asked her family to help her copy the place names, stations and hutong communities on the map into Braille and memorize them one by one. There is a user who doesn't want blind people to tune. When she got home, she accompanied the user to the piano with the little light left in her eyes, and even repaired the tuning tape twice.
A few hours later, the customer was very satisfied with the test and said that Chen Yan would be asked to tune his two pianos in the future. At this time, Chen Yan told him that he was blind and the other party was embarrassed.
In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, Chen Yan made a rule for himself: Never tell a customer that he is blind when he meets her, but tell the user that he is blind after tuning the piano. She said: "After tuning the user, I taught him some maintenance knowledge and played him a beautiful tune. Only then did I tell him that I was a blind piano tuning lawyer, and the user was surprised. You are blind. How did you get here? When you tune the piano, your eyes keep moving with your hands! At that time, I felt I was successful. "
In order to truly become famous in the field of piano tuning, Chen Yan relies on technology. She memorizes more than 8,000 piano parts, and can find out the parts that affect the pitch in time and tune out the correct melody. So far, she has tuned the pianos of tens of thousands of families and traveled all over the streets of Beijing.
In order to help more piano users, Chen Yan opened the first piano public welfare hotline in China. Every night from 7: 00 to 10, she will stay by the phone. On the way to piano tuning, her greatest ideal is to let the people all over the country know that blind people can completely engage in piano tuning.
Chen Yan not only has skillful professional skills in piano tuning, but also has created many miracles in which the blind are given priority: the first female piano tuning lawyer in China, the first blind person in China who wrote an autobiography, and the first blind person who can ride a unicycle, swim, ride a bike, go-kart, roller skating and practice Taekwondo. Chen Yan said that no matter how long and difficult the road is, she will "face life with a smile". She should laugh because she "tuned" a school of light for herself.