I bought a children’s Ukulele online for my children a few days ago. As soon as I got it home, after tightening the strings, he excitedly picked it up and strummed it. I couldn't find the trick at first, and all I made was some very heavy or rough noises.

I told him where to play to make the loudest sound, and how hard to play to make the best sound. The children quickly learned that not only did their right hand master the strumming near the singing tune, but their left hand also learned how to press the strings.

Although the tone that came out was still "noise" to others, he was very intoxicated and asked me over and over again: "Mom, does it sound good?" He would always come and perform for me, no. It’s not enough to listen.

I used to think that he had no musical talent, but I didn’t expect that he was quite interested in musical instruments. Thinking about it carefully, maybe this is a family inheritance? His grandma is a piano teacher. Every time he goes to her house, he must play her piano.

However, I am a person with little musical ability, so it is difficult for me to give him more guidance in music. Fortunately, I ended up buying a very good picture book called "Listen, Who's Having the Concert". This set of picture books was created by a musician and a writer, Marco Himsa and Heinz Yaris.

Marco Himsa is a famous Austrian musician, director and actor of children’s classical musicals. His works have been performed many times in places such as the Vienna Golden Hall and the Bremen Music Festival. It was staged and received a strong response, winning the German Golden Disc Award.

Heinz Yaris is a famous Austrian children's musical director and award-winning writer. He has rich experience in writing children's books. His works have won the Bologna Book Fair Children's Book Award, the Austrian National Children's Poetry Award and other awards. He was also nominated for the German Youth Literature Award.

The combination of "writer + musician" can be described as a "strong alliance", which not only ensures the professionalism and classicness of the music, but also gives the story a relaxed and enjoyable feel, and can perfectly combine the two.

"Listen, Who's Having the Concert" has 8 volumes in one book, including "Musicians of Bremen", "Four Seasons", "Sleeping Beauty", "Serenade" and "Mr. Beethoven's Guest" "Instrumental Party", "Musical Sleigh Ride" and "Swan Lake", each volume tells a story related to music, some are related to musicians, for example, the story of "Serenade" is related to Mozart; some It tells the stories behind famous classical music songs, such as "The Four Seasons"; while "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Musicians of Bremen" connect classic fairy tales and classical music... Each story is full of wonder. With such wonderful thoughts, one cannot help but follow Marco Himsa into the world of classical music.

We often see on TV that playing Western classical music requires many performers, each of whom needs to play an instrument. What instruments do they play?

In "Instrumental Party", Marco Himsa introduces in detail the important instruments in the orchestra.

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble composed of string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments, generally used to play classical music.

In the book, Professor Xiong is going to hold an instrument party. Before the party starts, you must first get to know the instruments that are about to appear.

There is a musical instrument that many children can play. What is it? Not a piano of course, but a recorder! However, children usually play the soprano recorder. In the recorder family, the shortest one has a higher pitch.

Starting from the recorder family, Professor Xiong introduced the guitar family, keyboard instrument family, string instrument family, wind instrument family, and percussion instrument family. Each family contains several different instruments. Although these Instruments vary in physical size, but they all play an important role in the orchestra, and no one can function without one.

When introducing the members of each musical instrument family, Professor Xiong also explained a lot of knowledge about musical instruments. For example:

Each guitar has six strings; (Ukulele only has four strings, so although they are similar, they are not the same instrument)

The violin is the smallest string instrument, It can imitate the sound of a kitten; however, the largest stringed instrument is not the cello but the double bass, which is so large that it is taller than an adult.

The most important point is that among these instruments, the recorder family, guitar family and keyboard instrument family do not belong to the orchestra. Is it surprising? The piano is not a member of the orchestra.

After the introduction of the instruments, the concert will begin. So, how can so many instruments complete an exquisite ensemble? This requires a band director.

"The band conductor is the soul of the entire band." When you see a person pointing the baton at the concert, then he must be the conductor!

Now, turn to the title page of the book, scan the QR code on the title page, and enjoy the wonderful concert together! The tracks are all listed. You can carefully identify which melody is played by which instrument while listening?

Each volume in this series has a corresponding classical music appreciation! Enjoy the concert with your children!