At 8:39 AM +0000 1/25/02, Michael Jorgensen wrote: > I hear the cost of a new celeste is astronomical. Seems like >somebody could make a living building these, at a fair price that >is. Conductors want a new one, but others faculty say it's not >worth it to be able to play "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". Our orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, has two celestes, a Schiedmayer and a Mustel. I've had to mess about with both of them in the past and they're both junk. I suspect all celestes are junk. Since the sound of a celeste is so easy to synthesize and simply no one is going to be listening for the "unmistakable tone of the Cremona celeste", I just can't understand why they don't burn the things and use a Casio keyboard or something. Some of the second violins would probably sound better for a similar change! JD
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