Honky Tonk Tuning, "celeste"

[D.L. Bullock]

From: Dave Nereson wrote:
    Yet a real celeste is a sort of mini-upright "piano" that has tone bars
like a "xylophone", rather than strings.   And each note is only one tone
bar -- there's no possibility for out-of-tune unisons because there ARE no
unisons.

Since the tuned percussion instrument celeste or celesta was invented in the
last hundred years, I suggest that the name for said instrument was in use
applied to organ ranks for a century or more before its metal bars were
installed into the first keyboard "celesta"

D.L. Bullock    St. Louis
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