At 09:12 PM 3/4/2007 -0700, you wrote: >Celestas are notoriously bad even at the best of times. Even the >one owned by the Chicago Symphony is a POS-an expensive pos but >never the less a pos. The action has to be heavy to work in my >experience though I am not normally running the thing in >concert. This is truly a good use for an electronic keyboard >IMHO. If you learn any tricks please post them though. > >John Dutton >Billings, MT >(professional French horn player for 23 years now) > >From: Richard Morgan [mailto:rsanbornmorgan at yahoo.com] >Sent: Sunday, 04 March, 2007 16:25 >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Subject: Celeste > >Have any of you had occasion to work on a celeste? I played The >Planets last night (tuba), and the keyboardist complained of a >too-hard touch on the celeste, causing an inconsistent >speaking. Looking through the grill-work, and seeing piano-like >action, it occurred to me it could use some piano-like >regulating. Didn't have the time to experiment, but I remain curious. . . > >Thanks, >Richard Ditto. In January I had the great, good fortune to work on the one here. (Jenko) It's obviously been ridden hard and put away wet , many times... The rubber encased adjusting nuts on the pickup fingers had become absolutely non-adjustable due to ossified rubber which crumbled at the approach of a tool. After replacing them, I find that the best you can get it to work is consistent with the others. Lightening the touch is not possible, as noted, so the best I could do was to get all at least functional. Expensive?? I'm hearing rumors of $25k for a new one!! <$5 worth of parts and a couple hours of scratching head and making adjustments made a big difference. Now, if they'd only give ME the $25k... ;-} Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
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