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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>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</span><span
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though I am not normally running the thing in concert</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>.
This is truly a good use for an electronic keyboard IMHO. If you learn
any tricks please post them though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>John Dutton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Billings, MT</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>(professional French horn player for 23 years now)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Richard Morgan
[mailto:rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 04 March, 2007 16:25<br>
<b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Celeste<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Have
any of you had occasion to work on a celeste? I played <em><span
style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The Planets</span></em> 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. . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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