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And celesta the same with vibraphone ;) ...but without the tremolo :D ...love both, the analog analog epiano like rhodes or hohner electra... The electra is my love!
The theater I volunteer at has a Wurlitzer, Hope Jones Unit Orchestra, and it contains several tuned percussion instruments, including a glockenspiel. One of the more rare tuned percussions that I last saw was being worked on to be installed, and that this unit orchestra has, is tuned sleigh bells. The famous Blackpool Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer has one of these, and I think that's pretty neat. They sound kind of unearthly, but they are very beautiful.
Joe, I just became interested in them recently. I purchased a practice piano for my studio to keep most of the hours off my concert grand, and the best one I could find was a Schiedmayer. When I started doing research about this company I found out they were the last makers of the Celesta, and so my interest grew. I have really been touched by the Celesta, and would really like one for my studio if I can set the money aside in the future.
In one of the video's he did He went to namm a music convention and played a Celesta doing Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. He talked about the composer and how he was the first to use the Celesta for that song. You should look it up very interesting.
Oh wow, had seen youtube recomending your piano recomendation videos, but i was interested. Then, today I search for keyboard glockenspiel, and this comes up!
what is the typical study course of a professional glockenspiel or celesta player? I've always wondered whether the people playing such instruments in theatres in the Magic Flute or the Sugar Fairy Dance were pianists or percussionists.
Ooh, good question! For traditional glockenspiel, I'd definitely say percussionist. They fall into the same category of vibraphone, marimba, and xylophone, quintessential percussion instruments. For the celesta and keyboard glockenspiel, it's more likely they are a pianist.
For Celesta they are pretty much always pianists, for keyboard Glockenspiel they should be pianist BUT it is rare to have a keyboard Glockenspiel, so orchestral pieces are usually (practically always) played with a normal Glockenspiel by a percussionist. A good exemple is Dukas "Sorcerer apprentice", which is still today destroying mallet percussionist nerves in every keyboard percussion audition, having to play those arpeggios with 2 mallets instead then 10 fingers.....
The celesta is louder than a piano becasse you’re hitting métal strips intead of strings, but not as loud and clear as the glockenspiel because unlike the glockenspiel, you hit those métal strips with a felted end, whereas the glockenspiel is métal against métal. Sorry for bad english, Im french.
I first thought that the sound of keybord was fake. I also thought that the keybord must have been used by P.I.Tchsaikowski in order to complete the music on the Dance of the Sugar Fairy you played.
The origin of the "Keyboard Glockenspiel", known as the "Glockenspiel": d1aeri3ty3izns.cloudfront.net/media/4/47091/1200/preview.jpg ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7sYsxcdTcXY.html
I have a fabulous DULCITONE piano in rich mahogany with fold up legs and a sustain pedal that folds out, Like new condition too.. Whats it worth then ?
An original dulcitone? In playable condition? If you're located in the USA, feel free to send me an email at milanrecordingstudios.com and tell me more. I often travel the United States and would love to make a video of such a rare instrument!
I think you might be thinking of a harpsichord, which has plectrums that pluck strings. The celesta does indeed have a hammer action like a piano, which strikes metal bars, or "tines'.
@@ThePianoforever Two years late, and you may have already read up on this by now, but I think what the commenter may have been getting at is that 'tines' are fixed at one and, as in the tines of a tuning fork (or indeed the dulcitone, an early celesta precursor in which the keys actually did activate tuning forks). Whereas bars, as in a celesta or glockenspiel (keyed or otherwise) are free at both ends and suspended at the nodes of their first mode of vibration.
You can't spell Keyboard Glockenspiel without glock. edit : anyway, really beautiful sound, both of them. edit 2 : I stumble upon this video because I want to see reference about names inside my future novel. Turns out Celesta is a perfect name.
