The CELESTA musical instrument - All about the history, sound & more (also spelled Celeste) 

You can’t not to admire this magical craft. Respect to these guys.

My Mom's name is Carol, and yes she's incredibly musical. So much so that she has her Master's music theory, sang opera, taught music for her career and introduces herself as Carol, as in Christmas Carol. We listen to The nutcracker starting the day of Thanksgiving until 4 days after Valentine's Day and have done so for as long as I can remember. Mom and I have been to 108 ballets (I'm 52 for prospective) and other creative productions of Tchaikovskis music. I have never knew this instrument begins the theme song to a soundtrack of my life until today! It's referenced in Orange is the New Black series as Piper's Grandma's name; season 2, episode11. I love learning new things daily! Thanks for this video! It's fascinating!

I've never committed a crime before, but if I ever come across one of these I'm taking it.

Amazing! The tuning steps were particularly fascinating. Great 'old world' craftsmanship in a beautiful instrument.

It's a truly magical instrument that takes you breath away. Thank you.

Wow this was so fascinating to watch - love the sound of the Celesta and wish it was used more in music.

What a wonderful career : hand manufacture of musical instruments of any type. I think I missed my calling.

what a lovely sounding instrument. It really does sound like how you would imagine the stars to sound like when the twinkle in the night sky.

What a magical video. That must be so much fun to work in that celesta factory. I would want to play them all day!

Thank you for adding to my musical education. I met someone named Celeste yesterday, helped her order her meal. After I left, I had the strange tingling that the name might be an instrument. In my senior years now, even as a trombonist in my earlier years, I'd neither heard nor seen one. I also didn't know it was the instrument played in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Thank you for the care you take to make such a wonderful instrument. Your video was extraordinary, including the listing of credits at the end. J

what a beautiful film

Such a heavenly sound😍

I got to play one woohoo. I'm currently playing it for a performance at my college as part of a concert band.

Production on this is wonderful -- sound, video. And creating it to be accessible for speakers of *all* languages as well as illiterate persons (children, etc.) was a stroke of genius. Vielen dank Schiedmayer Volk!

Best video about this instrument on RU-vid. Everyone else just talks over the sound.

It was good that the name of the pieces of music were shown at the end.

fabulous!

Leave it to the Germans to come up with something so intricate, well-made and delightful. Ausgezeichnet! [excellent!]

Charmingly ethereal

spettacolare! sono rimasta incantata dal lavoro di precisione di questi ragazzi, complimenti!

LOL, Schiedmayer's own "How It's Made".

Thank you so much for making this exquisite video! My homeschoolers loved learning all about the Celeste! Now they want to grow up to build them too. 😁

Wow that is so beautiful! You guys are brilliant craftsman, thanks for sharing!

It's basically a Keyboard Metallophone. A really good piece of music that sounds great with Celesta is Sweet was the Song by Matthew Brown.

1:08 That Note is Tenor High C Sharp which in the Music is notated as Middle C Sharp. The Celesta Speaks an Octave Higher than written.

Another instrument I will never be able to afford

Fantastic

When I win the lottery, I'm buying a celesta, learning it, and making an entire album of celesta music

ONE DAY! its minnnne. They had one of these in the music dept during when I was in college, majoring in piano. This was hidden off somewhere near the jazz hall,. Heavy heavy instrument.

from 1:36 - for anybody equally smitten by the piece, it's called "The Pealing of Thunder" by Massimo Graziato.

Who knew? What a beautiful shop to work in!

Thank you for documenting with such great detail the celeste construction

Ein interessantes Musikinstrument mit einem tollen Klang. Im Vorspann von Harry Potter Filme zu hören. Tolle Handarbeit Made in Germany

This is the most superior video available on RU-vid.

Still baffles me why the overhead hammer action.....why not just use a grand piano style under action, its like trying to reinvent the wheel? but...tbh the Schiedmayer are by far the "steinways" of the celesta world, I'm a percussionist not a keyboardist but ive had the pleasure of playing one and was amazed with the tone in the lower range. Sounds like a vibraphone and glockenspiel merged and was smoothed out...just wish i could afford one of those musical marvels....maybe the sugar plum fairy will bring me one for Xmas

What if you made a celeste that has glass bars instead of metal ones, or a celesta with sympathetic strings that resonate with it to add an extra ethereal sound to it?

The neat thing is that the Keys are Full Sized Piano Keys made out of the same Material, you have your White Naturals and Black Accidentals.

Thank you all for the gift of such exquisite beauty.🙏🏻👏🏼💫🥰✨✨✨🪷🌷🙏🏻

The Felt Hammers are the same as a Piano because they're the same material and they're graduated in size to match the Size and pitch of the Bars (or for Pianos the Steel Strings)

Oh my sweet Celestia!!

It has a Sustain Pedal like a Piano and it plays like one too.

100.000 hits - Thanks !

Excellent video,. Thank you Team @ Schiedmayer.

amazing instrument, great job.

Belíssima performance!!!!

Imagine before the electronics evolution how people measure every piece of this instrument or build this machines in 1800s

A special praise to you, who are the only ones in world currently.

Beautiful, congratulations! I love Celestas! I only saw one once, when I was a kid, in Brasília - Brazil.

Echt interessant, war echt nett das ich das aus der Nähe beachten dürfte. Es war einfach unglaublich, zu sehen wie das aufgebaut war. Also mir wurde die Geschichte erzählt wie die Firma entstanden ist, die Herstellung und vieles mehr gezeigt.

couple of blues and boogie woogie piano players who recorded on celeste. are Freddie slack and Meade lux Lewis I play this style of piano would love to play and or record on one

BEAUTIFUL!

Wow, imagine that, to be the only manufacturer in the world of the central instrument in as important a repertoire piece as "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy"! I hope there's some sort of backup plan in place (e.g. escrowed trade secrets documents and a designated recipient) if, god forbid, you all die in a plane crash or something!! At least now thanks to this video, the world knows the basics of construction, should the worst happen. Excellent video! I wanted to refresh my memory on what exactly a celesta/e was after spotting it in the title of Wendy Carlos' "Break In (For Strings, Flutes, And Celesta)" from the _TRON_ score. Goes to show how irreplaceable the tone of the instrument is, despite it being a relatively simple tone - it's used quite subtly in that piece, so Carlos could've just used a synth for that sound, too, if she thought it'd capture the tone adequately. Speaking of questions of subtle tonality, I loved the part in the video where the musician / final checker lady keeps hitting the one clinker note she's found, going, "Really? You guys can't hear that problem?"

Greetings from Houston, Texas!

A lot of people don't know that the harps in Heaven were superseded by celestas when the celesta was invented.

cant find anything about the piece pealing of the bells by massimo graziato on google. Looking for the sheet music....

If you want to hear how the instrument was used in rock 'n roll check out Buddy Holly's song "Everyday." It is featured in the 1 minute mark of the 2:12 original track.

Amazing. How long does it take you to build just one?

Nice

Te dan ganas de ponerte a construir uno.

I love this instrument.... I want to compose atonal music on this instrument..

Schade, dass bei dem Video die Tonspur entfernt wurde. Zu gerne hätte ich die Geräusche und Klänge beim Stimmen und ersten Anspielen gehört. So ist es leider nur was für's Auge.

HERMOSO INSTRUMENTO.

Wow

Ich frage mich, warum Schiedmayer für die Hammernasen und einige andere Bauteile keine CNC Fräse verwendet.

Merci Schiedmayer Celesta GmbH

Its like an acoustic rhodes piano

Beautiful masterpiece instruments! I am curious to know if this is the instrument used for the background music in many of the segments of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood? -Does anyone know for sure?

Wow the music so trippy 😵

So, each continent gets one celesta?

You need a grinder to tune this instrument?

About how much will one of those puppies set you back?

I am wondering If anyone can help me take to study and work in manufacturing of this amazing instrument, I work in piano restoration since 2010 , I live in Egypt and I can't find anyone to help me learn more in that field

Celesta is a mother of Fender Rhodes.

Do you guys sell the action model at 1:06? I collect piano action models and would love to have one for my piano showroom

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What's the name of the background music at the start called?

what music is that?

Is the company descended from the 18th century clavichord maker?

How many time you news to male one celesta

Why do they claim to be the only one since you may look up the at least 3 manufactorers? Different is just the technique.

Does anyone else think the celesta sounds like a Rhodes piano a little?

E aí coloca Pedro Pedroca e tu não tem uma câmera Zinha aí então acredita nela e vai ter dois vídeos

It's a vibraphone, shaped as a piano

It’s a pitty that we can not hear the sounds belonging to the film. The used music is annoying. Film itself is nice.😕👍

I will save money for ten years then buy one... Or buy a used one

1:08

"The only celeste maker in the world". So what your saying is that if I want a celeste, I shouldn't make you guys my enemy? Lolz.

@ Pedro 😎✌🙊

Jetzt kommt es aus China?

harry potter!

это очень дорогой инструмент

o my hora

8:03 "wtf guys"

Schade, dass auf Schönheit des Aussehens null Wert gelegt wird. Isst das Auge nicht mit?!

La Celesta es Harry Potter.

piano glockenspiel :)

pedro 😎👌📱💻🎥🎬

Harry Potter, anyone?

This is what Tim Burton's mind sounds like.

Gente aí que joga Minecraft o jogo Meu nome é Pedro