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Here are the key facts about the celesta: The unmistakable sound of the instrument is produced by its special mechanism: by pressing a key on the keyboard a felt hammer is triggered which strikes the top of a sound plate. Beneath the steel plate is a wooden resonator.

Celeste Hammer Shanks Differ from Those in Grand Pianos While the shanks of hammers in a grand piano are vertically thick and very hard, the shanks of celeste hammers are vertically thin, but horizontally thick - similar in shape to the soft mallets used for mallet keyboard instruments like vibraphone or marimba.

Hear. You may recognize that tune probably its first entry into the orchestral repertoire Tchaikovsky's sugarplum fairy from The Nutcracker. I think it takes on several roles in the orchestra.

The celesta is a compound idiophone like the glockenspiel, only it uses a keyboard mechanism rather than mallets. Perhaps you might also discuss these things: the piano and the celesta have a single manual (row of keys), whereas some harpsichords and virtually all organs have multiple manuals.

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Celesta or keyboard glockenspiel The most important difference is in the touch and sound. While the celesta uses the characteristic felt hammers and produces a warm, rather spherical sound, the keyboard glockenspiel uses bronze mallets that strike stronger sound plates.

piano The celesta looks like a tiny upright piano and sounds a lot like the glockenspiel with its delicate bell-like tone. Celestas usually have a keyboard of 49–65 keys. As with the piano, you make sound on the celesta by pressing down on a key with your finger, which lifts a hammer inside and strikes a metal bar.

celesta, also spelled celeste, orchestral percussion instrument resembling a small upright piano, patented by a Parisian, Auguste Mustel, in 1886. It consists of a series of small metal bars (and hence is a metallophone) with a keyboard and a simplified piano action in which small felt hammers strike the bars.

Celeste is a surprise masterpiece. Its 2D platforming is some of the best and toughest since Super Meat Boy, with levels that are as challenging to figure out as they are satisfying to complete.