Historic Celestas on display at NAMM:
Schiedmayer.
Music Trades • Feb, 2008 • NEW PRODUCTS: THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN NEW PRODUCT
INTRODUCTIONS
THE SCHIEDMAYER Company of Stuttgart, Germany, has been
manufacturing Celestas since 1890 and has supplied instruments to the
world's top symphonies, including The New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, the BBC Symphonic Orchestras, and the Berliner
Philharmoniker. At this year's NAMM show, the company will unveil a
new generation of products that, according to Elaine Schiedmayer,
"offer an incomparable light touch with an unsurpassed fullness of
sound and superb instrumental quality."
The Celesta was first invented by Victor Mustel in Paris. He
obtained a patent in 1886 for the musical instrument he named
"celesta." According to his patent the sound plates must be
placed above the wooden resonators and struck from above by felt covered
hammers. Besides the Celesta (four models from 4 to 5.5 octave range),
Schiedmayer produces keyboard glockenspiels as well as glockenspiel for
pipe organs.
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