What makes a celeste sound different to a pianoforte?!
Question: What makes a celeste sound different to a pianoforte!?
I know there different insturments!. I know that the strings of a piano are hit - is this the same in a celeste!? is it a bit like a vibraphone!?
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Answers:
A celesta uses a similar (but not the same) action to have hammers hit floating tuned steel or aluminum plates to make its characteristic sound, the piano uses strings under tension crossing a bridge to directly couple them to the soundboard!.
The Celesta is a lot like a vibraphone but without the motor and resonator tubes!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
The Celesta is a lot like a vibraphone but without the motor and resonator tubes!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
As you correctly say, the strings of a piano are hit with hammers!. In a celeste similar hammers hit metal bars instead of strings - rather like those you would find on a Glockenspiel!. This is the main element in producing such a different sound!. Although one could think of a celeste as a keyed Glockenspiel for the sake of this question, there is a separate instrument which is 'officially' a keyed Glockenspiel but it uses harder 'hammers' than a celeste and, therefore, actually sounds like a Glockenspiel rather then the softer, more 'tinkly' sound of the celeste!.
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