A celesta sounds a bit like a music box, as opposed to the grand sound of the piano. Also, the celesta tends to be a lot quieter than a piano.
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Auguste Mustel invented the celesta in 1886 to create a unique instrument that combined the qualities of a piano and a Glockenspiel. He wanted to provide composers with a new sound option for orchestral music, different from existing keyboard or percussion instruments.
one is more sharp in timbre one is lower.
This musical instrument is called Piano.
A piano is played by pressing keys that strike combined strings to make noises. A celesta is played the same way however instead of striking strings they hit metal plates .
If anything with a keyboard is considered to be cousin to the piano, then an organ and an accordion are both cousins to the piano. If the method of creating sound from that keyboard is the measure of an instrument being cousin to a piano, then the hammered dulcimer, the clavichord, the harpsichord, and even the celesta would be cousins.
The sound on a celesta is produced by hammers striking metal bars, similar to a piano, but the bars are made of steel instead of wood. The bars are connected to resonators that amplify and sustain the sound, creating the instrument's characteristic bell-like tone.
Celesta Geyer was born in 1901.
Celesta Geyer died in 1982.
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