Hear a Celesta

[Enthalpy]

Dear friends of music, arts, and all inquiring minds!

Here's a nice web address to hear a celesta

https://www.celesta-schiedmayer.de/en/celesta/celesta-audio-samples/

at the website of one manufacturer - there aren't so many. Also pictures and explanations there.

In short, the celesta has a keyboard and hammers like a piano to strike high-pitched metal bars placed over tuned air resonators. Many symphony orchestras have one, but it's not very common.

One other manufacturer
http://www.glockenspiel-lippert.de/celesta.html
and Wiki claims Yamaha produces some too.

A third-dozen more companies have existed, including the inventor's one, Mustel. Some instruments subsist, from Jenco among others; you may observe that the design differs much among the manufacturers.

Enjoy!

[Enthalpy]

Other nice address:
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Percussions/Celesta

[Enthalpy]

Nice Monday everyone!

The lithophone has resonating bars of stone, while the marimba uses wood and the vibraphone metal. It has tubes to amplify the sound, or a box, or nothing. Examples abound in the Net, with varied designs and results. This single one has a light-year advance
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notice the distinct stone sound, the long sustain, the uniform sound across the wide range. It results from tenacious and enlightened research
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Nice sound too: 6DESaw8w1pA

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The txalaparta has bars of wood, stone or metal struck with makilak (thick vertical sticks) often by two musicians, and it's typically Basque, good opportunity to hear the language too.
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the Maika and Sara Gomez twins are celebrities in Spain
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The balafon has wooden resonators amplified by calabashes or sometimes a box. Record here:
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A different sound from an other country:
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The scale can be pentatonic, diatonic... I heard in the Paris metro a fantastic musician whose scale wasn't a subset of the equal-tempered one. And here's even a chromatic design:
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Ciao!

[Enthalpy]

The dulcitone is older than the celesta, with the last ones built a century ago
wikipedia
it has metal forks rather than steel plates, and the forks vibrate a soundboard over an elastic metal sheet, while the celesta has a resonating air tube for each note (originally for note pairs). The second resonator takes its time to reach full amplitude on the celesta, giving the soft attack typical of the celesta, marimba and vibraphone, while the attack is direct on the dulcitone, the biggest audible difference. The dulcitone lacks badly sound strength, probably what let abandon it, but I don't see any reason except bad design to be less loud than a piano. Hear it there:
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and few more.

[Enthalpy]

The cymbalum, or cimbalom and so on, is common in Romania, Hungary and more Central and Eastern European countries, but elsewhere it's not so usual
en.wiki and fr.wiki
Fortunately there are records on the Web.

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[Enthalpy]

Cimbalom too, but with different styles, varied pieces and composers there:
Daniel Skála on Youtube

[Enthalpy]

New record of the dulcitone, very nice:
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