celesta

• “A '' 'celesta' '' or '' 'celeste' '' ([[France | French]]: '' heavenly '') is a percussion instrument with a piano-like keyboard, connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of steel plates suspended over wooden resonators.”

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• “Spine-tingling effects pour out of the orchestra pit: steamy strings, creepy celesta, slippery harp, fluttery piccolo, tender soprano and alto flutes, seductive bass and treble clarinets, and a battery of heart-palpitating percussion instruments.”

  The Huffington Post: Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera

• “In the far corner, meanwhile, is Biophilia's "gameleste" – a celesta rebuilt with brass to mimic the sounds of the south-east Asian gamelan.”

  The Guardian: Björk: Biophilia – review

• “Performed by the Chroma chamber orchestra on instruments as diverse as the guitar and celesta, the music is partly influenced by ethnographical recordings made in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pilgrimage Into a Dark Night of the Soul

• “Biophilia" is built in large part on instruments Björk and her team invented, including a bronze keyboard that's a cross between a celesta and a gamelan, a digital pipe organ, a Tesla coil that replicates rumbling bass, and a series of 30-foot-tall sound-producing pendulums.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bells, Whistles, Chimes and Charm

• “On his own version, Mr. Akinmusire plays the celesta with its chime like "heavenly" sound.”

  The Huffington Post: Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire

• “A celesta plays the "magical" music of the duplicating machine that empowers the German students.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Young and Committed to Their Causes

• “On record, Mr. McCombs's band couches intricate lyricism in soft rock and piano balladry, but with sumptuous touches of arcane instruments like celesta, Hammond organ, and bass clarinet.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Little Older, but No Less Noisy

• “Each of the four movements presents a different emphasis on the combinations of instruments: The first is a brilliant muted fugue with strings and celesta, which Alsop held to a marvelously simmering restraint until the piano impatiently burst in, in the second movement, to show how things could sound if they got a little louder.”

  The Washington Post: In performance: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

• “The program began with the Bartók piece - piano, celesta, and harp center stage with the orchestra divided into two separate ensembles on either side.”

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