[CAUT] Celesta

Joel A. Jones jajones2 at wisc.edu
Thu Jan 31 16:35:15 MST 2008


Eric,

Call West Music Co. in Iowa CIty or Steve Carver <steve-carver at uiowa.edu
They did a class on celestes in Nashville with rave reviews.  I think 
you will
find that they can repair/rebuild for you

Joel
Joel Jones, RPT
Madison, WIl
On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Horace Greeley wrote:

>
>  Hi, Eric,
>
>  At 10:59 AM 1/31/2008, you wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>   
>>  I’d be interested in hearing comments anyone might have in comparing 
>> a Schiedmayer celesta to the Yamaha celesta. I know the Yamaha has an 
>> action more like a piano action and therefore might be a bit more 
>> “pianist friendly” to play and more “technician friendly” to service. 
>> How does it stack up tonally?
>>   
>>  I’m a rather reluctant (but capable) caretaker for a couple of 
>> over-the-hill Schiedmayers and am just wondering…
>  Hmmm...for my money, the hands-down choice would be to ship the 
> Schiedmayers back to the factory for refurbishing.  Since Mustel went 
> out of business, Schiedmayer is really the only game in town.  Tonally 
> there is no comparison between those and Yamahas.
>
>  Best.
>
>  Horace
>
>
>>  
>>  Eric
>>   
>> Eric Wolfley, RPT
>>  Director of Piano Services
>>  College-Conservatory of Music
>>  University of Cincinnati
>>  
>>   
>>   
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