Day 423: Celeste(a)

I'm not sure if it's spelled Celeste or Celesta because I've seen it both ways and heard reasons to explain each spelling. That tiny logistic aside, I have been granted the opportunity of playing the Celeste during The Music Man. Several golden age musicals (since it was before the days of keyboards and synthesizers) had piano books in the orchestration and often these books required the player to double on Celeste. So what happens, is both instruments are in an L shape and when it indicates you rotate and play a few delicate chords on the Celeste. If you don't know what it is, it looks like a keyboard, sounds an octave above where played and written, and is made of a series of bells to sound like a music box. In the show it is used in the ballads, and is most featured in Goodnight, my someone. I love the pretty sound of it, that I wouldn't mind playing the whole show on it, but that would sound a little silly especially in Trouble or The Wells Fargo Wagon. I never thought we would get to actually play one or that the school even had one. We do though and I'm thrilled. I love it here!!! The day they rolled it in, I just had to take a photo: