Re: Impressions, Hohner Echo Celeste

Hi Jonathan,
May I know which online shop did you order the Hohner Echo Celeste.
Thank you.

Ong Kelven

>From: Russ Gaippe <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [big-harmonica] Impressions, Hohner Echo Celeste
>Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:42:38 -0800 (PST)
>
>Jonathan,
>
>What am I missing here? Why are the numbers marking 4 holes?
>
>Russ
>
>"Jonathan E. Brickman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Well, my Hohner Echo Celeste in E arrived yesterday.  I'll be writing a 
>formal review for the web shortly.  This is for now:
>
>1.  This is a magnificent instrument.
>
>2.  It is solo-tuned!!!!  Full-scale-tuned !!!!!!!!   God is good, and the 
>Hohner people have listened!!!  My E major came with a paper insert which 
>is probably sent with all Hohner Echo Celestes, and the following diagram 
>appears:
>
>
>
>This diagram is an exact match for the solo-tuning diagram in the middle of 
>Pat Missin's missive on tremolo tuning, which is here:
>
>http://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q15.html
>
>Hooray!  Three cheers for Hohner!!!!!!!
>
>
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>3.  I find it to be generally superior to all other tremolos I have used, 
>including Tombo 3121, Tombo 1521, Suzuki Humming, Huang Musette, and even 
>my sweet little Brelli.  I am shocked and amazed and delighted.  It is 
>built well, with visibly greater precision and care than Suzuki Humming and 
>3121.  It is aesthetically pleasing in all respects.
>
>4.  It is also a 24-note instrument, and is therefore (to my knowledge) the 
>only 24-note tremolo on the market today available in all of the 12 major 
>keys.
>
>5.  Its tonal response on the low end is truly beautiful: it is far and 
>wide the best in tremolo tone quality I have ever heard of in the low end, 
>and in fact, I am going to have to revise all of the reviews on the web 
>site to reflect this simple fact.  Its tone quality in the middle and high 
>ends is excellent too.
>
>6.  It was shipped in a very durable and useful case, looks like strong 
>nylon fabric reinforced, and closes with a good zipper, which reminds my 
>wife of certain kinds of cell-phone cases.
>
>7.  There is only one item which may be a minor downside for some: although 
>it is capable of substantially more volume than Merano, it is not as loud 
>as anything I have used from Tombo, Suzuki, Huang, or Brelli.  But I like 
>it better this way.  I can control the loudness far, far more than any 
>other tremolo I have used.  Thus it ends up being a better instrument both 
>for individual play and practice and for performance, which these days is 
>just about always amplified, in which case I want maximum control and to be 
>not limited to the range of medium-to-very-loud volume.
>
>8.  It is probably made of less thick metal than the Tombo 1521: it is not 
>as heavy than the 1521, which is quite unexpectedly heavy for its size.  
>But this may end up being a plus.  Heavier weight is often greater 
>fragility in a precision-made metal object.
>
>9.  It has a new hole-numbering system which I don't understand yet, 
>represented by the topmost row of numbers in the diagram above, which does 
>partly refer to the holes on a regular Hohner Blues Band.  There is also 
>some hole-number-based music packaged with the instrument.  So I think that 
>this is, more or less, a reinvention of the harmonica number system for 
>solo-tuned tremolo.
>
>--
>Jonathan E. Brickman
>America!  Bless God!!!
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