Re: celeste

> Hello, After finally convincing our one music store in town the merits
> of the Echo Celeste, they are stocking and selling them. As a matter of
> fact, he now plays one regularly in church. He also is learning to play
> to accompany his guitar. (He is a fantastic guitar and banjo player)
> Like me he likes the full sound of the Celeste and the fact that holes
> 1 and 2 play so easily on blow and draw, unlike a 10 hole diatonic. He
> likes Cajun music and gets a nice accordion sound out of his. He is
> getting me one in the key of F . I have D and A. Does anyone have an F
> and does it sound good? I know the lower you go, sometimes you get a
> rattle.
I have a Tombo 1521 (v. expensive, bought before the Celeste came out) 
in F, and it occasionally does the rattle!  Pat Missin told me once that 
it can be eliminated by expert conditioning of an instrument, 
considerably more careful work than is available on any mass-production 
floor.

J.E.B.