Spectrasonique - Keyscape Info

Then came the twist.

They called it .

So began a five-year safari. The Spectrasonics team traveled to salt-sprayed California beach houses to rescue a —not the common 200A model—because its shorter reeds produced a grittier, more “brittle” bark. They found a Celeste in a dusty German cathedral that hadn’t been tuned since the fall of the Berlin Wall. They located the only playable Chickering “Grand Upright” from 1885, a piano with ivory keys so worn they looked like sea glass, whose felt hammers had petrified into a velvety hammer of stone. Spectrasonique - Keyscape

Then came the twist.

They called it .

So began a five-year safari. The Spectrasonics team traveled to salt-sprayed California beach houses to rescue a —not the common 200A model—because its shorter reeds produced a grittier, more “brittle” bark. They found a Celeste in a dusty German cathedral that hadn’t been tuned since the fall of the Berlin Wall. They located the only playable Chickering “Grand Upright” from 1885, a piano with ivory keys so worn they looked like sea glass, whose felt hammers had petrified into a velvety hammer of stone.