mustel: célesta canvas tote

Limited edition. In 1891, on his way to America, Tchaikovsky stopped in Paris and heard a new instrument from the workshop of Auguste Mustel: a small keyboard whose hammers strike steel plates, somewhere between a music box and falling snow. He wrote to his publisher to buy one and asked him to keep it quiet, afraid that Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov would hear of it and use it first. They didn't. A year later the célesta played the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and it has been his ever since. Here for now, not forever.

12 oz cotton canvas, big enough for scores, records or a week of groceries.