glockenspiel

IPA: gɫˈɑkʌnspiɫ

(music) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

Examples of "glockenspiel" in Sentences

* Why does "glockenspiel" mean "bell play", if there aren't any bells on a glockenspiel?
The glockenspiel is a percussion instrument consisting of tuned steel bars that are hit with a hammer.
Indeed this and the glockenspiel are a superb tool that helps distinguish them and create their quite unique sound and style.
The glockenspiel was a bit hit early on because composers always wanted to write for bells, and there was no practical way to do that.
The glockenspiel was a big hit early on because composers always wanted to write for bells, and there was no practical way to do that.
The Bruce Springsteen Glockenspiel Addendum takes the few tracks on Born to Run which don’t contain glockenspiel, and adds the missing instrument.
For all that, the 11 lavishly gifted "stars", plus actor Paul McGann reading out the instruments and adding a certain low-key sensuality to the word "glockenspiel", were a revelation.
But through the wide streets and through the narrow ones, under the archways into the market gardens, across the bridge and into the square where the "glockenspiel" played its old tinkling tune, everywhere the Citadel looked down and always The Rat walked on in his dream.