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It sounds like a glockenspiel
Answer for the clue "It sounds like a glockenspiel ", 7 letters:
celesta
Alternative clues for the word celesta
- Instrument whose name comes from the Latin for "heavenly"
- "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" instrument
- Piano's cousin
- Sugar Plum Fairy's instrument to dance to
- Keyboard instrument heard in "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
- Instrument from the French for "heavenly"
- Instrument this French alto carries in case
- "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" keyboard instrument
Word definitions for celesta in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context musical instruments English) a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard. n. (context musical instruments English) a musical instrument consisting principally ...
Usage examples of celesta.
Anyway, the Mary Celesta was found adrift in the middle of the Atlantic, with the table set for dinner, but the entire crew was missing.
There were about four pianos scattered throughout the big house to say nothing of the celesta, the organ, guitars, mandolins, fiddles and what not.
Sometimes when it was too hot they brought the celesta or the little organ into the garden (and a keg of beer, naturally) and we'd sit around in the dark laughing and singing - until the neighbours forced us to stop.
And when things got going, three or four pianos at once, the celesta, the organ, the mandolins, the guitars, beer running through the halls, the mantelpieces full of sandwiches and cigars, a breeze coming through from the garden, George Neumiller stripped to the waist and modulating like a fiend, it was better than any show I've ever seen put on and it didn't cost a cent.
He nodded to Viola (Hypolydian Duet) Toccata, whom he knew only slightly, and was introduced to Celesta and Clarino, both of the Psalm chord, who nodded gravely to him.