glockenspiel

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.

Origin

  • from German Glockenspiel (lit., bells-play)

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