Celesta

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  • noun. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by hammers that produce bell-like tones.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A musical instrument, played from a keyboard of five octaves, in which the sound is produced by the blows of hammers upon steel plates placed over resonators of wood. It was invented by Mustel of Paris in 1886, and has been introduced into some orchestral and operatic scores.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
    • Word Usage
    "A '' 'celesta' '' or '' 'celeste' '' ([[France | French]]: '' heavenly '') is a percussion instrument with a piano-like keyboard, connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of steel plates suspended over wooden resonators."
    Form
    celestist  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    keyboard instrument  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Vesta  cuesta  fiesta  podesta  testa  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    battery  bells  bones  castanets  chime  
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