Usually means: Percussion instrument with tuned metal.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. glockenspiel: Merriam-Webster
  2. glockenspiel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glockenspiel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glockenspiel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glockenspiel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glockenspiel, glockenspiel: Wordnik
  7. glockenspiel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glockenspiel: Wiktionary
  9. glockenspiel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glockenspiel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glockenspiel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glockenspiel, glockenspiel: Dictionary.com
  13. glockenspiel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Glockenspiel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. glockenspiel: Rhymezone
  16. glockenspiel: Robb: German English
  17. glockenspiel: FreeDictionary.org
  18. glockenspiel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. glockenspiel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. glockenspiel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glockenspiel: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. Glockenspiel: Early Patches (musical instruments)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glockenspiel: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glockenspiel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (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.

Similar:
orchestral bells, gittern, gigelira, glassophone, gong, glassichord, guitar, gamba, glassychord, ghittern, more...

Types:
xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, tubular bells, chimes, cymbals, more...

Phrases:
Keyboard glockenspiel, more...

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Similar:
orchestral bells, gittern, gigelira, glassophone, gong, glassichord, guitar, gamba, glassychord, ghittern, more...

Types:
xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, tubular bells, chimes, cymbals, more...

Phrases:
Keyboard glockenspiel, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     copper,     pewter, more...



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