ALL meanings of glockenspiel
glock·en·spiel
G g - noun glockenspiel music: xylophone 1
- noun glockenspiel a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands. 1
- noun glockenspiel A musical percussion instrument having a set of tuned metal pieces mounted in a frame and struck with small hammers. 1
- noun glockenspiel (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. 0
- countable noun glockenspiel A glockenspiel is a musical instrument which consists of metal bars of different lengths arranged like the keyboard of a piano. You play the glockenspiel by hitting the bars with wooden hammers. 0
- noun glockenspiel a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal plates played with a pair of small hammers 0
- noun glockenspiel a percussion instrument with chromatically tuned, flat metal bars set in a frame, that produce bell-like tones when struck with small hammers 0