Celesta

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  celesta \celesta\ n. (Mus.)
     a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates
     that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  celesta
       n : a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates
           that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "celesta":
     battery, bells, bones, castanets, chime, chimes, clappers,
     crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong,
     handbells, idiophone, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone,
     orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions,
     percussive, rattle, rattlebones, sizzler, snappers, tam-tam,
     tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes,
     vibraphone, xylophone