Associations to the word «Glockenspiel»

Wiktionary

GLOCKENSPIEL, noun. (musical instrument) 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.

Dictionary definition

GLOCKENSPIEL, noun. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats