celesta


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
celesta /sɪˈlɛstə/ (also celeste /sɪˈlɛst/)
noun a small keyboard instrument in which felted hammers strike a row of steel plates suspended over wooden resonators, giving an ethereal bell-like sound.
– origin C19: pseudo-Latin, based on Fr. céleste ‘heavenly’.
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