typophone
A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.
Noun
- A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.
- The conductors of the Revue et Gazette Musicale have given another concert at their establishment, a performance on the typophone being one of the chief attractions in the programme. - 1870 April 23, Watson's Weekly Art...
- It seems that Mustel’s celesta was inspired by an instrument he (or his father Victor) constructed some twenty years earlier, known as the typophone (or dulcitone). - 1992, James Blades, Percussion Instruments and Their...
Origin
From Greek τύπος (týpos) + Greek φωνή (foní), equivalent to typo- + -phone.