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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

or celeste noun Etymology: French célesta, alteration of céleste, literally, heavenly, from Latin caelestis Date: 1899 a keyboard instrument with hammers that strike steel plates producing a tone similar to that of a glockenspiel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Mus. a small keyboard instrument resembling a glockenspiel, with hammers striking steel plates suspended over wooden resonators, giving an ethereal bell-like sound. Etymology: pseudo-L f. F céleste: see CELESTE

Moby Thesaurus

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