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Definition of Celesta
1. Noun. A musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard.
Definition of Celesta
1. Noun. (musical instruments) a musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Celesta
1. a keyboard instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celesta
Literary usage of Celesta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"... in theatre organs and need not be considered here, the most common Percussion
stops are the Chimes and Carillons, the latter also called " celesta " and ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"ORCHESTRAL BELLS GLOCKENSPIEL, HARMONICA, XYLOPHONE, celesta Italian, Campanelli.
French, Carillon. T~*HE bells belong to the class of instruments of per- ..."
3. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1904)
"St. celesta, April 16, M. at Rome. AA.SS. St. Celestina tin, April 0, VM Commemorated
with eight hundred other martyrs in the collegiate church of St. Mary ..."
4. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"blessed this union: Raymond, born May 29, 1901; celesta, January 18, 1903;
Catherine, January 18, 1907. MICHAEL O'HERRON, head of the general contracting ..."
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