Carillon
Glockenspiel stands for:
- Glockenspiel (musical instrument) , a stick game (percussion instrument) belonging to the group of metallophones
- Lyra (carillon) , a specific carillon used in military bands
- Bianzhong , Chinese carillon
- Bianbo , Chinese carillon
- Glockenspiel (music box) , a mechanical music box attached to or in historical buildings
- Carillon , a large musical instrument that is usually located on or in towers, in which bells are struck via a keyboard and cables or electromagnets
- Porcelain glockenspiel , an instrument made of Meissen porcelain similar to the carillon, in which the bells are usually struck from the outside
- an effect register of the organ, see register (organ)
see also carillon (excerpt):
- Glockenspiel (Essen) in Kettwiger Straße, Essen
- House of the Glockenspiel in Böttcherstraße, Bremen
- Salzburg glockenspiel , historical musical mechanism in the New Residence
- Grafenberg carillon
- Glockenspiel at the New Town Hall in Munich
- Glockenspiel Bottrop
See also:
Wiktionary: Glockenspiel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations