celestan.
/sɪˈlɛstə/ A keyboard instrument with piano-like action, having hammers that strike upon steel plates placed over wooden resonators, invented by Auguste Mustel of Paris in 1886.
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1899 E. Prout Orchestra II. vi. 158 Only a few of the strings are employed to accompanying the celesta.
1927 Grove's Dict. Music I. 591 The tone of the celesta itself is of exquisite purity.
1966 Listener 10 Mar. 364 The celesta player on both occasions was Richard Rodney Bennett.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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