How to Use glockenspiel in a Sentence

glockenspiel

noun

• Will Bill play a tune on a school band-member’s glockenspiel during a late blowout?
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 15 Feb. 2018
• Much of the accompaniment is glockenspiel and piano, along with a children's choir that joins in with Peppa and her friends.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• The glockenspiel, the celesta, the glass harmonica, the piano, the fender piano, the electric bass.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
• The producers use various libraries of samples and the glockenspiel is one of those samples.
  — Nicole Pajer, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2018
• The organ can replicate hundreds of instruments and sounds, from xylophone and glockenspiel to bird whistles and sand blocks.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018
• Horns added subtext to violin lines, then led a heroic brass, while the glockenspiel and flute gilded the orchestration.
  — Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com, 17 June 2017
• Instrumentally, the original drum beat from YouTube was spiced up with guitar, snares and a glockenspiel, giving the song a shimmery effect.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021
• That same playfulness emerged through frequent instrument swapping throughout the two-hour set — Chassagne for one played keytar and drums and glockenspiel and wine bottles with spoons.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2018
• Music, perhaps counterintuitively, was vital to the silent film, and the team worked early on with the composer Wolfgang Zeller, who made sound effects with flute notes and a glockenspiel.
  — Devi Lockwood, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• But the building might be best known for its glockenspiel, a 49-foot tower featuring wood carvings of local community members that plays recorded music four times a day.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• Onstage were four timpani, a bass drum, snare drum, side drum, a large gong, cymbals, xylophone, castanets, vibraphone, glockenspiel, woodblock, whip-crack and triangle.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
• This prodigious, impeccably maintained contraption has all the bells, whistles, horns and glockenspiels of the traditional organ — and it's painted in all the lysergic colors of the Day-Glo rainbow.
  — David Kipen, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The original orchestrations are preserved, save for the substitution of glockenspiel for vibes and the replacement of Hammond organ with electronic keyboard.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2017
• Getting music from a glockenspiel looks deceptively easy.
  — Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 23 June 2017
• The group’s arrangements almost always include ukelele, drums, guitar and cello, but also can include glockenspiel, saxophone and melodica.
  — Jacob Sweet, sacbee.com, 29 June 2017
• Michael Culligan, associate principal precussionist for CSO, plays several instruments for the orchestra: bass drums, snare drums, cymbals, tambourines, the glockenspiel and the xylophone.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 20 Dec. 2017

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