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/səˈlestə/,
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celestas, plural;
  1. A small keyboard instrument in which felted hammers strike a row of steel plates suspended over wooden resonators, giving an ethereal bell-like sound

  1. a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
  2. The celesta or celeste (pronounced) is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano (four- or five-octave) or of a large wooden music box (three-octave). ...
  3. (A. celestae) Aardonyx (Afrikaans aard, "earth" + Greek onux, "nail, claw") is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur. It is known from the type species Aardonyx celestae found from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. A. ...
  4. Mellow-sounding instrument in which large felt hammers resembling oversize piano hammers strike tuned steel or aluminum bars. In theatre organ terminology: Chrysoglott.
  5. A musical instrument with a keyboard built like a Glockenspiel whereby keys activate a hammer to strike a metal plate producing bell-like tones. Augueste Mustel patented it in Paris in 1886 after his father constructed it.
  6. A small keyboard instrument in which hammers strike on steel plates, producing an ethereal bell-like sound.
  7. Percussion instrument consisting of tuned steel bars connected to a keyboard.