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
  • Piano notes highlight background galaxies, while background stars ping as notes on a glockenspiel.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2026
  • The producers use various libraries of samples and the glockenspiel is one of those samples.
    — Nicole Pajer, Billboard, 13 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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 musical ensemble will include a string quartet, clarinets, marimba, timpani and glockenspiel.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Springsteen’s voice starts weary, nearly monotone, then slowly lifted by a wall of sound (guitars, organ, sax, drums, glockenspiel, bass, keyboards), culminating in the finest woo-oah‘s known to rock.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • 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
  • It is scored for a flutist who also plays alto flute and piccolo, a pianist doubling on celesta, and a percussionist playing glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, and marimba.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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