Meaning of dulcitone | Babel Free

Definitions

A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.

Examples

“It would be pleasing could I record the acquirement of dulcitones for these or the regular classes, especially the kindergartens—the dulcitone being the new instrument mentioned in my report of last year—but perhaps they will come in the near future.”

“A dulcitone had just arrived there on which I played, but I am very glad I didn’t close with our Colonel’s offer to buy one—the tone is so wretchedly thin, especially the bass, which has none at all.”

“There was a dulcitone in the camp belonging to one of the prisoners, and it sounded very pretty accompanying the songs at the end of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’.”

“Wood, the M.O., had a dulcitone, upon which he could perform in no mean fashion, when he felt sufficiently inspired to leave his long chair.”

“He preferred, he said, bells, glockenspiels, dulcitones, and marimbas—anything that would whoop, tinkle, and glide with abandon.”

“Young people love such colourful, easy-to-play instruments as staff-bells, marimbas, dulcitones, etc.”

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