Carillon: alternatives and connections

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the serv…

A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those…

A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

Chime.

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An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of…

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwo…

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring;…

The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…

A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the fing…

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…