typophone

plural typophones

1. A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.

   It seems that Mustel’s celesta was inspired by an instrument he (or his father Victor) constructed some twenty years earlier, known as the typophone (or dulcitone).

   1992, James Blades, Percussion Instruments and Their History, illustrated, reprint, revised edition, Bold Strummer, page 311

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   The conductors of the Revue et Gazette Musicale have given another concert at their establishment, a performance on the typophone being one of the chief attractions in the programme.

   1870 April 23, Watson's Weekly Art Journal, volume XII, number 25, page 187