Category:Celestaphone (zither)
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The celestaphone was a musical instrument of the zither family, which was played by pressing spring-levers to cause small hammers to strike the strings of the instrument. ...
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The gospel musician Washington Phillips was thought to have played the Dolceola on several of his recordings, but he actually played a compound instrument he fashioned out of two East Boston Phonoharp Company celestaphones, but with the hammer-keyboard removed.
— English Wikipedia article “en:Celestaphone (instrument)”
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The term celestaphone was also used for a glass-plate xylophone designed by en:Charles C. Weidman of en:Ohio State University around the 1930s.[1]
Yet another celestaphone was an instrument created by en:Clair Omar Musser, a glockenspiel-like instrument he constructed over the mid-20th century from meteorites.— English Wikipedia article “en:Celestaphone (instrument)”
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- ↑ Bonnier Corporation (August 1937) Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, pp. 117– Retrieved on 23 September 2012.
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