tubular bells

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 241 words | Copyright

tubular bells. Orch. instr. in form of suspended tubes, tuned to the diatonic scale, struck by hammer held by player. Set of tubular bells sometimes spans an octave. Vaughan Williams wrote for them in finale of his 8th Sym., 1953–5.

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