a musical keyboard instrument in which a series of steel tuning forks are struck by hammers. It was invented in the late 19th century and was superseded by the celesta 音叉琴(发明于19世纪晚期,后被钢片琴取代)
语源
late 19th cent.: coined by T. Machell, the instrument's inventor, from Latin dulcis 'sweet' + tonus 'tone'