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What is a glockenspiel?

What is a glockenspiel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.
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They certainly haven't ignored technology, but the use of instruments like banjo, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ enhances the weathered folk feel of the music.
Mr. Herman sits surrounded by 20 percussion instruments, including two timpani, vibraphones, glockenspiel, chimes, cymbals and sleigh bells.
With liberal use of glockenspiel, harmonium and mouth organ, it sounds like Brion found his instruments in a playgroup toy box.
The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato, string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel.
Although the band started out playing dishpans, accordions, and glockenspiel, they eventually settled on a more traditional sound.
The songs are accompanied by guitar, mandolin, piano and the occasional glockenspiel and there is a good variety of each.

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