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What does tinkly mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having a tinkling sound.
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The old spinets and harpsichords, with their charming inlaid cases, were beautiful, but they gave forth only tinkly sounds.
It was a tinkly, reedy instrument, for none of that household had any turn for music.
We should also mention that the gallery has set up some speakers in the gallery playing tinkly avant-garde piano music.
It has an often light orchestration, with lots of harp, tinkly percussion, and celesta and even harpsichord.
It must have sounded as tinkly as one of those tiny children's pianos which you can buy at every toy-shop.
Often they were supplemented with candelabra of bronze or brass, tricked out with tinkly pendant prisms.

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