Tubular Bells

Walking home from the supermarket Saturday, my husband and I met the daughter of a friend. She was carrying something under her arm - it looked like a two-dimensional harp, one that had slipped from the real world into a cartoon perspective. "What's that you're carrying?' I asked. "A

glockenspiel," she answered. Having never before received the reply "A glockenspiel" in answer to "What's that you're carrying?", I was delighted.

Here is perhaps the most famous modern musical interpretation of that esteemed instrument.

(Image: traditionalmusic.co.uk.)