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Definition of Sticcado

Sticcado
Sticcado Stic*ca"do, n. [Cf. It. steccato a palisade.] (Mus.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

Meaning of Sticcado from wikipedia

- Franklin carried a version of the instrument with him, describing it as a sticcado. Beyer originally presented the instrument on 19 January 1785, in a presentation...
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