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stiˈccado Mus.
Also -ato.
[? ad. It. steccato.]
A kind of xylophone (see quot. 1875).
1776Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. ii. 33 A kind of Sticcado, consisting of bars of wood of different lengths as sonorous as if they had been of metal. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxii, If I can but steal out into the woods, and play upon my sticcado, I forget it all directly. 1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3) Sticcado. 1875Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Sticcado or Sticcato, an instrument composed of pieces of wood of graduated lengths, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, resting on the edges of an open box, and tuned to a diatonic scale. The tone is produced by striking the pieces of wood with small hard balls at the end of a flexible stick. |