col legno


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
col legno /kɒl ˈlɛnjəʊ/
adverb Music (with reference to a bowed instrument) played by hitting the strings with the back of the bow.
– origin Ital., ‘with the wood (of the bow)’.
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