Sticcado

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]