Tasto

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

  Tasto \Tas"to\ (t[aum]s"t[-o]), n. [It.] (Mus.)
     A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Tasto solo}, single touch; -- in old music, a direction
        denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it


        is written should be performed alone, or with no other
        chords than unisons and octaves.
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