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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIZZICATO (from Ital. pizzicare, to
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pluck or twitch)
, a
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term in
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music for a direction to the players of stringed
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instruments, that the passage so marked is to be played by plucking the strings with the fingers instead of using the bow .

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