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col legno

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col legno [ˈkɒl ˈlegnəʊ ˈleɪnjəʊ]
adv
(Music, other) Music to be played (on a stringed instrument) by striking the strings with the back of the bow
[Italian: with the wood]


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I thought she was making fun of us because we bow in different directions sometimes, but she explained she meant the way we play really high, on the bridge, col legno (striking with the wood of the bow instead of the hair).
Launched last summer by the former owner of the Col Legno label, Neos is the latest arrival to disprove the notion that the classical-record industry is in its death throes.
8) The finale of the Symphonie Fantastique of Hector Berlioz, a vision of a witches' sabbath, includes a distinctive col legno passage of eight measures for must of the string section, starting about three dozen bars from the end of the movement.
 
 
 
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