piffero (piffero)

1. A small sort of It.oboe n. used by the left arm, and was tapped with a mountaineers in Italy. small drumstick held in the right 2. Fifer. hand, pikieren (pi-ke'-ren) Ger. v. pipe-metal In organ building a metal for the In violin-playing, to use the bow with staccato effect. See also pique manufacture of the metallic flue-pipes, and picchiettato. usually composed of an alloy of lead and tin; an increase in the proportion pileata (pil-e-a'-ta) Lat. adj. of tin improving the quality of the Capped: applied to a covered pipe, pince (pan-sa) Fr. part, and adj. tone. Pure metals, zinc, tin, or lead, Literally, pinched. or all three combined in different pro- 1. Plucked or twangled, used of portions, have also been used, strings; in violin playing usually pipe, oaten made of an oat straw cut called pizzicato. A pipe 2. A mordent, or form of grace so as to have one end closed by a note; a trill. knot, the other end open. Near the pince bemolise (pan-sa ba-mo-le-za) knot a slit is cut so as to form a Fr. reed, Literally, pinched a half tone lowpipe-organ See organ. er: applied to a trill with a flattened note, pipe, See picco picco pipe,