spiccato bowing

1. 1.

   bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings

   Synonymsspiccato

   Broaderbowing

Questions about spiccato bowing

What does spiccato bowing mean?

spiccato bowing means "bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings".

What is another word for spiccato bowing?

Close synonyms include spiccato. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spiccato bowing a common word?

spiccato bowing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.