Piccolino

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Piccolino
(n.)
A shortened, stunted stringed instrument, usually plucked or played with a sigh, from the violin family. Invented by composer and amateur dramatist Otto Büchstein for his epic opera Talentdämmerung. Also features in Carillion’s epic cult single Pension Deficit, amongst whose fans the instrument is known as the “tiny violin”.