Col legno (Italian for with the wood) is a method of playing bowed string instruments (particularly the violin, viola, cello and double bass) whereby the strings are struck with the wood of the bow rather having the hair pulled across them.
... and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione chronicorum" and "D ...