Tricca-vallacca

Tricca-vallacca rattle of Naples, with 3 or 5 mallets inserted in a wooden frame, so that the center one is fixed and the outer ones are free to strike against it. Also called traccabballà, tralaballacco, triccaballacca. Cf. trich varlach.

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