Sordino (disambiguation)

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Con sordino is a musical instruction telling a musician to use a mute.

Con sordino can also refer to:

  • An instruction for a pianist to use the soft pedal which mutes the instrument
  • An instruction for guitarists to dampen the sound using the palm method to slightly deadening the stings
  • Sordun, a family of archaic double-reed instruments
  • Surdellina or Sordellina, a 17th-century bagpipe
  • kit violin, a small string instrument
  • Clavichord (from its quiet sound)