Possible Clues:

• Mostly Italian food given to one pet? Nothing to be plucked
• Played without a bow
• To be plucked with the fingers (music)
• It takes pluck to play like this!
• Played by plucking
• Italian recipe involving one chicken's head to be plucked
• To be plucked (musical)
• Perhaps you'd have to be plucky to play like this
• Plucky way of dealing with notes
• In music, to be played by plucking