a place where court musicians gathered to practice their drums, rattles, bells, flutes, and chants (see Sahagún)
Mixcoacalli... mochi ic moçencauhticatca, in cujcanjme: in jxqujch monequj teponaztli, olmaitl, veuetl, aiacachtli, tetzilacatl, çoçoloctli, teponaçoanj, veuetzonanj, cujcaitoanj teiacanque: ioan in ixqujch tlamantli mâcehoallatqujtl = Mixcoacalli... All this the singers prepared, all that was necessary–two-toned drums, rubber drum hammers, ground drums, rattles shaped liked dried poppy heads, copper bells, flutes; players of two-toned drums and ground drums, intoners of chants, leaders of the dance; and all the properties used in the dance (central Mexico, sixteenth century)