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nickname(s): "Berto de Ciavatta"

piper (&c.) mentioned by name

Born [and lived?] in Arsoli [NE of Tivoli, prov. Roma], which doesn’t seem to have ever been a "centro zampognaro" [piping centre]; He is remembered, however, to have borrowed and played, around the mid-1930s, the instrument of Antonio Folgori "Sparicchia", and it seems that, when one of its pipes was broken, he replaced it with a hand-made one of elder (Sambucus nigra) that he had made himself.

Instrument: Zampogna zoppa


Sources

Tucci, Roberta: La zampogna zoppa dell’alta valle dell’Aniene: in ricordo di Cecco Splendori. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.85 (»Tacchia).