Figus, Palmerio

[Born and?] lived in ? (Trexenta area, prov. Cagliari); Grandfather of Giuseppe; Father of Antonio; In a period when Launeddas playing had almost died out, he learned playing from a man who had to take breath in between the Pikkiadas, because he didn’t master the technique of circular breathing; The man himself had learned the music from a man who did not play himself, but could whistle all the tunes (!); After having won a competition between the best Launeddas players of Sardinia, Palmerio was found the next morning with a knife in his back, killed by a colleague.