Mascia, Giovanni
?-? [19th century]piper (&c.) mentioned by name
[Born and?] lived in Monastir (in Sardu: Muristenis, Trexenta area, prov. Cagliari); In 1838 he was contracted to play at a feast in Pirri (now a district of Cagliari), but whilst playing, serious unrest arose among the crowd, and the public forces had to intervene and arrested the worst troublemakers, one of whom was Domenico Arixi, who had already been the source of some serious trouble among the youth of Pirri, in 1835; A relative of Graziano and/or Orlando?
Instrument: Launeddas / Launeḍḍas / Launedda [sic]
Lallai, Giampaolo: Il periodo d’oro delle launeddas: dall’800 agli anni trenta del ’900. In: Launeddas: l’anima di un popolo (1997), p.53.