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Mento, Antonino ("Nino")

1903-1996
nickname(s): "mastru [master] Sciuni"

maker of bagpipes (&c.) mentioned by name

[Born and?] lived in San Cono (Sicilian: Santu Conu, fraction of Rometta Superiore, prov. Messina); Father of Francesco; Dean of the Zampogna makers of the Messina area; No additional details found; NB¹: Oddly, Nico Staiti shows a photo of a "Zampogna a paro small size", made by Antonino Mento, ca. 1875* [➺ NB²]; According to Mario Sarica (1994), however, Antonino "was born March 30, 1903" [!]. *NB²: ➺ "mastru Antuninu"; NB³: ➺ Scurdillino.

Instrument: Ciaramedda


Sources

Staiti, Nico: Simultaneously played multi-pipe wind instruments of Sicily. In: SIMP IX (Stockholm, 1989), p.66.

Sarica, Mario: Strumenti musicali popolari in Sicilia: provincia di Messina. Messina, 1994, p.75.

Sarica, Mario: La zampogna a paro siciliana [Title on 1st text page: La zampogna a paro in Sicilia]. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.165, 171 (caption ill. 27 [Nino]), 231 (note 30 [➺ p.153]: Nino Sciuni Mento).

ws (➺ NB¹ [on dates])