Surdelline (m)
(with) definite article: ilBagpipe (unknown type)
Only encountered in the expression "Avere un surdelline nelle orecchie" [To have a bagpipe in the ears (to have a buzzing/whistling sound in one’s ears)]; NB: ➺ homonyms & similar terms, Sardellina & Sardëllina, Serdellina, Sordelina &c., and Sourdeline and related terms.
➺ Baldano, Giovanni Lorenzo: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare sopra le sordelline (Tablature book for playing the sordellina; Savona, 1600). Facsimile del manoscritto e studi introduttivi a cura di Maurizio Tarrini, Giovanni Farris, John Henry van der Meer. Savona, 1995, p.111 (Tarrini).