Called "delle Quattro Province", which are Alessandria (Piemonte), Genova (Liguria), Pavia (Lombardia) and Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna); Traditionally accompanying a Piffero (a shawm of conical bore), it was replaced, in the 1930s, with the accordion; In the late 1990s it began, however, to regain its place and function; According to Gioielli, its name is "a probable Gallicism", introduced in the popular Ligurian language (➺ Mûza), then spread to neighbouring areas; Disregarding the fact that Müsa, though a loanword from the Greek (μοῦσα [moûsa]), is a Latin term connected with music, his private hypothesis is based solely on his comparison with the French terms cornemuse, musette, and muse; NB: ➺ Müsa di Pradaglia.

Conical chanter: cylindrical drone.

Baga, Musa appenninica, Müsa del Appennino, Mûza, Piva

Manetta, Manicotto, ·? (drone [Term not mentioned in available sources])