Surdulina (f)
(with) definite article: laBagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter + 2 drones) / no additional drones
The smallest of all Italian bagpipes, it occurs in the "Arbëresh" (Italo-Albanian) communities of the Monte Pollino zone (borderland Basilicata-Calabria), and in prov. Potenza (San Constantino Albanese and San Paolo Albanese), but also in Italian speaking Terranova di Pollino (prov. Potenza); Used to play dance music or accompany songs and processions, it is usually played solo, but it can also be accompanied by a Tamburello (tambourine) or a bottle struck with a door key; Some of its features (its left chanter is stopped, allowing staccato playing, and its large drone is the longest of its 4 pipes, &c.) render it a unique specimen of Italian bagpipe; NB¹: ➺ Calabria; NB²: ➺ homonyms & similar terms, Sardellina & Sardëllina, Serdellina, Sordelina &c., and Sourdeline and related terms.
According to Scaldaferri, instruments were, because of their small dimensions, often hand-made, and modelled with a knife only, with the possible exception of the Zëpponë, which was turned on a lathe; Oddly, however, the only example he provides are the instruments made by Agostino Troiano, adding two instruments entirely turned on a lathe: that of Carmine Salamone, made by an unknown maker, and one made by a Quirino Valvano [*1964, San Costantino Albanese, prov. Potenza], which is the smallest of all instruments measured.
Canna, Destra, Manca, Shcandillë, Trumbette, Trumm, Uhjièt, Ùtërë, Zëpponë, ·? (stock: blowpipe [Term not mentioned in available sources])
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Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.140.
Leydi, Roberto: Typological outlines of the Italian bagpipes. In: SIMP IX (Stockholm, 1989), p.114 (map 10).
Scaldaferri, Nicola: La zampogna in Basilicata. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.67-71, 84-86.
Zampogne: catalogo della mostra permanente di cornamuse italiane e straniere di Scapoli. A cura di Mauro Gioielli. Scapoli, 2001, p.12, [➺ 39*].
Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.25 (surdulines [French plural]).
Utriculus 3;3 (11), luglio-settembre 1994, Miscellanea zampognara, p.28: “La surdulina «albanese»" (»Mauro Gioielli, "La zampogna molisana", in Il Tratturo (Isernia, 1981), p.15-16).
Scaldaferri, Nicola: Zampogna a chiave e surdulina a Terranova e nell'area del Pollino: morfologia e repertori musicali. In: Le zampogne a Terranova di Pollino... (2015), p.29 [3x]).