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Zampogna a chiave (f)

(with) definite article: la

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter + 3 drones) / no additional drones

Identical types: 6

With 3 drones; According to Tucci the instrument occurs in the provinces Crotone, Catanzaro, Vibo Valentia and Reggio Calabria, and in some peripheral areas of prov. Cosenza (in the North, along the Tyrrhenian coast and along the border with Basilicata, and in the South in the extreme western fringe); According to Leydi, the sizes are numbered in "Palmi", stating that the 3½ and 4½ "palmi" are the most frequently used.


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.135.

Tucci, Roberta: Le zampogne in Calabria. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.105, 109-113.