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Surdulina (f)

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter + 2 drones) / no additional drones

Identical types: 19

Italo-Albanian communities of the Monte Pollino zone (borderland Basilicata-Calabria), and prov. Catanzaro (Farneta di Castroregio and Plataci (prov. Cosenza)), but also in two non-albanophone villages (Albidona and Alessandria di Carretto (prov. Cosenza)) and, according to Tucci, in the central zone of the "new" prov. Crotone [separated from prov. Catanzaro
in 1982; ws]; Similar to the Zampogna a paro; Vincenzo Lavena (La Vena) distinguishes, according to Tucci, 4 different subtypes (Surdulina I & II, Stifetta, and Conflentana) that are distributed in as many sub-areas of diffusion; NB¹: Note the discrepancy between the spelling in heading and text in Leydi (1979), according to whom (1989), "the difference between the types used in Basilicata and Calabria is not in [organological] structure, but in design"; NB²: ➺ homonyms & similar terms, Sardellina & Sardëllina, Serdellina, Sordelina &c., and Sourdeline and related terms; NB³: ➺ a paro (Sicily); NB4: ➺ Sunappille.

Type 1: small, soberly made by hand, or with lathe, parallel fingerholes; Type 2: made with lathe, semi-parallel fingerholes and disk-shaped bells.

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Sources

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.

Scaldaferri, Nicola: La zampogna in Basilicata. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.67.

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

Zampogne: catalogo della mostra permanente di cornamuse italiane e straniere di Scapoli. A cura di Mauro Gioielli. Scapoli, 2001, p.12, 39*.

Castagna, Ettore: La zampogna a chiave calabrese (The Calabrian zampogna with key) - 1 (Disegni: Stefano Fraschetti). In: Utriculus, Nuova serie XVII (56), II semestre 2018, p.18 (gruppo),19, 20, 26 (gruppo), (50: surduline [sic], 57-58 [Cornetta family tree]).

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).