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Zampugnaro (m)

(with) definite article: lu
(the) piper

any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

Identical types: 127

Spelling in the poem 'O zampugnaro ‘nnammurato [The bagpiper in love] (1917; published 1924) by Armando Gill (1877-1945), which is published in Vittorio Paliotti, »Storia della canzone napoletana« (Milano, 1958); Gioielli also refers, erroneously, to a Neapolitan "ninna-nanna" (lullaby) in Antonio Casetti & Vittorio Imbriani, »Canti popolari delle provincie meridionali«, vol. II (Torino, 1872), in which the spelling is, however, "lu zampognaro" !; NB: ➺ Basilicata.and Puglia.

Ciaramellare, Sampognaro, Zampognaro


Sources

Utriculus 3;4 (12), ottobre-dicembre 1994, Miscellanea zampognara, p.33-34: “Una canzona di Armando Gill” (»Paliotti, p.145-146).

Gioielli, Mauro: La zampogna in Puglia. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.41/219 (note 4).

Web

Google books (Paliotti [Find zampugnaro: p.145, 146 [& 196]]).