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Canna femmina (f)

(with) definite article: la
(the) female pipe

right hand chanter of a non-linked double chanter: conical, divergent, bell / double reed

Identical types: 9
Ciaramelle

Even though Leydi shows the difference between the old and new types (➺ ill.22), he fails to add the range of the former type.

Range: f-g-a-b-c; Usually plum (Prunus domestica), or sorb ~ / rowan ~ / service tree (Sorbus domestica), exceptionally beech (Fagus sylvatica); Types 1 (3 fingerholes (old)) and 2 (4 fingerholes).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Sources

Leydi, Roberto: Typological outlines of the Italian bagpipes. In: SIMP IX (Stockholm, 1989), p.120/*.

Arcangeli, Piero G. / Palombini, Giancarlo / Pianesi, Mauro: La sposa lamentava e l'amatrice: poesia e musica della tradizione alto-sabina tra l'Abruzzo e il Lazio. s.l. [Pescara], 2001, p.67-73.

Palombini, Giancarlo: Le ciaramelle: la zampogna altosabina. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.57.