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Spölèta (f)

(with) definite article: la
plural: Spölète; (with) definite article: le
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reed consisting of a base (the Body) with a vibrating blade (the Tongue)

Identical types: 55
Baghèt

Diminutive of "spöla" [spool, fuse, shuttle]; Drone reed(s).

Made of cane (Arundo donax); Usually up-cut (old style), but Giacomo Ruggeri made them sometimes down-cut.

Sources

Biella, Valter: Il "baghèt": un’antica tradizione bergamasca. Testi musiche e strumenti. Bergamo, 1988 (Quaderni del Misma), p.49-50 (Spöleta).

Biella, Valter: Il "baghèt": la piva delle valli bergamasche. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.3 (Spölèta).