Cucchiarella (f)
(with) definite article: laproof of an existing (verbal) agreement between musicians and clients, to play at fixed occasions
A wooden spoon, in the past handed, as a kind of lien-contract, to the families by the itinerant bagpipers who had promised to play novene [novena tunes] during the "Nuvera de Natale" (9-day period before Christmas).
Gioielli, Mauro: Le zampogne nel Molise. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.222, 223 (nuvera).
Portavamo la cucchiarella: racconti e immagini di zampognari molisani del XX secolo. A cura di Antonietta Caccia. Scapoli, 2001.