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Piva da orsi (f)

(with) definite article: la
~ for bears

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 61

Term for a bagpipe, used by Orsari [i.e. itinerant "bear-keepers", mainly of Piedmont] to accompany the dancing of a bear; From G. [Giuseppe] Boerio, »Dizionario del dialetto veneziano« (Venezia, 1856).

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Sources

Gioielli, Mauro: La müsa delle Quattro Province. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.27/249 (note 12).

Utriculus 3;2 (10), aprile-giugno 1994, Miscellanea zampognara, p.15: “La «Piva-da-orsi»” (»Boerio, 1a ed. 1829).

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Google books (Boerio, ed. 1829 [Find orsi: ➺ p.445]).
ibidem (ibid, ed. 1856 [Find orsi: ➺ p.514 [& p.32 (➺ Cornamusa]]).