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Contra basso (m)

(with) definite article: il

original: contra baʃʃo

(the) contrabass

left hand chanter of a non-linked double chanter: type? / reed type?

No identical types known (yet).
Chiaramella alla Pugliese

From Scarabelli (1666); NB: Spelling by Gioielli: "Contrabbasso".

Sources

Scarabelli, Pietro Francesco: Mvseo ò galeria adunata dal ʃapere, e dallo ʃtudio del Sig. Canonico Manfredo Settala, nobile milanese, descritto in Latino dal sig. Paolo Maria Terzago et hora in Italiano… Tortona, MDCLXVI [1666], p.365.

Gioielli, Mauro: La zampogna in Puglia. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, ➺ p.43 (»Scarabelli).