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Cornamusa (f)

(with) definite article: la
(the) horn-pipe [?]
Ciaramedda

Also used as a generic term for all kinds of bagpipes, Sicilian or otherwise; NB: ➺ homonyms and related terms.

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.95.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.134 (»Naselli, [&c.]).

Meer, John Henry van der: Beitrag zur Typologie der westeuropäischen Sackpfeifen. In: SIMP I (Stockholm, 1969), p.106.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.30, 49.