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Canto (m)

(with) definite article: il [lu?]
Canta

Italian "translation" in Baines; Podnos mentions Piffero, enigmatically defining it as "chanter", utterly erroneously confusing it with the Italian name of a shawm.

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.100.