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Cornamusa (f)

(with) definite article: la

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

Identical types: 61

Extinct; Before Ventura’s reorganisation (19th century) of the Cobla band, it formed, together with the Tiple and Tenora (shawms), the accompaniment to the still quite popular Catalonian folk dance Sardana; NB: ➺ homonyms and related terms.

Very similar to the Gaita galega.

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.111.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines; »Praetorius; »Sachs).