From Athanasius Kircher, »Phonurgia nova« (Campidonæ [Kempten (Bavaria, Germany)], 1673), in which it is described as “... instrumentum musicum, quod Muʃettam vulgò vocant, quod ex tribus fistulis & utre construitur, ... “ [... a musical instrument, made up of 3 pipes and a skin, that people commonly call [a] Musetta, ...]; Also mentioned in Pietro Lichtenthal, »Dizionario e bibliografia della musica«, Volume secondo (Milano, M.DCCC.XXVI [1826]), in which it is described as "a wind instrument composed of a ram's skin in the shape of a bladder [sic], a scialumò [i.e. chanter], a drone, several reeds, and a "soffietto" [which is presumably a "blowpipe" (NB¹: ➺ homonyms, &c.)]; NB²: The identical text can be found in Gianfrancesco Rambelli, »Vocabolario domestico« (Bologna, 1850), and François-Joseph Fétis, »La musica accomodata alla intelligenza di tutti« (Torino, 1858 [➺ Utriculus 57-58]); Although the latter publication is an Italian translation of »La musique mise à la portée de tout le monde…« (Paris, 1830), the paragraph doesn’t occur at all in the 1st French edition (!); It is mentioned, however, in the edition of 1839; NB³: ➺ All Museta, &c.

Scialumò