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Cornamusa* (f)

(with) definite article: la
plural: Cornamuse; (with) definite article: le

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but the name of a traditional shawm of prov. Gorizia in South-eastern Friuli; Traditionally played in pairs, it is commonly referred to by the plural form of its name.
NB¹: On the basis of its name, the editor of "Miscellanea zampognara" (Mauro Gioielli) ignorantly assumes this instrument to be a bagpipe; NB²: On the website "Brittanica" the instrument is defined. however, as "probably little more than a crumhorn without the nonfunctional curved area, and the dolzaina, appearing much the same as the cornamusa. (The name cornamusa was more often used for a bagpipe.)"; NB³: According to Dutch instrument maker Fritz Heller, the Dolzaina has been described as a "quiet shawm"; The specimen found on board the Mary Rose [an English carrack (i.e. an ocean-going sailing ship; WS], which sank in 1543, could be the only surviving specimen; NB4homonyms and related terms.

carrack (Portuguese: nau; Spanish: nao; Catalan: carraca; Croatian: karaka) is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship

Quarnamusa


Sources

Utriculus IX (36), ottobre/dicembre 2005, Miscellanea zampognara, p.45: “Quarnamuse, pividori e pive storte” (»G.G. Badini, “Origini e tradizioni della danza e dei canti caratteristici nel Goriziano”. In Ricreazione, anno I; n. 7-8 (Roma, 1949), p.106-109 [➺ p.106-107]).

Personal communication

Mr. Fritz Heller (Haarlem, NL), e-mail 31 Oct. 2024 (Re Dolzaina alias "quiet shawm")..

Web

Brittanica (cornamusa).
Blasende Instrumente (Fritz Heller, Dolzaina).