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Sampogna* (f)

(with) definite article: la
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bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

Corruption of Greek συμφωνία (Symfonia [Latin: Symphonia]) ?; Italian term used for the Syrinx (Pan pipes), mentioned in Dante Alighieri, »La divina commedia« (1308-1321);
NB¹: Mentioned in Rambelli as a synonym of Zampògna, which he defines as a “rustic musical instrument which is a kind of Zuffolo sometimes made up of seven unequal pipes".

Sampugna*, Zampògna*


Sources

Ranieri Tomeo, Emidio: «de la sampogna vento che penètra». Altre interpretazioni per lo strumento musicale della Commedia dantesca ("of the sampogna that penetrates". Other interpretations for the musical instrument of Dante’s Comedy). In: Utriculus, Nuova serie XX (61-62), 2021, p.13ff.

Rambelli, Gianfrancesco: Vocabolario domestico (Bologna, 1850), p.399.

Web

Google books (Dante (ed. 1913 [Find sampogna: p.177])).
ibidem (Rambelli [Find zuffolo: p.399]).