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Piffero (m)

(with) definite article: il
➺ remark(s) below
Ciaramella*

According to Sachs "a small flute" or a shawm (which Podnos oddly, and erroneously, calls a "chanter"); NB: ➺ homonym (bagpipe).

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.25 (»Scholes: Abruzzi), 30 (»Scholes: Sicily).