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Passacantilli, Giuseppe ("Peppino")

1893-1975
nickname(s): "de Franceschittu" [of Francesco (his father)]

piper (&c.) mentioned by name

[Born and?] lived in Vicovaro [NE of Tivoli, prov. Roma]; A shepherd, he was the last Zampogna zoppa player in his a family; He was a grandson of Ludovico, from whom he had bought, ca.1905, his own instrument, made of "Ceraso marino" [i.e. Corbezzolo [Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)]; ws].

Instrument: Zampogna zoppa


Sources

Tucci, Roberta: La zampogna zoppa dell’alta valle dell’Aniene: in ricordo di Cecco Splendori. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.86.