Maffeis, Piero
?-1959piper (&c.) mentioned by name
Born in Semonte (a fraction of Vertova [NE of Bergamo]); Son of Michele Guerino; Originally also a farmer, he moved to Travedona [W of Varese], where he worked in a quarry and died of silicosis [a lung disease]; He kept playing until the 1950s.
Instrument: Baghèt
Biella, Valter: Il "baghèt": un’antica tradizione bergamasca. Testi musiche e strumenti. Bergamo, 1988 (Quaderni del Misma), p.41.