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Currò, Francesco ("Ciccio")

?-[2000?]
nickname(s): "Runca" [?], and "il Paganini della Zampogna"

piper (&c.) mentioned by name

Born and lived in [?] (prov. Messina); At the end of his life he lived, several years, like a tramp in his car [as far as I understood, due to marital problems]; No additional details found; NB: ➺ Scurdillino.

Instrument: Ciaramedda


Sources

Sarica, Mario: La zampogna a paro siciliana [Title on 1st text page: La zampogna a paro in Sicilia]. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), II, p.150* (1985), 231 (note 28 [➺ p.152]).

Utriculus IX (33), gennaio/marzo 2005, Miscellanea zampognara, p.47: "La scomparsa di Francesco “ciccio” Currò".

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