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Sordina (f)

(with) definite article: la
(the) muffler / damper [?]

Bagpipe (unknown type)

Identical types: 98

Earliest source: a coupon, dated 5 September 1472, for the payment of "4 duc. [today’s rate?; ws] pel prezzo di due cornamuse ed una sordina" [for the price of 2 bagpipes and 1 Sordina] to bagpipe maker Antonio Ambrosio, Naples; NB: ➺ San Marino.

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Sources

Baldano, Giovanni Lorenzo: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare sopra le sordelline (Tablature book for playing the sordellina; Savona, 1600). Facsimile del manoscritto e studi introduttivi a cura di Maurizio Tarrini, Giovanni Farris, John Henry van der Meer. Savona, 1995, p.84 (v.d.Meer), 116.