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Piva* (f)

(with) definite article: la

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym mentioned in Antonio Morri, »Vocabolario Romagnolo-Italiano« (1840), who defines it as piffero (shawm), tibia (pipe).

Sources

Gioielli, Mauro: La piva in Emilia-Romagna. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.34.