Zampogna (f)
(with) definite article: laBagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter + 2 drones) / no additional drones
Provinces Latina and Frosinone; Usually played in combination with a Ciaramella (shawm); It is made in various sizes (pitches); According to Sparagna the numbers and tonalities in central Latium are 23 (in B♭), 25 (A♭), 28 (G♭), 30 (F), and 32 (E); Leydi (1989), who does not fully agree, adds a 17 (E♭) and 20 (C), and claims a different pitch of the 28 (G♭) and 32 (E); According to Ricci the 3 "measures" and approximate tonalities most used and widespread in central Latium are 25 (A [A♭]), 28 (G [G♭]), and 30 (F [E]), but he also mentions an 18 (in D) as the smallest of all; NB¹: The following numbers and their pitches, mentioned in Leydi (1979), can be qualified as dubious or even unreliable: 20 (in D [Compare "Ricci’s" № 18!]), 23 (A), 24 [?], 25 (the most common, in G), 26 [?], 27 [?], 28 [?]; NB²: ➺ Molise; NB³: ➺ Zampogna a chiave (Calabria).
Abbuttareglio, Canna, Cinta, Cippo, Contro maggiore, Fischietto, Manca, Moschetta, Otre, Ritta, Terzo, ·? (stock: blowpipe [Term not mentioned in available sources])
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Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.129, 133.
Leydi, Roberto: Typological outlines of the Italian bagpipes. In: SIMP IX (Stockholm, 1989), p.117.
Sparagna, Ambrogio: Zampogne, presepi e musica paraliturgica nel Lazio meridionale. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.105.
Ricci, Antonello: Musicisti e zampogne del Lazio meridionale. In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.134.