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Bidulas / Bíđulas (gender unknown) (plurale tantum)

(with) definite article: ? [is/sas?]
(the) ?
Launeddas / Launeḍḍas / Launedda [sic]

1978 still used in Ovodda [WSW of Fonni, prov. Nuoro], in the Barbagia area (in Sardu: Barbaza), a vast mountainous region in central Sardinia; NB: Spelling Bíđulas scientific [?]; NB: ➺ Vidulas (Víđulas), Giuseppe Cuga.

Sources

Dore, Giovanni: Gli strumenti della musica popolare della Sardegna. Cagliari, 1976, p.37, 302 (sas Bidulas).

Lallai, Ermenegildo: Le launeddas tra scrittori e viaggiatori. In: Launeddas: l’anima di un popolo (1997), p.31 (»Dore), 89, 116.

Paulis, Giulio: I nomi delle launeddas: origine e storia [with an extensive article on their manufacture]. In: Sonos (1994), p.138-139 (Bíđulas), 140 (Bídulas).

Personal communication

Peppe Cuga (Ovodda, Aug. 1978).