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Musèla* (f)

(with) definite article: la

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym, used for a shawm made of bark, wound into a spiral like a long horn; Vallemaggia (Ticino).

Made of chestnut (Æsculus hippocastanum).

Sources

Biella, Valter: La cornamusa nel Canton Ticino (Appendice [all’articolo] "Il Baghèt"). In: La zampogna: gli aerofoni a sacco in Italia (2005), I, p.22.