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Piua (f)

(with) definite article: la
Cornamusa

Early spelling of Piva; According to Van der Meer, "with all probability one of the 2 bagpipe types used in northern Italy".

Sources

Meer, John Henry van der: La sordellina: organologia e tecnica esecutiva. In: Baldano: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare… (1995), p.76 (➺ vn Pastore con vna piua; »Negri).

Junius, Hadrianus (Hadriano Ivnio): Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina variis linguis explicata indicans … Antverpiæ [Antwerp], 1577, p.348.

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Google books (Hadrianus Iunius [Find vtricularius (entry Aſcaules) [sic]: ➺ Piua]).