zampogna

/zæmˈpoʊnjə/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

"“When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […]”"
"The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia."

zampognas (plural)

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The recorded pronunciation is /zæmˈpoʊnjə/.

What does zampogna mean?

A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

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