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Bagpipes vs Zampogna - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between bagpipes and zampogna

is that bagpipes is a musical wind instrument having a flexible bag inflated by a tube or bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes there are several types from different national traditions, each having peculiar characteristics while zampogna is a kind of italian double-chantered bagpipe.

bagpipes

English

Alternative forms

* bagpipe

Noun

  • A musical wind instrument having a flexible bag inflated by a tube or bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes. There are several types from different national traditions, each having peculiar characteristics.
    • ''Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire

    Synonyms

    * (musical wind instrument) bagpipe, pipes; the pipes (usually Scottish)

    Derived terms

    * bagpiper

    See also

    * bota bag * musette

    zampogna

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
  • * 1975 , Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)
    • 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.
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