different between bagpipes vs zampogna

English

Alternative forms

• bagpipe

Etymology

From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag +? pipes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ?.p??ps/

Noun

bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

1. A musical wind instrument of Celtic origin, possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

   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)

Meronyms

• (musical wind instrument): mouthpiece, neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drone, tenor drone

Derived terms

• bagpiper

Translations

References

• 1999. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Fintan Vallely. Pg. 14.

See also

• bota bag
• musette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zampogna. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and symphony.

Noun

zampogna (plural zampognas)

1. A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: Griffin, Bohn, 1861, Volume 3, p. 178,^[1]

     “When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […] ”

   • 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.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin symph?nia (possibly influenced, through folk etymology, by zampa (“paw, leg of an animal”) in Italian, as bagpipes are traditionally made of leather with the hair still on), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sumph?nía). Cf. also Romanian cimpoi, cimpoaie. Doublet of sinfonia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?zam?po?.?a/, (traditional) /t?sam?po?.?a/
• Rhymes: -o??a

Noun

zampogna f (plural zampogne)

1. (music) bagpipes

   Synonyms: piva, cornamusa

Descendants

• ? English: zampogna
• ? Greek: ????????? (tsampoúna)
  • ? English: tsampouna

Verb

zampogna

1. third-person singular present indicative of zampognare
2. second-person singular imperative of zampognare