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Meaning of zampogna | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/zæmˈpəʊnjə/

Definitions

A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

Equivalents

Français zampogna
Italiano zampogna

Examples

““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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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