zampogna

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UK/zæmˈpəʊnjə/UK/tsæmˈpəʊnjə/US/zæmˈpoʊnjə/US/zɑmˈpoʊnjə/

noun

A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounzampogna (plural zampognas)

plural zampognas

  1. 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. […]”

    1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, published 1861, page 178
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    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.

    1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188

Origin

  1. Italianzampogna
  2. Englishzampogna

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

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APA

zampogna. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zampogna

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Chicago

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