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Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalIn Lucania in southern Italy, throughout Basilicata and in northern Calabria, you can find coppiaruoli, which is a pair of ciaramelle played by one player. The player is known as the "cucchiaruolo". The "female" (femmina) reed is usually played with the right hand, the "male" (maschio) with the left. If the pair is tuned to the fundamental G, the "male" instrument sounds g, a, b, c and d, while the "female" instrument sounds b, c, d, e and f sharp.VII a 166 ("femmina") has a light brown body; the slightly darker funnel is connected to the body with a screw thread. Decorative rings are distributed across the body. The instrument has six tone holes at the front (no thumb hole), two lateral tuning holes at the lower end of the body and two opposite resonance holes in the funnel. The mouthpiece is identical in construction to that of the Ciaramella;