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Piffero

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The body of this piffero is made of olive wood. The bell, which is attached with a screw thread, is made of cherry wood. The instrument has eight frontal tone holes, a raised thumb hole, a lateral tuning hole at the lower end of the body and two resonance holes in the bell. The mouthpiece consists of two lamellae bound onto a metal sleeve, which are scraped thinly towards the front in the shape of a V;

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 389 mm
Height: 33,5 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Width: 7 cm
Material/Technique
Wood (olive tree), Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII a 164

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Europe
    Italy
  • Collecting
    who
    Christian Schneider (1942-09-08 - 2021-06-20) - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation, 2019
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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