thumb|Zampogna Zampogna ( , , ) is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes that can be found throughout areas in Latium. The tradition is now mostly associated with Christmas, and the most famous Italian carol, "Tu scendi dalle stelle", is derived from traditional zampogna music. However, there is an ongoing resurgence of the instrument in secular use seen with the increasing number of folk music festivals and folk music every December by Italian ensembles.
thumb|Zampogna Zampogna ( , , ) is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes that can be found throughout areas in Latium. The tradition is now mostly associated with Christmas, and the most famous Italian carol, "Tu scendi dalle stelle", is derived from traditional zampogna music. However, there is an ongoing resurgence of the instrument in secular use seen with the increasing number of folk music festivals and folk music every December by Italian ensembles.
==Etymology== The word derives from the Latin symphonia. It is etymologically related to the Greek sumphōnía (), meaning "concord or unison of sound" (from syn-, "with, together" + phōnḗ, "sound") and applied later to a type of bagpipe. It is a cognate of Greek tsampouna, the word for the Greek island bagpipe (itself a reborrowing of zampogna); Romanian , which means "symphony" or "many sounds played together"; Georgian ; and Spanish zampoña, which refers to Andean pan pipes.
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