Musicians
of the Group play the typical antrumentis of the Sicilian tradition.
FISCALETTU :-a wind instrument made up of
Mediterranean bamboocorresponding to the whistle used by sheep-men.
TAMBURELLO :
- a drumconsiting of a wood circle wich
a donkey or male-sheep skinis braced on.
TAMBURO :
a drum of Algerian type with a cylindrical
wood box which two donkey skins are braced on
by means of hep ropes.
BUMMULU :
-not an instrumentin its proper sense,
but an empty terracotta vase, in which a musician
breathes in order to produce a dark and bass sound.
MARRANZANU :
the symbol of Sicilian music.
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