FOLK MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
Baghèt
The baghèt (male) is a bagpipe medieval origins of Bergamo and Brescia.
Although some of his oldest existence is attested from the mid-fourteenth century. The
bagpipe of Bergamo had been virtually abandoned in the mid-fifties,...
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FOLK MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
Baghèt
The baghèt (male) is a bagpipe medieval origins of Bergamo and Brescia.
Although some of his oldest existence is attested from the mid-fourteenth century. The
bagpipe of Bergamo had been virtually abandoned in the mid-fifties, with the entry into the
crisis of civilization. The instrument was considered extinct, but since the eighties were
carried out new research, by the musician Valter Biella, which led to the discovery of old
copies of the instrument. "The baghèt" was present in Imagna valley, in the valley
Gandino, Valtorta, in the media and in the Val Seriana, although probably the tool had
different shapes, while maintaining the same name.
The term baghèt was the most used, but there were also the names of the pious, or the
pious baghèt. The player was called baghetér. The baghèt was linked to the peasant world
from which they came for the most part the baghetér. The instrument was not played in the
summer, only with the arrival of cold weather, when
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