Italian bagpipes: Commedian Alessandro Mazziotti plays his Zampogna 8 palmi by Vincenzo Sanzo in D

This video was originally recorded by Vincenzo Santoro and Francesco Bandello on a hard-to-find Facebook page which only Italians or Italian bagpipe fans will ever find. Trying to make a wrongly-kept secret known by uploading this to reach out to wider audiences because nobody would otherwise know how insanely cool Italian bagpipes are.
From Santoro's description: "During the inauguration of the Museum of musical instruments in Artena, the legendary Alessandro Mazziotti played a piece on a monumental two meter and twenty Lucanian zampogna. Truly amazing stuff, as you can see from this extraordinary video shot by Francesco Bandello."
Honestly, because I don't speak Italian I have no idea whatsoever Alessandro is saying. All I know is that he's a real commedian because the audience is very easy and bursts out laughing at anything he says. And ... When will he start playing his pipes already??????
Note the occasional and barely audible bubbling noise. That's the tenor drone (out of the two drones, tenor and sopranina) growling or gurgling.
Behind the "Palmi" size, "Palmi" is a very old Italian measurement, which varies between 25 centimeters each (short palmi), and 26.5 centimeters each (long palmi). The difference between two tones generated by those two frequencies is an entire half step or semitone. This measurement was not written in stone and so it varied anywhere from 25 to 26.5 centimeters, so the variation in pitch within the palmi measurement gives you as much as an entire half step or semitone. So imagine that: 26.5 times 8 equals 212 centimeters. That's 83.464566929133858267716535433071 inches, or 6.9553805774278215223097112860892 feet long!!!
Not familiar with Italian bagpipes? I encourage you to download this plain text dictionary I put together about these instruments. You will seriously learn a ton of things you never knew, and I don't want this to be entirely secret so this is my best way of getting the word out. This link will be updated whenever future modifications to the dictionary are made, so if you don't have the latest version, no worries. Last updated: 12/31/2023
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pysxqo...
Technically speaking it was super hard to try to synch the high-quality audio with the original video. On Facebook, the audio of the video itself was very high quality. But when I downloaded the video from Facebook the audio was seriously worse than a telephone. So I had to spend the whole day just to try to figure out how to swap the bad audio with the good audio and I think I figured it out. I used VLC Media Player. It took at least one out of several unsuccessful tries to put the correct audio in with the video! Keep in mind I'm still blind / visually impaired and have NEVER used video editing software before!
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