zufolon.
/ˈtsuːfələʊ//zuːfələʊ/ Music.
A flageolet, a small flute or whistle (see quots.).
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1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Zufolo, a Bird Pipe or Small Flagelet.
1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 343 Zuffolo, a little Flute or Flageolet.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Zuffolo, any little flute or flageolet: but more especially that which is used to teach birds.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 456/1 Zufolo.., a flageolet or whistle.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) IX. 427/2 There..is no reason for concluding..that Keiser's zuffolo was a small shawm.
1960 L. G. Langwill Index Wind-instrument Makers 90 A young blind Sardinian shepherd, Angelo Picchi appeared in..London (1856), playing on a small pipe (Zuffolo) which was named after him, Picco Pipe.
1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance vi. 58/1 Leonardo clearly envisaged the possibility of a keyed trumpet and a keyed zufolo or pipe.
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