Chiara wrote:
Do you think people who teach scottish bagpipes can also teach zampogna?
No, but a highland piper may be able to help with certain aspects common to all pipes: making sure your bag is airtight, that your blowpipe valve is sealing properly, and keeping bag pressure steady while squeezing & reinflating.. That's probably where the similarities stop
Unfortunately, tuning the zampogna is (IMO) the most difficult part, and it's cruel that tuning has to be faced from square one by a complete beginner. But once the pipe is in tune, it tends to stay there for extended periods of time, unllke other pipes.
With no fingers on the instrument, & provided there is no thumbhole in your 'alto' drone,....yours should sound (close to) the note concert D in an octave; thats all 3 pipes sounding, no fingers.
Each tone hole is further fine-tuned by adding or removing small amounts of beeswax,(the smaller the hole opening the flatter the pitch). You'l need a small tool to do this (stutzareggio i call them

) easy enough to make by sticking a dowell into a pencil sharpener.
You will also need some corks, to fit into the stock and take the place of a chanter when first tuning it up. The tape, which highland pipers use I would say isnt a good idea. The bottom chanter is tuned first; then the top one, and last the drone.
Exercise some caution when unpacking & give it a complete inspection to be certain no cracks, flaws, etc have developed in transit. Each pipe normally comes in two pieces, then there s a bag, blowpipe, blowpipe stock, dummy drone (muta bordone) and ceppo (head stock). There shluld be three plastic reeds lablled M, R, & B. M is for the lower chanter, R for the higher, B for the drone. Probably a chunk of beeswax also. Exciting stuff.
sorry if I sound peripatetic! Glad to "help" you, being what online help is concerning pipes: (in other words, it's tough to hammer a nail over the internet) ciaoooo