TUCCI1969-005 - ethnographic attestation
Vallebona (Macerata) vendola
Marche - Macerata - Europe - Northeast Italy
Play / practical
vendola Italian
vendola — Macerata form of the Marche name; at Fabriano svolància (Ginobili, 25 Apr. 1969).
The vendola turned up again almost by accident: Giovanni Ginobili, who had whirled the svendola as a boy in Petriolo, chanced on the same instrument in the mid-1950s in Vallebona, a country district of Macerata — the same thin board, the same single cord, the same flight over the head.
La svendola … 4-5 anni addietro, casualmente, l'ho rivista a Macerata, in contrada Vallebona.
The svendola … 4-5 years ago, by chance, I saw it again at Macerata, in the district of Vallebona.
Giovanni Ginobili to Tucci, 24 Dec. 1961 (Tucci 1969, p. 369)
- Function
- The same one-cord overhead toy as Petriolo's svendola, seen again in a Macerata country district in the mid-1950s.
- Map confidence
- medium - Macerata town anchor for the contrada.
- Source location
- Tucci 1969, p. 369
- Toy / secular survival