from the galliarde and was originally known in Spain as the alta danza, from saltare, to leap savatarelle: A variant name for the saltarello sos gocios: A Sardinian folk dance sos mutos: A Sardinian folk dance sposina: A skipping dance for brides from the area around Pavia stuzzichetto: A variant name for the saltarello su ballu: Popular Sardinian dances ta matianowa: A folk dance : A folk dance ta panawa: A folk dance tammorriata or tammuriata: A Campanian couple dance, accompanied by lyric songs called strambotti and tammorra tambourines tarantel: An alternate term for the tarantella tarantella: A couple dance in 6/8 time, intended to cure the supposedly poisonous bite of the tarantula tarantismo: An Apulian term for the tarantella healing ritual tarantolati: The tarantella ritual as it is practiced in Puglia tarentella: An alternate term for the tarantella tarentule: An alternate term for the tarantella ballo tondo: An alternate term for ballu tundu ballu torrau: A Sardinian folk dance : A folk dance, one of Italy's oldest Instrumentation arpicelli: The Viggiano harp bena: A Sardinian clarinet bifora, also pifara: a Sicilian double reed instrument of the oboe family, related to the shawm and to the piffero bunkula: A cello. cannacione: A historical, rural form of lute : A hammered dulcimer chitarra: A guitar, also a voice in trallalero ensembles that imitates the guitar chitarra battente: A four- or five-steel stringed guitar, beating guitar chiterra: A Sardinian guitar ciaramella: A single-reed pipe, or oboe, also a bagpipe in Alta Sabina citira: A violin du' bottë: Abruzzese double bass diatonic accordion firlinfeu: A panflute fisarmonica: A chromatic piano accordion friscalettu: A Sicilian folk flute ghironda: A hurdy-gurdy most common in Emilia, Lombardy and Piedmont launeddas: A Sardinian clarinet, played using circular breathing lira: A three-stringed bowed fiddle, played on the knee, most common in Calabria mandola: A string instrument similar to both the guitar and mandolin mandolino: An Italian lute with eight or twelve strings müsa: A bagpipe organetto: A diatonic button accordion which accompanies the saltarello, and has largely replaced the bagpipe piffaro, piffero: A double-reed shawm piva: A kind of Lombard bagpipe putipù: A friction drum raganelle: A cog rattle ribeba: An alternate term, rebab, for the scacciapensieri scacciapensieri: A mouth harp found in the Alpine north and Sicily, care-chaser : A tambourine solitu: A Sardinian traditional shepherd's flute surdulina: A bagpipe from Basilicata tamburello: A small frame drum,