Baghèt

The baghèt is a bagpipe historically played in Bergamo, corresponding to the region of Lombardy in modern Italy.

Abundant evidences in iconography and texts suggest that a similar bagpipe was used in the surroundings of Brescia and Verona, even if no instrument seems to be found.

The Bergamo bagpipes were virtually abandoned in the social disorder of the mid-1950s, according to research by Valter,[1] the last player baghèt was Giacomo Ruggeri Casnigo (1905–1990).

[3] However, since the 1980s new research carried out by the composer Valter Biella led to the discovery of some surviving pipes.

Biella, together with Luciano Carminati, nephew of the musician Ruggeri, and other enthusiasts founded a baghèt association with the aim to restore the bagpipe traditions of the province of Bergamo.