Scapoli is internationally famous for the art of making bagpipes, still crafted with traditional methods.
This ancient instrument, which in elder days used to accompany shepherds in their seasonal travels, is still common today for being used at Christmas time. The “Museo della Zampogna” was opened in the past July and placed in Palazzo Mancini. It is composed of three levels where are kept bagpipes from all over the world and the years, with other wind instruments, a huge iconographic and literary documentation, aged pictures and the reproduction of an ancient workshop.
There is also a room for visual documentaries, a conference room, and an acoustic room, where it is possible to listen to the sound of the bagpipe.