I've realized that the violent sweat of the May moon was used for the ally (Alnus glutinosa), and we also have the sweat of May. A multitude of people have written to me, answered, completed and asked me about the rising May moon, sweat, ally and superpelliz. One of them has been Antton Gorrino, from Undebeitti (Ibarruri), on the Facebook wall of the Huerta Vivir.

Antton wrote to cast the ally “it’s time to make sunprinu with the skin of avellano!” And I was running sweat. And bolo, bar, val-bal, bur, bul-bul, bro-bro, pul-peculiar, pil-pil, pir-pir, fil-fil, chir-chir, gar-gar, gal, gir-gir, gol-gol, kal-kal, pol-p-pil, jir-pil, z-z-pa, I immediately answered him by asking him. I had already recorded at my disposal the dictionaries I had taken and none of them spoke of a sunprincess. Thankful, Antton replied that he was a dri. In the answer he spoke to me about the work of the great sage Juan Mari Beltrán Argiñena and sent me links to his writings. And the moment I realized Sunprinea, I was drawn to illusion. Because, how little do we know about the plants of our culture?

Sunprinua is a musical instrument. Natural from Urrizti in the Larraun valley. In appearance, it looks like a dulzine. It is made with the skin of the hazelnut Corylus. It needs the long step, straight and without horns, to be complete and without holes. The branch of a couple of meters takes out the spiral skin and leaves a tape about six centimeters wide. This tape is going to fit into a tapered tube that shapes a great sweetness. The narrowest end is cut and is the nozzle (pepitta, fita...), which vibrates when blowing in the mouth. In order to avoid opening the widest end of the lower part, a wedge of white buckthorn (Crataegus sp.) is introduced. It's the spine. In the place where your toes are held, you get two holes, which makes it a three-tone instrument. The sound or music of this instrument is known as “Durunbele”. It is an instrument of pastors who, when they are in the mountain pastures and, above all, when they come down at dusk, stop at the top of the village and from there, each move on their own side, to indicate that they are soon at home. From the hillsides of town, the steophonic concert was going to be ... The Sunprinu is heard at the entrance of the 1991 Uncle Jarrera of the Negu Gorriak group.

Sunprinu is a simple hazelnut crust. If you remove it easily and completely, the avellano should be full sweat. Juan Mari interviewed in 1996 Juan Bautista Lasarte de Iribas, who said that the avellano for the sunprinu must be cut more than half a month of May; as Antton said, when in spring the new skin has been sown, as the ally... Then the Prince continued to float in the water, either to the pond or to the manger after the fall of the afternoon. In this way, he would be able to play until the beginning of July.

A trumpet or tubal was made in the Araraid-Betelu area, with no finger holes. Throughout Europe, these instruments have also been manufactured with surfaces of other plants: ash (Fraxinus excelsior), walnut (Juglans regia), sauce (Salix sp. ), birch (Betula sp.) and chestnut (Castanea sativa).

Where does the name Sunprinu come from? It is also known as fita or pipittari of the extreme alboka sungurrino and sunpurrine...