The American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman often played the suona in his performances, calling it a "musette."
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A similar instrument is played during ceremonial occasions in India and Iran (Zerna).
"Suona la tromba" (The trumpet sounds) or "Inno popolare" (Hymn of the people) was a secular hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1848 to a text by the Italian poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli.