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  2. French bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    A distinguishing factor of most French bagpipes is the placement of the tenor drone alongside the chanter rather than in the same stock as the bass drone. In the northern regions of Occitania: Auvergne, is found the (generally) bellows blown cabreta, and in Limousin the mouth blown chabreta. The cabrette is much played in areas of Paris where ...

  3. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Cromorne (French baroque, different from the crumhorn) Contra Forte; Duduk (Armenia) Dulcian; Dulzaina (Spain) Heckelphone. Piccolo heckelphone; Hichiriki (Japan) Kèn bầu (Vietnam) Mizmar (Arabic nations) Nadaswaram; Oboe. Piccolo oboe; Oboe d'amore; Cor anglais (i.e. English horn) Oboe da caccia; Bass oboe; Contrabass oboe

  4. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Huemmelchen: small bagpipe with the look of a small medieval pipe or a Dudelsack. Dudy or kozoł (Lower Sorbian kózoł) are large types of bagpipes (in E flat) played among the (originally) Slavic-speaking Sorbs of Eastern Germany, near the borders with both Poland and the Czech Republic; smaller Sorbian types are called dudki or měchawa (in F).

  5. Traditional French musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Bousine — a small, droneless bagpipe from Normandy [2] Cabrette — a bagpipe from Auvergne in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; Caramusa — a Corsican bagpipe made of wood, leather and reed; Chabrette — a bagpipe from Limousin in Nouvelle-Aquitaine; Cornemuse du Centre — a bagpipe from Central France; Loure — an ancient bagpipe from Normandy

  6. Cornemuse du Centre - Wikipedia

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    The cornemuse du Centre France (or musette du Centre) (bagpipes of Central France) is a type of bagpipes native to Central France. [1] They have two drones, one an octave, one two octaves, below the tonic of the chanter. They can be found in the Bourbonnais, Berry, Nivernais, and Morvan regions of France and in different tonalities.

  7. Binioù - Wikipedia

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    The binioù is a type of bagpipe.The word binioù means 'bagpipe' in the Breton language.. There are two bagpipes called binioù in Brittany: the traditional binioù kozh or biniou-bihan (kozh means 'old' in Breton; bihan means 'small') and the binioù bras or binioù braz (bras means 'big'), which was brought into Brittany from Scotland in the late 19th century. [1]

  8. Musette de cour - Wikipedia

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    The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux . Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed , giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe .

  9. Musette - Wikipedia

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    Musette bechonnet, a type of French bagpipe; Musette bressane, a type of French bagpipe; Oboe musette or piccolo oboe, the smallest member of the oboe family; Suona, a type of Chinese sorna (double-reeded horn) Bal-musette, a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in the 1880s