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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 ...
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 .
Caramusa: a small bagpipe with a single parallel drone, native to Corsica; Musette bechonnet, named from its creator, Joseph Bechonnet (1820-1900 AD) of Effiat. Bousine, a small droneless bagpipe played in Normandy. Loure, a Norman bagpipe which gives its name to the French Baroque dance loure.
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.
The musette bressane (or mezeta, mus'ta, voire cabrette, brette or tchievra) is a type of bagpipe native to the historic French province of Bresse, in eastern France.. The instrument consists of one chanter with a double reed and conical bore, a high drone set in the same stock (which may have a single, or rarely a double, reeded drone), and a large bass drone with a single reed.
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
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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