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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 .
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
Loure, a Norman bagpipe which gives its name to the French Baroque dance loure. Pipasso, a bagpipe native to Picardy in northern France; Sourdeline, an extinct bellows-blown pipe, likely of Italian origin; Samponha, a double-chantered pipe played in the Pyrenees; Vèze (or vessie, veuze à Poitiers), played in Poitou
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
The cabrette comprises a chanter for playing the melody and a drone, but the latter is not necessarily functional. Though descended from earlier mouth-blown bagpipes, bellows were added to the cabrette in the mid-19th century. It is said that Joseph Faure, of Saint-Martin-de-Fugères en Haute-Loire, first applied a bellows to the cabrette ...
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.
Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was eventually replaced by the accordion , on which a variety of waltzes, polkas, and other dance styles were played.