Musette de cour (f)
(with) definite article: laBagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 4 drones in 1 stock)
According to Sachs, "a diversion from the Irish Uilleann pipe(s)"; According to Montbel, "the addition de Cour seems to be introduced, 1894, by Eugène de Bricqueville (to distinguish this refined bagpipe from its popular counterparts [➺ Musette pastorale])"; NB¹: ➺ Plaszbalg, Parlour pipe, Shuttle pipe, and my remarks to Gaitilla; NB²: ➺ my observation regarding Praetorius' Sackpfeiff (mit dem Blaßbalg); NB³: ➺ All Museta, &c.; NB4: Compare Cornemuse de cour.
Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (Musette).
Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.140 (musette).
Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, p.445-448.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.20 (»various), 36, 49 (musette).
Ricros, André (et al.): La cabrette: histoire & technique d'une cornemuse. s.l. [Riom], 2017, passim [43x].
Montbel, Eric: Les musettes de Cour dites aussi «musettes baroques». In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.[142-203] (musette(s) de Cour).
Ricros, André & Montbel, Eric: Hypothèses sur la naissance de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.[317 (miniature)]* (Musette de Cour).
Ammer, Christine: The facts on file dictionary of music. New York, 2004 [4th ed.], p.22, 157, 252 (musette, 1).
➺ Praetorius, Michael: Syntagma musicum, 2: de organographia. Wolfenbüttel, 1619. Herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt [1958]. Kassel, 1964 [facsimile (2)], plate XIII;4 (Sackpfeiff mit dem Blaßbalg).