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Petit chalumeau (m)

(with) definite article: le
(the) small shawm

left hand chanter of a non-linked double chanter: cylindrical, parallel, no bell / double reed

No identical types known (yet).

Stopped; 3 of its open keys are manipulated by the thumb of the left hand, the other 3 by the little finger; NB: ➺ homonyms and types.

Range: g♯²-c³ + d³ (chromatic).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (➺ Musette).

Wilzek, Ernst: Die Barock-Musette: vom Schäferinstrument zum Virtuoseninstrument. In: Tibia (s.l., 1995;3), p.505.

Wilzek, Ernst: Die Barock-Musette: vom Schäferinstrument zum Virtuoseninstrument (La musette barocca: da strumento di pastori a strumento per virtuosi: sommario di Antonietta Caccia su traduzione di Gabriella Potito). In: Utriculus V;4 (20), ottobre/dicembre 1996, p.15.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.140.

Montbel, Eric: Les musettes de Cour dites aussi «musettes baroques». In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.[188]/*.

Personal communication

Ernst Wilzek (Scapoli (I), July 1997).