Cabrette (d'Auvergne) (f)
(with) definite article: laBagpipe, bellows-blown: 1 stock (single chanter + drone) / no additional drones
Frenchification of various terms for bagpipe in the Auvergne dialect; NB¹: The adjective is explicitely added by Montbel (p.106), according to whom "this name belongs to those French or Occitan designations that were determined (standardised, so to speak) in the 19th century, and updated in our contemporary era" [i.e. late 20th (?) - early 21st century; ws]; NB²: The legend stating that Amadieu, inventor of the Cabrette, were born in Ardes-sur-Couze (Basse-Auvergne) hasn’t yet been proven correct; NB³: According to Perre (p.94), "this French term is used in Paris, since the start of the XXth century, to refer to a bagpipe with a Boîtier à boules, the only drone of which runs parallel to the melody pipe, and (more recently) in the provincial region where the instrument is played"; NB4: According to Bernard Blanc, "the instrument is mostly played without the drone" (➺ my remarks (NB4) to Cantarèla); NB5: ➺ mouth-blown Cabrette; NB6: ➺ related & similar terms; NB7: ➺ Chevrette (synonym).
Bicarelo, Cabra, Cabreta, Cabreto, Cabrette parisienne, Cabro, Chabra, Chabre, Chabreta, Chabrette, Chabretto, Chabro, Chèvre, Chevrette, Chiaura, Chiaureta, Chiauretta, Chioretta / Chiôrette, Cobreto, Cobretto, Crabe, Kabro, Lacabre [?], Museta, Muzette, Tchabro, Tsabra, Tzabra, Tzabro
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Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.64.
Chassaing, Jean-François: La tradition de cornemuse en Basse-Auvergne et Sud-Bourbonnais [Thèse de doctorat, ethnologie 3e cycle, Univ. Lyon 2, 1981]. Moulins, 1983 (© 1982), p.74, 93.
Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.141.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.20, 46.
Ricros, André (et al.): La cabrette: histoire & technique d'une cornemuse. s.l. [Riom], 2017, p.23 (dépt. Cantal, Haute-Auvergne), 24, 28* (à soufflet), 60 (1798, Paris), 66, 69 [2x], 291-292, 306, [313], 349.
Perre, Didier: Eléments de vocabulaire. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.89, 94.
Montbel, Eric: Les cornemuses du Massif Central: Autour de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.105 ([2x]: type of "musette"), 106, 110 (Paris), 114 (plural; Paris), [116], 128 (Paris).