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Cornet [?] (m)

(with) definite article: le

Possibly a misinterpretation by (a perplexed) Chassaing of "On dansait au son des cornemuses ou [des?; ws] cornets…" in J.F. Barres, »Tableau statistique de l’arrondissement de Brioude«, an XII (1804); NB¹: Would this necessarily mean that bagpipes were also known as cornets, or could they have been 2 completely different instruments? (= Cornemuse); NB²: ➺ similar terms.


Sources

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.62 (»Rouchon).