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Hau(t)bois (de cornemuse) (m)

(with) definite article: le: l’
(the) oboe (of the bagpipe)

single chanter: conical, straight, bell / double reed

Identical types: 6

Sizes given are average (the difference in length of two chanters, though both called "15 pouces", for example, can amount to 20 mm).

Key of 13 pouces (370 mm): D♯; 14 pouces (390 mm): D; 15 pouces (420 mm, most common of all): C♯; 16 pouces (460 mm, rare): C; 17 pouces (480 mm): B♭.


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.12, 77, 80, 82.