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Cornemuse Déchaud (f)

(with) definite article: la

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + drone / b: 1 additional drone)

Identical types: 30

NB: ➺ Déchaud

Chanter length usually 16 pouces (450 mm), rarely 14 pouces (390 mm), either widening 1 mm every 40 mm. The long drone is mute, and according to Chassaing "only one of its elements has a bore".

Boîtier, ·? (drone: medium [Term not mentioned in available sources]), ·? (drone: mute [Term not mentioned in available sources])

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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.96-99.