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Cornemuse Meillet (f)

(with) definite article: la

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

Identical types: 30

Several instruments that show very little homogeneity have been found; Some are mouth-blown, others bellows-blown, and their low drones are of various types and construction;
NB: ➺ Meillet for the other types made by this craftsman.

Meillet used a variety of materials for decoration: mother of pearl, ivory, bone, and horn.

Hau(t)bois (de cornemuse), ·? (drone: low [Term not mentioned in available sources]), ·? (drone: medium [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.95.