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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
Cornemuse Meillet

The chanters of Meillet are the only parts bearing his signature.

5 chanters known, from 13 pouces (375 mm): [D♯?] to 16 pouces (446 mm): [C?].

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.94-95.