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Cornemuse Meillet (f)

(with) definite article: la

Bagpipe (mouth- or bellows-blown?): 2 stocks (a: single chanter + 2 drones / b: 1 additional drone)

No identical types known (yet).

This instrument, in the Musée Alice Taverne in Ambierle, has a main stock harbouring a Layette with/and [?] a 3rd [tenor?] drone in juxtaposition with the chanter and high drone; NB: ➺ Meillet for the other types made by this craftsman.

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.