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Menelle (f)

(with) definite article: la
plural: ?; (with) definite article: ?
(the) ?

single reed, down- or up-cut?

Identical types: 6
Musette (bourbonnaise)

Single reed, made (from rye-straw or goose quill) by children as a toy instrument (Montagne Bourbonnaise); Term possibly also used for single bagpipe reeds.

Mioulette

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.78.