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Veuze* (f)

(with) definite article: la

bagpipe term also used for other instruments

No identical types known (yet).

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym, used for several types of instruments: (1): violin / fiddle of a folk musician; (2): diatonical accordion; (3): church harmonium; (4): any musical instrument (wind, string, or keyboard) played at popular festivals (fêtes).

Sources

Sonneurs de Veuze [Roland Le Moigne et al.]: Quelques éléments sur la tradition populaire de la veuze dans le pays nantais [1979]. Nantes, 1989 [2], p.76.