Loure (f)
(with) definite article: laBagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])
From Latin "lura" [bag/sack]; 16-17th century name, mentioned, with the definition cornamuſa in Cesar Oudin, »Tesoro de las dos lenguas espanola [sic] y francesa« (Bruselas, 1660); Also mentioned in Pietro Lichtenthal, »Dizionario e bibliografia della musica«, Volume secondo (Milano, M.DCCC.XXVI [1826]), in which it is defined as "an extinct instrument, similar to the [Italian] Musetta"; NB¹: According to Marcuse "obsolete [Obviously intending "extinct", instead !; ws] by the end of the 17th century"; NB²: According to Jacquot it is the "name given to the old bagpipe of the Middle Ages"; NB³: Also "a slow gigue" (a dance, possibly named after the instrument); Ammer adds that an example of this dance can be found in the French suite, no.5 (BWV 816) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); NB4: ➺ homonyms, &c.
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