Cornemuse de Poitou (f)
(with) definite article: laThough referred to as such in several sources, the term Cornemuse de Poitou doesn’t actually occur in Mersenne, who may, however, have implied it in his references to its relation with the Haut-bois de Poi(c)tou, with which it formed a (seemingly inseparable) duo; NB¹: According to Montbel (p.118), it "retained the organological attributes of the Musette de cour, [but was] embellished with a small parallel drone and a Boîtier-bloc (➺ Boîtier) decorated with symbolic mirrors"; NB²: According to Jacquot it iwas "in use in the past; it did not have a small drone, which is what distinguishes it from other instruments of this type"; NB³: ➺ Cornemuse de cour.
Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.136 (»Mersenne [?]).
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Kinsky [?]; »Mersenne [?]);.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, ➺ p.21 (»Kinsky [?]; »Mersenne [?]).
Kinsky, Georg: Doppelrohrblatt-Instrumente mit Windkapsel…. In: Archiv f. Musikwissenschaft 7;2 (Juni 1925), ➺ p.282 (Poitou-Schalmeien).
Montbel, Eric: Les cornemuses du Massif Central: Autour de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.114 [2x (plural)], [116]*, 118 [2x], 136.
Montbel, Eric: Les musettes de Cour dites aussi «musettes baroques». In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.175.
Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.62.
ws: ➺ Note to Mersenne (vol. V, pp.287 & 305-306*).