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Bague (f)

(with) definite article: la
plural: Bagues; (with) definite article: les
(the) ring(s); ➺ remark(s) below

decorative nameplate

No identical types known (yet).

Decorative nameplate, usually made of a sheet of non-corroding metal, bent around the Boîtier à boules (➺ Boîtier) of a Cabrette, holding the pieces together; Late 19th [from 1870?] and [early] 20th centuries; Usually engraved with the name of the owner (i.e. the musician), with a date (year), or (more rarely) with the date of a contest; NB¹: Geometrically its shape is "obround" (i.e. a "rounded rectangular", or "a rectangle with inverted rounded corners"; In Wiktionary it is described as "A plane shape consisting of 2 semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints"); NB²: Purely coincidentally, "obround" happens to be an anagram of "bourdon" (😀); NB³: I haven't encountered the term (yet) in other sources; NB4: ➺ homonym (mount).


Sources

Ricros, André (et al.): La cabrette: histoire & technique d'une cornemuse. s.l. [Riom], 2017, p.28, 29*, 30, 360 (bagues en argent...), 438* (fermetures), 460a*, 462b*, 463a-d*, 481a* (en argent), 511*, 514*, 530, [532-533]*, [541b]*, 551.

ws (linguistics [➺ Dictionaries, &c.]).

Web

Vista industrial (obround).
Wiktionary (obround; ➺ sketch).