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Cornemuse à miroirs (f)

(with) definite article: la
~ with mirrors

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + drone / b: 1 additional drone)

Identical types: 8

According to Montbel (p.136), (a) "a unique instrument, very distant for example from the musettes of a [sic] Joseph Béchonnet", (b) "Indeed [sic] one of the bagpipes closest to the cabrette", and (c) "affiliated to the Chabrettes of Limousin [and] to the Cornemuses de Poitou (of the Court of Louis XIII; ➺ Cornemuse de cour) ... "; NB¹: In the caption to the photo on p.[138] Montbel claims that "the large drone has an S-bore" (which implies that it is a single drone [!]; ➺ Relative length), although the illustrations (➺ also p.[102-103 & 137] seemingly show 2 drones in 1 stock; NB²: ➺ Boîtier (~ orné de miroirs).


Sources

Montbel, Eric: Les cornemuses du Massif Central: Autour de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.118, 122, 132.

Perre, Didier: Un des territoires de la cabrette, la Haute-Loire. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.676-696, 700.


NB: Grande cornemuses à miroirs (plural):.

Montbel, Eric: Les cornemuses du Massif Central: Autour de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.136-[141].

Montbel, Eric: Les musettes de Cour dites aussi «musettes baroques». In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.175.

Ricros, André & Montbel, Eric: Hypothèses sur la naissance de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.346, 363, 367.