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Bourdon minuscule (m)

(with) definite article: le
(the) tiny drone

high drone, adjustable: details?

Identical types: 2
Musette Béchonnet

According to Chassaing, "... a third drone attached to, but not integrated in the main stock"; Montbel describes it (and its position), however, as "a tiny, and therefore very acute, third drone, discretely placed behind the Boîtier-tête; NB: ➺ homonyms, &c.

Sources

Chassaing, Jean-François: La tradition de cornemuse en Basse-Auvergne et Sud-Bourbonnais [Thèse de doctorat, ethnologie 3e cycle, Univ. Lyon 2, 1981]. Moulins, 1983 (© 1982), p.84 (no term).

Montbel, Eric: Les cornemuses du Massif Central: Autour de la cabrette. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.128.