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Cantalouse / Cantalouze (f)

(with) definite article: la
? [related to "cantaloup" (melon) ?]

individual (diminutive) personal names for bagpipes

Identical types: 6

Endearing name

According to Chasaing the name used by a certain Crepin, who brought the instrument from Paris. Emile Mansard called it a "Cantalouze". Unfortunately, however, Chassaing fails to provide us with details about the instrument and the musicians he mentions.

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.136 (Crepin), 154³ (Mansard).