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Musette* (f)

(with) definite article: la

NEITHER a bagpipe term, NOR related to any of the other instruments treated in this survey

Identical types: 36

NOT a bagpipe, but according to Ammer, "A dancelike piece with long-held bass notes resembling the drones of a bagpipe", adding that “Examples appear in several eighteenth-century instrumental suites"; NB: homonyms, &c..

Sources

Ammer, Christine: The facts on file dictionary of music. New York, 2004 [4th ed.], p.252 (musette, 2).

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