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Cabrette

Type of bagpipe from France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cabrette
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The cabrette (French: literally "little goat", alternately musette) is a type of bagpipe which appeared in Auvergne, France, in the 19th century, and rapidly spread to Haute-Auvergne and Aubrac.

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Cabrette player Jean Rascalou

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The cabrette comprises a chanter for playing the melody and a drone, but the latter is not necessarily functional. Though descended from earlier mouth-blown bagpipes, bellows were added to the cabrette in the mid-19th century. It is said that Joseph Faure, of Saint-Martin-de-Fugères en Haute-Loire, first applied a bellows to the cabrette. Faure, a carpenter stricken with lung disease, was inspired when he used a bellows to start a fire.

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See also

  • Chabrette, a similarly named bagpipe used in the Limousin region of central France

Sources

  • "Guide to the Cabrette". The Bagpipe Society. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  • Association Cabrettes et Cabrettaïres
  • Musée des cornemuses du monde (Bagpipes of the World Museum), former Maison de la Cabrette et des Traditions de l’Aubrac
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