cabrette
Details
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.
See also
- Chabrette, a similarly named bagpipe used in the Limousin region of central France
Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090719231510/http://www.cabrette.com/ Dedicated cabrette site]
External links
- {{cite web|accessdate=June 3, 2018 |url=http://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/guide/cabrette/
|title=Guide to the Cabrette |publisher=The Bagpipe Society}}
- Association [https://www.cabrettesetcabrettaires.com/ Cabrettes et Cabrettaïres]
- [https://www.museedescornemuses.com/ Musée des cornemuses du monde] (Bagpipes of the World Museum), former Maison de la Cabrette et des Traditions de l’Aubrac