Musette (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
  2. a French bagpipe of the 17th and early 18th centuries, with several chambers and drones, and with the wind supplied by a bellows rather than a blowpipe.
  3. a woodwind instrument similar to but smaller than a shawm.
  4. a short musical piece with a drone bass, often forming the middle section of a gavotte.
noun
  1. a type of bagpipe with a bellows popular in France during the 17th and 18th centuries
  2. a dance, with a drone bass originally played by a musette
Musette (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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