The chabrette or chabrette limousine (''chabreta'' in

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Limousin) is a type of

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native to the

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region of central France. In

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, there is a pipe locally known as the ''chabrette'' which shares many features with the ''chabrette limousine'' (''boîtier à miroir'', ''hautbois à pavillon'', materials, etc.), but also several distinct differences (''petite taille donc tonalité aigüe, bourdon latéral à l'unisson du petit bourdon'') which distinguish it from its "big sister" of Limousin. The ''

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auvergnate'' (generally made in Paris currently) gradually replaced the native bagpipe in Limousin and other areas of the

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. The ''musette berrichonne'' was played in the northeast of Limousin, in

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. Other bagpipes, locally made or imported, are played throughout the region.

Playing

Main field researches have been conducted from 1975 to nowadays by ethnomusicologist and chabrette player Eric Montbel, and by the makers Claude Girard and Thierry Boisvert. A significant step for the modern survival of the chabrette occurred in 1987, when the Department of Traditional Music of the Regional Conservatory of

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undertook to promote the teaching of the chabrette repertory, and in 2003 formed the musical ensemble "Couleur Chabrette".

Discography

* ''Chabretaires à Ligoure'' - CRMT Limousin * ''Vive la Musique Traditionnelle'' - Couleur Chabrette * ''Un tot pitit bocin'' - Philippe "Rando"" Randonneix * ''Chabretas, les cornemuses à miroirs du Limousin'' - CD Al Sur. Eric Montbel

External links

Festival ''Chapelles et chabrettes en Vienne et Glane'', Saint-Junien (Haute-Vienne)
{{in lang, fr * http://ulysse.ange.free.fr/Chabretas.html / Website about the famous cornemuses à miroirs du Limousin

Playing

Discography

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