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Musette
- After an anonymous
French instruments of the 18th century.
- Bellows blown
- Cylindrical bore
- Grand chalumeau:
(f'/f#')g' - g" (chromatic scale, with the help of 6 keys)
- Petit chalumeau:
(6 keys) amol" - d'"
- Drones: shuttle
drones: G - g - d' - g' and c - g - c' - g'
- Made of ebony;
silver keys - a'= 415 Hz
- This is the standard-musette;
95% of the music was written for this instrument.
- The musette can
also be made in the old pitch of a' = 392 Hz. It is then possible to
play with modern tuned instruments. The musette plays in G; the other
instruments transpose to F.
- Price: € 3900
- In preparation
an instrument based on the musette in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
This instrument has wider bores and sounds louder.
- Click
here to listen to the musette in an ensemble piece by de Boismortier
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