different between musette vs bagpipes

English

Etymology

From Middle French musette, later reborrowed from French musette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mju??z?t/

Noun

musette (plural musettes)

1. (music, now historical) Any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: pastoral oboe, shepherd's pipe

2. A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument. [from 18th c.]
3. A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm. [from 19th c.]
4. (chiefly US) A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, cyclists, etc., containing food or other things. [from 20th c.]
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, page 143:

     I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.

Further reading

• musette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

muse +? -ette, from Old French muse, deverbal of muser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.z?t/

Noun

musette f (plural musettes)

1. musette
2. bagpipe
3. Ellipsis of bal musette
4. haversack (small bag for provisions)

   Synonym: havresac

5. nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

Derived terms

• bal musette
• valse musette

Further reading

• “musette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• muettes

Italian

Noun

musette f

1. plural of musetta

English

Alternative forms

• bagpipe

Etymology

From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag +? pipes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ?.p??ps/

Noun

bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

1. A musical wind instrument of Celtic origin, possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

   Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.

Synonyms

• (musical wind instrument): bagpipe, pipes; the pipes (usually Scottish)

Meronyms

• (musical wind instrument): mouthpiece, neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drone, tenor drone

Derived terms

• bagpiper

Translations

References

• 1999. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Fintan Vallely. Pg. 14.

See also

• bota bag
• musette