English to Shona Meaning of bourdon - bourdon

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Definitions of bourdon in English

Noun(1) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

Examples of bourdon in English

(1) In one of his best poems, then, we find such relatively unfamiliar words as apodictic, valency, crenellated, enteric, and bourdon .(2) The bourdon , originally designed to accompany essentially modal music, became simpler as the chalumeaux became more complicated.(3) The hurdy-gurdy consists of two melody strings called chanterelles and four drone strings (the trompette, the mouche, and two bourdons ).(4) Bourdons are always stopped pipes, thus they provide a rather muffled sound.(5) On the hurdy-gurdy, the drone strings are called bourdons , in contrast to the melody string, which is a chanterelle.(6) Bourdons are stopped pipes, that are only half the length of an open pipe of the same pitch.(7) These names have all been used denote a Bourdon pitched an octave lower, at 16' or 32'.(8) The scale for the Bourdon pipes is the same as the Soubasse pipes except two notes smaller.(9) Up to four unstopped strings, called bourdons , sound drones.(10) As might reasonably be expected, the manual BOURDONS are made of a much smaller scale than those introduced in the Pedal Organ.

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1. drone ::

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