![]() The musette may well have benefited from being a bellows-blown instrument, too it was generally considered unseemly for women to play any mouth-blown instrument. "Exotic" - in the sense of imported or out of place - elements were fashionable, resulting in the appearance of traditional instruments such as bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and galoubet in compositions for professionals and amateurs alike. ![]() The qualification de cour refers to the instrument's connection with the French court and aristocracy of the early seventeenth century. The final form of the musette is fully chromatic, with a range of an octave and half starting from F above middle C the bourdon provides drones for C, D and G. The bourdon, originally designed to accompany essentially modal music, became simpler as the chalumeaux became more complicated. The best-known contributions came from the Hotteterre family : Martin Hotteterre added a second chanter, the petit chalumeau, extending the instrument's range by six semitones. First appearing in France, at the very end of the sixteenth century, the musette was refined over the next hundred years by a number of instrument-making families.
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